Two-time Class 1A state high school pole vault champion Windsor Roberts, a Tri-Valley junior-to-be, placed second at the New Balance Nationals in Greensboro, N.C., on Saturday. Roberts cleared 13 feet, 5 inches to shatter her personal record of 13-0. West Seattle’s Chloe Cunliffe won at 14-4¾. The meet concludes Sunday when Class…
Recent Polk County graduate Jake Justice completed his high school track and field career on Friday with a second-place showing in the pole vault at the New Balance Nationals Outdoor meet in Greensboro. Competing on the same track in Aggie Stadium where he won two state 1A outdoor titles, Justice…
San Diego State pole vaulter Bonnie Draxler earned the silver medal at the NCAA Outdoor Championships this week. The senior from Wrightstown, Wisc. tied her own school record by clearing 14-09.50 at the meet in Austin, Tex. This was the second time this year Draxler has finished as the NCAA runner-up, this time…
Bloomington High School graduate Zachery Bradford won the silver medal in the pole vault in the IAAF World U20 Championships at Tampere, Finland, on Saturday, equaling his lifetime best of 18 feet, 2½ inches. The Kansas recruit opened with first-attempt clearances at 17-0¾, 17-4¾, 17-8¾ and 18-0½ before needing three…
Des Moines – On June 24, 2018, pole vaulter Katie Nageotte won the silver medal at the 2018 USA Track and Field Championships in the women’s pole vault. This year’s USA Track and Field Championships were held in Des Moines, Iowa, where Nageotte won the silver medal in the women’s pole…
Renaud Lavillenie firmly buried memories of being reduced to tears by a hostile home crowd at the Rio Olympics by continuing his domination of the Diamond League. A weeping Lavillenie became one of the most poignant images from the Games as he struggled with the partisan crowd backing eventual gold…
Jordan Yamoah enjoyed a memorable debut in national colours after producing the second-best clearance in the pole vault at 5.20m to win silver at the 2015 All Africa Games in Congo-Brazzaville on Wednesday evening. Yamoah, who was ranked second in Africa going into the competition, endured a difficult start and only…
If pole vaulter Fabiana Murer thought winning a silver medal at world championships was cool, imagine what will happen if she wins a gold at the Olympics. Murer is from Brazil, and the Olympics are in Rio de Janeiro next August. After receiving her silver medal Thursday evening, she spent…
Adam Osborne, 19, of the Langley Mustangs track and field club won a silver medal in pole vault at the Canadian National Junior Championships, held in Winnipeg July 27-29. Osborne was the youth national gold medalist in pole vault in 2010. He will return to the University of Alberta in…
Due to the pressures of competition and variable weather conditions, it is not often that a vertical jumper achieves a personal best at an Olympic Games, which makes pole vaulter Claus Schiprowski’s feat of improving his best performance five times at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics quite exceptional, and possibly…
