Zita Ajkler

Zita Ajkler (born June 9, 1975) is a Hungarian long jumper. She is all 16X times Hungarian national champion in long jump, triple jump, heptathlon and 100 m hurdles. Her personal best is 676 cm in long and 13.99m in triple jump (the national record is 14.00m), 13.75 s in 100 m hurdles (wind-1.2) and 60 m hurdles: 8.35 s, heptathlon: 5323 points. She jumped pole vault just for fun, achieved 360 cms in training after 3 months practice nonetheless never competed in this event.

Her first big achievement was in 1998, Budapest at the European Athletics Championships where she was surprisingly 6th with PB 664 cm. Then repeated this 6th place in Vienna, at the indoor ECh in 2002. She competed 2 Olympic Games: 2000. Sydney and 2004. Athens but didn't reach the final.

She competed three times at World University Games - Universiade, 1999. Mallorca, 2001. Beijing, 2003.Daegu (long jump, triple jump and 4X100m relay in all competition). She was in the final (between in the best 8) in all events. Her best result was 3rd in 2003. Daegu, S-Korea in long jump. The worst result was 7th place in 2001, Beijing at triple jump.

In 2004. before the Games she injured her take off leg and couldn't recover for 18 months. After she started again trainings in 2005.autumn, 4 days before the 1st competition she broke her other ankle (triple jump take off leg) in January 2006. She couldn't return with full health after two surgeries at the end of 2007, but after all tried to reach the Olympic qualification level in 2008. what was 665 cm. Jumped only 645 cm and didn't reach the standard, so missed her third Olympics.

In 2010. she won Veteran European Championships in Nyíregyháza in triple jump and was 2nd in long jump. She is retired but compete for last time in 2014. Veteran indoor World Championships in Budapest.

Now she's working at sport tv channel Eurosport in Hungary. She is a commentator for track and field, figure skating and extreme sports. She is also a physical conditioning-coordination coach, helping the national women's sabre team.