New WPV NR for Poland

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Anna Rogowska started her outdoor season yesterday with a national record 4.76 at Gdansk, also taking over the lead from Jillian Schwartz' 4.55 in the world rankings. Meanwhile, at Biala Podlaska, former record holder Monika Pyrek cleared 4.50 to move into a third-place tie with Canadian Dana Ellis in current world rankings.

Since I remembered that Pyrek had set 40 national records in the outdoor vault (more than any other athlete in any event), I wondered whether she was still young enough to once again challenge Rogowska for the record. When I checked the birthdates I saw that I needn't have worried. Monika, who won't be 25 until her birthday in August, is just nine months older than Anna: not exactly an old lady. What faked me out was it seemed a long time since Pyrek first held the Polish record. It has been (1996), but she was just fourteen years old at the time! Since then, she has lost the record twice to Anna Wielgus and once previously to Rogowska. I'd say she has a good chance, yet, to add to her 40 outdoor and 27 indoor national records.

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http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=29570.html

Rogowska vaults 4.76m and Bieniek high jumps 2.36m – Polish season gets underway!
Monday 30 May 2005
Anna Rogowska surprised all athletic fans in Poland with her great opening to the outdoor season on Saturday (28 May). The Olympic women’s Pole Vault bronze medallist competed as a guest star in a juniors meeting in Gdansk and vaulted 4.76m to better the national record, she set in the winter, by one centimetre.

Rogowska, currently third in the IAAF World Rankings for the event, had just returned from a training camp in Formia, where she was unable to practice normally for a couple of days because of a leg injury. Coached by her long-time boyfriend Jacek Torlinski, on Saturday she cleared 4.76m on her first attempt and then tried 4.86m, almost successfully. This was the seventh time she has topped 4.70m in her very short athletics career.

“|’m ready now to fly over 4.80m,â€Â

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Zbigniew Jonik sent these results from a meet yesterday in Sopot. I don't know what "exhibition" means in this context. If the marks are official, it would be another 1cm improvement in the Polish National Record for Rogowska. (4.77m = 15'7 3/4")

SOPOT, 2.06
18. Exhibition Pole Vault Meet "Tyczka na Molo"
WOMEN
1. Anna Rogowska (SKLA Sopot) 4.77
2. Natalya Belinskaya (RUS) 4.30
3. Róza Kasprzak (AZS AWFiS Gdansk) 4.30
4= Lyudmyla Vaylenko (UKR) 3.90
4= Kate Dennison (GBR) 3.90
6. Stephanie McCann (CAN) 3.90
7. Paulina Debska (OSiT Gdansk) 3.70


That 15'7 3/4" sounded familiar, and when I checked, it was indeed the height of Warmerdam's last world record, at Modesto on 23 May 1942.