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Birth name | Nastja Ryzhikh | ||||||||||||||
Born | 19 September 1977 Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (age 47)||||||||||||||
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Country | Germany | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Pole vault | ||||||||||||||
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Anastasija Steinbeck, née Ryzhikh (born 19 September 1977 in Omsk) is a Russian-born German pole vaulter. She is the older sister of fellow pole vaulter Lisa Ryzih. Her greatest success was the gold medal in the 1999 World Indoor Championships.
Steinbeck's personal best is 4.63 metres (15.2 feet), achieved in July 2006 in Nürnberg. As of 2016, this ranks her tenth among German pole vaulters.