For the first time at our Jump-Meeting: Two winners in the pole vault
- melaniahudakova9
- Jan 28
- 1 min read
Updated: Feb 1
It was a level of excitement hard to beat: for the first time in its history, a jump-off was supposed to decide the victory in the pole vault at the Jump-Meeting. Menno Vloon and Ernest Obiena both failed at 5.84 m—with exactly the same number of failed attempts. They were each given another attempt at that height. When both failed again, they and the meeting officials decided to declare two winners.
The women’s high jump produced the expected winner: Yuliia Levchenko prevailed with 1.94 m ahead of Imke Onnen (1.91 m) and Bianca Stichling (1.88 m) in second and third place. The Ukrainian took a real gamble: after a failed attempt at 1.98 m, she had the bar raised to 2.00 m. That height proved too high on the evening.
In the pole vault, 5.77 m brought a preliminary decision. Three athletes were eliminated: Bo Kanda Lita Baehre, Oleksandr Onufriyev and Torben Blech, who had sent the crowd into raptures with his final successful attempt at 5.70 m. Bianca Stichling narrowly missed a new personal best of 1.91 m.
The competition ended quickly for American Matt Ludwig: he failed to clear his opening height of 5.40 m. Greek vaulter Ioannis Rizos had been eager to compete in Cottbus—after all, his manager Kostas Filippidis, himself a frequent guest in Cottbus during his career, had told him so much about the Jump-Meeting. But a thigh issue that had already bothered him at the previous meeting forced him to withdraw at 5.60 m.
All results are available here: Results | leichtathletik.de
A detailed report can be found here:
