It is only a matter of time until Eliza McCartney becomes the third woman in the history of pole vaulting to clear 5m. That’s the belief of coach Jeremy McColl as the 21-year-old continues to soar higher and higher. McCartney wowed an Auckland central city crowd with her 4.90m clearance…
Pole vaulter Alana Boyd has soared into Rio Olympics medal contention, smashing her own Australian record by 4cm. The dual Olympian and two-time Commonwealth Games champion cleared 4.81m on the Sunshine Coast on Saturday, bettering the national record of 4.77m she set in January. The spectacular clearance was 6cm higher…
Pole vaulter Eliza McCartney eclipsed her own national record and set a new Oceania mark in Dunedin today. The 19-year-old Aucklander added 9cm to her national record, when she cleared 4.80m on her third and final attempt at the national track and field championships. “I couldn’t ask for a better…
