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High Jump

After a glittering career Stefan Holm entered his final High Jump season determined to achieve something more. The 32-year-old Swede only lost one out of nine competitions indoors clearing 2.37m at the National Indoor Championships in February before gaining his fourth World Indoor Championships gold in Valencia with a fine 2.36m result.

During the outdoor season Holm still was by far the most consistent jumper prior to the Olympics setting a outdoor personal best of 2.37m (2.40m indoors 2005) in Athens in July. But Beijing proved not to be the perfect cap for his career as Holm ended up with a fourth place having fought hard for a medal.

Instead it was 24-year-old Russian Andrey Silnov who took the gold in style clearing 2.36m and letting no-one threaten him for the win. The Russian, who had jumped 2.37m indoors but did not compete in Valencia, didn’t do much prior to the National Championships where he only cleared 2

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