VLOON Menno

Netherlands
Athletics
11 May 1994
27
Male
ZAANDAM
 
Netherlands
ZAANDAM
 
Netherlands

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
ATH Athletics Men's Pole Vault 13

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Olympic Stadium - Pole Vault B
Men's Pole Vault Qualification - Group B
Finished
Olympic Stadium - Pole Vault A
Men's Pole Vault Final
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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World Athletics Championships
YearLocationPole Vault
2019Doha, QATQual. (DNS)
2017London, GBRQual. (NM)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017
YearPole Vault
20181 x 10th
20171 x 10th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020
RankYearEventLocationResult
102018Pole VaultShanghai, CHN5.46
102017Pole VaultMonaco, MON5.60

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020
RankYearEventCompetitionLocationResult
32021Pole VaultWorld Athletics Continental TourHengelo, NED5.80

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020
RankYearEventCompetitionLocationResult
22019Pole VaultWorld ChallengeHengelo, NED5.51
72018Pole VaultWorld ChallengeHengelo, NED5.30


Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final
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Athlete
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Trade - Carpenter - Regio College, Zaandam, NED
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Partner Priscilla van Oorschot
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Dutch, English
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AV Lycurgus [Assendelft, NED]
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Christiaan Tamminga [personal], NED, from 2019
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His partner Priscilla van Oorschot has also represented Netherlands in athletics. She competed in the 400m at the 2020 Dutch national championships. (worldathletics.org, 13 Feb 2021; Priscilla van Oorschot Instagram profile, 12 Feb 2021)
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He missed the Dutch national championships in 2018 due to a bruised foot. He did not compete in that year's European championships and returned to competitive action in February 2019. (worldathletics.org, 07 Mar 2021; nhnieuws.nl, 18 Jun 2018)

He withdrew from the 2017 World Championships in London, England due to injury after an awkward landing in the pole vault qualifying rounds. (worldathletics.org, 07 Mar 2021; zaanstad.nieuws.nl, 30 Jun 2019)
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He did gymnastics before taking up athletics at age 12, and then focusing on pole vault at age 15. (ruetir.com, 07 Mar 2021; talentboek.nl, 07 Nov 2014)
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He initially took part in decathlon but chose to focus on pole vault. (talentboek.nl, 07 Nov 2014; nocnsf.nl, 13 Jul 2011)
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To become an Olympic or world champion. (hardloopnetwerk.nl, 19 Apr 2020)
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During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 he trained in the garden at his coach Christiaan Tamminga's home, where they set up a pole vault bar, a mat and a runway. "I made a runway myself a few years ago to rent out for demonstrations in market squares, so we placed it in Christiaan's garden. The mat came from the Haag Athletics club who were going to throw it away." (hardloopnetwerk.nl, 19 Apr 2020)
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Setting a new Dutch indoor record for pole vault of 5.96m in early 2021. (athleticsweekly.com, Feb 28 2021; Instagram profile, 27 Feb 2021)
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Soviet and Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka, French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie. (amsterdam2016.org, 29 Jan 2016)
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In 2017 he was named the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation [KNAU] Male Athlete of the Year at the Athletics Gala in Utrecht, Netherlands. (zaanstad.nieuws.nl, 15 Dec 2017)

General Interest

General
COACH CHANGE
In late 2019 he changed his coach from Richard Cote to Christiaan Tamminga, who he believes has helped him develop a technique to reduce the likelihood of injuries. "Myself and Richard started feeling that something was missing and we talked a lot about it. In the end, Richard took the plunge and said that it was better for my development to work with another trainer. Since then I feel that I vault about five per cent differently. An important change is that I always jump straight ahead now. I no longer fall off the mat, which sometimes happened in the past and resulted in injuries." (noordhollandsdagblad.nl, 25 Mar 2020)

DRIVE-IN CINEMA VAULTING
In 2020 he competed in a pole vault competition for a crowd of socially-distanced spectators at a drive-in cinema in Dusseldorf, Germany. "It was special. You actually saw no one, because everyone was in their car. But it was an experience and nice to be competing again. I jumped quite well, but with the bar at 5.40 metres the wind started to blow a lot and the competition had to be stopped for about 20 minutes. After that I could not find my rhythm and clear the height. I love jumping and I enjoy a competition like the one in Dusseldorf even more." (noordhollandsdagblad.nl, 13 Jun 2020)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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