These are the results achieved by Blanka Vlasic at the Golden Gala. The criteria are the same used for the men’s title. Three points for the winner, two for the second placer, one for the third placer and a bonus of six points for the world record. Blanka Vlasic scored a total of 18 points which crown the very tall Croatian jumper, who is nicknamed the Flamingo, as the queen of the Rome meeting where she set the meeting record with 2.03m, which she holds together with South African Hestrie Cloete, Russian Yelena Slesarenko and US Chaunte Lowe.
Marion Jones (six wins, one second place and one third place) would have scored three more points but the results achieved from the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 until 2004 by the sprinter, who hails from Belize (once belonging to British Honduras) were cancelled, although her meeting records (10.75, 22.19, 7.23) are safe as they were set before her personal failure. As in snakes and ladders she dropped to 15 points
In the 20th anniversary of her world title in Gothenburg, Fiona May comes very close to the historic podium of the Golden Gala with one point less than the pair formed by Isinbayeva and Richards. The Italian jumper achieved one win and five podium places. It would have been enough to jump nine cm further in her debut in 1994 and score one point more to reach the greatest pole vault acrobat in history (who set one of her world records with 5.03m in the Olympic Stadium) and the US 400m sprinter of Jamaican origin, who is the best 400m specialist in the world at the moment.
Stefka Kostadinova follows just a few tenths from Fiona May with 12.7 points (this score can be explained by the fact that points were shared after more athletes tied the second place) thanks to her four wins in the Olympic Stadium. She set the world record with 2.09m at the 1987 World Championships which remained unbeaten for nearly 28 years.
Bolonging to an era which dates back to 30 years or more, Evelyn Ashford, the graceful sprinter from Louisiana who gave a run for her money to her East German rivals, and Maricica Puica, a Romanian middle-distance runner with stringy hair
- Blanka Vlasic 18
- Marion Jones 15 (21 minus six after her results from 2000 and 2004 were cancelled)
- Yelena Isinbayeva and Sanya Richards 14
- Fiona May and Merlene Ottey 13
- Stefka Kostadinova 12.7 (the points for the second and the third place were shared between four athletes)
- Nezha Bidouane and Maricica Puica 12
- Torrie Edwards and Astrid Kumbernuss 11
- Evelyn Ashford and Tatiana Kotova 10
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