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Startlist:

1 STRUTZ Martina
2 PYREK Monika
3 KYRIAKOPOULOU Nikoleta
4 SILVA Yarisley
5 FEOFANOVA Svetlana
6 PTÁCNÍKOVÁ Jirina
7 SPIEGELBURG Silke
8 BOSLAK Vanessa
9 ROGOWSKA Anna
10 BLEASDALE Holly
11 MURER Fabiana
12 ISINBAYEVA Yelena


Live results will be up here: http://www.diamondleague.com/en/StartlistResult/

Live results will be here: http://www.diamondleague-monaco.com/en/ ... le-Vault-/

Height progression: 425, 435, 445, 454, 462, 470, 476, 482

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Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS), Pole Vault World record holder, two-time defending Olympic champion -

Her expectations for tomorrow:

I’m in good shape. We’ve done all the work, we’ve done good preparations. It’s been very hard the past several months. And (my debut in) Sotteville showed that I’m in good shape. But it was my first competition and I was over emotional. But I was ready to jump very high.

Of course I expect a great competition and a good result. A good result would be a world lead, and then who knows, maybe a World record.

Fabiana Murer (BRA), reigning World champion in the Pole Vault -

On slow start to season:

I started with two competitions in Brazil and they weren’t so good. They came after a very long period of training – I didn’t do indoor season this year – almost six months of just training. Which can be very hard for an athlete. I think I needed more competitions. Then I went to the meeting in Eugene, and it was good, and I started to feel more confident, and I won the competition. Then I went to New York one week later and won there with a good mark. After that I wanted to continue competing but I had to stop and return to training again. And it’s been good, I feel more confident and I’m getting more consistent.

For tomorrow I thinking about improving my season’s best and then I’ll start thinking about the Olympic Games.

The meet has begun! http://www.diamondleague-monaco.com/en/ ... le-Vault-/

Everyone passed 4.25. Kyriakopoulou NH'd at 4.35, 4 clear and the rest pass. Isi coming in at 4.70

Rogowska NHs at 4.45, everyone else who attempts it clears on their first attempt. Bar goes to 4.54, Silva enters at this height and clears on her first!

Murer and Spiegelburg also enter at 4.54 and clear on first attempt. Feofanova enters and clears on second attempt. Ptacnikova also clears on her first, no misses so far. Bleasdale entered at 4.45 and has passed 4.54. Boslak, Strutz and Pyrek struggling, each have two misses at 4.54.

Strutz makes it over 4.54 on her third, but no luck for Boslak and Pyrek who go out.

Bar goes to 4.62.Silva makes on her first attempt, Bleasdale and Ptacnikova on their second, Strutz goes out and passes for Murer, Spiegelburg, Feofanova and Isinbayeva.

Bleasdale passes 4.70. Everyone else attempts, even Isinbayeva, and they all miss their first attempt.

Shocker! Isi NHs!

Spiegelburg clears 4.70 on her second attempt, but no one else can manage the height! Bleasdale passed, so she is still in.

Bar goes to 4.76 and it looks like Spiegelburg is going to pass.

No luck for Bleasdale at 4.76, but Spiegelburg with a big PR and German Record 4.82!!