Preview of IAAF Men's PV Bejing 2015

[KirkB]

http://www.iaaf.org/news/preview/beijing-2015-pole-vault-lavillenie-barber-hol

Lavillenie is the favorite for Gold, but there's FOUR vaulters (Holzdeppe, Barber, Braz, and Filippidis) with outdoor PRs this year between 5.91-5.93 contending for Silver and Bronze (and Gold if RL falters).

My pick for Silver is Shawn Barber (of course), with prior winner Raphael Holzdeppe for the Bronze. Then Braz and Filippidis to round out the top 5.

Who's your picks?

Kirk

[KirkB]

Provisional entry list (in SB order):

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Pole Vault 36 Athletes; 21 Countries

(# Athlete PR Born SB) Download PDF from: [url]http://www.iaaf.org/news/iaaf-news/iaaf-world-championships-beijing-2015-provisi[/url] (page 12) for formatted list.
506 Renaud LAVILLENIE FRA 6.16 6.05 18 Sep 86 i 6.05
557 Raphael Marcel HOLZDEPPE GER 5.94 5.94 28 Sep 89 5.94
301 Shawnacy BARBER CAN 5.93 5.93 27 May 94 5.93
264 Thiago Braz DA SILVA BRA 5.92 5.92 16 Dec 93 5.92
577 Konstadínos FILIPPÍDIS GRE 5.91 5.91 26 Nov 86 5.91
800 Piotr LISEK POL 5.90 5.90 16 Aug 92 i i 5.90
1033 Sam KENDRICKS USA 5.86 5.86 07 Sep 92 i i 5.86
867 Aleksandr GRIPICH RUS 5.85 5.85 29 Sep 86 i i 5.85
813 Pawel WOJCIECHOWSKI POL 5.91 5.84 06 Jun 89 5.84
388 Michal BALNER CZE 5.82 5.82 12 Sep 82 5.82
267 Augusto DE OLIVEIRA BRA 5.82 5.81 16 Jul 90 5.81
509 Kévin MÉNALDO FRA 5.81 5.81 12 Jul 92 5.81
810 Robert SOBERA POL 5.81 5.81 19 Jan 91 i i 5.81
562 Carlo PAECH GER 5.80 5.80 18 Dec 92 5.80
996 Jacob BLANKENSHIP USA 5.80 5.80 15 Mar 94 5.80
1028 Andrew IRWIN USA 5.80 5.80 23 Jan 93 i i 5.80
393 Jan KUDLICKA CZE 5.80 5.75 29 Apr 88 i 5.75
168 Germán CHIARAVIGLIO ARG 5.75 5.75 16 Apr 87 5.75
1070 Brad WALKER USA 6.04 5.72 21 Jun 81 5.72
534 Steven LEWIS GBR 5.82 5.71 20 May 86 5.71 i
567 Tobias SCHERBARTH GER 5.76 5.70 17 Aug 85 i 5.70
981 Vladyslav REVENKO UKR 5.80 5.65 15 Nov 84 5.65
674 Seito YAMAMOTO JPN 5.75 5.65 11 Mar 92 5.65
668 Hiroki OGITA JPN 5.70 5.65 30 Dec 87 5.65
215 Arnaud ART BEL 5.65 5.65 28 Jan 93 5.65
350 Jie YAO CHN 5.65 5.65 21 Sep 90 5.65
353 Wei ZHANG CHN 5.65 5.65 22 Mar 94 5.65
364 Ivan HORVAT CRO 5.65 5.65 17 Aug 93 5.65
445 Adrián VALLES ESP 5.65 5.65 16 Mar 95 5.65
676 Nikita FILIPPOV KAZ 5.65 5.65 07 Oct 91 5.65
719 Mareks ARENTS LAT 5.65 5.65 06 Aug 86 5.65
865 Ivan GERTLEIN RUS 5.65 5.65 25 Sep 87 5.65
866 Georgiy GOROKHOV RUS 5.65 5.65 20 Apr 93 5.65
898 Robert RENNER SLO 5.65 5.65 08 Mar 94 5.65
262 Fábio DA SILVA BRA 5.80 5.40 04 Aug 83 5.40
425 Natan RIVERA ESA 4.70 4.70

Kirk

[hardflex]

I second your picks, seems logical.

Do we know the height progressions? that could be a factor. Didn't Holzdeppe beat Lavillinie on misses at one meet? A jump of around 5.90 on a first attempt could beat Lavillinie if he's off just a bit. I would look for either Holzdeppe or Barber as being likely in that scenario.

[rainbowgirl28]

Track & Field News final picks:

1. Renaud Lavillenie (France)
2. Konstadínos Filippídis (Greece)
3. Raphael Holzdeppe (Germany)
4. Shawn Barber (Canada)
5. Thiago Braz (Brazil)
6. Paweł Wojciechowski (Poland)
7. Sam Kendricks (US)
8. Piotr Lisek (Poland)
9. Aleksandr Gripich (Russia)
10. Jan Kudlička (Czech Republic)



I like Barber for silver

[hardflex]

Qualifying finished, 16 over 5.70. , Fillipidis and Braz are gone, as is Walker.

http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-w ... lification

Among notable casualties of the qualification were the South American record holder Thiago Braz and the reigning world indoor champion Konstantinos Filippidis.

Filippidis bowed out early, after three failures at 5.65m. The Brazilian had a rough competition right from the start. Braz was opening at 5.55m and in took him three attempts to clear the bar. He then had a confident clearance at 5.65m, but at the qualifying height it was not to be.

[KirkB]

Qualifying jump details are here: http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-championships/15th-iaaf-world-championships-4875/results/men/pole-vault/qualification/series

Men's PV Final start list is here: http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-championships/15th-iaaf-world-championships-4875/results/men/pole-vault/final/startlist#resultheader. I wonder why RL must vault 7th in the Final? Barber and Holzdeppe vault 15th and 16th, which are better positions to be in, since they can decide to pass if they're behind on misses.

Nice pic of Barber on the IAAF multimedia page: http://www.iaaf.org/multimedia. This link may not last long, but today his pic is the first one listed.

Here's the prize money that will be awarded for each event. Barber will not be eligible for prize money if he wishes to retain his NCAA amateur status. Anyone care to predict the TOP EIGHT? It should be easier, now that the 16 finalists have been decided.

1st USD 60,000
2nd USD 30,000
3rd USD 20,000
4th USD 15,000
5th USD 10,000
6th USD 6,000
7th USD 5,000
8th USD 4,000

In addition, individual athletes (or relay teams) achieving a new World Record in the IAAF
World Championships will be awarded US$ 100,000.

Kirk

[KirkB]

For the Final, or any predictions, please use Wan's thread "WC 2015 - Bejing" http://www.polevaultpower.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=52808, since this thread was only meant to be a preview leading up to the Final.

Thanks.

Kirk

[RPVA03]

Anyone know where video will be?

[rainbowgirl28]

Anyone know where video will be?

Universalsports.com if you can get it

Watchathletics.com if you can get it to work

[KirkB]

Anyone know where video will be?

http://www.cbc.ca/sports-content/broadcast/?showtype=track_and_field if you can get it, and if you don't mind a Canadian slant on the coverage.

Kirk