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Spiegelburg is playing the long game

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The road back from injury can be a long and difficult one but German pole vaulter Silke Spiegelburg is taking hers all in her in stride.

Spiegelburg, 28, a triple European silver medallist, was forced to cut her summer short after fracturing a bone in her wrist.

And she is in no rush to return, steadily taking her time, setting a target of next June and gradually building towards that.

And while she is progressing, she is going to make the most of her studies.

Spiegelburg, in an interview with leichtathletik.de, said: 'I was angry, upset and some tears flowed. But in retrospect, this was a good mental break from athletics.

'All those around me have told me that I should accept this forced break positively, just because I've never had a break.'

She is not training more than once a day but is heading to a camp in South Africa where she hopes to step up her progress.

But she is using this period well to 'move on further in my studies and complete my undergraduate work in health economics. I would then have a clear head for the sport'.

Spiegelburg first made it onto the podium at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Turin in 2009 when she was second with a national record of 4.75m, beaten only on countback by Russia's Yuliya Golubchikova.

The following year it was silver again, this time at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, and once more she was beaten by a Russian rival as Svetlana Feofanova won with 4.75 from Spiegelburg's 4.65m.

She was then second once more at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris in 2011 with 4.75m again as Poland's Anna Rogowska won with 4.85m.




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