World, Olympic and European pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi will be joined at the Muller Grand Prix Birmingham by 2012 Olympic champion and world leader Jenn Suhr in heading up a stacked pole vault field at the IAAF Diamond League meeting on Sunday 18 August. Stefanidi, currently world ranked No.1, achieved her…
RESULTS: Women’s Pole Vault Final – European Championships RESULTS!
Organisers of the Herculis EBS have confirmed that world athlete of the year Mutaz Essa Barshim and European athlete of the year Ekaterini Stefanidi will compete at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco on 20 July 2018. The announcement was made during a cocktail reception in Monaco last weekend to celebrate…
LONDON (Reuters) – Greece’s Ekaterini Stefanidi, the new queen of the pole vault, added the one missing gold medal to her big-event collection when she soared to the world title with the best vault of her life on Sunday. In a repeat of last year’s Olympic final in Rio de…
World indoor record-holder Jenn Suhr surprisingly failed to qualify for Sunday’s pole vault final, while the favourite, Ekaterini Stefanidi, needed just one vault to secure her place. Stefanidi, the Olympic and European champion, entered the competition at the automatic qualifying height of 4.60m, knowing that a single clearance would be…
Ekaterini Stefanidi of Greece and Sandi Morris of the US, the Olympic pole vault gold and silver medallists, will square off at the 110th Millrose Games in New York on 11 February, organisers have announced. In their fierce battle in Rio, both sailed over 4.85m, but Stefanidi took the gold…
Gold: Ekaterini Stefanidi (Greece), 4.85m Silver: Sandi Morris (USA), 4.85m Bronze: Eliza McCartney (NZL), 4.80m It was a night that saw many of the medal favorites bow out of competition early. Reigning Olympic champion, American Jenn Suhr, who has been battling a virus during her time in Rio, found herself…
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local): 10:40 p.m. MEDAL ALERT: Ekaterini Stefanidi of Greece has won the gold medal in the women’s pole vault with a mark of 4.85 meters. Sandy Morris of the United States, silver…
Greece’s Ekaterini Stefanidi won the Olympic pole vault on Friday and her country’s first athletics gold since the 2004 Athens Games, then defended its integrity after barred Russian Yelena Isinbayeva blasted the event as sub-par without her in the field. Stefanidi cleared 4.85 metres to beat American Sandi Morris, who…
No athlete in Rio will quite carry the weight of public expectation from 200 million Brazilians quite like Fabiana Murer. The host nation’s most realistic chance of an athletics gold medal in Rio, the 35-year-old veteran, however, will need to be at her absolute best against a highly competitive field.…
