Cottbus Results - Lobinger 5.80

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.iaaf.org/WIC06/news/Kind=2/newsId=33252.html

Lobinger – 5.80m, and Styopina – 1.97m in Cottbus
Thursday 26 January 2006

German pole vaulter Tim Lobinger vaulted 5.80m, while Viktoria Styopina (Ukraine) took the women’s High Jump with 1.97m last night in Cottbus, Germany.

On Saturday in Dessau it had been Björn Otto who had beaten Tim Lobinger when winning the men’s Pole Vault with a height of 5.70m. He jumped that again in Cottbus but it was only good for third place this time. Ukraine’s Ruslan Yeremenko, who finished second, had cleared 5.70m on his first attempt and was therefore leading the event. Lobinger followed on his second attempt while Otto managed it on his last. Lobinger was then the only one who jumped 5.80m. That was five centimetres higher than the world leading of Dmitriy Kuptsov (Russia).




Viktoria Styopina (Ukraine) prepares to jump in Cottbus
(Olaf Moeldner)

“It is a long time ago that I had such a good start into the seasonâ€Â

[Mecham]

There is a cool picture from the link. I see he has kept his tape job too.