August 9, 2024 • 12 mins
After a nervy qualifier, Hamish Kerr has made it into the finals for the Olympic high jump.
Roger Te Puni, one of New Zealand’s best high jumpers, joined Piney to discuss Kerr’s chances in the finals.
He told Piney that in his opinion, Kerr is absolutely a gold medal chance.
Te Puni said that the other contenders are strong jumpers, but Kerr has shown some pretty great form that could get him to the gold.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from newstalk edb.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
For Hamoush Kerr right handed approach and he's over at
two twenty seven and that will all but guarantee the
KIW a place in the high jump final Sunday morning.
It did, but it almost wasn't to be when Hamish
Kurb missed twice at two meters twenty. A third miss
(00:33):
would have seen him eliminated third and final attempt at
two meters twenty. What a disappointment it'd be if he
can't get over here, eliminated in a high jump qualifying
little smile on the face of Hamish Kerr, orange shoes,
flashing right handed approach. He's over comfortably. Why did we
(00:53):
have a doubt I was doubting him? I have to
say I wasn't doubting him. Osbert worried. Roger Tippooni is
one of our best ever high jumpers, eleven national titles
between nineteen eighty two and nineteen ninety four. He finished
eighth fresh out of school at the nineteen eighty two
Commonwealth Games in Brisbane and eighth again at the nineteen
ninety Commonwealth Games in Auckland. His personal best was two
(01:15):
meters twenty four, which he set two weeks after the
Auckland Commonwealth Games. That height would have one of my
bronze a fortnite earlier. Roger to Perone joins us, Roger,
thanks for taking the time. How confident should we be
in general terms about Hamish kurz chances of a medal
in the high jump tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Look, I think without Putt Navoodu on Hamish, I think
we should be pretty confident, very confident. I'm pretty confident
now he's got to out of the qualifying rounds. Qualifying
rounds for Hamish has traditionally been a bit of a
scary moment for him. Three World champs in a row,
he hadn't managed to get through the qualifying rounds. So
now he has and he can kind of relax, I guess,
(01:57):
but he's his ranked well up. There as a couple
of good guys who have jumped high in the past,
but I think Hamish has shown some pretty great form there,
so to take him to the final.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
When you were watching qualifying, as we all were, how
worried were you when he missed twice at two twenty.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Look, I guess I've been there and done that in
service situations. Yeah, look, it's never a fun time. He
no doubt sort of collected his thoughts when I had
a chat to James Sandlin's coach and basically got as
a head together. It was never really going to be
a challenging thing for him until he was looking at
a third attempt, But he locked him. He knew that
(02:38):
he just needed to get a stuff together and the
depth from that final was not something that was too
scary for him. I guess a lot of guys around
him were jumping anywhere near as high as what he's
capable of. So he got it together and once he did,
he relaxed, as he did in the wild indoors as well.
Once he was in front, he got a stuff together
and he had performed and did what he needed to do.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
How much pressure is there, Roger, when you're lining up
the third attempt at any height knowing that, okay, I
got to clear this all that said, how much pressure
is there? And what is the best process to combat that?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I look, I think if I look at a flashback when
when I was competing back in the Middle Ages, you
went allowed to talk to your coach. You didn't get
to see any smartphones or iPads with what you were
doing exactly wrong at the time, You couldn't refer to anything.
You just basically have to trust what you know you
can do, make sure you've got all your marks right
(03:35):
in terms of your take off, and just try and
stay calm but aggressive at the same time, which is
a tricky juggling act. But no, they're never a lot
of fun, but they are a few minutes to lock
in a third attempt clearance, especially when you take a
middle of somebody else with that particular jump. So yeah,
it's always a juggling act.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
How much of high jumpers mental, Yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
There's a lot. There's a lot of mental stuff going on.
There's a lot of trying to psych your other guy
out as well, depending on what type of person you are.
If you're no a llles, you're going to come out
like a jumping bean and sprint ale out of the
track before you get the race, try and get everyone
else's here. Everyone has their own process. Everyone goes through
what they need to do in their own way, some
(04:22):
very very aggressive, some quietly just sort of think about it.
But yet there's a lot of mental stuff going on.
You just have to make sure that you think about
you know where you take offers, that you're hitting your
marks and you run up, and that you're allowing for
certain things around you, whether it be a distraction of
a middle business race and the lanes in front of you,
(04:42):
if you've got alonger run up, etc. You just get
to make sure that you lock everything in and do
everything you can do.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
If we look at the twelve man field that Hamish
is a part of, where do your eyes land when
you look at his biggest threats for the podium?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, I guess when we look at who he's got
in front of him, He's got the joints Olympic champions
Tim Barry, Italy and Basheen pretty well decorated, especially Bashen.
If you look at personal beast, Barshines jumped to forty
three and probably should have had the world record before
he got some injury problems around about ten years ago.
(05:20):
I think Bashan jumped two forty three. Tamburry recently jumped
to thirty seven in the European Championships, but they both
have a few issues. Tamburry tends to be a little
bit of ratic, which is a good thing, and he's
actually had a few health issues. I think before he
went into the qualifying he was having a few issues
(05:41):
with some affections and probably I think he was still
in a hospital about two days out from the qualifying
Basheen is fragile. He had a few league issues in qualifying,
but he can still bring some pretty big heights. Those
who are a danger and the other one is Samuel
Wu from South Korea who won the World Indoors twenty
twenty two. He's capable of He's sort of personal best
(06:04):
of two twenty six. I'd say he would be probably
in my estimation, the biggest threat, along with maybe Bashing.
That's what I'm picking. The rest of them, they're just
happy to be there. I think seasonal best probably the
highest of the rest is around about two thirty two
thirty one type of thing, probably n killing the American guys.
(06:25):
The other guy that's a threat, Javoran Harrison, who I
picked is a real danger. Had some missues and went
out and qualifying. So Hamish is looking pretty good. He's
obviously top ranked and he's probably got about everyone's there
to worry about, I guess, but probably about two or
three dangers for him underneath have a clean card in
terms of attempts.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Do you reckon he's got a two forty in him.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Hamish has a two forty in them. Potentially in a
more relaxing competition, maybe look if he's if he's a
clear winner here early like he was in the world indoors,
I think two thirty one they were done and dusted
and Sohmich relax and jump. Two thirty six indoors is
a little bit different because you tend to have some
(07:12):
quite springy services. I think in twenty twenty two the
surface was six meters above a basketball court on scaffolding,
so he told me it was like a bit of
a mini tramp. So indoors to forty maybe there, I think,
I think a clean sheet two thirty five to thirty
six will absolutely look at him this time. Don't quite
(07:36):
know on that, I guess, but he's got two forty
in them, especially with the I guess, the amount of
support and the resource that you get these days around him,
there's definitely one that he has in there. He's strong enough,
he's he's competitive enough, he's got a good head on him.
Not sure if it's today. I mean seven years ago
there was seven sorry, teen years ago, there were seven
(07:59):
guys who were jumping two forty, and traditionally there has
been a lot of guys in the past. When I
was competing, it was about eight or nine guys jump
two forty. So it's possible. And from what I've seen
in the guys in the past, fame you has definitely
got the creditials to put them together for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And does auto matter Roger, he's twelfth and last to go,
does that make any difference? Positively or negatively?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I guess positively. You can lock in the big jumps
first attempt and really put the screws on people. If
you're last and you've got you've got another crack at
it when you see everyone else is going over, so
you do have a chance. I think first up is
for myself would be an advantage, I guess if there
(08:45):
is one, because you can lock that one in without
and or worry about what anyone else has done. So yeah,
it's worthwhile if you can go first, I think, or
early on.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
All right, well, we'll get to see tomorrow morning how
he goes. What you got telling you? It feels like
a podium. Is a real chance. He is a gold
medal chance, isn't he?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Oh? Absolutely, you know, without sort of being too sort
of veguess over confident. When I looked at high jump
this year, and you know, I looked at the depth
across the fields, even some of the well decorated high jumpers.
Stefan Holm from Sweden who won in two thousand and four,
he was commenting that the death and both formans ending
(09:32):
high jump was not as I guess, stacked as it
has been in previous times. But Hamish is right up
there in terms of performances anyway, with all of the
recent medals back in the day, he's absolutely a good
gold medal chance. I joined against Charles often back in
the day and he's still got the Olympic grecor from
(09:52):
ninety six. I'd love to think Hamish could have a
crack at that at least, But no, he's a great chance.
That The two people that I thought were good chances
of leading into this was Maddie Wishi, who always performs
in big meats, and she did. She did the damage
this morning and and she got well. She had the
best overall performances in all six throws, but she came
(10:16):
out with silb which is fantastic, and Hamish was the
other one. Those were the two that I was really confident.
And you know the rest of them along them had
some tough, some tough, tough performances over the last sort
of nine days. But now Hamish was a great chance.
And you know, I like nothing better than you know,
the high jumping the number one sport for the country
(10:38):
out of the Olympics. Because I'm biased, obviously, but we're
all looking forward to it, we really are.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
We just can't wait till breakfast time tomorrow morning, more
slightly earlier than probably a lot of people normally get
up on a Sunday. Roger, great to get your insight
and your expertise. Uh, let's let's see how he goes. Great,
Thanks Jason, No, thank you, Roger. Roger Taponi there former
top high jumper, International high jumper too, Commonwealth Games and
as you can tell, they're still a real student of
(11:04):
the sport. He'll be up at five, will you. I
will beat five o'clock tomorrow morning is when the high
jump gets underway. Hamish Kerr one of twelve. I see
the New Zealand tab has him his favorite for the
gold medal. He is the number one ranked high jumper
in the world right now as far as PB is concerned.
There are a couple in the field with a higher
(11:24):
personal best than Hamish Kurr, including the joint gold medalists
from three years ago, Muta's s A Barshem of Kata
and John Marco Tamberi of Italy. But often in a
competition like this, personal best isn't necessarily all important. You
heard Roger say, look, has Hamish Kerr got a two forty,
And yes he has, but it might not be in
(11:47):
such a high pressure situation as this five o'clock tomorrow morning.
Don't miss it. You can tune on on Gold Sport
via iHeartRadio. If you don't feel like getting up, just
tune in and listen in and will bring you all
the tension and the excitement of another tilt at a
gold medal.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Faine, listen live
to News Talk Said weekends from midday or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from newstalk edb.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
For Hamoush Kerr right handed approach and he's over at
two twenty seven and that will all but guarantee the
KIW a place in the high jump final Sunday morning.
It did, but it almost wasn't to be when Hamish
Kurb missed twice at two meters twenty. A third miss
(00:33):
would have seen him eliminated third and final attempt at
two meters twenty. What a disappointment it'd be if he
can't get over here, eliminated in a high jump qualifying
little smile on the face of Hamish Kerr, orange shoes,
flashing right handed approach. He's over comfortably. Why did we
(00:53):
have a doubt I was doubting him? I have to
say I wasn't doubting him. Osbert worried. Roger Tippooni is
one of our best ever high jumpers, eleven national titles
between nineteen eighty two and nineteen ninety four. He finished
eighth fresh out of school at the nineteen eighty two
Commonwealth Games in Brisbane and eighth again at the nineteen
ninety Commonwealth Games in Auckland. His personal best was two
(01:15):
meters twenty four, which he set two weeks after the
Auckland Commonwealth Games. That height would have one of my
bronze a fortnite earlier. Roger to Perone joins us, Roger,
thanks for taking the time. How confident should we be
in general terms about Hamish kurz chances of a medal
in the high jump tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Look, I think without Putt Navoodu on Hamish, I think
we should be pretty confident, very confident. I'm pretty confident
now he's got to out of the qualifying rounds. Qualifying
rounds for Hamish has traditionally been a bit of a
scary moment for him. Three World champs in a row,
he hadn't managed to get through the qualifying rounds. So
now he has and he can kind of relax, I guess,
(01:57):
but he's his ranked well up. There as a couple
of good guys who have jumped high in the past,
but I think Hamish has shown some pretty great form there,
so to take him to the final.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
When you were watching qualifying, as we all were, how
worried were you when he missed twice at two twenty.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Look, I guess I've been there and done that in
service situations. Yeah, look, it's never a fun time. He
no doubt sort of collected his thoughts when I had
a chat to James Sandlin's coach and basically got as
a head together. It was never really going to be
a challenging thing for him until he was looking at
a third attempt, But he locked him. He knew that
(02:38):
he just needed to get a stuff together and the
depth from that final was not something that was too
scary for him. I guess a lot of guys around
him were jumping anywhere near as high as what he's
capable of. So he got it together and once he did,
he relaxed, as he did in the wild indoors as well.
Once he was in front, he got a stuff together
and he had performed and did what he needed to do.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
How much pressure is there, Roger, when you're lining up
the third attempt at any height knowing that, okay, I
got to clear this all that said, how much pressure
is there? And what is the best process to combat that?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I look, I think if I look at a flashback when
when I was competing back in the Middle Ages, you
went allowed to talk to your coach. You didn't get
to see any smartphones or iPads with what you were
doing exactly wrong at the time, You couldn't refer to anything.
You just basically have to trust what you know you
can do, make sure you've got all your marks right
(03:35):
in terms of your take off, and just try and
stay calm but aggressive at the same time, which is
a tricky juggling act. But no, they're never a lot
of fun, but they are a few minutes to lock
in a third attempt clearance, especially when you take a
middle of somebody else with that particular jump. So yeah,
it's always a juggling act.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
How much of high jumpers mental, Yeah, there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
There's a lot. There's a lot of mental stuff going on.
There's a lot of trying to psych your other guy
out as well, depending on what type of person you are.
If you're no a llles, you're going to come out
like a jumping bean and sprint ale out of the
track before you get the race, try and get everyone
else's here. Everyone has their own process. Everyone goes through
what they need to do in their own way, some
(04:22):
very very aggressive, some quietly just sort of think about it.
But yet there's a lot of mental stuff going on.
You just have to make sure that you think about
you know where you take offers, that you're hitting your
marks and you run up, and that you're allowing for
certain things around you, whether it be a distraction of
a middle business race and the lanes in front of you,
(04:42):
if you've got alonger run up, etc. You just get
to make sure that you lock everything in and do
everything you can do.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
If we look at the twelve man field that Hamish
is a part of, where do your eyes land when
you look at his biggest threats for the podium?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Well, I guess when we look at who he's got
in front of him, He's got the joints Olympic champions
Tim Barry, Italy and Basheen pretty well decorated, especially Bashen.
If you look at personal beast, Barshines jumped to forty
three and probably should have had the world record before
he got some injury problems around about ten years ago.
(05:20):
I think Bashan jumped two forty three. Tamburry recently jumped
to thirty seven in the European Championships, but they both
have a few issues. Tamburry tends to be a little
bit of ratic, which is a good thing, and he's
actually had a few health issues. I think before he
went into the qualifying he was having a few issues
(05:41):
with some affections and probably I think he was still
in a hospital about two days out from the qualifying
Basheen is fragile. He had a few league issues in qualifying,
but he can still bring some pretty big heights. Those
who are a danger and the other one is Samuel
Wu from South Korea who won the World Indoors twenty
twenty two. He's capable of He's sort of personal best
(06:04):
of two twenty six. I'd say he would be probably
in my estimation, the biggest threat, along with maybe Bashing.
That's what I'm picking. The rest of them, they're just
happy to be there. I think seasonal best probably the
highest of the rest is around about two thirty two
thirty one type of thing, probably n killing the American guys.
(06:25):
The other guy that's a threat, Javoran Harrison, who I
picked is a real danger. Had some missues and went
out and qualifying. So Hamish is looking pretty good. He's
obviously top ranked and he's probably got about everyone's there
to worry about, I guess, but probably about two or
three dangers for him underneath have a clean card in
terms of attempts.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Do you reckon he's got a two forty in him.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Hamish has a two forty in them. Potentially in a
more relaxing competition, maybe look if he's if he's a
clear winner here early like he was in the world indoors,
I think two thirty one they were done and dusted
and Sohmich relax and jump. Two thirty six indoors is
a little bit different because you tend to have some
(07:12):
quite springy services. I think in twenty twenty two the
surface was six meters above a basketball court on scaffolding,
so he told me it was like a bit of
a mini tramp. So indoors to forty maybe there, I think,
I think a clean sheet two thirty five to thirty
six will absolutely look at him this time. Don't quite
(07:36):
know on that, I guess, but he's got two forty
in them, especially with the I guess, the amount of
support and the resource that you get these days around him,
there's definitely one that he has in there. He's strong enough,
he's he's competitive enough, he's got a good head on him.
Not sure if it's today. I mean seven years ago
there was seven sorry, teen years ago, there were seven
(07:59):
guys who were jumping two forty, and traditionally there has
been a lot of guys in the past. When I
was competing, it was about eight or nine guys jump
two forty. So it's possible. And from what I've seen
in the guys in the past, fame you has definitely
got the creditials to put them together for sure.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And does auto matter Roger, he's twelfth and last to go,
does that make any difference? Positively or negatively?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I guess positively. You can lock in the big jumps
first attempt and really put the screws on people. If
you're last and you've got you've got another crack at
it when you see everyone else is going over, so
you do have a chance. I think first up is
for myself would be an advantage, I guess if there
(08:45):
is one, because you can lock that one in without
and or worry about what anyone else has done. So yeah,
it's worthwhile if you can go first, I think, or
early on.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
All right, well, we'll get to see tomorrow morning how
he goes. What you got telling you? It feels like
a podium. Is a real chance. He is a gold
medal chance, isn't he?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Oh? Absolutely, you know, without sort of being too sort
of veguess over confident. When I looked at high jump
this year, and you know, I looked at the depth
across the fields, even some of the well decorated high jumpers.
Stefan Holm from Sweden who won in two thousand and four,
he was commenting that the death and both formans ending
(09:32):
high jump was not as I guess, stacked as it
has been in previous times. But Hamish is right up
there in terms of performances anyway, with all of the
recent medals back in the day, he's absolutely a good
gold medal chance. I joined against Charles often back in
the day and he's still got the Olympic grecor from
(09:52):
ninety six. I'd love to think Hamish could have a
crack at that at least, But no, he's a great chance.
That The two people that I thought were good chances
of leading into this was Maddie Wishi, who always performs
in big meats, and she did. She did the damage
this morning and and she got well. She had the
best overall performances in all six throws, but she came
(10:16):
out with silb which is fantastic, and Hamish was the
other one. Those were the two that I was really confident.
And you know the rest of them along them had
some tough, some tough, tough performances over the last sort
of nine days. But now Hamish was a great chance.
And you know, I like nothing better than you know,
the high jumping the number one sport for the country
(10:38):
out of the Olympics. Because I'm biased, obviously, but we're
all looking forward to it, we really are.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
We just can't wait till breakfast time tomorrow morning, more
slightly earlier than probably a lot of people normally get
up on a Sunday. Roger, great to get your insight
and your expertise. Uh, let's let's see how he goes. Great,
Thanks Jason, No, thank you, Roger. Roger Taponi there former
top high jumper, International high jumper too, Commonwealth Games and
as you can tell, they're still a real student of
(11:04):
the sport. He'll be up at five, will you. I
will beat five o'clock tomorrow morning is when the high
jump gets underway. Hamish Kerr one of twelve. I see
the New Zealand tab has him his favorite for the
gold medal. He is the number one ranked high jumper
in the world right now as far as PB is concerned.
There are a couple in the field with a higher
(11:24):
personal best than Hamish Kurr, including the joint gold medalists
from three years ago, Muta's s A Barshem of Kata
and John Marco Tamberi of Italy. But often in a
competition like this, personal best isn't necessarily all important. You
heard Roger say, look, has Hamish Kerr got a two forty,
And yes he has, but it might not be in
(11:47):
such a high pressure situation as this five o'clock tomorrow morning.
Don't miss it. You can tune on on Gold Sport
via iHeartRadio. If you don't feel like getting up, just
tune in and listen in and will bring you all
the tension and the excitement of another tilt at a
gold medal.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Faine, listen live
to News Talk Said weekends from midday or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.
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