The 29-year-old Team GB athlete tells Sky News how she is pushing back against women’s sports simply expecting athletes to wear skimpy kit. She was the first ever Team GB athlete to step up onto the podium in the pole vault but has since decided she has a much higher…
Nearly. Nearly. Nearly. Nearly. Nearly. Nearly. Nearly. Nearly. Finally. After a decade when her tag as the nearly woman of British athletics seemed as if it had become written in indelible ink, Holly Bradshaw is an Olympic bronze medallist in the pole vault. “It’s something I’ve been working for my…
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…
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
UK No.1 clears 4.73m as she secures her spot for the world championships Holly Bradshaw was a class apart in claiming her 12th national pole vault title at the Müller British Athletics Championships on Sunday, booking her place on the team heading to the IAAF World Championships in Doha in the process.…
Holly Bradshaw believes she is ready to shine on the world’s biggest stages after overcoming injury problems and mental health struggles in recent years. Britain’s leading female pole-vaulter finished sixth at London 2012 aged just 20 and followed it up with fifth place at Rio 2016, but endured an injury-hit three years afterwards…
Pole Vault Women – city event RESULTS
Chorley pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw cleared a season’s best 4.72 to claim third place in the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne. The event was won by USA’s Katie Nageotte. Bradshaw tweeted: “Feel so blessed to be in the position I am! “Had a tricky two months but back on the…
Holly Bradshaw does not particularly want to talk about body image. To be perfectly frank, she does not give a damn what she looks like when doing her job, so long as she jumps high. “I don’t wear make-up and if I come off the [pole vault] bed and my…
