Sabrina De Leeuw is a retired Belgian high jump

High jump

The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

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She won the 1993 European Junior Championships, and the gold medal at the 1997 Jeux de la Francophonie, She also competed at the 1993 World Championships without reaching the final. She was given the Golden Spike Award in 1993.

She became Belgian champion in 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2006. Her main domestic competitor was Natalja Jonckheere, before Tia Hellebaut

Tia Hellebaut

Tia Hellebaut is a Belgian track and field athlete who started out in the heptathlon, but afterwards specialized in the high jump event. She has cleared 2.05 metres both indoors and outdoors....

 took over the hegemony. De Leeuw also became French champion in 1998 and 2000. Her personal best jump is 1.93 metres, achieved in August 1993 in Sheffield

Sheffield

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