Sunday, 28. April 2024

Anna Rogowska

Athlete, pole vaulter, Olympic Games bronze medallist, world champion, European indoor champion and world vice-champion. She represents the SKLA Sopot sports club. Her coach and husband (since 2006) is Jacek Torlinski. Winner of the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens - on 24 August 2004 she jumped 4.70 m, outstripping another Pole, also a native of Gdynia, Monika Pyrek (4th place - 4.55 m). Anna Rogowska has repeatedly improved the Polish record in pole vault, both indoors and in the open arena. In 2005, during the indoor meeting in Donetsk she improved the Polish record with the result of 4.75 m, then during the European Indoor Championships in Athletics in Madrid she won the silver medal, equalling her own personal best - 4.75 m. In the same year during the "Pole vault at the pier" event in Sopot she beat her own Polish record from 6 days before, setting it at the height of 4.77 m, then during the IAAF Super Grand Prix in London she again improved the Polish record, beating the bar at the height of 4.80 m. Then she improved the Polish record on 21 August 2005 at the meeting in Beckum, jumping 4.82 m. She currently holds both the Polish record in the open-air stadium - 4.83 m - set on 26 August 2005 at the Golden League meeting in Brussels, as well as the Polish indoor record - 4.85 m - set on 6 March 2011 during the European Indoor Championships in Paris.
At the World Championships 2005 in Helsinki she was placed 6th with the result of 4.35 m. She won the silver medal during the 2006 World Indoor Championships in Moscow with the result of 4.75 m. Then she won a bronze medal at the 2007 European Indoor Championships in Birmingham with 4.66 m. In the summer of that year she was 8th at the World Championships in Osaka (4.60 m).
In 2008 she was the sixth competitor of the World Indoor Championships in Valencia (4.55) and the second one of the European Cup Superleague in Annecy (4.66). Her participation in the Olympic Games in Beijing ended in 10th place with the result of 4.45 m.
On 1 August 2009 Rogowska reached for the first time in her career for the gold medal of the Championships of Poland, her result (4.80) is the record of the Championships of Poland. On 17 August 2009 she won the gold medal at the World Championships in Berlin, overcoming the crossbar with the height of 4.75 m. On 10 February 2010, at the Pedro's Cup in Bydgoszcz she took the first place in the women's pole vault competition, with the result 4.81 she improved her own indoor Polish record from 2006 by one centimetre. Indoor Europe Champion (Paris 2011). At the World Championships in Taegu 2011 she was 10th (ex aequo with Monika Pyrek and Kristina Gadschiew) in the final women's pole vault competition. Multiple national indoor champion. In 2004 she won the Golden Spikes award for the best female athlete of the season. She was also the winner of the Przegląd Sportowy poll (6th place). In 2009 she was ranked 5th in this poll. On 7 October 2004 she was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit by the President of Poland. On 2 September 2009 she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by President Lech Kaczyński.

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