Differences between speed running in pole vaulting compare between top pole vaulters and romanian national top vaulters

Abstract

Pole vault jumping consists of passing above a bar placed as high as possible, accomplishing the best synthesis between grabbing a lever which has to be brought to a vertical position and its usage in order to obtain the best record.
The difference between top pole vaulters athletes and Romanian top vaulter athletes is that the results are considerable inferior and one of the main reason for this situation is that the speed running in the last part of the approach have lover values.
The data on international level have been measured with specialty equipment (optical lenses) and are undertaken from certain research articles that are in connection with the theme studied by me and which I have mentioned in the bibliography.
The data of national pole vaulting athletes in 2012 was mesured with Micro Time Racer2, based on photocell, and we determinate the speed running on the last part of the approach. This data was taken during the National Championship 2012 indoor.
We observe that the diference of speed runing in the last 15m of the approach is significantly lower in the Romanian top vaulters athletes than the speed running of the world top pole vaulters.
We considered that this is the main problem for the poor results obtaind on national level of the pole vaulters in Romania. Of course the low speed on the approach combined with poor acceleration on the last steps have influence of highness of the pole grip and also of the amplitude and technicity of the jump.