Chinese Indoor Records - Yang Quan 5.61, Zhao Yingzhu 4.46

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Pole Vault records fall as indoor season begins in China
Friday 16 March 2007
Two national indoor and four junior indoor records were broken in China in the first meeting of the season. In the first of the two indoor meets in Shanghai (15-16 March) the overall picture was as usual: no big names were competing.

Nonetheless, plenty of young stars, new and old, were there. Several World junior champions from last season and many athletes who had not been heard of before this meeting reached world class results in this two-day meet.




Xingjuan Zheng of China during the women's High Jump final at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing
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Pole Vault highlights

The highlights of the first day were in the Pole Vault competitions. In the men’s contest the best Chinese Liu Feiliang (NRs 5.70m outdoors & 5.60m indoors) was in the competition, but instead it was 20-year-old Yang Quan who stepped to the spotlight. The Shanghai native competing in his hometown, doesn’t have any notable accomplishments, not even a medal in the National Championships yet, but was able to win the competition with a 5.61m clearance adding 1cm to Liu’s NR. Yang had set earlier personal bests of 5.45m outdoors and 5.50m indoors last year. Liu Feiliang, who lost his NR, took second place with 5.40m result.

In the women’s Pole Vault the Asian indoor record was jointly held by Gao Shuying and Zhao Yingying at 4.45m, Gao set the record in 2002 and Zhao tied it in 2005, at the age of 19. With Gao absent from the competition and Zhao extremely far away from the her best form with only a 3.80m clearance today, it was 19-year-old Zhao Yingzhu who stole the show. Zhao, who set the Asian junior record 4.45m outdoors last October, added one cm to both that result and the Asian indoor record here with a succesful 4.46m vault. 2006 world junior champion Zhou Yang took the second place with an indoor personal best of 4.20m.

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Chinese teenager Zhang refreshes Asian indoor pole vault record


Chinese teenager Zhang Yingning jumped over 4.46 meters to refresh the women's Asian indoor pole vault record here on Thursday.

The 17-year-old, who was competing in the Shanghai leg of the 2007 China's national indoor athletics championships, also booked a ticket for the Beijing Olympic Games with the brilliant result.

The previous record of 4.45 meters was set by Chinese No. 1 pole vaulter Gao Shuying in March 2002.

Zhang, a rising star, has also qualified for this year's world athletics championships to be held in Osaka, Japan.