M45 Segatel raises European indoor high jump record
Riccione world champion Marco Segatel is on a roll. Make that a flop. Last Saturday in Padua, Italy, he jumped 1.95 (6-4 3/4) for an M45 indoor European record. Last July, he went 2.04 (6-8 1/4) outdoors for a world age-group record. But the highest M45 indoor jump on record is also 2.04 — by American Dennis Lewis. Marco turns 46 in late March, but should be a heavy favorite at the world indoor championships in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Here’s a REALLY rough translation of the Italian report:
The inrefrenabile Marco SEGATEL can not stay away for too long from platforms high jump and races, and so today the lombardo-romagnolo has presented at the first meeting of the indoor season organized in the indoor Padua getting the measure the 1.95 that is the new European indoor best performance for category M45. In view of the year’s embarrassment if define the last record master of 2007 or the first of the new indoor season. SEGATEL has easily exceeded the height record and has subsequently failed three times during the recall measure 2 meters.
Around this record is good to do a little clarity. SEGATEL on 11 February of this year jumped 2.03, and that the provision applies as best European M40 since that date had not yet completed 45 years. The same provision is the best Italian indoor M40 and M45 “pre”. Then our jumper participated March 24 in Helsinki to the European Indoor Championships by winning the race with 1.92. As was born on 23 March 1962 (the day before the race), but for the federation EVAA He should have done 45 years later than March 21, SEGATEL participated with 1.92 in winning the race category M40. That measure, however, was that moment mpi MM45 to age accomplished. And today we come to the provision of 1.95: improves the European indoor M45 held with 1.93 by Belgian Gert DE ROOSE and obtained the World Indoor in Linz in 2006; at the same time is the new mpi M45 to age accomplished. Pending foreseeable future updates.
The new record SEGATEL provides an opportunity to point out that several benefits derived from the Italian master in recent seasons have not been ratified by the World and European federations. The Office of the Master FIDAL. From time were reported in these times performance record, but now several discrepancies remain. For example in the case of SEGATEL to which the EVAA It has not yet recognized the record M40 with 2.03 (Genoa 11/02/2007), or in case of his world record outdoor M45 with 2.04 (Cernusco 19/07/2007) that the WMA Not yet included among its record (last updated on 27 September), while the figure among those of EVAA We hope the Office FIDAL Act soon to remedy.
