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How bad's the weather when 18 footers are jumping at 15'?

Or is this like a short run world championship?

I am guessing the weather is terrible. I know Brian's poles didn't make it either.

Man and I thought Prefontaine was bad...

M Stav/Pole Vault 1


1 Jarno Kivioja 82 FIN 5.01
2 Rasmus Jörgensen 89 DEN 4.61
Toby Stevenson 76 USA x
Brian Mondschein 83 USA x
Chris Bencomo 85 USA x
Bobby Talley 86 USA x
Dustin DeLeo 86 USA x
Rasmus Carlsson 88 Falu IK x
Jesper Fritz 85 Malmö AI x
Reine Eklund 77 Örgryte IS x
Gustaf Hultgren 83 Örgryte IS x
Rasmus Nim 89 Gäddede SK x


4.61 4.81 5.01 5.16 5.26 5.36 5.46 5.56 5.66
Rasmus Jörgensen o xxx
Chris Bencomo xxx
Rasmus Nim x- - - - -
Reine Eklund - - - - -
Rasmus Carlsson xxx
Bobby Talley xxx
Gustaf Hultgren xx- - - - -
Dustin DeLeo - xxx
Jarno Kivioja - - xo xx- -
Brian Mondschein xxx
Jesper Fritz - - - - xxx
Toby Stevenson - - - - xxx

Oh My God, that's absolutely ridiculous haha. Why wasn't is canceled, if it was that bad???

http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=52252.html

When the international meet in Karlstad celebrated its 10th edition in the "modern era" there were two traditional ingredients missing: A men's High Jump competition featuring local hero Stefan Holm – and the sunny weather. Holm has retired and unfortunately the sun had taken a major timeout this afternoon and evening.

Instead rain had started already at midday and poured on for hours with increasing intensity effectively drowning the Tingvalla arena – and all hopes of top class performances despite the presence of athletes such as Abubaker Kaki, Michelle Perry, Sherone Simpson, Darrel Brown and Toby Stevenson.

Weather ruins vaulters’ chances

Of the field events the vertical jumps suffered noticeably from the rain: In the men's Pole Vault ten out of twelve jumpers – i.a. Toby Stevenson – failed to clear a height and a mere 5.01 was sufficient for the win. In the women's High Jump five jumpers had yearly best marks in the interval 1.85-1.91 but still the competition was decided already at 1.76 when Norway's Stine Kufaas was the only jumper to make that height.

rain is not a suffucient word to describe it. huge downpour. would have been better off with a rowboat and paddle than a pole. haha.. oh man it was rough. the chalk guys had no chance. i took up 2 jumps, both resulted in me sliding down the pole