XL Galan - Feofanova 4.68, Bengtsson 4.63 WJR NR, Murer 4.53

[altius]

"No ! Her dad has never vaulted." Well well! Be interesting to learn his history -perhaps they have good coach education programs in Sweden!

[atlegu]

My post, was just an answer to dj who wrote "i guess her dad may have been a vaulter??". I don´t know "the Bengtssons", have only read swedish newspapers and seen interviews on TV. As far as I have understood, her father is a very open minded coach that wants to learn from and listen to everyone.

Even though you don´t understand swedish, this report from swedish television says a lot.
http://svtplay.se/v/2285163/angelica_ar_alltid_pa_vag

Some translations:
She is one of five sisters and learned that patience is important. She lives far away from basically everything. It is 25 miles to school, 55 miles to pole vault practice and 125 miles to gymnastic (were she goes twice a week). And for those of you that are used to US highways, the roads in this part of sweden is not like that, especially not during winter. Even though her father mostly drive her to practice, she takes the bus to school (In sweden you will not have a driving license before you are 18).

Here dad works full time as a mechanic, and have never tried pole vault. However he says : I try to read, and learn from everyone. I think we have a found a model that works for Angelica.

Some extra information: In Sweden (and I guess in Europe in general) you are allowed to get support even as a high school student. Hence she have a nice stipend from her club, that makes it possible to travel several weeks to souther europe during winter. And as I mentioned in the last post: Sweden have very good traditions in pole vault. Since Kjell Isakson´s first world record in 1972, there have always been good vaulters in Sweden, even thought there are not many vaulters.