Athletics: Rogowska injured as pole snaps

WARSAW: World champion pole vaulter Anna Rogowska needed stitches in her hand after her pole broke during a meeting at Sopot, Poland, according to the domestic news agency PAP. The pole snapped at the moment she took off as she tried to clear the bar at 4.70 metres. The European indoor champion needed several stitches and is expected to be out of action for three weeks, jeopardising her chances of retaining her world title at this year’s World Championships in South Korea. On June 18, Rogowska and the German Silke Spiegelburg set the best jumps of the year, both of them going over at 4.75 metres in a meeting in Stockholm.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 1^st, 2011.