Clare Look-Jaeger skies over W45 American record in the high jump
Clare Look-Jaeger never made it to the Olympics (although she made the Olympic Trials in 1992 and 1996 in the hep or high jump, or both.) But Sunday at Long Beach State, she topped an Olympian — beating Trish Porter’s W45 American record in the high jump, 1.62 to 1.61 meters. At 45, Clare is a Sacramento worlds silver medalist and having a blast. Check the video (and
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Very, very impressive. To my untrained eye she looks like a dead ringer for Stacey Nieder of Alaska, who broke another of Trish Porter’s high jump records in March (at Albuquerque).
Clare has the same physical appearance, same approach, same speed, identical technique. I was very impressed with Clare in Honolulu (2005) and hope she shows up at either Bloomington or Lisle for our 2012 championships.
Congratulations Clare!!! Keep going…!
Thanks to Peter H. for the video and commentary.
Thanks to Ken S. for publishing this.
I’d love to see Trish and Stacey respond with jumps.
Clare
What a beautiful jump! I heard the cheers and knew you had broken the record. Congratulations.
Kathy
Hi Champ!
Congratulations, would have liked to be there. We highjumped on different days in Sacto, so I did not even see you.
Hope, you remember our good times at Oxy……
By the way, Coach Harvey was there as well, (Sacto) winning a Silver, no, not in the HJ! did you talk with him?
Christel Donley (former Miller)
Cool! Nice job!!
what a beautiful jump. A lesson to us all!
It was a very nice jump. I saw it in person, as I had just finished my javelin competition and was relaxing in my chair watching her. (Kind of fun to see myself in the background of the video.) Congratulations Clare!
Wish I could have been there to see you do this-this takes me back to when we were 10 years old in gym class competing for athlete of the year-congratulations!!!!
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