You may have heard that Paige Sommers is good at pole vaulting. The Westlake senior has broken the national high school outdoor record twice this spring, tying the absolute high school record with her PR of 14′ 9″ (Chloe Cunliffe cleared the same height indoors in 2019). So how good…
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.…
‘This is my life … and I’m going to kill every workout,’ says Canadian-record holder. For years, Alysha Newman woke up each day wanting to pole vault. Usually upbeat, happy and full of life, her feelings began to change at the beginning of the 2018 indoor season. For three months, the…
Pioneer of the pole vault in New Zealand Mervyn Richards of Mosgiel died on Sunday 1 July 2018 aged 87. He won 11 straight national pole vault titles from 1952 to 1962. In winning the 1958 title he became the first New Zealander to vault 14 feet (4.27m). He set…
James Russell Lowell – 19th century American maverick poet and political activist, who overcame his Harvard education to found The Atlantic Monthly and to serve as ambassador to Spain – once observed, “Fate Loves The Fearless.” It is most unlikely that he was speaking about pole vaulting – but he…
