Sept 26 (Reuters) – Key women to watch at the Sept. 27-Oct. 6 world championships at Doha KATERINA STEFANIDI, Greece, pole vault The Greek just became the first female pole vaulter to win four consecutive Diamond League titles. READ MORE
The pole vaulter became the first Filipino to win a berth to next year’s summer games by meeting the Olympic standard in Chiara, Italy. Throughout his young career, the Vitaly Petrov-trained athlete has had to make similar big, life-changing jumps. The Ukranian world record holder was then in the country…
These are precarious times to be an athlete, particularly if your trade involves hurling yourself through the sky as high or as far as is humanly possible. After next week’s World Athletics Championships in Doha, the IAAF will announce its new revamped Diamond League for 2020 with the aim of…
DOHA (Reuters) – Teenager Armand Duplantis is near the pinnacle of the pole vaulting world but the reigning European champion says he would not be where he is without it being a family affair. Duplantis said that over the past four years, he has trained with his mother around five…
HOLLY BRADSHAW has revealed how her world championship hopes were almost ended by the biggest scare of her career. The Blackburn Harrier has a history of Achilles problems and after two accidents while vaulting, she feared she had once again hurt herself long-term. READ MORE
Doha – The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships will take place later this month in Doha, Qatar. Two male pole vaulters to “watch out for” include American Sam Kendricks and Swedish athlete Mondo Duplantis. Sam Kendricks was named “2019 IAAF Diamond League” for the second time in his career, after 2017.…
The timing couldn’t have been better for Sam Kendricks if he’d planned it himself. For the past three years, the first Diamond League men’s pole vault competition of the season has been in Shanghai while Doha, Qatar, staged the women’s event. This year they switched, allowing Kendricks to finally get…
MANILA, Philippines – Fil-Am Natalie Uy claimed a pole vault bronze medal in the 23rd Asian Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar Tuesday while breaking the Philippine record she set just more than a month ago in Ilagan City, Isabela. Uy, a 24-year-old former Eastern Michigan standout who went through the…
(Reuters) – Many top athletes, facing a world outdoor championships in Doha that do not start until late September, will be competing less, if at all, during the indoor season, coaches and athlete representatives have told Reuters. Typically scheduled for August, the 2019 worlds were moved to Sept 27-Oct. 6…
High-flying Alysha Newman has been grounded by Air Canada — and the race is on to get her back on track in time for her Diamond League opener Friday afternoon. The Commonwealth Games pole vault champ lashed out at the country’s largest airline on social media Thursday after discovering her…
