GREENVILLE — Landon Kemp continues to fly through the air. Each time, she raises the bar…literally. Kemp, who set the Greenville High School pole vault record multiple times a year ago, set another record on March 13, this time at the New Balance Nationals Indoor competition in New York City. Competing…
(CNN) — It was a record some thought would never be broken: Sergey Bubka’s mark in the pole vault. But Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie — with Bubka cheering him on — did the almost unthinkable by bettering Bubka in the latter’s hometown of Donetsk in Ukraine. Lavillenie cleared a height of…
Pole vaulter Minna Nikkanen, 25, set a new Finnish record last night with a jump of 4.50 metres at the Vattenfall Seuracup competition in Somero, Finland. Nikkanen scored the new record on her third attempt, beating out her previous record of 4.46 metres. The current world record for women’s outdoor…
AMES, Iowa – Senior Megan Elder finished first in the pole vault while sophomore Eli Smith captured a runner-up finish in the 400-meter dash and helped lead the 4×300-meter relay team to a school record for the Northwest Missouri State track and field teams Friday at the Cyclone Holiday Preview. Elder broke…
Tamara Diles holds the Mooberry Track and school records for the pole vault. The pole vault was introduced as a collegiate women’s field event in 1998 and the first female vaulters mostly came from another competitive sport, gymnastics. It is no surprise that the Mooberry Track record-holder for the women’s…
9 October 2012 – Monte-Carlo – At the heart of the temporary collection of the IAAF Centenary Historic Exhibition, Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch, Barcelona, Spain, (Saturday 13 October to Sunday 25 November 2012) are the artefacts related to World record performances and performers, and some of the…
IN his last athletics competition as an Under 17, Ed Borrmann achieved his ambition to break the county pole vault record for this age group when he cleared 3.92m (12-9) at the Biggleswade Open Meeting at the weekend. This was also a Ryston age group and all-comers club record, and a fitting reward for…
NEW DELHI: Naturally, Vijaypal Singh would dearly love to meet and congratulate the man who broke his national pole vault record of 5.10 metres set over a quarter century ago. KP Benin, with the help of a borrowed fibre glass pole, leaped 5.13m in the Inter-Railway meet at the Tantya…
BHOPAL: Southern Railways’ KP Bimin set a new national record in pole-vault – scaling 5.13m to break Vijay Pal Singh’s record of 5.10m set way back in 1987 – in the ongoing all-India inter-railways athletics meet at the Tatya Tope Stadium here on Thursday. Bimin competed with two poles he had borrowed…
LONDON, UK – 14 men are through to the final of the Pole Vault which takes place on Friday evening. The bookmakers have France’s Renaud Lavillenie as the hot favourite, but will be crossing their fingers for a similar scenario to the women’s competition, which saw Russian heroine Yelena Isinbayeva…
