Cottbus - Hartwig 5.65 M40 record, Straub 5.65, Ecker 5.60

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Hartwig makes the headlines in Cottbus in style
Thursday 31 January 2008
Cottbus, Germany - At the age of 40 Jeff Hartwig, the Area record holder both indoors (6.02m) and outdoors (6.03), is still flying high. The American was the surprise winner of the Pole Vault competition at the Cottbus Indoor meeting on Wednesday night (30).

Also, in front of the capacity crowd of more than 2000 spectators Marina Aitova of Kazakhstan took the women’s High Jump with a fine 1.96m.

More Masters' improvement

Hartwig was the only one to have cleared 5.65m at his first attempt, which was a Masters’ World best as well (40yrs+ category). In the process he improved his own Masters’ category personal best of 5.60m, which he had jumped a couple of days before in Dormagen, Germany. And there is room for more improvement this season.

Spectators had been asked to pick a winner before the start of the meeting in a prize competition, but very few had picked Hartwig.

“I am very happy with the meeting in general since we have an absolutely packed arena with great atmosphere. There were even people outside who we could not allow to come in. Because of safety reasons we could not sell any more tickets,â€Â