WJC wPV final

[BruceFlorman]

Standings as of 7:10am EST.

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Pos Athlete       3.80 3.90 4.00 4.10 4.20 4.25 4.30 4.35 4.40
1   Parnov         -    -    O    O
1   Sutej          O    -    O    O
1   Zhou           -    -    O    O    X
4   Volik          -    -    XO   O    X
5   Mourand        O    -    O    XXO  X
6   Nikkanen       XO   -    XXO  XXO  X
7   Abiko          XO   XO   XO   XXX
8   Anthony        XO   O    XXX
9   Duclos-Lasnier O    XXO  XXX
10  Scarpellini    O    -    XXX
    Ryzih          -    -    XXX
    Li             XXX


7:13 Sutej clear on 1st attempt at 4.20, but 2nd miss for Volik!

7:18 2nd attempt clearance for Zhou.

7:20 3rd failure for Volik! Upset!

[BruceFlorman]

7:21 3rd attempt clearance for Parnov! The bar goes up.

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Pos Athlete       3.80 3.90 4.00 4.10 4.20 4.25 4.30 4.35 4.40
1   Sutej          O    -    O    O    O
2   Zhou           -    -    O    O    XO
3   Parnov         -    -    O    O    XXO
4   Volik          -    -    XO   O    XXX
5   Mourand        O    -    O    XXO  XXX
6   Nikkanen       XO   -    XXO  XXO  XXX
7   Abiko          XO   XO   XO   XXX
8   Anthony        XO   O    XXX
9   Duclos-Lasnier O    XXO  XXX
10  Scarpellini    O    -    XXX
    Ryzih          -    -    XXX
    Li             XXX


7:25 1st attempt misses at 4.25 for Zhou and Sutej.

7:27 Parnov misses too.

7:30 2nd miss for Zhou.

7:32 2nd attempt clearance for Sutej!

7:34 2nd failure for Parnov.

7:37 3rd attempt clearance for Zhou! Parnov passes final attempt to 4.30.

[BruceFlorman]

7:38 am EST

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Pos Athlete       3.80 3.90 4.00 4.10 4.20 4.25 4.30 4.35 4.40
1   Sutej          O    -    O    O   O     XO
2   Zhou           -    -    O    O   XO    XXO
3   Parnov         -    -    O    O   XXO   XX-
4   Volik          -    -    XO   O   XXX
5   Mourand        O    -    O    XXO XXX
6   Nikkanen       XO   -    XXO  XXO XXX
7   Abiko          XO   XO   XO   XXX
8   Anthony        XO   O    XXX
9   Duclos-Lasnier O    XXO  XXX
10  Scarpellini    O    -    XXX
    Ryzih          -    -    XXX
    Li             XXX


7:41 Zhou misses 1st attempt at 4.30.

7:43 Sutej and Parnov both miss their 1st attempts at 4.30, but Parnov's out (albeit with the bronze medal).

7:46 Zhou goes clear at 4.30! Pressure on Sutej now.

7:47 Sutej misses on 2nd attempt. Home favorite takes the lead.

[BruceFlorman]

7:49 Oooh. I'd expected Sutej to pass, but she didn't. She missed again at 4.30. Zhou takes the gold!

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Pos Athlete       3.80 3.90 4.00 4.10 4.20 4.25 4.30 4.35 4.40
1   Zhou           -    -    O    O   XO    XXO  XO
2   Sutej          O    -    O    O   O     XO   XXX
3   Parnov         -    -    O    O   XXO   XX-  X
4   Volik          -    -    XO   O   XXX
5   Mourand        O    -    O    XXO XXX
6   Nikkanen       XO   -    XXO  XXO XXX
7   Abiko          XO   XO   XO   XXX
8   Anthony        XO   O    XXX
9   Duclos-Lasnier O    XXO  XXX
10  Scarpellini    O    -    XXX
    Ryzih          -    -    XXX
    Li             XXX


7:52 Evidently Zhou will be attempting 4.41 next.

7:59 Zhou misses her first attempt at 4.41. The site says 4.30 is already her PB. What's the Chinese national record?

8:03 2nd miss at 4.41.

[BruceFlorman]

8:11 am EST 3rd miss at 4.41 for Zhou. So the final results are...

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Pos Athlete                  Nat  Mark
 1  Yang ZHOU                CHN  4.30  PB
 2  Tina SUTEJ               SLO  4.25  NJ
 3  Vicky PARNOV             AUS  4.20
 4  Valeriya VOLIK           RUS  4.10
 5  Chloe MOURAND            FRA  4.10
 6  Minna NIKKANEN           FIN  4.10
 7  Tomomi ABIKO             JPN  4.00
 8  Tori ANTHONY             USA  3.90
 9  Gabriella DUCLOS-LASNIER CAN  3.90
10  Elena SCARPELLINI        ITA  3.80


[CLCPV04]

What a GREAT competition!! Nice evening. Very little wind. GREAT crowd.

Volik just wasnt running. I think she knew it, as she stopped mid-run several times. Her third attempt was a time-out at 4.20.

Parnov looked good, but the Slovenian Sutej just had more spark in her tonight.

[SweetPVJumps]

BruceFlorman, are you gonna do these live updates for the boys finals too?

[BruceFlorman]

BruceFlorman, are you gonna do these live updates for the boys finals too?

I guess it depends on what time I wake up tomorrow morning. It's supposed to start at 6:05 am EST, and tomorrow's a Saturday.

[BruceFlorman]

Parnov looked good, but the Slovenian Sutej just had more spark in her tonight.

Any comments on Zhou?

[rainbowgirl28]

What an upset!

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/0 ... _title.htm

Zhou captures pole vault title
2006-08-19
CHINA'S Zhou Yang took the women's pole vault crown at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing yesterday.

The 18-year-old Zhou leapt over 4.30 meters to tie her personal best created in Zheng-zhou, Hebei Province, in May.

"It was a par performance. I was not at my best today," Zhou said. "Thank you all for your support and I want to meet you here again during the Beijing Olympics."

Tina Sutej of Slovenia took the silver in 4.25 which is a Slovenian junior record, while Vicky Parnov from Australia finished third in 4.20.

[rainbowgirl28]

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlene ... UNIORS.xml

China's third gold came through Zhou Yang in the women's pole vault.

"I did not show all my potential today," Zhou told Xinhua. "Thank you all for your support and I look forward to seeing you here again in Beijing Olympics."

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.iaaf.org/WJC06/news/Kind=2/newsId=35825.html

Zhou’s gold but the world will hear from Volik again

Russia missed out on what prior to these championships had seemed a likely gold medal in the women’s Pole Vault. 16-year-old Valeriya Volik, who set a World Youth best of 4.40m in Kazan on 8 July, the best performance by a junior this year, could go not better than 4.10m tonight. There is no doubting that we will hear a lot more of Volik, who is coached by Yelena Isinbayeva’s former trainer, Yevgeniy Trofimov.

Up at the sharp end of the final tonight was China’s Yang Zhou who won gold with 4.30m, with a Slovenian national junior record of 4.25m securing silver for Tina Sutej, and 15-year-old Vicky Parnov of Australia, the niece of 2000 Olympic silver medallist Tatiana Grigorieva, taking bronze (4.20m).