SAINT PAUL — Kaitlyn Schuur, a sophomore on the Southwest Christian/Edgerton track and field team, also teams up with her father/coach, Ryan, to get the most out of the pole vault. On a beautiful warm and sunny Saturday at Hamline University in St. Paul, with her dad watching over her,…
Nikol Kyriakopoulou won a bronze medal in the women’s pole vault at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow Sunday, bringing Greece’s final medal tally to four (1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze). Russian Anzhelika Sidorova won the event with a leap of 4.85 meters, but she competed as one…
Well over a century ago, a native of Logansport was an Olympic medalist — but few remember, and even news coverage at the time was sparse. While many from the area know about Greg Bell — the Logansport dentist from Terre Haute who won an Olympic gold medal in the…
Much like their rising young star Eliza McCartney, Athletics New Zealand is looking to make a significant leap as 2016 draws to a close. For McCartney, the 19-year-old feelgood story of New Zealand’s Rio Olympics campaign, the big jump came when she soared from international rookie to Games bronze medallist…
Incredible pride and incredible happiness. Those were Auckland GP Donna Marshall’s first emotions when she saw daughter Eliza McCartney pole vault for a bronze medal at the Rio Olympics. Dr Marshall, a GP at CityMed in central Auckland, is in Rio de Janeiro celebrating her daughter’s victory, but tells New…
New Zealand’s latest Olympic darling and surprise pole vault medallist Eliza McCartney has had a taste of the big time and, frankly, she likes it. So, even while her head was still spinning after a whirlwind 24 hours in Rio where the teen sensation, briefly, became New Zealand’s youngest ever…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Army Reserve 2nd Lt. Sam Kendricks was content to walk away with the Olympic bronze medal following what he called “the most enjoyable pole vault competition of his life” on Monday, Aug. 15, at the Rio Olympic Games. It took two Olympic records, set by the…
Army Reserve 2nd Lt. Sam Kendricks took third place and won a bronze medal in pole vaulting on Monday night at the Rio Olympics. Army Reserve 2nd Lt. Sam Kendricks cleared the pole vault bar at 19 feet 2-¼ inches to take third place and win a bronze medal on…
Third Ole Miss track athlete to medal at Olympic Games RIO DE JANEIRO – It was a special Monday night in Brazil for University of Mississippi alumnus Sam Kendricks, who captured a bronze medal in the men’s pole vault at the 2016 Olympic Games. In a dramatic competition that came down…
Sam Kendricks soared into the history books yesterday, winning the first Team USA medal in pole vaulting in 12 years. He cleared 5.85 meters — over 19 feet — to win the bronze medal at the Rio Olympic Games. Among his biggest fans? The U.S. Army! Kendricks graduated from the…
