Men's Pole Vault Results
With Lawrence Johnson winning the proper at 19-11/2 and Nick Hysong second at 19-91/2, Chad Harting, Derek Miles and Pat Manson embarked on a jumpoff. All missed badly on a fourth attempt at 18-91/2.
At 18-71/2, Harting and Miles went under the bar, Manson knocked it off.
Round 3
The third height, 18-91/2 (5.73) is history, and two thirds of the Olympic team is known. Nick Hysong cleared on first attempt. Lawrence Johson cleared on his second. The real excitement, however, will come after these two decide which one is nation champion.
That's because Chad Harting, Derrick Miles, and Pat Manson are al tied. They'll have a jumpoff when the regular competion is over.
Round 2
As the final round of attempts unfolded of attempts at 18-51/2 (5.63) it looked as it the Olympic Team would be Lawrence Johnson (first try make) and Nick Hysong (second try make) and the third spot would come down to a jumpoff between Brent Burns and Tye Harvey then however in rapid succession Chad Harting, Derrick Miles, and Pat Manson went over.
Five men are still alive as the bar goes to 18-91/2 (5.73). Order after this height 1. Johnson 2. Hysong 3. Harting, Manson, Miles.
Round 1
Opening Height: 18-13/4
Five vaulters knocked out (Buller, Davis, Slover, Stevenson, Payne). Seven men made (Burns, Harvey on first attempt; Harting, Mack, Miles, and Manson on second; Pauli on third). Two men passed (Hysong and Johnson)
Bar is moved to 5.63 meters, 18-51/2.
Results
PV: 1. Lawrence Johnson (adi) 19-11/2 (5.83); 2. Nick Hysong (Nik) 18-91/2 (5.73); 3. Pat Manson (USW) 18-51/2 (5.63); 3. Chad Harting (unat) 18-51/2 (5.63); 3. Derek Miles (unat) 18-51/2 (5.63); 6. Tye Harvey (NBal) 18-13/4 (5.53); 6. Brent Burns (Reeb) 18-13/4 (5.53); 8. Tim Mack (unat) 18-13/4 (5.53); 9. Jacob Pauli (NnIa) 18-13/4 (5.53);… nh-Billy Payne (unat);… nh-Russ Buller (LSU);… nh-Toby Stevenson (Stan);… nh-Jim Davis (Fres);… nh-Scott Slover (Reeb).
In the first shocking result of the Trials, pole vault AR holder Jeff Hartwig missed all three attempts at his opening height in the qualifying round and is out.
Hartwig stalled out on his trio of shots at 18-2 1/2, his opening height. The dejected Arkansan felt his undoing resulted when his eyes couldn't adjust to finding the box and he couldn't adapt his run-up.
"I don't know what to feel just yet," said Hartwig shortly after walking off the track with friend and compatriot Nick Hysong at his side. Still, Hartwig tried to smile and explain to reporters what happened.
"If anything might have hurt me at the Trials, I thought it might be my legs, which felt tried lately," said Hartwig. "But my vision couldn't find the box properly and it's absolutely critical that your radar is keyed into the box precisely. Then you can transfer your speed into the jump to your best advantage.
"So you hold your eyes open so you can really pick up that box good. But that dried out my contacts and I just coulden't adjust my sight. The same thing happened to me indoors and I actually popped out a contact at indoor nationals, my eyes were so dry."
Hartwig added he has a full slate of meets scheduled in Europe for the post-Trials period, "but now I may have to reassess that. I do plan to have eye surgery in the off-season, so I don't have to rrely on contacts, But it's just a matter of moving on from here."
Hysong looked stone-faced on the interview dais and admitted, "I nearly broke into tears when Jeff missed his third attempt. Not only is he a great jumper, but he is one of my closest friends. If I am lucky enough to make the team, it's just not going to feel right not having Jeff on the Olympic squad too."Results
I-1. Chad Harting (unat) 18-21/2 (5.55); 2. Russ Buller (LSU) 18-21/2 (5.55); 3. Billy Payne (unat) 18-21/2 (5.55); 4. Brent Burns (Reeb) 18-21/2 (5.55); 5. Derek Miles (unat) 18-21/2 (5.55); 6. Jacob Pauli (NnIa) 18-21/2 (5.55); 7. Brian Hunter (VaT) 17-101/2 (5.45);… nh-Daren McDonough (InI);… nh-Borya Celentano (CSLB);… nh-Luke Walker (unat).
II-1. Nick Hysong (Nik) 18-21/2 (5.55); 1. Lawrence Johnson (adi) 18-21/2 (5.55); 3. Pat Manson (USW) 18-21/2 (5.55); 3. Tim Mack (unat) 18-21/2 (5.55); 5. Tye Harvey (NBal) 18-21/2 (5.55); 6. Jim Davis (Fres) 18-21/2 (5.55); 6. Scott Slover (Reeb) 18-21/2 (5.55); 6. Toby Stevenson (Stan) 18-21/2 (5.55); 9. Kevin Brown (MF) 17-101/2 (5.45); 9. Tommy Hanna (unat) 17-101/2 (5.45); 11. Scott Hennig (Reeb) 17-101/2 (5.45);… nh-Jeff Hartwig (Nik);… nh-Ryan Barkdull (unat);… nh-Michael McNamara (Ok).