BURLINGTON, Vt. — An 84-year-old pole vaulter is not putting her pole down anytime soon. Flo Filion Meiler left Thursday for the World Masters Athletics Championship Indoor in Poland, where she will compete in events including the long jump, 60-meter hurdles, 800-meter run, pentathlon and pole vault, for which she…
Let’s turn back the clock and go back to Moscow, 1980. A little bit of background first: this story is about Poland. And Poland was never a part of the Soviet Union, per se, but was well within the area of Soviet influence and control. At the beginning of the…
Four winners of various major titles will clash in the pole vault at the Copernicus Cup, the Polish leg of the IAAF World Indoor Tour, in Torun on 15 February. The home crowd will cheer on 2011 world champion Pawel Wojciechowski and European indoor champion Piotr Lisek as they take on…
BYDGOSZCZ, Poland — Eighty athletes are ready to represent the United States at the 2016 IAAF World Under-20 Championships at Zawisza Stadium July 19-24. Medals will be on the line on Tuesday – day one of the World U20 Championships – in finals of the men’s shot put, women’s 10,000…
For the second summer in a row, Carson Dingler will be taking her pole vaulting career to the international stage. A senior at FPD this fall, Dingler qualified for the IAAF World Junior Championships on Sunday with a second-place finish at the USATF Junior Outdoor Championships in Clovis, California. Dingler…
There were three favorites in 1976 – Americans Dave Roberts and Earl Bell, and Poland’s Władysław Kozakiewicz. But Kozakiewicz struggled, could only clear 5.25 (17-2¾), and finished 11th. Six vaulters remained in the competition after 5.45 (17-10½) – Roberts, Bell, Poland’s Tadeusz Ślusarski and Wojciech Buciarski, Finland’s Antti Kalliomäki, and France’s Patrick Abada. At 5.50 (18-0½), Abada and Bell…
Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz had a long and distinguished pole-vaulting career, spanning nearly twenty years and including two world records and an Olympic gold medal. Kozakiewicz’s first major international competition was the 1974 European Championships in Rome, where he won the silver medal with a clearance of 5.35m, the same height as…
Pole vaulter Paweł Wojciechowski has been chosen by the Polish Olympic Committee to represent the country at the London Olympics, despite failing to jump the required minimum height this season. The 2011 World Pole Vault Champion has been suffering from injuries this year but has been picked by the Olympic…
