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News05 Feb 1998


IAAF Year of Women in Athletics has its first new world record holder

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IAAF Year of Women in Athletics has its first new world record holder
23 year old Daniela Bartova from the Czech Republic has become the first female athlete to establish a new world record in 1998, which the IAAF has denoted "The Year of Women in Athletics".

Former gymnast Bartova, who had previously set a number of European best marks (starting with a mark of 4.20m in Prague on 24 January 1996) and no fewer than ten world records in 1995, set the new women's indoor pole vault mark of 4.41m in Erfurt (GER) on Wednesday 4 February. Bartova had previously followed Vala Flosadottir of Iceland over 4.35m establishing a new European pole vault record, but Flosadottir went on to make three unsuccessful attempts at the new world record height, which Bartova had cleared at the first attempt. The previous mark of 4.40m indoors was originally set by Australia's Emma George in Melbourne on 10 December 1996 and matched by American athlete Stacy Draghila, as she took the world championship title in the event in Paris at last year's IAAF World Indoor Championships on 9 March 1997.

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