The young man who stole Australian hearts when he soared to Commonwealth Games gold on the Gold Coast last month has decided to put his pole vaulting future in the hands of the WA Institute of Sport. As his idol Steve Hooker did before him, Kurtis Marschall has headed to…
As Perth pole vaulter Nina Kennedy fell back to earth after clearing a new personal best of 4.71m last weekend, she let out a shriek of delight that could have echoed clear across the continent to the Gold Coast, where the Commonwealth Games trials start today. She broke the world…
Nina Kennedy has her own competition to think about, but the WA pole vaulter is pretty excited to see her male counterparts go at it at the Jandakot Airport Track Classic on Saturday night. Kennedy can understand why Finland’s Tomas Wecksten and Germany’s Tobias Scherbarth have come to Perth to…
POLE vaulter Vicky Parnov has a strong athletic pedigree. She is the niece of Sydney Olympics pole vault silver medallist Tatiana Grigorieva, her father and coach, Alex Parnov, is a former world-class vaulter, her grandmother Natalya Pechonkina won bronze for the USSR in the 400m at the 1968 Olympic Games…
It’s a little past 10am in an outwardly decrepit-looking warehouse on the outskirts of Perth – and Steve Hooker has just finished a training session he hopes will help vault him over a mental block towards a successful Olympic defence. Beijing gold medallist pole vaulter Hooker yesterday allowed the media…
