Holly Bleasdale, the new hot property of British athletics after her extraordinary pole-vault clearance of 4.87 metres at the weekend, has an important training session in store on Monday.

Menno Vloon en Rutger Koppelaar hebben bij wedstrijden in Lyon voldaan aan de limiet voor de WJK van komende zomer in Barcelona, zo twitterdebondscoach Rens Blom. Beiden kwamen tot een hoogte van 5,19, de limiet staat op 5,10 en de junioren sprongen afgelopen zomer in de buitenlucht 4,80.

Wout van Wengerden kwam bij de elite-springers tot 5,19 (driemaal mis op 5,44). Dezelfde hoogte haalde Cyriel Verberne in de tweede groep. Rianne Galiart sprong 4,14.

Meer informatie over deze wedstrijd, waar parallel op drie aanlopen wordt gesprongen, is hier te vinden. De uitslagen staan hier.

Bron: www.alltrackpress.nl

De groepsindelings is bekend voor indoor Amsterdam – 29  januari! 

Polsstokspringen Amsterdam organiseert in samenwerking met Phanos en NEA Volharding op zondag 29 januari een tweetal polsstokhoogspringwedstrijden in Sportcentrum Ookmeer te Amsterdam. Deelname aan deze wedstrijd is op uitnodiging.

De eerste wedstrijd, met een aanvangshoogte rond 1.80m, zal aanvangen om 17.00u. De tweede wedstrijd vangt aan om 19.00u. Vanaf 16.00u is er gelegenheid om in te werken.

Kosten voor alle atleten bedraagt €5,-. Contant te betalen op de wedstrijddag.

RENO, Nevada--Though it’s only the first meet of the young 2012 season, University of Washington alum and current American record holder Brad Walker isn’t letting people write him off yet.

The 2007 IAAF world champion opened his 2012 campaign with a jump of 19-0 1/4 (5.80m) to win the men’s elite section at the UCS Pole Vault Summit at the Reno Livestock Event Center.

Walker got off to an inauspicious start, running through the pit at his opening height of 18-1 1/4 (5.52m), before clearing the bar on his second attempt.

Walker easily cleared 18-5 1/4 (5.62m) on his first attempt, then cleared 19-0 1/4 (5.80m) on his first attempt, before missing all three attempts at 19-4 3/4 (5.91m), which would have been a 2012 indoor world leader.

Courtesy of YouTube, here is video of Walker’s jump:

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When Holly Bleasdale cleared 4.71m off a shortened approach at a low-key meeting last month, it hinted that there was a lot more to come from the young Blackburn pole vaulter. Tonight in Lyon, the 20-year-old lived up to that promise.

She opened with first-time clearances at 4.44m, 4.60m and a UK record of 4.72m. She improved it again with another first-time clearance of 4.80m to regain the world-leading mark. But she wasn’t done there – Bleasdale raised the bar to 4.87m and nailed it on her third vault to set her third UK record of the night.

Bleasdale then set the bar to 5.01m – a would-be world indoor record – but it was not to be. That did not dent her spirits though, as her winning 4.87m performance is a mark that ranks her at No.2 on the world indoor all-time list. It is also a world indoor under-23 best.

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