CUERO – Fred Hansen approached the pole vault runway for his third and final attempt. Everything he dreamed of as a young boy vaulting with his father’s bamboo pole into a pit filled with sand from the Guadalupe River was at stake. Hansen had been competing for almost 10 hours,…
Up until 1964, Fred Hansen had made a slow but gradual improvement as a pole vaulter, reaching a personal best of 4.90m in 1963. But in the early months of the 1964 season, Hansen rapidly exploded to become the world’s premier vaulter. On 5 June, at Houston, Hansen cleared 5.20m,…
