Lehigh Univeristy Boys Pole Vault 1 Moses, Tim 12 Palmyra 16-00.00 15-06.00# 2 Stacy, Brandon 11 Caravel Academy 14-00.00 14-06.00* 3 Wilkes, Ryan 10 Valley View 13-00.00 13-00.00 3 Esposito, Vincent 12 North Penn 13-00.00 13-00.00 5 Mcintosh, Bob 12 CB South 12-00.00 12-06.00 6 Coote, Peter 12 Penncrest 12-06.00 …
Intermediate Boys Pole Vault Place Athlete Club Mark 1 Keith Gandy Apex Vaulting 3.97 2 Tyler Bernstein Heights Unlimited Vault 3.81 3 Max Maroney Heights Unlimited Vault 3.66 4 Leroy MacKenzye unattached 3.36 5 Jose Polanco Apex Vaulting 3.05 6 Travis Fisher Apex Vaulting 2.90 7 Osafi Fordyce Weequahic HS…
Anyone who was at Sutton Arena in Carshalton on Sunday 9th December would be forgiven for thinking that they had inadvertently crossed the space time continuum on route to the centre and got caught up in some sort of time warp. The centre was awash with pole vaulters from across…
There was a time when retirement was seen as a reward for a long life of hard work, and a chance to rest, and relax. But for a growing number of older Americans, golf and backgammon just aren’t enough. That’s 86-year Adolph Hoffman from Somerset, Texas perfecting his pole vaulting…
The Ukrainian former athlete Sergey Bubka is a living legend in athletics. For 10 years, he utterly dominated pole vaulting. In that period he broke 35t world records mostly his own. In Seoul 1988, Bubka had his first opportunity to shine in the Olympic Games, having stayed out of Los…
NEW DELHI: Naturally, Vijaypal Singh would dearly love to meet and congratulate the man who broke his national pole vault record of 5.10 metres set over a quarter century ago. KP Benin, with the help of a borrowed fibre glass pole, leaped 5.13m in the Inter-Railway meet at the Tantya…
There’s one person in Clayton who knows what those athletes were going through Aug. 1 in their Olympic finals.In fact, local resident Don Bragg can even top Ipsen and Kohler, as 52 years ago next Friday on Sept 7, 1960, Don Bragg won the Olympic gold medal in the pole…
Three years ago, Stacy Dragila bought a chocolate Labrador retriever and nicknamed it Sydney in the hope that her sport, women’s pole vault, would be added to the program for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games. Her hope was realized, and tonight Dragila became the first gold medalist in her event.…
Bob Gutowski broke Dutch Warmerdam’s world pole vault record of 15 years standing. In April 1957, Gutowski cleared 15-8¼ (4.78) to become the new world record holder, and later in the season he improved to 15-9¾ (4.82), but the height was not approved as a world record because the pole…
Don Laz of the University of Illinois won the NCAA pole vault in 1951 and tied George Mattos for the 1953 AAU title. These were his only major championship honors, but he came desperately close to winning the 1952 Olympic gold medal as Bob Richards cleared the winning height on his final…
