Before going to be last night, I watched clips Trans World Sport’s features on various track & field athletes. Aside from the regular Diamond League and Athletix Mag airings in Eurosport Asia, we Filipinos don’t get much athletics-related shows. The next best thing is Youtube. In this day and age of HD videos and broadband internet, the live-streaming site is the next best thing!
The aforementioned athletes are quite a combination – even if you take Bolt out of the picture. Hooker is the reigning Olympic, World, World Indoor and Commonwealth Games pole vault champion. Then there’s the versatile Felix, who can excel in all the flat sprinting events. Gill, Barshim and Pedersen are all World Junior titlists from Moncton.
Among all the athletes featured above, I’d have to say that I’m most impressed with Jacko. To be able to throw the 7kg shot beyond twenty meters at such a young age, that’s certainly historic! For a sprint hurdler who has scant knowledge of the throws, seeing a teenager heave the youth shot put beyond twenty-four meters is interesting, to say the least!
Watch at least one clip and you’ll get an instant dose of extrinsic, athletics motivation!
The 24-year old is a mainstay of a crack Australian pole vaulting squad. Bisk had notched respectable 2nd and 3rd place finishes in the competitive Australian national championship in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Photos from Mornby, Zimbio/Getty Images, and Daylife
At the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, the Western Australian athlete placed 6th (4.25m), behind compatriot Alana Boyd (4.40m). Bisk actually tied England’s Kate Dennison and two other athletes – who all made the same best mark – but lost on count-back.
Photo from Zimbio/Getty Images
Since clearing 3.70m in 2005, The Australian has consistently re-written her personal bests year in and year out. In the last five years, Bisk had improved by an average of around 0.20m each year.
In 2010, the pole vaulter soared to 4.40m in Perth, her best performance to date. Mentored by the pole vaulting guru Alex Parnov (who also coaches the reigning World, World Indoor and Olympic Champion Steve Hooker and the prodigious Parnov sisters), Bisk has much potential to barge into the pole vault elite.
In order to promote the sport of athletics, Lavillenie lived up to his “daredevil” billing by vaulting over a rugby crossbar (3.05m high) during the halftime break of an actual French league rugby game – without a planting box and a landing mat!
Watch the following clip of the reigning World, World Indoor and Olympic Champion Steve Hooker from the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. The Australian pole vaulter shrugged off an otherwise uneventful season with an easy 5.60m leap.
Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and
written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly
prohibited.
Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is
given to hurdler49 with appropriate
and specific direction to the original content.
