Blanka - European Queen in Sports

Blanka Vlasic, a Croatian high jumper is the winner of the “Waterford Crystal European Athlete of the Year”. She surely deserved this award because she lost only one out of 19 competitions. She jumped over 207 cm in Stockholm and she won the world league title in Osaka. In history, only the world record holder Stefka Kostadinova managed to jump higher than Blanka, and considering the young girl’s performance of this year, even this could change. The audience loves her because of the contagious enthusiasm she carries with herself on the competition, dancing after every jump.