Career
The first Israeli to clear 1.90 meters, and the only one who cleared more than 1.90 meters in international competition. Frenkel originally was interested in being a professional dancer, and trained for years as a teenager with the Bat-Dor Dance Company. Two months after she began her army service, as a guide at Yad Vashem (a memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust), Israeli high jump coach Anatoly Shafran, who had seen her jump in a high school competition when she was 14, began an effort to convince her to jump competitively.
In 2007, when Frenkel began her training with Shafran, she jumped 1.69 meters.
In each of the next two years, she improved her personal best by 6 centimeters, jumping 1.81 meters in 2009. 2010
Her breakthrough year was 2010, in which she improved her personal best by 11 centimeters.
In the qualifying, she cleared every height in the first attempt, until she set another national record with a jump of 1.92m, and qualified for the Final, becoming the first ever Israeli female athlete to do southern Two days later in the final, her mediocre jump of 1.85m left her in 12th and last place.
2011
In January 2011, Frenkel twice set a new Israeli national indoor record, at 1.87 meters and 1.90 meters.
In March, at the European Indoor Championships in Paris, she set an Israeli record of 1.94 meters in qualifying. In August, she had a disappointment at the World Championships in Daegu, as she jumped only 1.85m and failed to qualify. Her season best outdoors was 1.90m, set in June at Neurim.
In June 2011, Frenkel finished fourth in the triple jump at 12.24 meters at the European Team Championships group three in Iceland.
Frenkel is Jewish. She is a law student at the Interdisciplinary Center. Her nickname is the “Gravity Bender”.
