Anna Chicherova

Anna Chicherova

Anna Chicherova at the 2011 World Championships
Personal information
Born July 22, 1982 (1982-07-22) (age 29)
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 53 kilograms (117 lb)
Sport
Country  Russia
Club CSKA Moscow
Now coaching by Yevgeniy Zagorulko
Achievements and titles
World finals 1st (Daegu 2011)
Olympic finals 3rd (Beijing 2008)
Highest world ranking 1st (Daegu 2011)
Personal best(s) High jump (outdoor): 2.07 m [1]
High jump (indoor): 2.04 m
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze 2008 Beijing High jump
World Championships
Gold 2011 Daegu High jump
Silver 2007 Osaka High jump
Silver 2009 Berlin High jump
World Indoor Championships
Bronze 2003 Birmingham High jump
Silver 2004 Budapest High jump
European Indoor Championships
Gold 2005 Madrid High jump
Universiade
Gold 2005 Izmir High jump
World Athletics Final
Silver 2009 Thessaloniki High jump
Silver 2008 Stuttgart High jump
Bronze 2007 Stuttgart High jump
World Youth Championships
Gold 1999 Bydgoszcz High jump
European Junior Championships
Silver 2001 Grosseto High jump
Military World Games
Gold 2003 Catania High jump
Silver 2007 Hyderabad High jump

Anna Vladimirovna Chicherova (Russian: Анна Владимировна Чичерова; born 22 July 1982 in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia) is a Russian high jumper. She was the gold medalist at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and won a bronze medal in the event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was also runner-up at the World Championships in 2007 and 2009.

Her personal best jump and the Russian national record is 2.07 metres, achieved on her 29th birthday at the Russian track and field championships of 2011. Her best indoors was achieved at the Hochsprung mit Musik meeting in Arnstadt – this puts her in the top ten indoor high jumpers of all time.[2]

She is currently in the Russian Army Athletics Club based in Moscow where she is coached by Yevgeni Zagorulko. She is married to Gennadiy Chernovol. She was absent for the 2010 season due to pregnancy and had her first child, Nika, in September that year.[3]

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
1999 World Youth Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 1st 1.89
2000 World Junior Championships Santiago, Chile 4th 1.85
2001 European Junior Championships Grosseto, Italy 2nd 1.90
2003 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, England 3rd 1.99 (xo)
World Championships Paris, France 6th 1.95
Military World Games Catania, Italy 1st 1.89
2004 World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 2nd 2.00 (xo)
Olympic Games Athens, Greece 6th 1.96
World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 7th 1.92
2005 European Indoor Championships Madrid, Spain 1st 2.01 (xxo)
Universiade Izmir, Turkey 1st
World Championships Helsinki, Finland 4th 1.96 (xxo)
World Athletics Final Monaco, Monaco 7th 1.89
2006 European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 7th 1.95 (xo)
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 6th 1.90
2007 European Indoor Championships Birmingham, England 6th 1.92 (xo)
World Championships Osaka, Japan 2nd 2.03 (xo)
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 3rd 1.97
Military World Games Hyderabad, India 2nd 1.96
2008 Olympic Games Beijing, PR China 3rd 2.03 (o)
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 2nd 1.99
2009 World Championships Berlin, Germany 2nd 2.02 (o)
World Athletics Final Thessaloniki, Greece 2nd 2.00
2011 World Championships Daegu, South Korea 1st 2.03 (o)
2011 Diamond League Brussels, Belgium 1st 2.05 (xo)

References

  1. ^ http://www.iaaf.org/WCH11/news/newsid=60948.html
  2. ^ High Jump All Time. IAAF (2010-02-06). Retrieved on 2010-02-09.
  3. ^ Russia’s Chicherova jumping back into the spotlight. European Athletics (2011-04-05). Retrieved on 2011-04-29.

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