Lisa Ryzih

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Lisa Ryzih
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Ryzih at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics
Personal information
Full nameElizaveta Ryzih
Born (1988-09-27) 27 September 1988 (age 35)
Omsk, Soviet Union
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of Germany.svg  Germany
Sport Athletics
Event Pole vault
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • Pole vault: 4.75 m indoor, 4.73 m outdoor
Medal record
European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Amsterdam Pole vault
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Barcelona Pole vault
European Indoor Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Belgrade Pole vault
Continental Cup
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2010 Split Pole vault

Elizaveta Ryzih (born 27 September 1988 in Omsk, Soviet Union) is a German pole vault athlete. Two times an Olympian, she was 6th in London and 10th in Rio Olympic games. She was described by one athletics commentator as a "tall, fast and athletic" pole vaulter, and she has seen good success in European Championships as well as being a constant presence in the world yearly rankings of pole vaulters, placing among the top 10 vaulters in recent years.

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She is the younger sister of fellow pole vaulter Anastasija Reiberger (Nastja Ryjikh). She is coached by her father Vladimir Ryzih. [1]

Biography

She won at the 2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics and then set a personal best of 4.30 m for gold at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics at the age of 15. She attempted to be the first athlete to win consecutive titles at the 2005 World Youth Championships, but she managed only 4.05 m for fifth place. [2] Ryzih was the favourite to retain her title at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics but failed to clear the opening height in the final after three attempts. [3]

Ryzih was fourth at the 2007 European Athletics Junior Championships and also won gold at the 2009 European Under-23 Athletics Championships in the women's pole vault in Kaunas. On 30 July 2010, she recorded a personal best of 4.65 m at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona. This gained her the bronze medal, the first international medal of her senior career.

She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing in joint 6th with a jump of 4.45 m. [4] The following year, she finished in 8th at the World Championships, with a jump of 4.55 m. [5] The following year, she missed out on a European level medal by countback, jumping the same height (4.60 m) as both the silver and bronze medalists at the 2014 European Championships. She reached the final, but finished last, at the 2015 World Championships. [5] At the 2016 European Championships, she won a silver with a season's best jump of 4.70 m. [6] Later, in August, she reached another Olympic final at Rio 2016. [5]

In Feb. 2017 Lisa Ryzih competed in German Indoor Championships in Leipzig where she got the first place with a jump of 4.65m, with the silver and bronze medals going to 4.40 and 4.30m, respectively. [7] She participated in 2017 Belgrade European's Indoor Athletics meet in 4 March as a top contender and finished second place and getting silver medal with a jump of 4.75m, setting a new indoor personal best. [8]

The IAAF profile of Lisa Ryzih including her personal best records can be found here.

German Championships

Lisa Ryzih has won 6 titles and some medals in German Athletics Championships (DM) in Pole Vault.

For outdoor, these include: 1st place in 2017 (Erfurt) with jump of 4.70 m; 2nd place in 2016 (Kassel) with jump of 4.65 m; 1st place in 2015 (Nuremberg) with jump of 4.60 m; 1st place in 2014 (Ulm) with a jump of 4.50 m; 2nd place in 2012 with a jump of 4.65 m; 2nd place in 2010 with a jump of 4.60 m; 3rd place in 2009 with a jump of 4.40 m.

For indoor, she was 1st place in 2017 (Leipzig) with a jump of 4.65 m. [9] She also won the indoor title in 2015 in Karlsruhe with 4.55 m [10] and won the 2011 title in Leipzig with a jump of 4.65 m. [11]

In 2018 indoor national championships, Lisa finished in second place with a jump of 4.46m. [12] She is now preparing herself in a training camp in Spain for the European Championships in Berlin (2018) to be held in the Summer. She announced later that she is skipping the 2018 outdoor season including the European Championships for recovery.

2019

After healing her partial Achilles tear, Lisa returned to competition in the Karlsruhe meeting of the 2019 IAAF World Indoor Tour by recording a jump of 4.63 m. [13]

Competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionNotes
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
2003 World Youth Championships Sherbrooke, Canada 1st4.05 m
2004 World Junior Championships Grosseto, Italy 1st 4.30 m
2006 World Junior Championships Beijing, China 4th (q) 4.00 m 1
2007 European Junior Championships Hengelo, Netherlands 4th4.20 m
2009 European U23 Championships Kaunas, Lithuania 1st 4.50 m
2010 European Championships Barcelona, Spain 3rd 4.65 m
2011 European Indoor Championships Paris, France 7th 4.50 m
2012 European Championships Helsinki, Finland 7th 4.40 m
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 6th 4.45 m
2013 World Championships Moscow, Russia 8th 4.55 m
2014 European Championships Zürich, Switzerland 4th 4.60 m
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 8th (q) 4.55 m 2
World Championships Beijing, China 12th 4.60 m
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 2nd 4.70 m
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 10th 4.50 m
2017 European Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 2nd 4.75 m PB
World Championships London, United Kingdom 5th 4.65 m
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom – NM
2019 World Championships Doha, Qatar 17th 4.50 m

1No mark in the final
2Did not start in the final

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  2. ↑ "Event Report – Girl' Pole Vault Final". IAAF (in German). 16 July 2005. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  3. ↑ "2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's Pole Vault". IAAF . 18 August 2006. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  4. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lisa Ryzih". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
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  10. ↑ Lisa Ryzih: "Mein Stab und ich gewöhnen uns aneinander" | Video (in German), 30 May 2016, retrieved 30 July 2017
  11. ↑ Lisa Ryzih hat Meisterschaftsrekord im EM-Gepäck | Video (in German), 30 May 2016, retrieved 30 July 2017
  12. ↑ Katharina Bauer bezwingt Lisa Ryzih | Video (in German), 30 May 2016, retrieved 5 April 2018
  13. ↑ "Pole Vault Result | Indoor Meeting – Karlsruhe | iaaf.org". www.iaaf.org. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
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