Mede door de hulp van Esther Remmelink, Yuri Thijssing, Yvonne Blok, Tom Hoekema, Wouter Vloothuis en Len Alofsen liep de wedstrijd gesmeerd en was de sfeer erg aangenaam.

Uitslag:

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.

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:

Walker’s jump is the second best in the world so far this season, only behind Russia’s Dmitry Starodubtsev, who cleared 19-4 1/4 (5.90m) on December 29th. Starodubtsev, who finished fifth in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, also has a clearance of 19-0 1/4 set on January 14th.

Since setting the American record at the Nike Prefontaine Classic in 2008, Walker’s career has seen a series of ups and downs, including no-heighting in the qualifying round at the Olympics in Beijing, and a crash at the 2009 Herculis meeting in Monaco, in which he was injured, and couldn’t defend his world title in Berlin a few weeks later.

Walker’s 2011 best was 19-2 (5.84m) in a low-key meet at the US Olympic training center in Chula Vista, California.

University of Washington grad Scott Roth, the 2011 NCAA indoor and outdoor champion, along with training partner Jason Colwick, the 2010 NCAA champ from Rice, were scheduled to compete in Friday’s elite pole vault competition, but were unable to leave Seattle due to the snowy conditions.

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.

Only world record-holder Yelena Isinbayeva has ever gone higher indoors, while only two other athletes have ever bettered that mark outdoors. Bleasdale now ranks ahead of world champion Fabiana Murer on the world all-time list.

At the meeting in Lyon, Bleasdale led a British 1-2-3, as former UK record-holder Kate Dennison finished second with 4.34m, and Sally Peake cleared the same mark in third. Bleasdale’s training partner Andrew Sutcliffe also smashed his PB to win the men’s B string competition with 5.54m to go fifth on the UK all-time indoor list.

Bron: www.athleticsweekly.com

At today’s edition the focus of public’s attention was the Pole Vault runway and landing area. A lot of fans of Yelena Isinbayeva, including her parents and close friends came to the indoor hall of the Institute of Physical Culture and Sport in Volgograd to support the latest competition of the World record holder and reigning Olympic champion, her first of 2012.

It’s rather rare for the inhabitants of this large city on the banks of Volga where Isinbayeva these days has her permanent residence to see her competing in Volgograd. The hall was overcrowded with the spectators in high expectation amid rumours that in one of her practice jumps their heroine had cleared 5m.

In the competition itself Isinbayeva’s first effort at 4.70 was impeccable, and turned out to be enough for her to win the 2012 Governor’s Cup. Her following three attempts at 4.80 were rather good but not successful, with Isinbayeva changing the poles twice. May be it was uneasy for her technically but at least physically she looked quite well prepared. The run-off wasn’t that good but Isinbayeva and her coach Yevgeniy Trofimov are well concentrated on the new Olympic season, and confirmed she needed more competition experience.

Bron: www.iaaf.org

http://www.leichtathletik.tv/v/silke-spiegelburg-steigert-deutschen-hallenrekord

Material: Peter Bock

Bron: http://www.leichtathletik.tv