After a record-setting performance in the Class 6A state meet, Yukon’s Kyla Davis continues to impress on a national stage. The talented junior pole vaulter finished tied for second Wednesday in the 15-16 girls division at the AAU Junior Olympic Games in Greensboro, North Carolina. Davis and two other competitors cleared…
Greek pole vaulter Emmanuel Karalis has a major reason to be proud. He claimed the silver medal at the 2019 European Athletics U23 Championships. This year’s European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Gävle, Sweden. In the men’s pole vault competition, Karalis claimed the silver medal for Greece with a…
Second to only one. Matching an all-time personal best in the process, Mooresville’s Spencer Evans turned in a second-place finish in his specialty event participating in the 29th annual New Balance Nationals Outdoors Track and Field Championship Meet. Doing so at Mooresville’s Rocket Man pole vaulting training facility, Evans crafted…
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Rising Milton Area High School senior Brant Long recently took second place in the pole vault (Men’s Emerging Elite Pole Vault) at the New Balance National Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at North Carolina A&T University. Long, who on May 25 took PIAA gold at Shippensburg…
Great Britain’s Holly Bradshaw wins pole vault silver at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Read More
When was the last time that a six meter jump in the men’s pole vault came in second place? It happened on August 12 at the 2018 European Championships. Russian pole vaulter Timur Morgunov jumped 6.00 meters in the men’s pole vault final at the European Championships in Berlin, Germany,…
Pole issues and a shortened runup meant Eliza McCartney was unable to reach her normal heights at the Commonwealth Games. The 21-year-old Kiwi jumped 4.70 metres to claim silver, 5cm short of Canada’s Alysha Newman at Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast on Friday night. It backed up the bronze medal she won at…
BIRMINGHAM /UK/, March 4. /TASS/. Russian pole vaulter Anzhelika Sidorova won silver with a personal best at IAAF World Indoor Championships 2018 in Birmingham, UK, on Saturday. She cleared 4.90 meters, beating her personal best of 4.87 meters. The gold went to Sandi Morris of United States, who was able…
CHUAH Yu Tian marked her SEA Games debut with a silver in the women’s pole vault. The 24-year-old from Kuala Lumpur achieved a personal best of 3.80m at the National Stadium in Bukit Jalil last night. Her previous best was 3.70m, set during the Malaysian Open at the same venue…
Bob Seagren competed during an era when the capabilities of fibreglass poles were still being explored, which resulted in frequent revisions to the world pole vault record. Seagren was one of the key contributors to these revisions, and he set his first world record of 5.30m at Fresno on 14…
