She won the pole vault at the
2001 World Youth Championships with a height of 4.00 metres. She reached the final of the event at the
2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics the following year, but managed only eighth place. Success came at the
2003 European Athletics Junior Championships, however, as she took the
gold medal with a clearance of 4.15 m. She made her Olympic debut the following year at the
2004 Athens Games and qualified for the final with a vault of 4.40 m, but she did not reach that height in the final round and ended the competition in thirteenth place. She set a
world junior record mark in the pole vault in August 2005, clearing 4.48 m in
Münster. Spiegelburg reached the final at the
2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships and went on to finish sixth in the pole vault final at the
2006 European Athletics Championships in
Gothenburg. She twice achieved marks of 4.56 m on the European circuit that season and came sixth at the end of year
2006 IAAF World Athletics Final. In 2007, she improved her indoor best to 4.50 m and came fifth at the
2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships. She also made her debut at the
2007 World Championships in Athletics, but did not get past the qualifying stage. She ended the year with a personal best of 4.60 m at the
2007 IAAF World Athletics Final. She came seventh at the
2008 Beijing Olympics and equalled her outdoor best at the
2008 IAAF World Athletics Final to take the
gold medal. She won the
bronze medal at the
2009 European Team Championships in June and went on to claim the national pole vault title at the
2009 German Athletics Championships the following month. This gained her a berth at the
2009 World Championships in Athletics, where she cleared 4.65 m – the second highest performance – but ended up in fourth place by merit of countback. She equalled her outdoor best of 4.70 m at the
Memorial van Damme, taking third place, but managed only sixth at the
2009 IAAF World Athletics Final. At the 2011 European Team Championship she improved her outdoor personal best to 4.75 metres. At the Diamond League Meeting in Monaco (20 July 2012) she jumped 4,82 metres breaking the German Record. At the
2012 Summer Olympics in London (XXX Olympic Games) she finished in 4th position with 4.65 metres (6 August 2012). ==See also==