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shortest men elite vaulters?
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:08 pm
by goose
How tall are the short men elite vaulters ? Just wondering
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:40 pm
by vaultguru6
The World Indoor Bronze Medalist, Denys Yurchenko is only about 5'8". His PR is 5.81. He's got a studly jump and probably carries crazy speed on the runway. You can see a lot of his jumps on stabhochsprung.com. There have been a couple real short, good americans, but I'm young and don't know much about them. Maybe one of them grey haired folk on this board can tell you something.
Vault
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:06 pm
by jmayesvaultmom
Is he related to the Yurchenko of the Yurchenko vault in gymnastics????
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:07 pm
by dbulick
The guy that won the 2002 world chamionships in the HJ was only like 5'7. He also jumped like 7"8. That is just rediculous.
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:05 am
by vaultinggoat16
...lets no longer refer to 5'8" are as short...lets refer to it as hieght challanged or Not good at being tall...
Vaultn Chris
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:31 am
by crumpman
Chris was 5' 2" when he went 12' in 10th grade. I think he was 5'4" when he went 13' and not much more when he went 15' 7". He is 5' 6" now at 17' 1", am I right Chris? If you have never seen a "Not good at being tall" vaulter jump the heights Chris does, it is a real treat. Makes the jump look even bigger.
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:30 pm
by goose
soo the shorter you are the faster you have to be right?
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:29 pm
by russvault
Shorter vaulters are usually faster and more techincally sound, because they have to be to make up for grip and height.
Taller guys are usually slower with not so good technique that can just hold high!!!
Example:
Duplantis=Chistokov
Averbuk=Miles
the list goes on and on!!
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 1:56 pm
by opalkak
what is tall?
What is short?
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:43 pm
by vaultguru6
How tall is Averbukh?
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 5:05 pm
by russvault
Averbuk is 5'10
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 8:10 pm
by nolevault
If someone would like to imply that Derrick Miles is slow, i'd like to dispute that. I've seen Derrick in some workouts and they don't call him Big Rig for nothing. That guy sounds like a Mac truck when he rolls by. Maybe Jeremy Scott would be a better example. At 6'9", he doesn't have to run quite as fast as Dup or Dial to jump as high as they did.