Zita Ajkler

Who is Zita Ajkler?

Zita Ajkler is a Hungarian long jumper. She is all 16X times Hungarian national champion in long jump, triple jump, heptathlon and 100 m hurdles. Her personal best is 676 cm in long and 13.99m in triple jump, 13.75 s in 100 m hurdles and 60 m hurdles: 8.35 s, heptathlon: 5323 points. She jumped pole vault just for fun, achieved 360 cms in training after 3 months practice nonetheless never competed in this event.

Her first big achievement was in 1998, Budapest at the European Athletics Championships where she was surprisingly 6th with PB 664 cm. Then repeated this 6th place in Vienna, at the indoor ECh in 2002. She competed 2 Olympic Games: 2000. Sydney and 2004. Athens but didn't reach the final.

She competed three times at World University Games - Universiade, 1999. Mallorca, 2001. Beijing, 2003.Daegu. She was in the final in all events. Her best result was 3rd in 2003. Daegu, S-Korea in long jump. The worst result was 7th place in 2001, Beijing at triple jump.

In 2004. before the Games she injured her take off leg and couldn't recover for 18 months. After she started again trainings in 2005.autumn, 4 days before the 1st competition she broke her other ankle in January 2006. She couldn't return with full health after two surgeries at the end of 2007, but after all tried to reach the Olympic qualification level in 2008. what was 665 cm. Jumped only 645 cm and didn't reach the standard, so missed her third Olympics.