FASTEST POLE VAULTER

[vaulter870]

haha yeah its dan and he took off from the box the other day and hit him self in the face at take off no words can describe that!!

[mcminkz05]

sadly i can imagine that..

[vaulter870]

you should have seen it it was so dan funny i almost pissed my pants!!

[agapit]

He was a member of Russian Junior 4x100 team in European Junior Champ forgot the year. Bubka ran 10.2 manual and 8.10m Long jump.

10.48 however is very, very good.

[Barto]

He was a member of Russian Junior 4x100 team in European Junior Champ forgot the year. Bubka ran 10.2 manual and 8.10m Long jump.

10.48 however is very, very good.

Urban Legends

[achtungpv]

He was a member of Russian Junior 4x100 team in European Junior Champ forgot the year. Bubka ran 10.2 manual and 8.10m Long jump.

10.48 however is very, very good.

Urban Legends

Barto beat me to it.

[Bonevt]

Now which part of that isn't true, the 4x100 part? I would be kinda suprised if he coun't run a 100 and LJ something around those marks.

[achtungpv]

All of it. There's no record of Bubka ever competing in another event as a junior or as a senior. Galina Bukharina, who was a Soviet National Sprint Coach during that era said that Bubka once ran a 10.4 100m in training with a hurricane at his back.

I don't doubt he could run faster than that with training, but to run below 10.3 you have to really train as a sprinter.

The only reference to him ever long jumping is in the '88 Sports Illustrated Olympic preview that says something to the effect that since "he could run a low 10 sec 100m and long jump over 26' he could be the greatest decathlete ever..." That was the writer talking. He never quoted a source for those marks, so knowing the quality of writing at SI, he probably pulled them out of his @ss for dramatic effect. I've always wondered if this article could have been the source of the urban legends surrounding Bubka.

Regardless, Bubka is the still the biggest, baddest, best athlete ever to pick up a pole.

[Bonevt]

Thats kida funny, I bet almost everyone know who knows who Bubka is thinks that all of that is true.

[agapit]

Galina Bukharina was not around Bubka but for a few team lunches and perhaps on the other side of the practice field. Bubka notoriously trained at home in Donetsk avoiding the centralized venues. As a junior he may not ran 10.2 or long jumped 8m (26’) and you are right he did not compete as a sprinter with auto time, however 10.2 and 26’ are very real. That is 10.2 hand time and 8m (26’) measure distanced (not in competition). But why not ask Bubka himself or Petrov next time you are in Reno.

agapit

[altius]

Its handy to have great speed -but the key is how fast are you travelling UNDER CONTROL from 10 metres out into the take off. For various reasons related to their planting action and poor cadence many vaulters can never exploit their real speed in the vault.

[agapit]

Its handy to have great speed -but the key is how fast are you travelling UNDER CONTROL from 10 metres out into the take off. For various reasons related to their planting action and poor cadence many vaulters can never exploit their real speed in the vault.

dear alan is that you? I bought your book today. I cannot wait for it to get to me.

(the traffic lights are green) you know what I mean.

agapit