I began to feature notable female athletics stars in my main blog, hurdler49, to promote the mostly underrated sport. In July 2010, I wrote about the upcoming Russian long jumper Darya Klishina Дарья Клишина .
In a few months' time, her popularity shot up exponentially - and so
did my blog hits. Darya is both tremendously talented and possesses
super-model looks. Although she has yet to win a world title or an
Olympic title, her popularity has skyrocketed dramatically.
Read: "Track Beauty of the Week - Darya Klishina Дарья Клишина"
Read: "Track Beauty of the Week - Darya Klishina Дарья Клишина"
Read: "Darya Klishina: The Next Big Track & Field Star
In the junior all-time list, the Russian is second only to the great Heike Dreschler.
Read: "Darya Klishina Дарья Клишина on Trans World Sport"
Photos from Rusathletics.com and EAA
Read: Darya Klishina Дарья Клишина leaps 6.80m, wins European Indoor Long Jump gold
Darya underwent ankle surgery after the world championships. Her strong showing at the 2012 World Indoors, where she finished in fourth place (6.85m), is a strong signal that Klishina is on the fast track towards full recovery - and further forays beyond seven meters.
Read: London Olympics Long Jump Preview
The battle for the London Olympics gold medal will be a tough one, especially with the classy Brittney Reese in the field. A healthy Darya, however, would be a sight to behold. Despite her injury, Klishina has shown signs of maturity as she moves up the senior ranks.
A podium finish is a strong certainty, but Darya Klishina might just snag the Olympic gold!
I totally agree with these statements: If Darya is certainly a very beautiful and graceful athlete; she is above all insanely talented. Considering her track record as a young prodigy (starting with 6,31m at 15!!), unseen for a very long time in her sport, she may be quoted as the best athlete of her generation. Of course she has now to confirm at a world level, with strong competition from American girls, and Russian as well (Kucherova has set a 7,03m in Sochi on Saturday). But we have to notice that, despite her difficulties in the winter season as she was recovering from a serious injury, Darya is still high in the charts : ranked n°2 for London by Track&Field.com, and n°3 in the current world ranking at All-Athletics.com. Moreover, with her natural ability to catch the media attention, Darya is certainly the one who could bring female athletics to a whole new level of popularity, and she is fully aware of that. So we’ll keep crossing fingers and support her for the weeks, months and years to come.
ReplyDeleteIndeed! I really think and feel that she'll win an Olympic medal this year. Go Darya!
DeleteErratum : Kucherenko (and not Kucherova !!)
ReplyDeleteShe looks really awesome! After I saw her photos here http://goo.gl/jXJly I am her biggest fun and checking for new photos : ))
ReplyDeleteFor Darya's fans, here is a dedicated "Darya on the track" YouTube channel with videos and a large set of slideshows from her competitions : http://www.youtube.com/user/dasha2012able
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