FEATURE

11th International Golden Roof Challenge delivers a great athletics show!

By quattro media

Yesterday evening, Innsbruck saw a veritable firework display of athletic performance at the kick-off of the Golden Fly Series. With its best start list since the creation of this well-loved in-city event, the show was as exciting as could be anticipated! In perfect conditions, the performances on the FlySwat were outstanding.

The women’s pole vault was exceptional and the favourite, no.1 in the world rankings Fabiana Murer (BRA) was able to secure the coveted ‘Golden Shingle’ (Goldene Dachschindel) with a juml of 4.60, pushing number two on the world list Lisa Ryzih into second place. World Junior Record holder Alena Lutkovskaya finished in third with 4.40m while local heroine Kira Grünberg had to settle with a jump of 4.00 which left room for improvement.

The highlight of the evening was the long jump competition. A radar coupled laser-line, developed by Armin Margreiter and Fa. Medialas made its world premiere. A laser-line projected on the sand indicates the mark to beat. Audience and athletes were thrilled by this innovation and there were some excellent results.

The men’s competition was dominated by vice-European Champion Radek Juska (CZE) who broke the FlySwat record with a mark of 8.15m ahead of Swedish bronze medallist Andreas Otterling with 8.04m

In the women’s Long Jump, Romanian Alina Rotaru was in top form and jumped 6.72m (just two centimetres short of her personal best) ahead of Ukrainian U23 European Vice-Champion Krystyna Hryshutyna with 6.49m. Austria’s local heroine, the recently crowned World Youth Champion in Heptathlon Sarah Lagger (aged just 15) increased her personal record to an impressive 6.18 bringing her to number 6 in the World Ranking for the U18 group.

The Men’s Pole Vault competition was in the hands of Portugal’s Edi Maia who won with a jump of 5.50m having gone out of the competition when he failed to jump the World Championships qualification mark of 5.65. World Youth Champion Robert Renner was second with 5.40m and local hero Lukas Wirth equalled his personal best with 5.20m, also the qualifying mark for the European U23 Championships in Tallin !

Photo credit:  PLOHE





Best of Long Jump:
YouTube:
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/129526237

Best of Pole Vault:
YouTube:
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/129526821


All results: http://www.goldenroofchallenge.at/grc/ergebnisse.html

All the information: www.goldenroofchallenge.at