Borrowed poles? No problem for vaulter Obiena en route to Berlin victory

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Despite using a borrowed pole from American Matt Ludwig, Olympics-bound pole vaulter Ernest John Obiena had another record-setting performance early Saturday morning in ruling the ISTAF Indoor Berlin

meet, setting a new national indoor mark of 5.80 meters along the way.

He set the national record in topping the Salto Con L’Asta meet in Piazza, Italy in September 2019, emerging as the country’s first qualifier to the Tokyo Olympics. “I do not really know how this was possible,” Obiena said in the post-meet press briefing. “Now I am seeing some kind of light in the tunnel and I am happy with the 5.80-meter jump. I did really bad in Karlsruhe so, I was like, I wanted to redeem myself.”

“I am hoping for a little bit more. Hopefully next time. The height showed me that I am actually capable. We will see.” The elder Obiena bared that his son was also back to using the 18-stride approach since his last event in Karlsruhe that might also be a factor for his improving performance.

 

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