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

[rainbowgirl28]

12:14 Moderator - Miles looked over, but then the bar dropped, so he's stuck at 5.55m.

[rainbowgirl28]

Gibilisco clears!

Two vaulters left... they both need to miss for any Americans to advance to the final

[rainbowgirl28]

Miles, Rans, Chistiakov, and Sawano all hold their breath. Pavlov misses. Only Yoo Kim remains. If he clears he bumps those 4 out, if he makes, they should advance.

Pavlov had misses and will not advance.

[rainbowgirl28]

Kim misses and is done.

So it looks like Miles and the others I just mentioned will squeak through to the final. We'll have to wait to see for sure...

[rainbowgirl28]

They go back and show one of Chistiakov's misses, it was ugly.

Now they show Lewis... a nice clearance.

[rainbowgirl28]

They showed Otto's third jump, very close!

[rainbowgirl28]

They showed Gripich's make, he hit it hard!

They showed Jeremy Scott's third. very close

[rainbowgirl28]

10:10 - Pole Vault Men Qualification - Group B ( View group A )OFFICIAL
All Records >>
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WR 6.14 Sergey BUBKA (UKR) Sestriere - 31 Jul 1994
WL 6.01 Renaud LAVILLENIE (FRA) Leiria - 21 Jun 2009
CR 6.05 Dmitri MARKOV (AUS) Edmonton - 09 Aug 2001

Qualification standard 5.75 or at least best 12 qualified to Final

Standings ( View full detail )

Pos Bib Athletes Mark
1 470 Renaud LAVILLENIE FRA 5.65 q
1 571 Alexander STRAUB GER 5.65 q
3 512 Steven LEWIS GBR 5.65 q
4 1078 Alhaji JENG SWE 5.65 q SB
5 989 Viktor CHISTIAKOV RUS 5.55 q
5 184 Kevin RANS BEL 5.55 q
5 703 Daichi SAWANO JPN 5.55 q
8 561 Bjorn OTTO GER 5.55
9 1248 Leonid ANDREEV UZB 5.55
10 911 Lukasz MICHALSKI POL 5.40
10 431 Eemeli SALOMAKI FIN 5.40
12 1231 Toby STEVENSON USA 5.40
13 1038 Jurij ROVAN SLO 5.40
14 1142 Denys FEDAS UKR 5.25
218 Fabio Gomes DA SILVA BRA NM
1145 Oleksandr KORCHMID UKR NM
1244 Brad WALKER USA DNS


Standings ( View full detail )

Pos Bib Athletes Mark
1 138 Steven HOOKER AUS 5.65 q
2 1150 Maksym MAZURYK UKR 5.65 q
2 474 Romain MESNIL FRA 5.65 q
4 449 Damiel DOSSEVI FRA 5.65 q
5 639 Giuseppe GIBILISCO ITA 5.65 q
6 992 Aleksandr GRIPICH RUS 5.65 q
6 558 Malte MOHR GER 5.65 q
8 1207 Derek MILES USA 5.55 q
9 1228 Jeremy SCOTT USA 5.55
10 582 Konstadinos FILIPPIDIS GRE 5.55
11 750 Yoo Suk KIM KOR 5.55 SB
11 1005 Igor PAVLOV RUS 5.55
13 240 Spas BUKHALOV BUL 5.40
13 493 Luke CUTTS GBR 5.40
13 313 Jan KUDLICKA CZE 5.40
16 626 Yavgeniy OLHOVSKY ISR 5.40
17 705 Takafumi SUZUKI JPN 5.25
1075 Jesper FRITZ SWE NM

[VTechVaulter]

wait did i read all this right? hooker takes no warm up jumps, opens at 5.65 and makes it on a first? if so thats amazing

[golfdane]

wait did i read all this right? hooker takes no warm up jumps, opens at 5.65 and makes it on a first? if so thats amazing

Yup, but I think it's more of an indicator, that something is really hurting, rather than him being the top dog...

His jump was pretty good, and he would be clear favorite, was it not for his injury. Now, I doubt he'll last an entire competition, unless he enters at 5.90, and nails it 1st time.

[rainbowgirl28]

wait did i read all this right? hooker takes no warm up jumps, opens at 5.65 and makes it on a first? if so thats amazing

Indeed!

[rainbowgirl28]

Athlete quotes from USATF:

Derek Miles (Tea, South Dakota), men's pole vault

It was a bit of a stain on a good pair of underwear; that's what that is. There were some jumps that I timed up really well, and some jumps where I was fighting it. Fortunately, I have my coach here, so we can go back and talk about things that I was missing.

I know I'm capable of jumping well; I just cleared 19 feet 5 days ago easy. I just need to find my rhythm down the runway. When I'm timed up the runway and I'm running well, the jump's easy. I got three hours of sleep last night, and the body's firing and missing.

Jeremy Scott (Brookland, Arkansas), men's pole vault

It was a struggle the whole day. I'm not happy; the qualifying height was well within my range, and I just couldn't get things going in the right direction.

I was working on my run-up when I got over here to Europe, and I got that down. The transition from the run to the jump wasn't real fluid. I felt a little bit out of myself today. I had two or three jumps where I felt, 'What just happened?', when normally I can tell right away what I just did.