The World Masters Athletics Championship will be held in Gothenburg and among the eight thousand participants divided into age groups, the presence of a sporting myth stands out, practicing a modality that has nothing to do with the one that established him in the 70s 80s of the last century, alpine skiing. To him 68 years the swedish Ingemark Stenmark have signed up for pole vault and he is not afraid of gravity with a pole in his hand or the competition.
Stenmark He retired from alpine skiing in 1989, but his record 86 career wins stood until March 2023, when the American Mikaela Shiffrin broke it. He still holds the record for the largest margin of victory in a World Cup alpine race, by 4.06, and won two Olympic golds at Lake Placid’80 and five world championships in slalom and giant slalom.
Considered the best alpine skier of all time, he has been pole vaulting for less than a year and his obsession is to improve technique. “It’s not so important to reach a certain height, what I want is to jump technically well,” he said.
In the final of the Masters 65 he jumped 3 meters, just two centimeters off his best mark achieved three weeks earlier, drawing enthusiastic applause from the public. The bar eventually rose to 3.15 and it was insurmountable for him, finishing in tenth position out of 24 participants and intending to continue progressing.
Source: La Verdad
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