(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…
On August 26, World Champion pole vaulter Sam Kendricks chatted with Digital Journal. He discussed his win at the London Championships, hearing the national anthem in his honor, and he opened up about the impact of technology on pole vault. On August 8, the Mississippi native was victorious at the…
Best performance that no one is talking about: Sam Kendricks’ gold in the pole vault/Sam Kendricks entire 2017 season Kendricks has been spectacular THIS YEAR as he’s lost a grand total of zero times. That nearly came to an end in the qualifying round of London as he needed three…
LONDON — Two American soldiers won medals in track and field events at the world championships. Army reservist Sam Kendricks was promoted in March to first lieutenant and at the world championships he went from bronze at the Olympics in Rio to gold in pole vaulting. “I was the best…
STEFANIDI AND KRIER DISCUSS WINNING RECIPE After the lecture, IAAF Vice President Sergey Bubka, the 1988 Olympic pole vault champion and six-time world champion, took the stage to moderate a panel discussion with Ekaterina Stefanidi of Greece, who added the world pole vault title to her Olympic crown last weekend,…
LONDON — Katerina Stefanidi, a Greek pole-vaulter and former Stanford University star, competed in only one event at the world track and field championships this month. She won the gold. But when she and her husband, Mitchell Krier, boarded their plane out of London on Friday, they left with two…
Every IAAF World Championships produces a few medallists who rise to the occasion but can genuinely be called a surprise to be seen climbing the podium. When one looks back at this edition in London one of the names that will doubtless fit into this category, regardless of what the…
LONDON – Neither a return to London’s Olympic Stadium nor a surprise 800-metre gold from compatriot Pierre Ambroise Bosse eventually helped French pole vault great Renaud Lavellenie get the elusive world title. Lavillenie fouled his first jump over 5.89m just seconds after Bosse had crossed the finish line on Tuesday…
LONDON — Sam Kendricks will soon step on the podium as a gold medalist and hear the only song he knows by heart — “The Star-Spangled Banner.” “The anthem is something near and dear,” said the Army reservist and pole vault world champion. “I don’t know how I’m going to…
In his spare time – or, what spare time he has – Sam Kendricks is a second lieutenant in the US Army Reserve. In his day job, as an upwardly mobile athlete, the 24-year-old from Oxford, Mississippi, is the new commander in chief of the pole vault world. The Olympic…
