WC MPV Q - Walker DNS, Hooker in, Miles only American

[rainbowgirl28]

Men's pole vault qualifying round starts at 10:10am Berlin time. I think that works out to 1:10am Pacific/4:10am Eastern.

Should I go to bed early and get back up, or just stay up really late?

Updates will be in this thread...

[rainbowgirl28]

Start list
http://berlin.iaaf.org/documents/pdf/36 ... --.SL2.pdf
12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics
Berlin
From Saturday 15 August to Sunday 23 August 2009
Qualification START LIST
Pole Vault MEN
Qualification standard 5.75 or at least best 12 qualified


Group A
BIB NAME NAT YEAR
START PERSONAL BEST 2009 BEST
493Luke CUTTS GBR 88
1 5.60 5.60
626Yavgeniy OLHOVSKY ISR 83
2 5.48 5.48
240Spas BUKHALOV BUL 80
3 5.82 5.60
705Takafumi SUZUKI JPN 87
4 5.55 5.55
582Konstadínos FILIPPÍDIS GRE 86
5 5.75 5.65
992Aleksandr GRIPICH RUS 86
6 5.70 5.70
1228 Jeremy SCOTT USA 81
7 5.75 5.75
449Damiel DOSSÉVI FRA 83
8 5.75 5.70
1150 Maksym MAZURYK UKR 83
9 5.82 5.80
558Malte MOHR GER 86
10 5.80 5.80
1075 Jesper FRITZ SWE 85
11 5.70 5.61
1207 Derek MILES USA 72
12 5.82 5.75
474Romain MESNIL FRA 77
13 5.95 5.82
639Giuseppe GIBILISCO ITA 79
14 5.90 5.70
1005 Igor PAVLOV RUS 79
15 5.81 5.70
750Yoo Suk KIM KOR 82
16 5.66 5.55
313Jan KUDLICKA CZE 88
17 5.70 5.62
138Steven HOOKER AUS 82
18 6.00 5.95




Pole Vault Men - Qualification
START LIST
20 August 2009 10:10
Group B


BIB NAME NAT YEAR
START PERSONAL BEST 2009 BEST
470Renaud LAVILLENIE FRA 86
1 6.01 6.01
1244 Brad WALKER USA 81
2 6.04 5.80
1038 Jurij ROVAN SLO 75
3 5.61 5.55
184Kevin RANS BEL 82
4 5.70 5.66
218Fábio Gomes DA SILVA BRA 83
5 5.77 5.55
571Alexander STRAUB GER 83
6 5.81 5.81
1231 Toby STEVENSON USA 76
7 6.00 5.75
1078 Alhaji JENG SWE 81
8 5.80 5.61
1248 Leonid ANDREEV UZB 83
9 5.70 5.70
431Eemeli SALOMÄKI FIN 87
10 5.60 5.60
989Viktor CHISTIAKOV RUS 75
11 5.90 5.70
1142 Denys FEDAS UKR 85
12 5.65 5.60
512Steven LEWIS GBR 86
13 5.72 5.72
911Lukasz MICHALSKI POL 88
14 5.71 5.71
703Daichi SAWANO JPN 80
15 5.83 5.70
1145 Oleksandr KORCHMID UKR 82
16 5.81 5.65
561Björn OTTO GER 77
17 5.90 5.71



Height Progression
5.25 5.40 5.55 5.65 5.70 5.75

[rainbowgirl28]

Yeah, I went with staying up late.

[rainbowgirl28]

IAAF:

08:56 Moderator - Guten Morgen all from Olympiastadion. We're not really "here" yet, but the pole vaulters are - they start qualifying at 10:10.
08:56 Moderator - They're being warmly applauded by the die-hard fans in the stadium - the gates have only just opened so only a few dozen spectators are here yet. I only see two other journalists in the press tribune.
09:02 Burtos
Burtos - Is Steve Hooker there?

09:02 Moderator - Steve Hooker is on the track, looking as relaxed as he ever does.

[golfdane]

Steve Hooker is on the track, looking as relaxed as he ever does.

But this is not the time and place to put a shrimp on the barbie and drink Foster's......

I truely hopes he's READY!!!! Just to give Lavillenie a run for his money.

Personally, I'm rooting for Lewis and Jeng.

[rainbowgirl28]

Universal Sports live feed is supposed to start in 20 minutes (but I think yesterday morning it started late).

[rainbowgirl28]

I may have some updates from the field as Paul Merca is in Berlin and just sent me a text. I will post what I hear!


IAAF:
09:37 jan - do you have any information about the health of pole vault hooker??

09:37 Moderator - The only thing we know about Hooker beyond what's already been said is that he's here and dressed to vault.

[rainbowgirl28]

Oh crap!!!

IAAF:

09:44 Moderator - We just heard from the USATF media team that 2007 World Champion Brad Walker has withdrawn from the pole vault as of this morning.

[rainbowgirl28]

09:47 Moderator - (The USATF media team is seated in front of us in the tribune, and they're doing a pretty good job keeping usatf.org up to date about USA athletes. Thanks, Vicki!)

[rainbowgirl28]

Walker now listed as DNS on the start list

[rainbowgirl28]

From Twitter:

australianflame: Hooker in stadium. No jumping in warm up, saving himself for the comp. Reigning world champion Brad Walker a late withdrawal.

[rainbowgirl28]

People you may know/know of...

Pit A
Yavgeniy OLHOVSKY ISR - Competes for Virginia Tech
Konstadínos FILIPPÍDIS GRE - Recently discussed here as he just came off a drug suspension
Jeremy SCOTT USA - aka Grande. Trains at Bell Athletics in Jonesboro, Ark.
Derek MILES USA - Also trains at Bell Athletics in Jonesboro, Ark (splits time between there and South Dakota)
Yoo Suk KIM KOR - UCLA alum, famously featured in a Neo Vault video
Steven HOOKER AUS - The Olympic Gold medalist!

Pit B
Renaud LAVILLENIE FRA - Recently joined the 6 meter club, with Hooker hurt and Brad Walker DNS, he's the favorite to win.
Toby STEVENSON USA - You know, that guy, with the helmet, and the crazy celebrations...
Viktor CHISTIAKOV - He was Russian, then Australian, now Russian again... Formerly married to Tatiana Grigorieva