Kristina Gadschiew
 Kristina Gadschiew at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics |
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Representing  Germany
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2011 Paris | Pole vault |
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2007 Bangkok | Pole vault |
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2009 Belgrade | Pole vault |
Kristina Gadschiew (born 3 July 1984) is a German pole vaulter who has competed at the World Championship-level. She has also reached the podium at the Summer Universiade on two occasions – 2007 and 2009. She has a personal best vault of 4.60 m indoors. Gadschiew represents the sports club LAZ Zweibrücken.
Born in Vassilyevka, Saratov Oblast, Soviet Union, she moved to Germany as a child (as the other pole vaulter Lisa Ryzih). She started competing in pole vault competitions as a teenager and was third in the German cup in athletics in 1999. She failed to build upon this early success and her athletics career stalled. A switch to train with Andrei Tivontchik gave impetus for greater performances and she re-emerged in 2005. She cleared over four metres for the first time and improved her best to 4.35 m in 2006. She began studying chemistry and sports at the Kaiserslautern University of Technology. The 2007 Summer Universiade provided her with her first international competition and she took the silver medal with a personal best clearance of 4.40 m, finishing as runner-up by count-back behind Aleksandra Kiryashova. She became the German university champion in 2008 and was fourth at the German senior championships later that year.
A personal best vault of 4.50 m at the 2009 German Indoor Championships in Leipzig earned her a place on the German team for the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships. She finished in fifth place behind her team-mates, Silke Spiegelburg and Anna Battke, who both set personal bests. A second-place finish at the German Outdoor Championships entitled her to her first World Championships appearance. She retained her university title and recorded 4.50 m for the bronze medal at the 2009 Summer Universiade. A few weeks later she made her first appearance on the major European circuit, and set a new best of 4.58 m for third at the London Grand Prix, beaten only by Yelena Isinbayeva and Anna Rogowska.
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