Babits raises M45 indoor vault record to nearly 17 feet
Paul Babits, 47, vaulted 5.14 meters (16-10 1/4) indoors at the Brenda Lee pole vault meet yesterday in Fort Wayne, Indiana, according to a posting (probably by Paul) on mastersrankings.com. This would shatter his own M45 world indoor record of 5.01 (16-5 1/4) set six weeks ago (and reflected on the WMA records page). It also exceeds the listed M45 outdoor record of 5.10 (16-8 3/4) by that rascal Larry Jessee in 1997. I also notice that Pat Manson’s 5.36 (17-7) jump at Reno is now listed as the M40 world indoor record — even though Jeff Hartwig’s M40 season best of 5.70 (18-8 1/4) is listed by the IAAF. I guess the record application is still on a boat from Stuttgart.
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I haven’t heard details about THIS record but I did talk to Paul at length a few times at Reno about the changes he’s made in training. He’s going to be consistent at a very high level as a result. Expect 5.20m+. Bubba
Bob Banhagel, who also competed at Brenda Lee meet, reports:
Yep, Paul was hotter than a pistol on the 4th of July yesterday. I forgot at what he opened at, but we measured for a WR at 5.11, had the bar up, put the measuring stick up and it was a tad shy of the bar. rather than move the standards up and down, remeasured it again at 5.14….. took one jump as I recall, and cleaned it with plenty of room to spare. We remeasured and it was 5.14. He chose not to up it as he was probably tired after that jump, he had several prior to the WR.
My prediction is that 5.18 is around the corner for him as he is looking very strong.
Babco’s latest WR is captured on video here:
http://www.polevaultcamps.com/id37.html
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