When I got back to my room inside the Athletes’ Village after winning the silver medal in the Commonwealth Games men’s decathlon in April, it was 1 a.m. and I was so tired. I took the medal that had been hanging around my neck, put it in a drawer and…
The Confederación Sudamericana de Atletismo (CONSUDATLE) and the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) have announced the Americas team for the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018 to be held on 8-9 September. The team features several of the leading performers from the recent NACAC Championships and Central American &…
Canadian pole vaulter Alysha Newman is looking ahead to 2019 after shutting down for the season due to injury. The London, Ont., native told CBC Sports on Tuesday that she would be shifting her focus from competition to a continued effort to recover from a partially torn patellar tendon in her left knee.…
RABAT, Morocco — Canada’s Shawn Barber cleared 5.60 metres to finish fourth in the pole vault at the Rabat Diamond League meet on Friday. Barber, who won the world championships in 2015, is coming off a Canadian championship victory last weekend in Ottawa that saw him set a meet record.…
Click on the video player above on Saturday at 3 p.m. ET to watch Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly program spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world. This week’s edition will feature live coverage from the IAAF Diamond League track and field event in Paris. Coverage includes Canada’s Shawn…
They make an interesting pair, the world’s greatest athlete and his 69-year-old coach from Calgary by way of Transylvania. Take the pole vault: Damian Warner is world class in the 100 metres, the 110-metre hurdles and the long jump and gets by in the decathlon’s other events. But pole vaulting…
Alysha Newman served notice to the world with her gold medal-winning pole vault in the Commonwealth Games in April. In the process, she broke her own national record, setting a new Canadian bar of success at 4.75 metres. For all that, it was the jubilation she displayed after landing in…
TORONTO — When a back injury ended Anicka Newell’s gymnastics career, she missed the thrill of flying through the air. She found it in pole vault. The 24-year-old makes a living hurling herself up and over a bar more than four-and-a-half metres high — or the height of an average…
Aidan Anger, of Almaguin Highlands, punctuated his successful high school track and field career with a personal best and school record in the OFSAA senior boys pole vault event in Toronto, Saturday. The Grade 12 student finished fourth in a very tight field of more than 20 athletes from across the…
TORONTO — Alysha Newman went to the Prefontaine Classic two weeks ago in Eugene, Ore., intent on increasing her Canadian pole vault record again. Instead, she wound up with a serious knee injury that has left her season in jeopardy. The Commonwealth Games gold medallist suffered a torn patellar tendon…
