Marleen Mülla

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Marleen Mülla
Personal information
NationalityEstonian
Born (2001-06-28) 28 June 2001 (age 24)
Rakvere, Estonia
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Pole vault
Achievements and titles
Personal bestsPole vault: 4.57 m (2025) NR

Marleen Mülla (born 28 June 2001) is an Estonian pole vaulter. She is the national record holder and represented Estonia at the 2025 World Championships.[1]

Career

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From Rakvere and a member of Rakvere Athletics Club ViKe, she jumped over four metres for the first time in February 2019 in Tallinn, at the age of 17 years-old, having worked with the coach Hennit Küppas. In doing so, she became the sixth Estonian female athlete to achieve the height.[2] Having become Estonian national champion, she set a new personal best of 4.07 metres competing in January 2020.[3]

In January 2022, she set an Estonian domestic record with a clearness of 4.33 metres. In February 2022, she set a new national record of 4.40 metres whilst competing in Grand Forks, and broke it again in April 2022, clearing 4.41 metres in South Dakota.[4]

In January 2023, Mülla cleared a height of 4.43 m to improve the national record and just a week later, cleared a height of 4.47 and then shortly afterwards set the Estonian national record at 4.52, before clearing 4.55 metres in February, improving the Estonian indoor national record four times in a few weeks. She placed third at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships.[5][6][7]

She had best clearance competing indoors in 2024 of 4.45 metres.[7] She made her senior major championships debut at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, in June 2024. She cleared 4.40 metres and did not advance to the final, placing sixteenth overall.[8]

In May 2025, she set a new national record of 4.57 metres whilst competing in Vermillion, South Dakota.[9] The following month she competed in Maribor, Slovenia representing Estonia at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division.[10] She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, without advancing to the final.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Marleen Mülla". World Athletics. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  2. ^ "Excellent! Marleen Mülla jumped into the four-meter club". postimees.ee. 23 February 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  3. ^ "Pole vaulter Marleen Mülla jumped to Kenya for the World Championships". postimees.ee. 26 January 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  4. ^ "Mülla breaks Estonian pole vault record again". err.ee. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  5. ^ "Mülla is also thinking about the World Cup: getting there is possible, but I'm enjoying the progress". err.ee. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  6. ^ "Summitt League Conference Championships". World Athletics. 25 February 2023. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  7. ^ a b "Enok and Mülla could not repeat last year's achievement". err.ee. 9 March 2024. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  8. ^ "Mülla, who had to shorten the pole: it still hurts a little that he didn't make it to the finals". err.ee. 8 June 2024. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  9. ^ "Summit League Outdoor Championships". World Athletics. 15 May 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  10. ^ "European Athletics Team Championships Second Division". World Athletics. 29 June 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  11. ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. Retrieved 24 September 2025.