Leverkusen - Yoo Kim 5.60
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:04 am
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Korea’s Kim Yoo-Suk was the winner in the men’s Pole Vault with a season-best 5.60. The former US university student then made three unsuccessful attempts at a would-be national record of 5.70 in his final competition before Beijing. Kim had taken the lead at 5.60 over Russia’s Pavel Gerasimov when the latter passed that height. An undisclosed injury forced Gerasimov to abandon the competition after one attempt at 5.70. Tobias Scherbarth was third at 5.50, the same height cleared by fourth-place Karsten Dilla. Dilla, the bronze winner at the recent World Junior Championships, equaled his PB 5.50 which he established only on Monday.
Not so lucky was former World champion Rens Blom of the Netherlands, who no-heighted at 5.40.
Danny Ecker, one of the Bayer Leverkusen standouts over the years and an Olympic designate, was unable to compete in the Pole Vault due to lingering problems with an Achilles tendon.
Korea’s Kim Yoo-Suk was the winner in the men’s Pole Vault with a season-best 5.60. The former US university student then made three unsuccessful attempts at a would-be national record of 5.70 in his final competition before Beijing. Kim had taken the lead at 5.60 over Russia’s Pavel Gerasimov when the latter passed that height. An undisclosed injury forced Gerasimov to abandon the competition after one attempt at 5.70. Tobias Scherbarth was third at 5.50, the same height cleared by fourth-place Karsten Dilla. Dilla, the bronze winner at the recent World Junior Championships, equaled his PB 5.50 which he established only on Monday.
Not so lucky was former World champion Rens Blom of the Netherlands, who no-heighted at 5.40.
Danny Ecker, one of the Bayer Leverkusen standouts over the years and an Olympic designate, was unable to compete in the Pole Vault due to lingering problems with an Achilles tendon.
