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Dutch pole vault trainer Jaap van der Plaat gave me an old HI-8 video tape of the day that Bubka jumped his World Record in Donetsk. Because of a lack of time now just the video of the World Record jump. Very soon the whole meet in Donetsk on feb 21 1993 !! Recorded from the best possible place in t...

The emotional highlight was when the 5000 specators where waving white handkerchiefs at Jeff Hartwig http://www.leichtathletik.de/index.php?NavID=1&SiteID=28&NewsID=19361 1. Brad Walker (USA) 5.70 m 2. Alexander Straub (LG Filstal) 5,60 m 3. Lars Börgeling (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 5,50 m 4....

Most of the car's stolen in Holland end up in Poland. I'll hope for Joe that he will get his poles back.

Group A 1 Vicky Parnov AUS 4.00 q . 1 Ann Katrin Schwartz GER 4.00 q . 3 Petra Olsen SWE 4.00 q . 4 Ekaterina Kolesova RUS 4.00 q . 5 Leslie Brost USA 3.90 q . 6 Ariane Beaumont-Courteau CAN 3.90 q . 7 Jade Ive GBR 3.90 (PB) 8 Agnieszka Kolasa POL 3.80 . 8 Yutong Wu CHN 3.80 . 10 Caroline B...

http://81.223.231.100/overall.htm 1. Ann-Katrin Schwarz 1989 GER LAZ Zweibrücken 4,25 2. Benner 1990 GER LAZ Zweibrücken 4,20 3. Parnov Vicky 1990 AUS Australien 4,20 4. Michel Christina 1989 GER USC Mainz 4,15 5. Schultze Martina 1990 GER LG Filstal 4,15 6. Olsen Petra 1990 SWE Schweden 4,10 7. ...

Some Junior Records Dutch Girls Leonie Schilder 3.82 m Sittard / 06-01-2008 http://avedam.xs4all.nl/polsstokspringen/sittard_20080106/Leonie%20Schilder%20-%20382%20XXO.wmv Leonie Schilder 3.85 m Groningen / 26-02-2008 http://avedam.xs4all.nl/polsstokspringen/groningen_20080126/Leonie%20Schilder%20-%...

What's the function of a very high right leg when crossing the bar?
I've seen a lot of world class jumpers doing this.

Picture of Steven crossing the bar...

Dartfish license...

As a trainer you first have to pull en then brake the movement of the counterbalance. Definitely don’t forget to do the last thing cause your athlete has a serious problem.

Still trying to get the video, but so far no luck...

This news was on the frontpage of all the Dutch newspapers.
This is Louis in action !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUG0mrqkKWE

Last weekend, during the second Rens Blom Foundation weekend, we had a tryout of a pole vault challenge. During 5 minutes a team of two persons had to jump as much times as possible over the crossbar against an other team. You had to choose a height, approximately 2 feet below your personal best, wi...

Yep Hartwig 5.70 !


Otto (Ger) 5,70 m
Hartwig (USA) 5,70 m
Spiegelburg (Ger) 5,60 m
Ecker (Ger) 5,50 m
Lobinger (Ger) 5,50 m
Straub (Ger) 5,40 m
Börgeling (Ger) 5,40 m
Pawlow (Rus) 5,30 m
Scherbarth (Ger) 5,20 m
Frauen (Ger) 5,00 m