Igor Paklin 2.41 RM Salto de Altura, Kobe 4-Sept-1985

Universiada en Kobe, 4 de septiembre de 1985. Igor Paklin bate el récord mundial de salto de altura con una plusmarca de 2.41 metros.

[@PaklinaNatalia]

he-he that is my father)))

[@SoleMan220]

I've been looking for video of Paklin for a long time. Thank you!

[@Mihail99pap]

you must be proud of him Natalya.There is an interview of him on the internet saying that he could clear that day 2,43 but the japanese turned off the lights in the stadium...

[@muc390]

what an athlete! RESPECT!

[@dietmar239]

One of the best clean jumps ever at a 2.40+ jump. Paklin was awesome. That was very likely was the first 8-foot jump.

[@_Epsilon_]

@ohedd Everybody used them. But I'd say drugs were a lot less accessible in USSR than on the West. West had more of them and of a lot higher quality. Soviets were always more into technical sports (gymnastics, figure skating, team game sports) than the sports that require power and endurance (track and field sprinting, swimming, cycling) where the drugs are playing the biggest role.

[@dietmar239]

When I mentioned clean initially, it was with regards to hip height over the bar. Paklin never tested positive during his career and it's wrong to intimate that.

[@mikemo1277]

I couldn't even touch the bar

[@_Epsilon_]

@ohedd If you want to make it, you gotta use it, it is everywhere like that on the highest level of competition, including West that always had overwhelming success in power and endurance sports.

[@rcaddict72]

@dietmar239 thats true...however steroids were a necessary part of all athletics from the early 1960s through to the late 1970s. only those who chose to take a stand during that time didnt do them. everybody else did as a matter of course. training revolved around their use, and it wasnt frowned upon. im not frowning upon it now. i am saying that it is very likely that Igor used them, as did his competitors. That is why records and performances havent progressed. its harder and harder to use.

[@user-ke5ey3hu4q]

СЛАВА!!!!!!!

[@ohedd]

@TubeCrafter I dont blame east for taking more steroids than west. Though, USSR and DDR, the government did intentionally dope their athletes. And yes, I believe the biggest reason for USSR being the #1 nation in the world at sports during the 80s' was because of their succesful recruiting systems and techniqual progression rather than just roids. I also believe the biggest reason USA were right up there behind them was because they have great high school and college athletics traditions.

[@ohedd]

@kevinherbert Soviets never got caught either! Whats your point?

[@ohedd]

I have my doubts about the drug part. The soviets aren't exactly known for not taking drugs.

[@filas4]

é pena o javier sottomayor o passar, fez 1,45cm

[@ipeplov]

Ivan Ukhov - 2.42

[@syl-vie816]

Barshim 2.43

[@ohedd]

@TubeCrafter Yeah definately. The Russians are known for executing everything techniqually flawlessly, and nothing was really accessible in the Soviet market... However they did use drugs and it wasn't really optional, as much as a sort of a mandatory obligation.

[@ducavzla]

WTF!!

[@THEmanTHATSwhite]

white man hops

[@_Epsilon_]

I for example find it funny how supposedly clean American swimmers could easily compete with drugged East Germans. Russians by the way never had such success in swimming (not enough doping?, a lot smaller population of East Germany could do it and USSR couldn't what's the catch? I guess Russians were not that much into drugs as someone would like to believe). Russian success in swimming is pretty much about skilled and very technical swimmers like Popov, Sadovy, Pankratov and that's is it.

[@danielhumareda]

pero que mierda sufe eso xD