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Bubka back at one of his World record meetings

Under the watchful eye of pole vault legend Sergey Bubka, 6 metres vaulter Toby Stevenson vaulted 5.75 at the second time of asking. The Olympic silver medallist wearing his trade mark crash helmet, had three unsuccessful attempts at 5.85m. Japanese record holder Daichi Sawano, the winner in Rovereto on Wednesday, vaulted 5.70m to take the runner-up spot on count-back over Viktor Chistiakov.

Bubka, who set one of his 35 World records in Padua, was the special guest for the 20th anniversary of the Padua meeting. Bubka vaulted 6.12 on 30 August 1992 in the old Colbacchini stadium where the meeting used to take before being moved to the Euganeo Stadium. “It is always a big pleasure to be in Padua where I have still a lot of friends. I had a great memory of that day when I cleared 6.12â€Â

Toby's poles have been missing for several meets now.

This is from Toby's agent:

Padova, Italy- Toby Stevenson cleared opening height of 5.55 on his first attempt. He was also successful with his first vault at 5.65. While passing at the height of 5.70, he watched clearances by Russian, Victor Chistakov and Daichi Sawano of Japan. Toby won the competition again with borrowed poles with a clearance of 5.75. He competes in Berlin on Sunday.


Toby Stevenson USA 5.75
Daichi Sawano Japan 5.70
Victor Chistokov Russia 5.70

575 Toby Stevenson
570 Daichi Sawano
570 Viktor Chistiakov
555 Matti Mononen
555 Maksim Mazurik
545 Aleksandr Korchmid
525 Andrej Poljanec
525 Giorgio Piantella

Gibilisco made about 10 run throughs in warm up and then decided not to jump at all.

Andrej, you guys haven't started school yet? We've been back for 2 weeks.. See you indoor,

-Mitch (Clemson)

Yes, we have, but I'll be back a little bit later. I wanted to compete in those September competitions, because they are awesome!