Doha: The 2018 IAAF Diamond League series will kick off in Doha with unmissable action on May 4 at Qatar Sports Club as a multitude of global champions go head to head in the Women’s Pole Vault and Men’s Javelin. Doha’s large Greek community will have plenty to cheer for…
Every IAAF World Championships produces a few medallists who rise to the occasion but can genuinely be called a surprise to be seen climbing the podium. When one looks back at this edition in London one of the names that will doubtless fit into this category, regardless of what the…
Pole vaulter Robeilys Peinado became the first Venezuelan to win a bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships in London. The 19-year-old Peinado was the youngest athlete to compete in the competition. She was ecstatic at the historic win. “It’s very unexpected,” said Peinado. “When my coach (the Ukrainian Vyacheslav…
Up until recent years Venezuela wasn’t a country known in the athletics world as a pole vaulting powerhouse. However, in 2005 Keisa Monterola put the South American nation in the map thanks to the silver medal she obtained at the 2005 IAAF World Youth Championships with, what was then, a…