Prefontaine - Jeng 5.51, Mack, Scott 5.41 bad winds

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Jeng up for his third. Wind seems to have died down a bit.

[rainbowgirl28]

Jeng finally has a clean jump! Lots of height and finally doesn't touch the bar.

[rainbowgirl28]

Mack bails again, gets a nice round of applause from the crowd.

[rainbowgirl28]

Jeremy Scott bails.

5.51
Jeng - XXO
Mack - XXX
Scott - XXX

Man 6.04 won Pre last year and only 5.51 this year!

[rainbowgirl28]

Jeng raises the bar to 5.71.

[rainbowgirl28]

Jeng runs through his first attempt at 5.71. Then he shakes everyone's hand. Looks like he is calling it a day. He is putting his poles away!

[rainbowgirl28]

I just moved up to the press area. Most of the guys are still in the infield doing a workout. Jeremy Scott and Derek Miles were doing striders with the 3k guys when they were warming up haha.

I am going to try and track some of them down and see what they though, but it's pretty obvious that the wind was crappy and no one was feeling it today.

[rainbowgirl28]

That's got to be one of the worst ratio of makes to misses in Prefontaine history.

[rainbowgirl28]

How about Mike Rodgers winning the 100!

Most of the vaulters have just been chilling in the infield the whole time, watching the meet.


Flash Results, Inc.
2009 Prefontaine Classic Grand Prix - 6/7/2009
Eugene, OR

Event 1 Men Pole Vault
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Starting Ht: 5.41, 5.51, 5.61, 5.71, 5.76, 5.81, +5 cm
World: W 6.14m 1994 Sergey Bubka, Ukraine
American: A 6.04m 2008 Brad Walker
Hayward: H 6.04m 2008 Brad Walker, USA
Prefontaine: P 6.04m 2008 Brad Walker, USA
All-Comer: @ 6.04m 6/8/2008 Brad Walker, USA
Name Year Team Finals
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Finals
1 Alhaji Jeng Sweden 5.51m 18-01.00
5.41 5.51 5.61 5.71
O XXO PPP X
2 Jeremy Scott USA 5.41m 17-09.00
5.41 5.51
XXO XXX
2 Tim Mack USA 5.41m 17-09.00
5.41 5.51
XXO XX
-- Derek Miles USA NH
5.41
XXX
-- Jacob Pauli USA NH
5.41
XXX
-- Daichi Sawano Japan NH
5.41
XXX
-- Giovanni Lanaro Mexico NH
5.41
XXX

[rainbowgirl28]

Not that they showed any pole vault (wasn't worth showing!!) but if you want to see the TV broadcast you can catch it here: http://www.universalsports.com/mediaPla ... m_id=23000

The other events were good.