Kingstad reclaims crown, ups M55 pole vault world record
Sorry, Wolfgang Ritte. Your reign atop the M55 vault world was short-lived. A week after Wolfie raised the indoor age-group best to 4.20, Jeff Kingstad took back the indoor WR by clearing a bar set at 4.21 meters (13-9 3/4). Blame this blog for Jeff’s latest record. Yesterday he wrote me: “Hi Ken: Thanx to your blog, I realized Wolfgang immediately raised my new WRs of 4.11m & then 4.12m, to 4.20m.” Jeff says he hadn’t planned to vault until January 26 at a University of Wisconsin Madison invitational, but instead he found a meet three hours away Friday at UW Eau Claire, “and stopped there on my way to my son’s varsity hockey game, only another 100 miles from there!”
Jeff says he opened at 4.21 and got it on his third attempt, using his new green-and-gold taped lucky Packers pole. (I guess this refers to some football team in Wisconsin).
Writes Jeff: “All the while it was below zero outside, BRRRR! See Packer game tomorrow for what our weather around here is like. Takes half an hour just to DEFROST before jumping, haha! By the way, I only missed first 5 minutes of my son’s game. He scored the 2-0 insurance goal on a slapshot. FUN!”
Now THAT’S masters track: Set a world record but brag about your hockey star son.
2 Responses
Again, Congratulations Jeff. I love it! As I said in another post, this competition between you and Wolfgang will bring out the best in both of you.
– John
Got to love it – I am 48 and run 3 miles a day – these guys are setting P.V. WR’s at 55 and up. I have to set my standards higher – I cleared 13-6 in college when I was a stud – this is the best
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