Decanation - Lavillenie 5.83, Miles retires

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.iaaf.org/news/newsid=67579.h ... um=twitter


Lavillenie the star but Albi also witnesses fast sprinting

Renaud Lavillenie of France celebrates an attempt during the Men's Pole Vault Final of the London 2012 Olympic Games on August 10, 2012 (Getty Images)
Albi, France - USA won 12 out of the 20 events of the Décanation yesterday evening (15) in Albi, a competition which was highlighted by some fine sprint times on the flat and over the barriers, and the victory of a home favourite.

The only individual Olympic champion from London who was competing was France’s Renaud Lavillenie who didn’t expect to jump high only four days after his arrival back in France. A deluge of rain which fell during the afternoon forced the organisation to delay the competition, until it gradually eased and then stopped and allowed a good level of performances, and Lavillenie actually produced one of them.

The Olympic Pole Vault champion opened his competition unusually low by his own standard, at 5.33. "As expected, I had no feelings in my legs, but I’ve been used to compete in difficult condition all year".

He was successful at 5.53, but needed two jumps to leap over 5.63. At this stage, Russian Kucheryanu was still in contention for the victory. 5.73 turned out to be the decisive height as the Russuan failed three times while the Frenchman, reinvigorated by the encouragement of 8000 spectators, got it at his first try. The bar was now raised to 5.83, which he jumped at his second attempt. This was the only French victory of the day. Feeling better and better, he even asked 5.90 but it was too high for Lavillenie who had been over his expectations anyway.

"I used a reduced run-up of 16 strides instead of 20, that’s why I’m so surprised to have jumped that high!"

[vaultmd]

I don't see Derek's name in the post or in the linked article.

[rainbowgirl28]

This was Derek's final meet, per KLocke's twitter

http://bases.athle.com/asp.net/liste.as ... ion=116136

1 5m83 LAVILLENIE Renaud FRANCE 063 AUV SEM/86 IA 4
2 5m63 KUCHERYANU Sergey (Rus) RUSSIE SEM/ IB 3
3 5m53 DILLA Karsten (Ger) ALLEMAGNE SEM/ IB 2
4 5m33 MILES Derek (Usa) ETATS UNIS SEM/ N2 1
HC 5m33 MESNIL Romain FRANCE B 033 AQU SEM/77 N2