Ruth Beitia

Ruth Beitia

Personal information
Full name	Ruth Beitia Vila
Nationality	Spanish
Born	1 April 1979 Santander, Spain
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Sport
Country	Spain
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	High jump
Club	Atletismo Piélagos
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	High jump: 2.02 m (2007)
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 0 0 World Championships 0 0 1 World Indoor Championships 0 2 2 European Championships 2 0 0 European Indoor Championships 1 3 1 Mediterranean Games 1 0 0 Total 4 5 4 World Championships 2013 Moscow High jump World Indoor Championships 2010 Doha High jump 2016 Portland High jump 2006 Moscow High jump 2014 Sopot High jump European Championships 2012 Helsinki High jump 2014 Zürich High jump European Indoor Championships 2013 Gothenburg High jump 2005 Madrid High jump 2009 Torino High jump 2011 Paris High jump 2007 Birmingham High jump Mediterranean Games 2005 Almería High jump

Ruth Beitia (Spanish pronunciation: [rut ˈβeitja]; born 1 April 1979) is a Spanish high jumper.

Biography

In 1998 Beitia broke her first Spanish record, jumping 1.89 m. In the years following, she improved her cleared jump heights several times. Finally, on 4 August 2007, she achieved 2.02 m, which is the current Spanish record. She is the first, and thus far, only Spanish woman who has broken through the barrier of two meters, and was the 9th best global mark in 2003. Her early major international results were achieved indoors. In 2005, she won the silver medal at the 2005 European Indoor Championships, held in Madrid, where her jump of 1.99 m, was only beaten by Russian Anna Chicherova. In 2006 she won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Moscow, where she jumped 1.98 m, and was only beaten by the Russian Olympic champion Yelena Slesarenko and Croatian Blanka Vlasic. She was a finalist at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, where she held 11th position. In the world championships at Helsinki 2005 she failed to reach the finals.

Ruth Beitia was a finalist in the 2002 European Athletics Championships in Munich, where she held 11th position. She participated in the 2004 Athens Olympics, but failed to reach the finals. She has been champion of Spain once outdoors (in 2003), and indoor champion four times (in 2002-03-04-05). She belongs to the Club Valencia Terra i Mar and her coach is Ramon Torralbo. She is 1.92 m tall, and weighs 71 kg. In 2004, she managed to jump the indoor 2.00 m, equaling her best outdoor jump. On 8 March 2009, she won the silver medal in the high jump, her third medal at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships held in Turin, with a mark of 1.99 m. She was bested by German Ariane Friedrich with a mark of 2.01 m. In the Berlin World Championships in 2009, she took 5th place, with a mark of 1.99 m.

In 2009, she signed^[1] for Atletismo Pielagos.

Ruth Beitia won the gold medal at the European Championships, held in Helsinki in 2012 with a mark of 1.97 m. In the 2012 London Olympics she was fourth, after beating the 2.00 mark with a jump of 2.03 m. Ruth Beitia won the gold medal at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships, held in Gothenburg, with a mark of 1.99 m.

Olympic results

Olympic Games	Discipline	Place
2004 Athens	High jump	16
2008 Beijing	High jump	7
2012 London	High jump	4

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Spain
1996	World Junior Championships	Sydney, Australia	16th (q)	1.79 m
1997	European Junior Championships	Ljubljana, Slovenia	9th	1.82 m
1998	World Junior Championships	Annecy, France	8th	1.80 m
1999	European U23 Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	11th	1.82 m
2000	Ibero-American Championships	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	4th	1.81 m
2001	World Indoor Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	7th	1.93 m
	European U23 Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	1st	1.87 m
	Mediterranean Games	Radès, Tunisia	4th	1.83 m
2002	European Championships	Munich, Germany	11th	1.85 m
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	5th	1.96 m
	World Championships	Paris, France	11th	1.90 m
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	9th (q)	1.93 m
	Ibero-American Championships	Huelva, Spain	4th	1.88 m
	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	16th (q)	1.89 m
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	2nd	1.99 m
	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	7th	1.89 m
	Mediterranean Games	Almería, Spain	1st	1.95 m
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	3rd	1.98 m
	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	9th	1.92 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	6th	1.90 m
2007	European Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	3rd	1.96 m
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	6th	1.97 m
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	4th	1.99 m
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	7th	1.96 m
2009	European Indoor Championships	Torino, Italy	2nd	1.99 m
	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	5th	1.99 m
2010	World Indoor Championships	Doha, Qatar	2nd	1.98 m
	Ibero-American Championships	San Fernando, Spain	1st	1.89 m
	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	6th	1.95 m
2011	European Indoor Championships	Paris, France	2nd	1.96 m
	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	16th (q)	1.92 m
2012	World Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	6th	1.95 m
	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	1st	1.97 m
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	4th	2.00 m
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	1st	1.99 m
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	3rd	1.97 m
2014	World Indoor Championships	Sopot, Poland	3rd	2.00 m
	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	1st	2.01 m
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	5th	1.94 m
	World Championships	Beijing, China	5th	1.99 m
	Diamond League		1st	details
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, USA	2nd	1.96 m

Personal Bests

Type	Event	Best	Location	Date
Outdoor	High Jump	2.02 m	San Sebastián, Spain	4 August 2007
Indoor	High Jump	2.01 m	Pireás, Greece	24 February 2007

• All information taken from IAAF profile.

References

Media related to Ruth Beitia at Wikimedia Commons

1. signed http://www.marca.com/2009/11/16/atletismo/1258374800.html?a=ff1dbb589c76c66a318de6e7957f819a&t=1368528103

External links

• Ruth Beitia profile at IAAF
• Ruth Beitia at Sports Reference
• Ruth Beitia Atletismo Pielagos