Blanka Vlasic
Blanka Vlasic
Blanka Vlašićis a Croatian athlete who specialises in the high jump. She is the Croatian record holder in the event, and the former indoor World Champion. The daughter of Croatian decathlon record holder Joško Vlašić, she was a talented junior athlete and attended her first Olympic Games in 2000 Sydney at the age of sixteen. She won the World Junior Championships in Athletics in both 2000 and 2002. Vlašić broke her national record in 2004 and also won her first...
NationalityCroatian
ProfessionHigh Jumper
Date of Birth8 November 1983
CountryCroatia
Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.
People like scandals.
A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.
I am the only girl in the family so everyone pampered me.
Competing helps me to polish my shape.
I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that.
I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if you are devoted enough.
People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.
The Olympics must be my curse or something.
I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.
I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.