2009 Pre Results: M-LJ [Phillips to 8.74m/28-8.25 PB (-1.2)]

[EPelle]

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Best marks-for-place at Pre
1996 - 2008
M-LJ:

1. 8.49m Irving Saladino
2. 8.23m Savante Stringfellow
3. 7.93m Joe Greene
4. 8.04m Hussein Al-Sabee
5. 7.76m Walter Davis
6. 7.69m Trevell Quinley
7. 7.14m Bryan Clay
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Field:

Irving Saladino (Panama)
Dwight Phillips
Yayah Berrabah (Morocco)
Miguel Pate
Fabrice Lapierre (Australia)
Brian Johnson
Trevell Quinley
Matthew Turner

[bhall]

From tandfn Tweeting-

Huge Phillips long jump 28-8.25 (wind -1.2)!!!

[Half Miler]

28-8 1/4 for Phillips!

(front-on angles again!!!! Curses, NBC!!!) :evil:

[BisonHurdler]

LOVE THE HEAD-ON SHOTS!!!!!




Seriously, that, in my opinion, is one of the absolute worst things to happen to T&F broadcasting in the past decade.

[AthleticsInBritain]

For those of us who work in metric, the USATF calculator makes it 8.74m!

:shock: :shock: :shock:

[nevetsllim]

28-8 :?

What's that in English? :wink:

[AthleticsInBritain]

28-8 :?

What's that in English? :wink:

Look up!

[nevetsllim]

28-8 :?

What's that in English? :wink:

Look up!

Yikes - thanks! :shock:

[guruof track]

:shock: :shock: :shock:

[AthleticsInBritain]

I didn't quite catch Saladino's 3rd round follow up jump, but I got the impression that it was pretty close to Phillips' leading jump? Can anyone enlighten as to how far Saladino went?

[BisonHurdler]

I didn't quite catch Saladino's 3rd round follow up jump, but I got the impression that it was pretty close to Phillips' leading jump? Can anyone enlighten as to how far Saladino went?

28' 1/2" I think (so about 8.54m). Might've been 28' 1/4".

[AthleticsInBritain]

Thanks Bison. This is one heck of a LJ comp! If only we could have Phillips, Saladino and a fit Bayer all in this form in Berlin! That would come close to Tokyo 91!

[imaginative]

The possibly most interesting: Within roughly one year we have seen three
different 8.70+ jumpers (Saladino, Bayer indoors, Dwight). Suddenly, it looks
like the current crop is one of the best of all times---very contrary to my
impression just one year ago.

[EPelle]

Pre best-marks-for-places 1-2 will obviously be obliterated in this competition.

[BisonHurdler]

I hate to play the "what-if" game, but at -1.2m/s wind and 61 degrees F . . . . you wonder what could've been possible . . .