Steve Hooker needed only one attempt to go through to the final of the men’s pole vault at the Olympic Stadium. The reigning champion easily cleared 5.50m to progress to the final on Day 14 as the equal-ninth qualifier. World indoor champion Renaud Lavillenie of France and Germany’s Raphael Holzdeppe…
The pole vault is, at heart, simple physics. The athlete moving fastest down the runway has the greatest potential to go vertical using an enormous lever. That said, running quickly is but one part of being a great pole vaulter. Success in this most entertaining of events requires the speed…
After nearly two hours of competition in the men’s pole vault qualification at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the athletes had had enough. They started a discussion, first among themselves and then with the officials, that led to what the Twitterverse is calling the #PoleVaultersMutiny. Led by 2008 gold medalist Steven…
LONDON — Jenn Suhr stole the heart of every single fan in Olympic Stadium on Monday night. Including the one that belonged to her teammate, Becky Holliday. Holliday, 32, a graduate of Reed High, finished ninth in the women’s pole vault final after failing to clear a height of 14.93…
There were no tears at the end of this reign, no face buried in her hands, sobbing. Yelena Isinbayeva has abdicated her Olympic pole-vaulting throne after consecutive victories in Athens and Beijing. But she stepped down at Olympic Stadium Monday with laughter and a bronze-medal-winning lap of the track with …
Benton, Ill. — Benton pole vaulter Sara Miller is making the jump to college track, accepting a scholarship to vault at Rend Lake College. Miller, who was also being recruited by Greenville College and a small school in Iowa, is ready for the move and ready to keep vaulting. “Rend…
LONDON – Jenn and Rick Suhr have been to countless pole vault competitions since she took up the sport eight years ago. But on Monday afternoon, when Jenn Suhr boarded the shuttle alone for the Olympic Stadium, her coach/husband told her something he had never said before a meet. “You’re…
WHATEVER could go wrong, did go wrong for Commonwealth pole vault champion Alana Boyd as she appeared for the first time in an Olympic final in London today. Boyd, the daughter of Commonwealth Games gold medallists Ray Boyd and Denise Robertson, fought her way into the final by making a…
London, Aug 7:Russian pole vault legend Yelena Isinbayeva said that she had postponed plans to retire as she finished with Olympic bronze after an injury hampered preparation for the London Games. The 30-year-old, who was foiled in her bid to seal a historic hat-trick of Olympic titles, had yesterday said…
Pole vaulting is not a normal activity. Nobody is able to just pick up a pole and jump high straight away. It takes months or years of training before even the most gifted athletes can call themselves a pole vaulter. That is because pole vaulting goes against all of your…
