Home Depot Results?

[vaultguru6]

Flash Results sucks. Home Depot home page is horrible. If anyone knows results it would be much appreciated.

[njvaulter]

I saw the end of the meet and they showed a quick clip of Derek Miles in warmup breaking his pole into a bunch of pieces.

[rainbowgirl28]

I can't believe they are still not online...

This is all I know:

18:12:42 decamouse@hotmail.com: Derek Miles blew up a carbon - good video - looked like 5 or 6 pieces
18:12:46 decamouse@hotmail.com: then made opener
18:12:50 decamouse@hotmail.com: Toby won
18:13:06 decamouse@hotmail.com: Nick NH
18:13:10 decamouse@hotmail.com: Mack was 2nd
18:13:18 decamouse@hotmail.com: Hartwig 3rd on misses

[rainbowgirl28]

Pole Vault

1, Toby Stevenson, Nike, 18-4 1/2. 2, Tim Mack, Nike, 18-0 1/2. 3, Jeff Hartwig, Nike, 18-0 1/2.

1, Dana Ellis, Canada, 14-6 1/4. 2, Tracy O'Hara, una., 13-9 1/4. 3, Mary Sauer, Asics, 13-9 1/4.

[Bruce Caldwell]

I saw the end of the meet and they showed a quick clip of Derek Miles in warmup breaking his pole into a bunch of pieces.

This is the time of the year when you need to move up poles quickly. Staying on a size or not moving up a size can result in this.
I had heard the winds were so gusty and erratic if you were on a softer progression pole and the wind let up you could over load your pole blow through or have this happen.

Same thing happened to a few on our poles this weekend too.
And we heard of a few other brands too.
Congrats to all vaulters for a hard meet at the Home Depot Meet.
Personal congrats to Jeff 3rd. , Dana 1st and Tracy 2nd

[rainbowgirl28]

OK Finally full results from the USATF website

========================================================================
Name Year Team Finals
==========================================================================
1 Dana Ellis Canada 4.43m 14-06.25
3.90 4.00 4.10 4.20 4.30 4.40 4.43 4.50
P O XO XO XXO P XO XXX
2 Tracy O'Hara USA/Unattached 4.20m 13-09.25
3.90 4.00 4.10 4.20 4.30
P P O O XXX
2 Mary Sauer USA/Asics 4.20m 13-09.25
3.90 4.00 4.10 4.20 4.30
P P O O XXX
4 Stephanie McCann Canada 4.20m 13-09.25
3.90 4.00 4.10 4.20 4.30
P XXO XO XO XXX
5 Kellie Suttle USA/Nike 4.00m 13-01.50
3.90 4.00 4.10
P O XXX
6 Chelsea Johnson USA/UCLA 4.00m 13-01.50
3.90 4.00 4.10
P XO XXX


Men Pole Vault
==========================================================================
Name Year Team Finals
==========================================================================
1 Toby Stevenson USA/Nike 5.60m 18-04.50
5.35 5.50 5.60 5.70 5.75 5.80
P O XO P P XXX
2 Tim Mack USA/Nike 5.50m 18-00.50
5.35 5.50 5.60
XO O XXX
3 Jeff Hartwig USA/Nike 5.50m 18-00.50
5.35 5.50 5.60
O XXO XXX
4 Derek Miles USA/Nike 5.35m 17-06.50
5.35 5.50
O XXX
5 Dmitri Markov Australia 5.35m 17-06.50
5.35 5.50
XO XXX
-- Nick Hysong USA/Nike NH
5.35
XXX
-- Russ Buller USA/Asics NH
5.35
XXX
-- Scott Slover USA/Nike NH
5.35
XXX

[CowtownPV]

On tv they kept talking about how strong the winds were and all the jumps and races were wind aided and the pole vault runway was going across the end zone so the wind would have been a cross wind. I missed the first 20 minutes but all I saw was Toby missing 19' and then they posted the mens top three on the screen. Normal tv coverage of the pole vault.

[hurstiger]

If you missed the first twenty minutes, you missed the most coverage of the pole vault that I've ever seen on TV. Still wasn't enough, but it was more than we usually get.

[lonestar]

I saw the end of the meet and they showed a quick clip of Derek Miles in warmup breaking his pole into a bunch of pieces.

Anybody have any specifics on this? What brand pole? What size? How many jumps taken on it? New or old? Any damage? How many pieces? Where were the breaks located? etc...

[superchau88]

i saw one clip of derek miles making 17-6 (i think).

[Decamouse]

First clip was of Miles blowing up pole - late showed him amke hgt - also showed Markov and Hysong bailing - Hartwig with 18' make and TS with makes at 18'4" and miss at 19' - saw some of the women warming up alongs side but no vaults

[PVPhD]

I was at the meet. Derek broke the pole on his first jump at the opening height - 5.35 m. He was using a short run since he is nursing a sore hamstring. The pole broke in 3 pieces (I think) - an 8 foot long piece from the plug end to the label, a 2-3 foot long piece above that, and a 5-6 foot long top piece. I brought the small piece home with me - the rest was left at the track. The pole was an old Pacer Carbon - 13.5 flex. The piece I have has half of the label - and it looks like there were three labels on the pole - one on top of another on top of another. Anyway - the quick video analysis of the vaults I did at the USATF High Performance Center after the meet indicates that Derek's speed was the fastest on this vault.

The competition was definitely adversely affected by the gusty cross-wind and slight headwind from the right side of the runway (a great tailwind for the sprinters and long jumpers). The starting height was supposed to be 5.60 m - but the vaulters convinced the meet director to lower it to 5.35 m. Good thing - otherwise there would have been 7 NH's instead of 3. Fred Arnold (the official) enforced the 1 minute rule and most of the guys used up their minute waiting for the wind to calm. As a result there were many run throughs and bailouts as vaulters were forced to commit and start down the runway with only seconds left on the clock.

The men vaulted first. Most of the women's competition was also contested under poor wind conditions. But the wind was slowly shifting during their competition. By the time Dana was jumping by herself - she had a great tailwind. I thought she would make 4.50 m but I think she was beat. She took a total of 13 vaults.

Mary Sauer not only had the wind to contend with but the starter as well. The pit was at the same end of the track as the start of the 400 m races. There were at least a dozen youth and midget 4 x 100 m relays contested at the end of the meet. Mary had the misfortune of the starter's pistol being fired during her vaults at least twice during her attempts at 4.30 m. In one instance she had just taken off when the pistol was fired less than 30 feet away.