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Jaroslav Bába

Jaroslav Bába
Jaroslav Baba CZ championships in athletics Kladno 2005.jpg
Jaroslav Bába (2005)
Personal information
Born (1984-09-02) 2 September 1984 (age 32)
Karviná
Height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight 80 kg (180 lb)
Sport
Country  Czech Republic
Sport Track and field
Event(s) High jump

Jaroslav Bába (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslaf ˈbaːba]) (born 2 September 1984 in Karviná, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech high jumper.

At the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships he jumped 2.25 metres, winning a joint bronze medal along with Germaine Mason and Ştefan Vasilache. In the same year he won the Olympic bronze medal with a jump of 2.34 m.

In 2005 he jumped a new personal best of 2.36 m in July in Rome, and later finished fifth at the World Championships. He had 2.37 m on the indoor track in Arnstadt from February of the same year. He did not compete in the 2006 season. During the summer of 2009 he spent several weeks in England to improve his English language skills.



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