World Indoor Champs Talk...

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Okkert Brits, bronze medal winner at the 1995 World Indoor Championships, underwent an emergency appendicitis operation last Saturday and had to withdraw from South Africa:s World Indoor Champs team. (Wire report)

[rainbowgirl28]

Yikes! I hope he recovers quickly.

[pelle3]

Reported on Trackandfieldnews that Anna Rogowska is injured, and may miss World Indoor Champs.

Source (Polish)

The decision on her participation in WIC will be taken after a medical consultation this Wednesday.

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Qualifiers (as they are announced)


Pole Vault: Alhaji Jeng
Pole Vault: Kirsten Belin
Pole Vault: Hanna-Mia Persson


Pole Vault: Przemyslaw Czerwinski
Pole Vault: Anna Rogowska (Injured, participation to be confirmed on Wednesday)
Pole Vault: Monika Pyrek


Pole Vault: Tim Lobinger
Pole Vault: Fabian Schulze
Pole Vault: Martina Strutz
Pole Vault: Silke Spiegelburg


Pole Vault: Pavla Hamackova


Pole Vault: Romain Mesnil
Pole Vault: Jérôme Clavier
Pole Vault: Vanessa Boslak


Pole Vault: Naroa Agirre

[nitro]

Yikes! I hope he recovers quickly.

i had that operation when i was in 3rd grade and it took me 2 days till i felt like normal but they did say to be careful but pole vault isnt dangerous

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Pyrek and Rogowska lead team of 25 Poles to Moscow
Thursday 2 March 2006
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Poland is sending a team of 25 athletes to the 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships, Moscow, Russia (10 -12 March).

The pole vaulters Monika Pyrek and Anna Rogowska have the biggest medal chances, although the latter’s appearance was confirmed just on Wednesday, after a favourable doctor’s diagnosis. Rogowska has reduced her training load because of pain in her Achilles tendon. Before the Championships she is also going to compete on 3 and 5 March in Lievin and during the European Indoor Cup.

Pole Vault: Przemyslaw Czerwinski
Pole Vault: Anna Rogowska
Pole Vault: Monika Pyrek

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Good Prize Money Awaiting WIC Placers and WR-setters

Thursday 2 March 2006
IAAF

Monte-Carlo - A total of 2,288,000US$ in prize money awaits the medallists from the 26 events which will be contested at the 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships, Moscow, Russia (10-12 March), and as usual there is a bonus of 50,000US$ for any athlete who sets a new World record during the three days of competition.

Moscow 2006 Prize Money

The following Prize Money is being awarded by the IAAF to the finalists (Top-6) in individual events and relays, pending negative doping results:

Individual Events
1. $40,000
2. $20,000
3. $10,000
4. $8,000
5. $6,000
6. $4,000

Relays
1. $40,000
2. $20,000
3. $10,000
4. $8,000
5. $6,000
6. $4,000

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Men
[list]Third on the world all-time indoor list with 6.02m from 2002, American Jeff Hartwig heads the list of gold medal hopefuls with a 5.85 vault from mid-February. Hartwig took World Indoor silver in 1999. At the German championships, Tim Lobinger went over 5.80 to claim top spot over 5.75-performer Fabian Schultze. The 2003 World Indoor champion has a clutch (4) of fine performances at 5.80 or over this winter, more than any of his rivals, his best coming in Vienna where he cleared 5.82.

On an excellent evening for jumpers in Ghent Israel’s Alexander Averbukh cleared 5.81 before declaring he would approach the World Indoors with no ambitions other than to compete, a sentiment that could just as easily translate as “The gold is mineâ€Â

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Mexico’s One-Man Mission to Moscow Aims For the Heights

Wednesday 8 March 2006
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Walnut, California, USA - Giovanni Lanaro’s Pole Vault career as well as his Olympic debut in 2004 had an inauspicious start but the Mexican pole vaulter will be ready to make amends in the 11th IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia (10-12 March).

Lanaro, 24, enters the competition coming off a Mexican national indoor record of 5.71m set in Flagstaff, Ariz. on 18 February. He will be his country's lone representative in Moscow.

Athens disappointment

Lanaro will be looking to erase the memories of the 2004 Olympics when he strained his hamstring as he sprinted down the runway on his first attempt and was forced to withdraw from the competition.

At the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, he finished a non-qualifying eighth on misses in his group after having to switch to an adjacent runway because of a vault standard equipment malfunction.

“At the Olympics and World Championships, I was going to learn more than anything and vault against elite competition,â€Â

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Isinbayeva and Bekele highlight Moscow event

March 08 2006 at 10:58AM
By Nesha Starcevic
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Moscow - Yelena Isinbayeva is coming home, and another world record is looming.

The Russian pole vaulter will be going for her 20th world mark at the World Indoor Championships this weekend in Moscow.

The field for the three-day event also features Ethiopian distance star Kenenisa Bekele, heptathlon rivals Bryan Clay and Roman Sebrle, US sprinter/hurdler Terrence Trammell, and multiple indoor champions Maria Mutola, Ivan Pedroso and Stefan Holm.

Isinbayeva already has improved her indoor record this season, clearing 4,91m in Donetsk, Ukraine, on February 12.

But she failed in three attempts to raise the mark to 4,92m at a meet in Birmingham, England, three weeks ago, and uncharacteristically has struggled at low heights at other meets.

Isinbayeva, who has cleared 5,01m outdoors, has dominated women's pole vaulting for two years.

Isinbayeva won in Birmingham at 4,79m. Anna Rogowska of Poland also cleared that height, losing only because of a higher number of attempts.

Rogowska later improved her personal record to 4,80m and is now second on this year's top list.

With a $50 000 (about R300 000) bonus for a world record at stake - plus a $40 000 (about R250 000) reward for winning the gold medal - Isinbayeva will have a strong incentive to go for the record. She'll also have the support of the home crowd at the Olympic Sports Palace Complex in Moscow.

Another Pole, Monica Pyrek, appears to be a medal contender.

The women's pole vault qualifying is Friday, the opening day of the meet, and the final is on Saturday. <more>

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Isinbayeva wants to prove she's queen
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Russian world record-holding pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva wants to use the World Indoors in Moscow to prove to the public that she is the uncontested queen of the women's discipline of the last two years.

Russian world record-holding pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva wants to use the World Indoors to prove to the public that she is the uncontested queen of the women's discipline of the last two years.

"It's maybe the most important competition for me", said the Volograd star.

"They're being held in Moscow for the first time, in front of the Russian public, and it is the first time that my parents will come and see me in a big championship".

This competition holds some sentiment for Isinbayeva - it was her efforts in the last World Indoors, in Budapest in 2004 that saw here win her first World title.

Since then she has remained unbeaten in top-class competition, winning the 2004 Olympics, the European Championships indoor and the World Championships outdoors in succession.

RECORDS

At the same time she has not stopped bettering the World Record, in-and-outdoors, including the first even 5metre-plus vault by a woman, in London last July. That did not stop her leaving her trainer Yevgeni Trofimov and home town to link-up with the coach of men's all-time great Sergei Bubka, Vitaly Petrov.

Isinbayeva dumps coach

Isinbayeva now has her eyes set on Bubka's record of 35 consecutive world records and her own World Indoor record of 4m 91.

"I feel that I have generally progressed in our technical plan since I started working with Vitaly", said Isinbayena.

"In Birmingham (where she won with a jump of 4m 79), I was too tired and then I had a long break which diminished by technical capacity., she explained after her last two wins saw her fail to clear 4m 80.

However that should not be too much of a threat, with her closest rival - the Pole Anna Rogowska - having never jumped higher than 4m 80.

"I'm not thinking about my rivals," Isinbayeva concluded. "I'm only focused on my own performances."

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Though it would seem to be a three-way battle for the medals, in the wings is the upcoming American Jenny Stuczynsi, a former basketball University star, who ended the Ypsilanti MI meeting on 4.68, but not before having an ambitious crack at 4.82. [/list]

Does the IAAF know that she did not make the US team? Or am I missing something?