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Athens Super Grand Prix - Athína (Olympic Stadium) (GRE)
Monday, July 03, 2006


Official Result
Men - Pole Vault



1 Lobinger Tim GER 5.80 20
2 Gibilisco Giuseppe ITA 5.80 16
3 Burgess Paul AUS 5.75 14
4 Stevenson Toby USA 5.70 12
5 Averbukh Aleksandr ISR 5.65 10
6 Schulze Fabian GER 5.60 8
7 Mazuryk Maksym UKR 5.60 6
8 Börgeling Lars GER 5.50 4
9 Filippídis Konstadínos GRE 5.50
10 Markov Dmitri AUS 5.40
11 Evaggélou Mários GRE 5.20
11 Sidihákis Nikólaos GRE 5.20
Hooker Steven AUS DNS
Blom Rens NED NM
Jeng Alhaji SWE NM
Korchmid Oleksandr UKR NM
Patsoukákis Dimítrios GRE NM
Pavlov Igor RUS NM

http://www.eurosport.co.uk/athletics/at ... ents.shtml


Men's Pole Vault 21:40 And in the Pole Vault Lobinger wins with 5.80, Juseeppe Gibilico is second with 5.75 and Paul Burgess of Australia third with 5.75, not quite in the form that has seen him clear 6m but not bad given the conditions.

Men's Pole Vault 21:35 It's raining cats and dogs now as Lobinger clatters the bar for the final time, a smile on his face knowing he's won.

Men's Pole Vault 21:25 Tim Lobinger takes an age to psyche himself up for his first attempt at 5.90... but he runs straight through, got it all wrong. Still leads though, he passed at 5.85.

Men's Pole Vault 21:10 Tim Lobinger drags his heels aross the bar but grabs it on the way down - it doesn't come off but he knows it's a foul.

Men's Pole Vault 21:08 Here we go again with Gibilico... he does it! All that waiting paid dividends for the Italian as he pushes himself over the bar to take pole position!

Men's Pole Vault 21:03 He's done it again at the second time of asking! Poor from the Italian jumper!

Men's Pole Vault 21:00 Here's Juseppe Gibilico, attempting 580... but the Italian loses his stride in the run-up and he pulls up without jumping!

Men's Pole Vault 21:00 Here comes Lobinger again... but this time he takes the bar down with him as he attempted 580!

Men's Pole Vault 20:53 Great jump from Tim Lobinger who clears 570!

http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200607/s1678220.htm

Pole vaulter Burgess finishes third in Athens
Australia's Paul Burgess claimed third place in the men's pole vault at the IAAF Super Grand Prix in Athens overnight.

Burgess registered a height of 5.75 metres to finish behind Germany's Tim Lobinger and Italian Giuseppe Gibilisco, both of whom cleared 5.80m.

Australia's Commonwealth Games champion, Steve Hooker, failed to record a height.

Season bests for Gibilisco, Averbukh, and Filippídis.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/bur ... 38129.html

Burgess vaults back into form in Greece

Len Johnson
July 5, 2006

PAUL Burgess, the only man in the world to vault six metres in the past two years, has finished third in the pole vault at the Tskilitiria Grand Prix meeting in the Athens Olympic stadium.

Injury has cruelled Burgess' chances in his past two major championships. After clearing six metres early last year in Perth, he missed the 2005 world championships in Helsinki with a torn calf muscle. He competed in the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games despite a milder calf injury in the other leg, but failed to clear a height in the final.

On Monday, Burgess cleared 5.75 metres, just five centimetres below German vaulter Tim Lobinger's winning height of 5.80. Lobinger won on a countback from Giuseppe Gibilisco of Italy. Another Australian, Dmitri Markov, cleared 5.40 for 10th place.