Re: Should Shawn Barber's 5.87m Vault Count for any Records?
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 6:05 pm
From Track & Field News:
T&FN has never placed any competing-for-school restriction on CRs; just whether or not they're in-season.
As an example, the indoor CR in the 800 as we recognize it is by Paul Ereng, set at the World Indoor Champs in Budapest. (Although, irony of ironies, it should be noted he ran in a Virginia jersey! His Kenyan uniform didn't arrive)
Since it is now in-season, where Barber vaulted is irrelevant. It was a real meet (we don't place the same kind of minimumum number of events criterion that some governing bodies do), conducted by a real official. And unlike the last indoor vault mark from Texas we didnt' ratify (Freier last spring), it wasn't conducted on a synthetic floor with the box dug in, making the depth questionable.
As to Volzing, that's a judgment call by the official and we'll not go against that (unlike a missed false start where there's documented physical evidence of going before the gun).