LEADING Australia medal hope Steven Hooker has finished a disappointing ninth in the men’s pole vault at the world athletics championships. Hooker’s only two successful clearances came at 5.51m and 5.76m. He then passed at 5.81m, had two failed attempts at 5.86m and missed again with his last remaining vault…
The pole-vaulting competition at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki was disrupted on Tuesday when a Finnish vaulter’s crash damaged the measuring equipment. When the event restarted, using a second pit where the equipment was intact, gusty winds hampered the vaulters’ efforts. The pole-vaulting competition at the World Athletics Championships…
SEVILLE, Spain— Stacy Dragila stood at the end of the runway, clapping in the direction of the small block of fans still sitting in her end of the Estadio Olimpico and cupping her hand to her ear in a request for more volume. The crowd had not come out in force…
Almost eight years to the day since she set the first of 12 outdoor world records in the women’s pole vault, Emma George has decided she can no longer soar as high as a bird and has announced her retirement. In 1995, the women’s pole vault was a fledgling event…
Saying the feat was a gift to track and field followers in the United States, Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union yesterday became the first person to pole-vault 20 feet. In an international meet with an all-star cast in San Sebastian, Spain, Bubka cleared 20 feet 1/4 inch. That bettered…
John Pennel, the wiry, Memphis-born pole-vaulter who set eight world records in the 1960’s and was the first man to clear 17 feet, died on Sunday at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 53. A resident of Westlake Village, Calif., he had been suffering from stomach and…
He stood at the end of the runway, his eyes wide in a fierce stare, screaming at himself, trying to forget the pain in his foot and to remember the motivation and emotion that had carried him to 35 world records in the pole vault. Having summoned renewed determination, Sergei…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — So, finally, the crucible for America’s best track-and-field athletes would be a wind-swept stadium in the Sacramento Valley, not the legal courts of the world. Given the chance, they’d leave accusation and insinuation in their wake. Maybe we could sit back and enjoy the competition — not…
