Italian M45 Segatal joins the 2-meter club indoors

In the high jump, 2 meters separates the supermen from the men. That’s 6 feet, 6 3/4 inches to us mortals. Last Sunday, Italy’s Marco Segatel cleared 2.00 less than a month before turning 46. That’s a European indoor record, which is reported here. Thus we now have three men over 45 over 2.00 — M45 Dennis Lewis (2.04), M50 Thomas Zacharias (2.00) and Marco. On the WMA Age-Graded Tables, a performance of 2.00 corresponds to an Open (ages 20-30) equivalent of 2.325 (7-7 1/2). Nosebleed territory. Congrats to Marco. Watch him fly at indoor worlds!

Here’s the 22-man field in the M45 high jump at Clermont-Ferrand, with their entry marks (mostly outdoor marks, including Marco’s 2.04 from last summer):

1 BALAIR alex FRA M45 –
2 BENARD dominique FRA M45 165 –
3 BENGTSSON tomas SWE M45 166 –
4 BRACKMAN jean-paul FRA M45 160 –
5 CAMBRILLAT michel FRA M45 166 –
6 COSTE yvan FRA M45 160 –
7 FAUGER patrick FRA M45 182 –
8 FERRAZZIN paolo ITA M45 166 –
9 HANS jean-christophe FRA M45 159 –
10 HAYRAPETYAN gerasim ARM M45 180 –
11 KIEM walter AUT M45 189 –
12 LAMBIN pascal FRA M45 159 –
13 MANFREDINI emanuel ITA M45 –
14 MARTINEZ antonio FRA M45 165 –
15 MARTINEZ lucio ESP M45 164 –
16 NAGLE mats SWE M45 172 –
17 REDDECLIFF rick USA M45 181 –
18 SEGATEL marco ITA M45 204 –
19 STAEBEL jochen GER M45 178 –
20 URDAEV alexey RUS M45 185 –
21 VOZAR eduard SVK M45 183 –
22 YAREMCHUK anatoly RUS M45 185