Sotomayor's WR: On Borrowed Time

If Bondarenko is Bond, then I guess that makes Barshim and Uhkov the villains.

Barshim looks a class act. He pushoff is incredible, pure explosive. I think he will take the record. Kynard came out during the week to tell people to stop talking about the record as it was putting pressure on him and the other jumpers to break it. I know he has jumped 2.41 but come on Erik, these guys are in a different league.

Bound-a-renko.

The Kobe Bryant look alike. He's pretty good. Wouldn't surprise me if he broke it, but he would need a perfect jump. These others are consistently above him.

Bondarenko and Barshim and just plain deadly. I think it will be one of these two or both.

Kynard ain't jumped no 2.41.

it'd be nice to see the record go, but just because there are a bunch of guys above 2.40... doesn't mean we are going to get another 8'

Get a ruler and look at how much 3/4 of an inch is. That's how far they both were today. Barshim had a ton of air between him and the bar at 2.42.

yep and Artur Partyka's pr is still 2.38...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-uz5v00u0

joel przybilla wrote:

Kynard ain't jumped no 2.41.

it'd be nice to see the record go, but just because there are a bunch of guys above 2.40... doesn't mean we are going to get another 8'

sorry, your right. He kept blabbing on about 2.41. Read the interview again.Pr is 2.37

Anyway, he hasn't a hope of breaking the record so I don't know how he see's himself as a contender for it.

So if this was happening with distance runners, everyone on this site would be screaming "PEDs!" Is there PEDs use with jumpers?

Barshim will best sotomayor's mark first. His effortless style gives him an advantage.

[quote=Netwerk Errer]sorry, your right. He kept blabbing on about 2.41. Read the interview again.Pr is 2.37

Anyway, he hasn't a hope of breaking the record so I don't know how he see's himself as a contender for it.[/quote]

don't be sorry.

he's got that Olympic Silver so he probably think's he's better than he is and the KSU folks will jump with a small box in training so maybe he think's he's good for 2.41 based off something that's happened in practice. Yeah pretty dumb to be 8cm away from the record and think you're in the picture.

to redirect the topic back to breaking the world record, i don't see bohdan(i don't like his one arm take off) or derek drouin breaking it because they've had foot and ankle surgeries. Neither is the talent that Javy was so to think they'll get a 2.46 after Javy only managed a 2.45 post achilles surgery. Ukhov is running out of peak jumping years, maybe he can get it... idk. That leaves Barshim as the best option, he looked great over 2.42 but not so much at 2.44.. we'll see.

The Qatar Kid. Or the Ukraine Skytrain.

Kynard has never jumped 2.41,his best is 2.38.From this vantage point,

Kynard doesn't look like a 2.41 jumper.It's going to be Bondarenko or

Barshim.Bondarenko is having a great 2yr run but he may run out of time,

Barshim at 22yrs of age has time on his side and to me looks like a 8'3" jumper.

I corrected this already. His PR is 2.37.

One thing I hate about high jump, and pole vault too, you can stick the perfect Beamonesque jump but if the bar is at whatever it doesn't get recognized. They should add a second high jump event that would measure high reach. Like how they measure vertical. That way if you stick one it shows.

Loot wrote:

The name is Bond ...arenko, Bohdan Bondarenko. The other name is Mutaz Barshim (Is their a better name for a high jumper?). The other name is Ivan Uhkov. Today Barshim went 2.42 and somehow lost. That's 7'11" 1/4. One of these guys is gonna surpass Sotomayor's 21 year old mark, probably this year.

Barshim had at least 3 jumps today that looked like they were comfortably over 8 feet. He looked like he has enough air for 8'2" or 8'3" on one of them.

Will it be broken? By who? Will it just be one guy, or several?

Perhaps they will break it, but remember that people said the same thing about Blanka Vlasic a few years ago. It was just a question of time before she would break it.

I just looked at both 2.42's. Bondarenko had little room, but Barshim looked like it could have been as much as 4 inches or more. It was huge jump.

The wind had something to do with the record not going down at Adidas.

It will go.

I remember, wayyyyyyy back in the day, that when the high jump world record was broken, the record setter was supposed to throw a party for every high jumper on the continent where he set the record.

It's been so long and Sotomayor set HIS record in Cuba, so there was no party.

I wonder if these guys will revive the tradition?

Sotomayor's 2.45 (WR) was set in 1993 at Salamanca, Spain.

His 2.43 in 1988 was also at Salamanca.