The High Jump is gonna be INSANE this year: Ivan Ukhov clears 2.41

Flo'da boy wrote:

Ivan Ukhov surprised on Saturday with an early 2.38 jump, but surpassed that mark this Wednesday with a 2.41 jump that broke his own Russian record. This jump also ties Ukhov with Patrik Sjoberg for the third highest indoor jump (and behind Sotomayor and Thranhardt).

http://www.iaaf.org/news/report/ivan-ukhov-high-jump-chelyabinsk

Bondarenko, Barshim, and Ukhov. The summer series might get pretty intense

Flo'boy, you are caating pearls to the swine here..... all these runner guys don't even know what the High Jump is ! ( I do... ex HJ'er myself )

The Canadian kid (Drouin), who won NCAA's, is going to be a player this year (2.38 last year, after being injured the previous year). I predict over 2.40 for him. The depth in the HJ at 2.40 and higher will be crazy - Can jesse Williams get back into the mix?

I'm an ignorant distance runner myself, but I've always liked watching the competition. It always has this weird energy about it (the build up before each jump, the attempt with the tension as the jumper glides through the air, the way the crowd responds to each failure or success).

I forgot Druin hit 2.38 for some reason, he will most certainly be in contention if he continues in that form this year!

Does anyone know whether any of the other big names will be doing indoors this season?

If he goes over 2.45 it will serve Bound-a-renko right. He refused to make a serious attempt last year despite plenty of chances.

Bondarenko did make several (pretty exciting) attempts though. Ukhov actually declined to have the bar set to 2.46 at this last meeting (though after he cleared 2.41 it was moved up). Maybe that's a high jump thing

they shouldn't play these stupid mental games. you never know when you're going to get injured.

!!

Bad Wigins wrote:

If he goes over 2.45 it will serve Bound-a-renko right. He refused to make a serious attempt last year despite plenty of chances.

What? Who are you referring to about not taking "serious attempts"? Bondarenko? He attempted 2.46 at the WC's.

I swear, you are a complete moron. Everything you post about is complete BS.

We live in the USA and if it isn't higher than 8ft, nobody cares.

Flo'da boy wrote:Does anyone know whether any of the other big names will be doing indoors this season?

I don't know about Drouin but he doesn't tend to shy away from competition. Kynard is opening up his season on Saturday at Kansas State (against the Chinese record holder) and then is going over to the Czech Republic for a series of HJ-only meets. I presume he'll jump at USA Indoors & World Indoor (provided he makes the team).

Thanks for the updates.

I looked up Kynard and Zhang Guowei (the Chinese indoor record holder) and there both really young, both 22. Prs are 2.33 and 2.32 respectively.

At what age do high jumpers typically peak?

Thanks for all these posts, runners, I apologize for my earlier good humored snipe at you !

As to Ukhov declining to try to go higher after his 2.41, sometimes, but not always, after a big jump, you can just tell that the jets have cooled down. Better to save it for another day sometimes.

I was having fun watching the women's hj at the USATF meet last summer and Barret was hot (jumping in addition to her beauty) and she had to beg her coach to get the next atttempt after winning, which she made, but he pulled the plug after that. I know there were bigger meets later in the summer including WC but when you're hot, you're hot. She could have walked across the street and got hit by a car that afternoon never to jump again. I'm confident she could have gotten the AR that day.

Flo'da boy wrote:

Thanks for the updates.

I looked up Kynard and Zhang Guowei (the Chinese indoor record holder) and there both really young, both 22. Prs are 2.33 and 2.32 respectively.

At what age do high jumpers typically peak?

Kynard's PR is 2.37 or .38... he's only the Oly silver medalist.

The age depends on the training. If you're a Russian that gets the crud beat out of you by your coach, 25-27 is probably average. If you're an American, it can be past that. Look at Jamie Nieto (same coach as Kynard and Williams)... he made his 2nd team in 2012 at 34 or 35.

My apologies on misquoting Kynard's PR, he jumped the 2.33 to get the silver in Moscow

I know, I was there... wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

If he goes over 2.45 it will serve Bound-a-renko right. He refused to make a serious attempt last year despite plenty of chances.

What? Who are you referring to about not taking "serious attempts"? Bondarenko? He attempted 2.46 at the WC's.

I swear, you are a complete moron. Everything you post about is complete BS.

A serious attempt doesn't mean your victory lap at the WC, where you focus on medals first and records second. And he had little chance in Lausanne with 6 previous jumps.

A serious attempt means trying when you might actually succeed. Boundo's real chance was in Zurich where he won early and set the bar to 2.46 after only two jumps. But he made only one weak attempt and then retired. He competed again in one minor meet but didn't try to jump high.

You're wise to hide your registered name, as you usually do when you're looking for excuses to mouth off like a putrefacient sack of teenage ant frass. This year watch all the meets and you'll make less a fool of yourself.

Is that over 8 ft?

Just to clarify, I believe Javier Sotomayor is the only jumper to clear eight feet

2.something meters means nothing to me. Are these dudes clearing 8ft? enough with this metric shit.

http://www.usatf.org/statistics/calculators/markConversions/