Þórey Edda Elísdóttir

Þórey Edda Elísdóttir (born 30 June 1977 in Reykjavik, Iceland) is an Icelandic pole vaulter. Her personal best is 4.60 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Madrid.

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing  Iceland
1999 World Indoor Championships Maebashi, Japan 9th
World Championships Seville, Spain 13th
2001 World Championships Edmonton, Canada 6th
2002 European Championships Munich, Germany 11th
2004 Olympic Games Athens, Greece 5th
World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 7th
2005 World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 8th

She stood as a candidate for the Left-Green Movement in the Icelandic parliamentary election, 2003 but did not succeed in winning a seat.[1]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics she did not qualify for final with the result 4.15 metres.

Last winter Þórey Edda finished engineering at the University of Iceland.

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