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Women’s Pole Vault

Highlight of the night, in altitude terms, is likely to be the queen of the infield, Yelena Isinbayeva. Unaccountably, the Russian has lost this season. OK, it was only once, to Anna Rogowska, in London. But the Pole also raised her best to 4.80 metres this season, just five centimetres shy of Izzie’s equally unaccountable season’s high. On paper, Fabiana Murer’s 4.82m Brazilian record should also make her a contender to dislodge Isinbayeva’s crown. But common sense tells us that at the end of what is bound to be another long night – hopefully not into Cinderella territory, i.e. close to midnight, as it was in Beijing – then the glass slipper, er, the gold medal will again be strung around Isinbayeva neck.

Nice PDF of the Startlist: http://berlin.iaaf.org/documents/pdf/36 ... --.SL2.pdf


17 August 2009 18:45
BIB NAME NAT YEARSTART PERSONAL BEST 2009 BEST
1005 Chelsea JOHNSON USA 831 4.73 4.60
792Yuliya GOLUBCHIKOVA RUS 832 4.75 4.70
411Anna BATTKE GER 853 4.68 4.68
725Anna ROGOWSKA POL 814 4.83 4.80
455Silke SPIEGELBURG GER 865 4.70 4.70
814Tatyana POLNOVA RUS 796 4.78 4.56
801Aleksandra KIRYASHOVA RUS 857 4.65 4.65
383Kate DENNISON GBR 848 4.58 4.58
795Elena ISINBAEVA RUS 829 5.05 4.85
417Kristina GADSCHIEW GER 8410 4.58 4.58
724Monika PYREK POL 8011 4.82 4.78
179Fabiana MURER BRA 8112 4.82 4.82



Height progression will be 4.40, 4.55, 4.65, 4.75, 5cm

I think that is a great height progression. Isi shouldn't have too much room to complain, it should get to her opening height (65? 75?) relatively quickly.

The women are warming up now and already an update!

IAAF live blog:

18:00 Moderator - Some concern at the pole vault pit during warmups - it appears that Golubchikova had a bad run-up, she's lying on the mats now getting attention from the stadium staff.

Golubchikova - looks like she's out - either a wicked cramp or a slight pull of hte hamstring during warmups - grabbed it halfway through one of her runups

IAAF: 18:02 Moderator - Golubchikova is now on her feet and walking away with assistance. Her left upper leg is wrapped, and she's limping a little.

Remember, for those in the US, live video at UniversalSports.com

Looks like the IAAF will probably have makes and misses at: http://berlin.iaaf.org/live/live.html

rainbowgirl28 wrote:Remember, for those in the US, live video at UniversalSports.com

Canadians can watch live stream at http://www.cbc.ca/sports
Rest of the world can go to http://www.justin.tv/ to watch Eurosport stream.

The height progression listed on the live updates includes 4.25 for some reason.

IAAF: 18:40 Moderator - Golubchikova will not start the pole vault, she's listed as a DNS now. Opening height 4.25m, four vaulters (Battke, Rogowska, Pyrek and of course Isinbayeva) have already passed.

Spiegelburg and Murer also listed as passing opening, they are still updating it.

I don't know why the opening height was lowered to 4.25, that is low for the finals of the world championships! Most are passing.

I posed the question of the opening height to the moderator of the IAAF live chat:

18:42 polevaultpower - Why was the opening height of the women's pole vault lowered to 4.25? The start list indicated 4.40
18:42 Moderator - Not sure. 4.40m is the second height designated. Murer and Spiegelburg have also passed 4.25m now. And Johnson. Maybe nobody will try 4.25m anyway.