The Croatian

Blanka Vlasic

, a two-time world champion in the high jump, has announced at the age of 37 that she is retiring from the competition due to the numerous injuries she has suffered, although she will continue to dedicate herself to the sport.

"I have breathed the sport since I was born,

the high jump is an indivisible part of me and it will always be so,

" Vlasic said in a letter to his fans published this Friday.

"I tried to recover from my injury in the hope of being in condition to return to the bar," he wrote.

The last few years were plagued by "countless rehabilitation treatments and disappointments," he confessed.

The renowned Croatian athlete, who in 2009 achieved

the second best record of all time

with

2.08 meters,

explained that she recently felt that her career was over.

She was one of the best exponents of a generation to which the Spanish Ruth Beitia, current Olympic champion, also belonged.

"It's over", he claims he felt suddenly on a "day like any other".

Honors

His best results in the absolute category have been the gold

medals in the 2007 World Cup in Osaka (Japan) and the 2009 one in Berlin (Germany)

.

The also gold winner at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, ​​has stated that, despite her withdrawal from the competition, she will continue to be active in the sport.

"I will always stay in sport.

With my experience and knowledge I want to continue contributing permanently and actively to the future development of world athletics and sport in general,

" he announces.

She was also runner-up at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, third at Rio 2016 (where Ruth Beitia won gold), and a finalist in Athens in 2004. She was a finalist at the Edmonton 2001 and Paris 2003 Outdoor World Cups.

Vlasic was named an athlete. of the year 2010 by the International Association of Athletics Federations

(today called World Athletics), and as a European athlete of the years 2007 and 2010.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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