Career

This is the current Austrian record. After 2001 Auer"s performance stagnated. In 2002 she resigned from competitive sports but continued to practice pole vaulting as a respectable amateur.

Currently she is a full-time high school teacher of sports in Vienna, Austria.

She holds a university degree in sports and history.

Achievements

• Her personal best is 4.40 metres (outdoors), achieved in September 2000 in Runaway Bay. Indoors her best is 4.44 metres, achieved in Glasgow 2001. In the same year the current world champion Yelena Isinbayeva recorded 4.45 indoors.