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…
Germany’s 2013 pole vault world champion Raphael Holzdeppe faces a race to be fit for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after damaging ankle ligaments, he revealed on Tuesday. The 26-year-old suffered the injury during his warm-up at the German indoor championships in Leipzig on Sunday. A scan on Monday revealed…
This year’s Prefontaine Classic boasts a star-studded pole vault field with the top five finishers from last year’s World Championships set to compete at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene on 28 May. World record-holder Renaud Lavillenie has dominated the event in recent years and is the only six-time…
The organisers of the opening IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting, the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe in Germany, have assembled a set of outstanding fields in their 12 featured events – 10 of which will count towards the IAAF World Indoor Tour standings – to get the innovative new series off to…
In the first of an anticipated series of high-profile pole vault contests this winter, Raphael Holzdeppe defeated Renaud Lavillenie and Shawn Barber in front of a capacity crowd at the Perche Elite Tour in Rouen on Saturday (23). Lavillenie cleared 6.00m in this competition 12 months ago – and 6.04m…
