Vaulter soars to new heights; Hamilton sets New Zealand record

The Press | March 24, 2003| | Copyright

International Canterbury pole vaulter Melina Hamilton smashed the New Zealand resident record with a superb career-best clearance of 4.20m on the final day of the national track and field championships.

Already certain of her eighth national championship crown, Hamilton, 26, soared over the record height at her first attempt at Dunedin's Caledonian Ground yesterday.

The Commonwealth Games finalist immediately instructed officials to lift the bar to the world championship qualifying height of 4.30m and -- after switching to her longest pole -- was desperately unlucky to nudge it off its ...

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