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National record for Filippidis *bites tongue*

1 Renaud Lavillenie FRA 5.80 4
2 Malte Mohr GER 5.80 2
3 Steven Lewis GBR 5.80 1
4 Konstadínos Filippídis GRE 5.80
5 Steven Hooker AUS 5.70
6 Brad Walker USA 5.70
7 Romain Mesnil FRA 5.70
8 Dmitry Starodubtsev RUS 5.55
9 Lázaro Borges CUB 5.55
10 Björn Otto GER 5.55
11 Raphael Holzdeppe GER 5.55
11 Evgeniy Lukyanenko RUS 5.55

Official results: http://iaaf.org/competitions/dlm/eventc ... t.html#MPV

Interesting results. Though I'm sure everyone's pretty burnt out after the games.

1) Hooker looks like he'll be using that momentum he had going to go straight into indoor

2) Steve lewis is getting pretty consistent, for his second time ever over 5.80. I think next year he'll be over that at almost every meet.

3) That's a Greek Record, right?

-6P

"4 Konstadínos Filippídis GRE 5.80 "

That has to be the record for longest period to get from 5.70 to 5.80! Please, someone with database access confirm this.

joebro391 wrote:3) That's a Greek Record, right?

That's what I said in the first post

rainbowgirl28 wrote:

joebro391 wrote:3) That's a Greek Record, right?

That's what I said in the first post

WHOOPS!! haha -6P

A nice comeback of sorts for Hooker and Walker. Lavillenie is clearly best this year. The German Medalist's fell off the pace this time.

Sunday is the Women in Birmingham and a tight DL points race.

Barto wrote:"4 Konstadínos Filippídis GRE 5.80 "

That has to be the record for longest period to get from 5.70 to 5.80! Please, someone with database access confirm this.

not sure the answer, but a drug ban will tend to slow down progress!

"Time waits for no man." regardless of WADA status

hey i didn't say it wasn't impressive! i just meant it tends to make it more difficult!

Barto wrote:"4 Konstadínos Filippídis GRE 5.80 "

That has to be the record for longest period to get from 5.70 to 5.80! Please, someone with database access confirm this.

Well, he's only 25 now. He first jumped 5.70 in 2005 when he was 18. He went a little over 7 years between 5.70 and 5.80. It's impressive that he stuck with it, and through a drug ban, but I think that is easier to do in countries that offer some support to their athletes.

Give me some athletes to compare to who went a long time between 70 and 80 and I can look them up.

Toby Stevenson and Doug Fraley immediately come to mind as Usanians that took awhile to find those 10cm.

I'm also curious. How many men does that make over 5.80m all time?