On his next attempt at 6.21, Lavillenie injured his foot, requiring 15 stitches in his heel, which is why he won’t be vaulting in Sopot.īut the history-making mood remains with the Ethiopian runner Genzebe Dibaba, the younger sister of serial champion Tirunesh Dibaba, breaking three world records indoors this season and now set to run the 3,000 meters in Poland. “The pole vault world record went, so I guess it’s just the time for jumpers.”īubka’s world indoor record of 6.15 meters lasted for nearly 21 years before the Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie broke it by a centimeter in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Feb. “And now Ivan this year is back in form and jumping out of his mind,” Kynard said.
Kynard said that at a meet in Lausanne, Bondarenko attempted the world record and Kynard attempted the American record. Bondarenko tried to break the world record three times, and I was there all three times.” Last season was the most competitive season. “I guess it’s just something in the air worldwide.
“Now guys are going out and jumping 2.36 every week, every two weeks, so it’s just more competitive,” Kynard said in an telephone interview. There are other significant threats in Sopot, including Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar and Erik Kynard, the American who finished second to Ukhov at the 2012 Olympics and has a personal best of 2.37 meters, which would have been considered lofty indeed until the recent group assault on 2.40. But I think Ukhov can do it indoors, and historically he’s always been better indoors than outdoors.” “I honestly don’t think they will break the outdoor world record height yet, because 2.45 is huge. “I was the best high jumper in the world for a couple of years but was never trying at the world record heights,” he added. “Because the record has been there for a long, long time.” “I think it would be really good for the record to go,” Holm said. Spurred on by failing to win a medal at last year’s world championships in Moscow and surely spurred on by the spectacular rise of Bohdan Bondarenko, Ukhov is now the first man in history to clear 2.40 meters or better three times in the same season indoors. Ukhov, who continues to use sprinter’s spikes instead of high jumper’s spikes, has never been as consistently good as this winter. “He’s so strong and so powerful it’s just pure raw power,” said Stefan Holm, the former star high jumper from Sweden. But the International Association of Athletics Federations, track’s global governing body, gave him a reprimand instead of a disciplinary ban, and he has since cleaned up his act, cut his long locks and become a consistent threat. It is difficult to overwrite the image of him tottering on the runway and pushing away an official before trotting toward the bar, which was under no threat of being cleared. In the age of YouTube, Ukhov still might be best known for jumping drunk when he was in the midst of personal difficulties during a meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2008. “I want the world record, and all the other things are secondary,” Ukhov told the Russian newspaper Sport-Express.
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