Olympic, Commonwealth and World Championship medallist Tatiana Grigorieva’s appointment as the Queensland Performance Advisor will see her help deliver Athletics Australia’s high performance KPI’s. More specifically, she will help drive a high performance culture amongst AA’s NASS athletes and athletes in Queensland.
Tatiana will establish close relationships with the athletes and their support teams, working with them on their current training status, technical and tactical strengths and weaknesses, as well as medium and long term training and competition plans.
Tatiana’s impressive athletic history holds her in good stead to fulfil this new performance advisory role.
As a former national level hurdler in Russia, Grigorieva took up pole vaulting when she migrated to Australia in 1997. Within 12 months of picking up a pole, she became one of the world's best, placing third in the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York. In her first appearance at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics, she won the bronze medal.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, she jumped a personal best to win silver. Two years later her first Commonwealth Games, she went into the competition as the overwhelming favourite with enormous pressure on her. Grigorieva's goal was to win gold and set a new games record – she achieved both.
After a few years battling injury, illness and personal strain, she walked away with a silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in a performance that was close to her very best. 2006 was clearly her best ever international season where she jumped over 4.5 m six times and recorded two new personal best heights within days of each other.
