Alana Boyd is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Olympic Games

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 pole vault

Pole vault

Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

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The 2008 Australian Champion

Australian Championships in Athletics

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, Boyd was selected for the 2007 World Championships

2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's pole vault

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, but did not make the final.

Her personal best jump is 4.56 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Monaco

Monaco

Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...

. She won the gold medal for the women's pole vault at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

2010 Commonwealth Games

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 in Delhi

Delhi

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Alana's parents are both former Australian Olympians and her selection in the 2008 Beijing Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

 marks the first time a child of two former Olympians will compete in an Australian Olympic team. Her mother Denise

Denise Boyd

Denise Boyd is a former Australian Olympic sprinter, who reached two Olympic finals in the 200 metres sprint...

 (née Robertson) won the gold medal for 200 metres at the 1978 Commonwealth Games

1978 Commonwealth Games

The 1978 Commonwealth Games were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 3 to 12 August 1978, two years after the 1976 Summer Olympics were held in Montreal, Quebec...

 in Edmonton and ran in three Olympic finals. Her father and coach Ray Boyd

Ray Boyd

Raymond Boyd is a former athlete from Australia, who competed in the Pole vault.Boyd won eleven Australian Championships in the Pole Vault, ending his career on a high note when winning the Gold medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane...

 was also a Commonwealth Games champion and double-Olympic pole vaulter. Alana has two sibling

Sibling

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s, who have also represented Australia internationally: Jacinta (born 2 October 1986), a 6.64 metre long jump

Long jump

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er, and Matt (born 29 April 1988), a 5.35 metre pole vaulter.

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