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Pole vaulter Jeff Hartwig qualified at the age of 40 for the 2008 Beijing Games
Denis Sinyakov
On June 14 of 2000, Jeff Hartwig (pictured in 2006) set the American pole vault record of 6.03m, but at the trials a month later he failed to record a height and didn't compete in Sydney.