High jump: Friedrich receives the silver medal ten years after the World Cup

It was one of the highlights of the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin: high jumper Ariane Friedrich stood on the tartan track before her third attempt over 2.02 meters, the spectators in the Olympic Stadium waited in tense silence. Friedrich ran to his feet, jumped over and cheered in a slightly bent position with his clenched fist. Friedrich won bronze - and now, ten years later, gets the silver medal at the same place afterwards.

Next Sunday, the sports festival Istaf will take place in the Olympic Stadium, and the now 35-year-old Friedrich will receive the new medal because the Russian Anna Tschitscherowa, who was then placed in front of her, was stripped of silver doping last year.

"Of course it would have been nicer if no one had doped and I had already experienced all this in 2009," said Germany's best high jumper, who continues to hold the also set in Berlin German record (2.06 meters). "The fact that I now get the medal at the Istaf later, but is a round thing and a perfect graduation." Friedrich had wished for the subsequent ceremony in Berlin.

At the World Cup, Friedrich was the same height as Chitherova and after the Croatian Blanka Vlasic (2.04 meters), first third. On Sunday, Friedrich receives the silver medal from the hands of Jon Ridgeon, Managing Director of the World Athletics Federation. Then there are her partner, the four-time Bob Olympic champion André Lange, her five-year-old daughter Amy and her longtime coach Günter Eisinger. Friedrich finished her career in 2018.