Thursday, July 11, 2019
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Sunday, May 12, 2019
Both Side World Championships will return in Helsinki "Mylly" on April 18 2020!
An introduction to both side pole vaulting history in Finnish:
https://www.kilpailukalenteri.fi/?cs=16&nid=24215
Monday, April 15, 2019
The Night Of Twelve World Records
It was a magical evening in Helsinki indoor sports center Liikuntamylly "Mylly" on April 13 2019.
The first ever both side pole vault World Championships took place with the best Finnish pole vaulters Urho Kujanpää (5.56m) and Tomas Wecksten (5.55m).
In the first competition Urho Kujanpää jumped six heights, starting from 4.72m and ending with clearing 5.32m!
Just twenty centimeters less, Tomas Wecksten used four jumps to take the 2nd place. He was in a better shape than he knew. He didn't bring big enough poles to Helsinki, and blew through all his pole selection of the day. Although 5.12m is a great position to start the other part of the competition!
After the right side, Urho and Tomas started another competition of the left side. Urho started at 2.32m, clearing the bar seven times - 2.52m, 2.72, 2.92, 3.12, 3,32 and 3.52 - each jump being a new World Record! Urho Kujanpää's last clearance was 3.52m, which means 8.84m as a combined result (5.32+3.52). He is the first pole vaulter ever to jump the 8 meter barrier!
Tomas Wecksten started at 3.32m, clearing the bar 5 times for the great joy of the audience. The Finnish public saw a total of 12 World Records during the same competition! Tomas continued series of World Records ending to 9.24m (4.12+5.12).
Tomas Wecksten is and will always be the first 9 meter both side pole vaulter.
Congratulations Tomas Wecksten - the first Champion of the World!
Full results:
https://live.tuloslista.com/live/107932
https://live.tuloslista.com/live/107926
https://www.kilpailukalenteri.fi/?cs=18&nid=24215
https://www.tilastopaja.eu/fi/db/tulokset.php?CID=69085
Watch video on You Tube:
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Three New World Records On 28 March 2019!
Kaede Ohkawa from Japan became the first women's world record holder in both side pole vault at United Pole Vaulters meeting in Helsinki on March 28 2019. Her combined result, and the current world record, is 4.00m. The competition was jumped first on left side (1.50m) and after that on the right side (2.50m). Congratulations to Kaede for being brave and open-minded enough to try combined pole vaulting for the first time in an official and now a historically significant competition!
Jussi Autio (5.60m in 1999) improved men's world record to 7.20m. Men's competition was also jumped first on the left side (3.20m), and then on the right side (4.00m).
In fact, there was also a thrid world record. Among the participants was a 9-year-old Urho Aro, who jumped (now official) juniors' world record 2.90m (left: 1.30m, right: 1.60m). Urho's PB is 1.90m on the right ride.
This was the second renaissance meeting in both side pole vault. The first was on March 14 2019.
There will be world championships of both side pole vaulting in Helsinki Liikuntamylly (address: Jauhokuja 3, Helsinki, Finland) on April 13 2019 at 5 PM.
Everyone from any country of the world is welcomed to participate! There is no entrance fee for international pole vaulters.
Who will be the first 8-meter pole vaulter?
And will the women's world record be set at new heights?
Full results:
https://www.tilastopaja.eu/fi/db/tulokset.php?CID=68682
https://live.tuloslista.com/3835
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
The Renaissance of Both Side Pole Vault - United Pole Vaulting
The event will happen 13 April 2019 in Finland (Helsinki Liikuntamylly "Mylly") at 5 PM.
The idea is to have the athletes' results from both right and left side counted together. The winner is the one who has the highest combined number.
Both-sided pole vault was listed as an official sport in the Finnish Championships last time in 1911. The official Finnish record was set by Urho Aaltonen (representing Tampere) at 6.20m (3.20m + 3.00m). The competition took place in Vyborg (now Russian territory) on July 2nd 1910.
Two-side pole vault was no longer held as a championship event in 1923. However, in the fourth edition of the book "Points in Athletics" (Yleisurheilun pisteet) written in 1923, edited by Eino Havas, it is still mentioned that the event was an official sport at that time. The first edition of the book was released in 1907.
The idea is to have a full revival of this tradition by organising official competitions in which it is possible to jump on both sides. The first renaissance competition took place in Helsinki on March 14th 2019 (named as Hyvän tuulen seiväskisat, in Finnish). Jussi Autio jumped the result of 7.00m (4.00m + 3.00m). A new Finnish record, by the way!
With the generosity and help of distinguished sports historians, Ari Törmä and Aulis Tiensuu, we have discovered that Finland has been, in fact, the only country in the world that practised both side pole vaulting in the 1890s and in the early 1900s. Therefore, all of the Finnish records must be seen as world records!
The first known both side pole vault was in Turku 21 June 1892. The results were:
1. Johan Blomster 462 (251 + 211)
2. Paul Richter 453 (251 + 202)
3. Aleksander Kulla 445 (251 + 194)
The main reason for the practice of both side pole vaulting is the enthusiasm and insight of Mr. Viktor Heikel (1842-1927), who is credited for "bringing athletics to Finland." He studied in England and Germany, which at that time must be regarded as a very cosmopolitan activity for a Finnish person. He organized so called Achilles Contests (Akilleskilpailut) which were popular events among the youth in Finland at that time. These competitions included both side high jump, starting at least from the "Achilles Contest 3" in 1884.
Another avid advocate of both side pole vault was Viktor Damm (1864-1944). He also made the initiative of forming the Finnish Athletic Federation (SUL).
Why should we have a revival for an event like this?
There are several benefits that result from training both side pole vaulting. First, it increases the muscle balance, and thus can be used as a tool to prevent a number of types of injuries. Also, seeing sport as a symbolic interaction, from a philosophical point of view, is quite rewarding in itself. This, if anything, is an act of recognizing the great sport of pole vaulting as a symbol of excellence.
Moreover, if we look at our new inspirational sport purely as an entertainment, as it is very fashionable these days, one can quickly realize how amazingly wonderful possibilities both side pole vault can offer for great sporting festivals. The "double super-pole vault" competition can be a truly exciting and thrilling show. Even more so as the traditional pole vault!
In fact, the event should be organised in the most exuberant and effervescent ways: "building expectations more and more for the last round" as in any dramatically understood piece of show. Thus, it would start from each competitor's weaker side. After having scored the basic points on "the qualifying contest", the second competition would be like a final. The athletes would jump as high as possible on their better side.
Only our imagination sets limits on how far this type of a new sport can develop!
There has not been World Championships in Both Side Pole Vaulting yet.
On April 13 2019 in Helsinki there will be!
Who will be the first champion of the world?
And more importantly, are we going to see a new world record?
Come over and we will see it together!
More off-mainstream sporting events: internationaltrackmeets.blogspot.com/
Monday, March 18, 2019
The World Championships of Double Super-Pole Vaulting!
The event will happen 13 April 2019 in Finland (Helsinki Liikuntamylly "Mylly") at 5 PM.
It would be great to see a truly high-level competition of Both Side Pole Vaulting World Championships. It could actually be an extremely entertaining and exciting contest between the most skillful athletes in the world.
Once one realizes the full potential of entertainment of this type of a non-dualistic "double super pole vaulting extravaganza", it is impossible not to think that one day this will actually happen in the Olympic Games!
To make the competition reach its full potential, it should start with the Left Side round first. Competitors would score their best marks first on their weaker side. It would build higher expectations for the climax of the competition.
How to explain the vision of something that is not yet happening?
Well, what did John Lennon say? "I hope one day you'll join us!"
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Welcome to the website of the 1st both side pole vault World championships!
The event will happen 13 April 2019 in Finland (Helsinki Liikuntamylly "Mylly") at 5 PM.
The competition rules are simple:
In the first round all athletes jump from their normal side, most pole vaulters being right-handed, we call this The Right Side. This is a normal, official pole vault competition with IAAF rules.
After the first competition is over, what follows is, we start another competition from The Left Side. It is also normal, official competition that follows IAAF rules.
However, what is not so normal, we combine the results of the both competitions and declare the winner based on the results.
There has been a little bit speculation about the order of the competitions.
Some people say it would obviously be better for the audience to see pole vaulters finishing the competition by jumping as high as possible (i.e. on the right side).
But from the point of view of the athlete it's better that they can focus on the normal competition first. For most pole vaulters the first competition is a chance to jump a good mark in front of an audience.
Thus, in the early stages of the event we respect the point of view of the athletes more.
So, the right side competition will happen first.
As the event gains more popularity in the future, maybe this will change then.
You can send questions as an e-mail to: unitedpolevaulters@gmail.com
No entrance fee, no participation money for international athletes!
Welcome!
Time: April 13 2019 (5PM)
Place: Liikuntamylly
Jauhokuja 3
00920 HELSINKI
FINLAND
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