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Women are going now with live results here http://www.iaaf.org/live/WIC10/index.html, Lacy NH
Mens Qualifying Great Job Derek, Sorry Tim

Position Bib Athlete Country Mark .
1 7 Steven Hooker AUS 5.60 q .
1 86 Michal Balner CZE 5.60 q .
1 181 Konstadínos Filippídis GRE 5.60 q .
1 351 Derek Miles USA 5.60 q .
5 173 Malte Mohr GER 5.60 q .
6 294 Dmitry Starodubtsev RUS 5.60 q .
7 178 Alexander Straub GER 5.60 q .
8 259 Lukasz Michalski POL 5.60 q .
9 157 Steven Lewis GBR 5.60 q .
10 138 Renaud Lavillenie FRA 5.45 .
10 203 Giuseppe Gibilisco ITA 5.45 .
10 223 Yoo Suk Kim KOR 5.45 .
13 283 Aleksandr Gripich RUS 5.45 .
14 33 Kevin Rans BEL 5.45 .
14 331 Maksym Mazuryk UKR 5.45 .
14 349 Timothy Mack USA 5.45 .
17 64 Yansheng Yang CHN 5.30 .
18 56 Spas Bukhalov BUL 5.30 (SB)
18 128 Damiel Dossévi FRA 5.30 .
Athlete 5.30 5.45 5.60
Steven Hooker - - O
Michal Balner - O O
Konstadínos Filippídis O O O
Derek Miles - O O
Malte Mohr - XO O
Dmitry Starodubtsev O - XO
Alexander Straub - XO XO
Lukasz Michalski XXO - XO
Steven Lewis XO XXO XXO
Renaud Lavillenie - O XXX
Giuseppe Gibilisco - O XXX
Yoo Suk Kim O O XXX
Aleksandr Gripich XO O XXX
Kevin Rans - XO XXX
Maksym Mazuryk O XO XXX
Timothy Mack - XO XXX
Yansheng Yang O XXX
Spas Bukhalov XXO XXX
Damiel Dossévi XXO XXX

Wow no Lavillenie in the finals!

http://www.morethanthegames.co.uk/athle ... es-through

WORLD number one pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie has become the first major casualty of the World Indoor Athletics Championships as the Frenchman bowed out of qualifying in Doha.


SKIN OF HIS TEETH: Steve Lewis shakes off an arm injury to squeeze into the pole vault final at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha (Getty Images)

The 23-year-old has achieved a best clearance of 5.85m this season but could manage only 5.45m in Doha before failing with all three attempts at 5.60m.


Lavillenie was not the only surprise casualty of the pole vault competition however, as the USA's Timothy Mack, the Olympic champion in 2004, also failed to clear 5.60m.

Current Olympic champion Steve Hooker, who has already cleared 5.91m outdoors this season in his native Australia, will now head into the final as favourite having cleared 5.60m at the first time of asking.

Great Britain's Steve Lewis scraped through to the final by the skin of his teeth, clearing both 5.45m and 5.60m with his third effort after shaking off an early injury to his elbow.

But Lewis believes poor organisation of the qualifying session was to blame for everyone's poor form with all 19 jumpers out there at the same time vying for their place in the final.

"I was always confident I could jump 5.60m so I was pretty relaxed but it was absolute pandemonium out there," said Lewis.

"The officials really didn't know what they were doing and at one point some of the equipment failed and the instructions were in Spanish so they had no idea what to do.

"It was a comedy of errors, there were people all over the track and it was 40 minutes between jumps.

"I smashed my elbow on the bar as I went over and it was incredibly painful.

"My elbows seem to stick out a bit so I've done it before and fortunately it was my bottom hand so even though it was a little numb I could continue."

The original qualifying standard was 5.75m or the best eight athletes but with nine having cleared 5.60m after more than three hours of competition, organisers opted to call an end to proceedings.

Derek Miles, men's pole vault qualifying

"It was long. The standards broke. That tends to happen a lot with these. It happened in Beijing and Helsinki too. You just have to get through it.

It was ok though. At my age, it's good to get two jumps and out. The less energy I can spend to get into the final the better. I'm very excited for tomorrow night.

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldOfSp ... 9520100312

Hooker advances in pole vault but Lavillenie fails
Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:54pm IST Email | Print | Share | Single Page [-] Text [+]
By Gene Cherry

DOHA (Reuters) - Australian Olympic and world champion Steve Hooker turned his first indoor pole vault of the year into an easy qualifier at the IAAF world championships on Friday.

However, the year's top indoor vaulter, France's Renaud Lavillenie, could not advance past the opening session of the three-day championships.

The world outdoor bronze medallist failed three times at the qualifying height of 5.60 metres.

Hooker joined eight others in Saturday's final by clearing 5.60 on his only attempt.

"I jumped just before the equipment broke, so that made it much easier," the Australian said after the competition was interrupted because of a problem with one of the standards on which the bar rests.

"Anyone that had to jump after that, it made it very challenging. I really feel for those guys."

Lavillenie and U.S. 2004 Olympic champion Tim Mack were among the victims, both ending their day at 5.45 metres.

"I spent 30 minutes without jumping at 5.60," Lavillenie said of his failure. "It is a real pity because these championships were a rare opportunity where I could get a real competition from Steve Hooker and that's the day when I messed it up."

Hooker overcame the pain from a torn thigh muscle to win last year's Berlin outdoor world championships in a stern test of mind over body.

"I would love to win this competition," a much more relaxed Hooker said this time. "That is my only goal coming here."

http://www.iaaf.org/WIC10/news/kind=108 ... 55820.html

EVENT REPORT - MEN's Pole Vault - Qualification

Derek Miles of the USA competes in the pole vault qualification (Getty Images)
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As expected it took well over three hours to determine the qualifiers for the men’s Pole Vault final and that was without even reaching the qualification standard 5.75m which had been decided at yesterday’s Technical Meeting.

In the end, just like in the women’s High Jump qualification earlier this morning, nine athletes advanced to tomorrow’s final; 5.60m turned out to be the decisive height.

World and Olympic champion Steven Hooker was the last to enter the competition yet he qualified top of the rankings courtesy of his sole (massive) clearance at 5.60m. Reminds you of something? At last summer’s World Championships in Berlin, an injured Hooker needed only one jump to qualify for the final where he would go on to win in memorable fashion.

The Australian, who has already cleared 5.91 outdoors this winter, is now fully recovered and it is legitimate to expect him to grab yet another global medal and potentially another World title. Hooker had a fantastic indoor season in 2009 scaling up to second on the all-time list with his 6.06 national and continental record. 2010 has been slightly different so far as this morning’s marked his indoor debut but one knows that Hooker “delivers” when it matters!

“Gold is the most important thing for me at these championships,” Hooker said. “But it has to be a good day. It is a different challenge for me. I will see tomorrow because it could be hard jumping after 4 hours of qualification. I was lucky I needed only one jump to qualify. Many good jumpers did not make it into the final - it can be interesting.”

Indeed several potential candidates for the final poorly crashed out this morning. Competition was delayed for almost 30 minutes due to technical problems with the Pole Vault pegs and this may also have affected some of the jumpers although it was surprising to see World Indoor leader and a bronze medallist in Berlin last year Renaud Lavillenie be the major casualty of the competition.

A 6-metre man last summer the Frenchman tried to explain his disappointment: “I guess this is both the result of the long wait and personal failure. I was in good shape, maybe in too good shape. The poles I used were almost too soft. It's a real pity, because these championships were a rare opportunity where I could get real competition from Steven Hooker and that's the day when I mess it up.”

Other noticeable names who failed to advance were 2004 Olympic champion and US Indoor champion Tim Mack whose third attempt at 5.60 was a no-jump; former World champion Giuseppe Gibilisco whose last attempt at 5.60 looked like a clearance until the bar eventually fell as the Italian man hit the landing mat; and Berlin sixth-placer Damiel Dossevi whose exit at 5.45 completed a “black” day for the French team.

On the positive side, three other men left the Aspire dome with clean sheets this morning and that included Czech indoor champion Michal Balner, Greek record holder Konstadinos Filippidis and US runner up Derek Miles.

The field in tomorrow’s final will be completed by the German duo of Aleksander Straub and Malte Mohr, former World Junior champion Dmitriy Starodubtsev (RUS), Polish champion Lukasz Michalski and Steve Lewis who was the ninth and last lucky man this morning, the British man needing all three attempts at 5.60 to make it through.

Laura Arcoleo for the IAAF

Here is a video that gives a feel for what a zoo the infield was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBrZe9VlbFo

rainbowgirl28 wrote:Here is a video that gives a feel for what a zoo the infield was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBrZe9VlbFo

So much going on, that created some form of conflict. High jumpers in the heptathlon moving run-up markers of the female pole vaulters and high jumpers qualification being disturbed in their run-ups from pentathletes doing drills.
It sure seems from the video, that there are way too many people inside the arena. Won't even comment on all the noise made by chinese and ethiopian spectators, disturbing the sprint starts.

Thread for finals: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=19392