Athletics Oldest World Record Has Gone

[Fat_Dragon]

The newest Athletics world record was set yesterday in the pole vault by Sweden's Armand Duplantis during the opening Diamond League meeting of the season. He cleared 6.24 meters and is the 8th time he has set a pole vault world record. From the slow motion replay it looks like he has got more in the tank as well.

The athlete who finished second to Duplantis could only manage 5.82 meters. Duplantis is in a league of his own.

 

[Lemmy_kilmister]

Indeed ... and Kratochvilova's women's 800m record was set in 1983 is and was, as far as I know, the longest standing outdoor T&F record.

Not many have got close since.

Coe may not have been "clean" in the modern sense of the word but, at the time, legal.

Funnily enough I have known and watched Max Burgin since he was 8 years old. He holds the fastest recent UK 800m time and is 4th on the all time list. To watch him running at race pace is phenomenal ...as you say, basically sprinting. Running 8 x 13 second 100ms back to back.

He wryly observes that he is only the 3rd fastest Yorkshireman (behind Coe and Peter Elliott).

If Jarmila Kratochvílová wasn't 'on the gas', I'm a Dutchman.
She didn't get to break 53 seconds for the 400m until she was 27, and set the records when she was 32.

Marita Kochs 400m record has stood since 1985. Highly dubious you'd think as
there's since been discovered a letter written by Koch, complaining that her rival, Bärbel Wöckel was receiving higher doses of steroids than her because Wöckel's uncle was president of the pharmaceutical company Jenapharm.

 

[Zoophonic]

The newest Athletics world record was set yesterday in the pole vault by Sweden's Armand Duplantis during the opening Diamond League meeting of the season. He cleared 6.24 meters and is the 8th time he has set a pole vault world record. From the slow motion replay it looks like he has got more in the tank as well.

The athlete who finished second to Duplantis could only manage 5.82 meters. Duplantis is in a league of his own.

Brilliant though DuPlantis is can’t help regarding the pole vault world record as an exception to other athletics world records as it gets broken often.

In modern pole vaulting, an extremely important part of the vault undoubtedly involves the pole. The vaulter relies on the pole to absorb as much energy as possible and then transfer that energy back to vault him into the air as high as possible. The more efficiently the pole can absorb and transfer this kinetic energy, the higher a vaulter can travel. Thus, due to the significant effect of pole efficiency on vault height, engineers and scientists have researched and developed new materials and technologies for poles.

Duplantis is clearly magnificent at it and he enjoys the riches for continually breaking the record by a centimetre a time.

 

[borolad259]

Brilliant though DuPlantis is can’t help regarding the pole vault world record as an exception to other athletics world records as it gets broken often.

In modern pole vaulting, an extremely important part of the vault undoubtedly involves the pole. The vaulter relies on the pole to absorb as much energy as possible and then transfer that energy back to vault him into the air as high as possible. The more efficiently the pole can absorb and transfer this kinetic energy, the higher a vaulter can travel. Thus, due to the significant effect of pole efficiency on vault height, engineers and scientists have researched and developed new materials and technologies for poles.

Duplantis is clearly magnificent at it and he enjoys the riches for continually breaking the record by a centimetre a time.

The same can be said for the new generation of race shoes and their impact upon running WRs.

 

[WindyNook]

Sergey Bubka held the pole vault record from May 1984 to Feb 2014 with on interuption in August 1984. He regained it a few minutes later at the same meeting. He took it from 5.84m to 6.14m. He used to break it in 1cm increments to get the bonus for breaking aworld record at each event. In all he broke the record 16 times!
After his last record it wasn't improved for 20 years

 

[Zoophonic]

The same can be said for the new generation of race shoes and their impact upon running WRs.

Yes. And indeed track technology too but the way the pole has come on since even Sergei Bubka was breaking the PV world record for fun in the 80s is significant.

 

[Zoophonic]

Sergey Bubka held the pole vault record from May 1984 to Feb 2014 with on interuption in August 1984. He regained it a few minutes later at the same meeting. He took it from 5.84m to 6.14m. He used to break it in 1cm increments to get the bonus for breaking aworld record at each event. In all he broke the record 16 times!
After his last record it wasn't improved for 20 years

The WR has gone 8 times in the last 3 1/2 years all by Duplantis. Another Bubka you could say. No other World record gets broken as much.

 

[borolad259]

I always considered pole vaulters to be just about the most incredible all round athletes in track and field. Duplantis is a great example. Speed, strength, souplesse, agility, balance, courage, focus. I mean the core strength they have is insane. I can't remember his name, but I think a pole vaulter used to win Superstars back in the 70s (might be wrong....).

 

[sherlock]

I always considered pole vaulters to be just about the most incredible all round athletes in track and field. Duplantis is a great example. Speed, strength, souplesse, agility, balance, courage, focus. I mean the core strength they have is insane. I can't remember his name, but I think a pole vaulter used to win Superstars back in the 70s (might be wrong....).

I always wonder how people get into it in the first place. Those first goes at the event must be terrifying!

I think it was Brian Hooper in Superstars.