World record-holder Renaud Lavillenie will take on an all-star field in the men’s pole vault in this year’s Prefontaine Classic. Joining Lavillenie are 2017 world outdoor champion Sam Kendricks, 2016 Olympic gold medalist Thiago Braz and high school star Mondo Duplantis, who owns the world junior record of 19 feet,…
With the bar at 5.90m and three men clear at 5.85m, Renauld Lavillenie stood on the runway as the final man to make a second attempt, knowing that a clearance would likely secure him a third world indoor title. Having just watched his two main rivals for gold – world…
Four Olympic champions, five World champions and six European gold medallists will be in action at the fifth edition of the ISTAF INDOOR meeting in Berlin on Friday evening. Renaud Lavillenie of France and Brazil’s Thiago Braz, winners of the 2012 and 2016 Olympic titles respectively, will meet in the…
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Pole vault must evolve if it is to remain relevant as individual sports look for new ways to attract fans but any changes introduced should not be at the expense of athlete safety, former great Sergey Bubka has told Reuters. Athletics has been hit hard over the…
Renaud Lavillenie is the first star name confirmed for the 34th Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe on 3 February, the opening stop in the six-meeting 2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour. “The Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe will be the second meeting for me and it is immensely important for me,” said Lavillenie, the world record…
Renaud Lavillenie plans to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris– but he is also considering taking a role in the Organising Committee due to be set up early next year. France’s 31-year-old pole vault world record holder, winner of the Olympic gold medal at London 2012 and silver…
LONDON – Neither a return to London’s Olympic Stadium nor a surprise 800-metre gold from compatriot Pierre Ambroise Bosse eventually helped French pole vault great Renaud Lavellenie get the elusive world title. Lavillenie fouled his first jump over 5.89m just seconds after Bosse had crossed the finish line on Tuesday…
In his spare time – or, what spare time he has – Sam Kendricks is a second lieutenant in the US Army Reserve. In his day job, as an upwardly mobile athlete, the 24-year-old from Oxford, Mississippi, is the new commander in chief of the pole vault world. The Olympic…
For once, Renaud Lavillenie does not enter the pole vault competition at the IAAF World Championships burdened by the expectation of claiming the one major honour that happens to be conspicuously absent from his CV. Indeed, such has been the downturn in fortunes of the world record-holder since the dramatic…
Renaud Lavillenie captured his seventh outdoor title to highlight the French National Championships in Marseille. The men pole vault’s contest promised a strong competition with four athletes having reached the world championships qualifying standard of 5.70m: Renaud Lavillenie and his brother Valentin as well as Kévin Ménaldo and Axel Chapelle…
