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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ignore my reference to 2000 Trials). M50 Peter Hlavin, who jumped 1.76 (5-9.25) at the same meet (20th Annual Self-Transcendence), sent the video and said: “Perfect conditions.  She made 1.62m (5-3.75) on her second attempt.  Quite thrilling.  Not bad considering she had knee surgery only two years ago.  Her record was verified by three officials. This was a big day for her cuz this was her last meet of season.â€

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September 18, 2011

8 Responses

  1. peter taylor - September 19, 2011

    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.

  2. JavierS-not - September 19, 2011

    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.

  3. Bert Bergen - September 19, 2011

    Clare

    What a beautiful jump! I heard the cheers and knew you had broken the record. Congratulations.

    Kathy

  4. christel donley - September 19, 2011

    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)

  5. Byrke Beller - September 19, 2011

    Cool! Nice job!!

  6. Eleanor Gipson - September 20, 2011

    what a beautiful jump. A lesson to us all!

  7. Barry Warmerdam - September 20, 2011

    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!

  8. suzana ristic - February 4, 2012

    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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