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Modesto- China's Gao Shuying will compete in the Modesto Relays on May 5th. She won the women's pole vault last Sunday at Mt SAC and set an Asian record of 4.55 meters.

Joining her will be American record holder and Sydney Olympic Champion, Stacy Dragila. Also competing are, Athens Olympian, Jillan Schwartz, 2006 Modesto Relays champion, Mary Sauer and NCAA record holder, Chelsea Johnson.

Anyone know how Stacy is doing? I think this is going to be her first competition since all of the problems with her achilles?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... PL5O21.DTL

Someone else coming off an off-year -- two of them, in fact -- is Modesto favorite Stacy Dragila, the first dominant woman in the pole vault. Now 36, the Auburn (Placer County) native is coming off Achilles tendon and ankle injuries. She won the first two World Championships in women's pole vault in 1999 and 2001 and won the first Olympic gold medal in her event in 2000.
Dragila set a world record 15-9 1/4 at Stanford in 2001 and improved her best to 15-10 in 2004. She had hoped to become the first woman to crack 16 feet (or 4.88 meters), but that distinction went to Russia's Svetlana Feofanova. Since then, countrywoman Yelena Isinbayeva upped the world record to 16-5 1/4 and was the first to top 5.00 meters or 16-4 3/4.
Dragila will be in a field of top Americans, including collegiate record-holder Chelsea Johnson, Mary Sauer and Tracy O'Hara.
The men's vault features 2004 Olympic silver medalist Toby Stevenson, Olympic bronze medalist Derek Miles and Tim Lobinger of Germany.

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66nd Modesto Relays

Event 13 Women Pole Vault Invitational
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Name Year Team Finals
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1 Gao Shuying Nike-China 4.50m 14-09.00
2 Jillian Schwartz Psm 4.40m 14-05.25
3 Tracy O'Hara Adidas 4.25m 13-11.25
3 Chelsea Johnson Nike 4.25m 13-11.25
5 Andree Pickens Bell Athletics 4.10m 13-05.25
5 Stacy Dragila Nike 4.10m 13-05.25
5 Kelsie Hendry Canada/Riversdale 4.10m 13-05.25
8 Tamara Diles Palouse Hills tr 3.95m 12-11.50

Highlight reel. Includes footage of Mike Landers and the pole vault women

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSN6Po0eqNg