The modern era of track and field has nearly equalized opportunities at the sport’s highest levels for male and female athletes, with one key outlier: the combined events. Although men have competed across 10 events in various forms of the decathlon since the 1890s, women are still limited to the…
FAYETTEVILLE — There was no need for April Steiner Bennett to persuade Stacy Dragila to bring one of her pole vault camps to Northwest Arkansas. The two have been partners in the Stacy Dragila Vault Camps for the past seven years, and Dragila — the 2000 Olympic gold medalist in…
Picture this: an embattled and nationally-renowned track coach walking onto his former university’s home track a month after abruptly retiring — a shocking move that spelled an end to 33 years at Idaho State. He has a salt-and-pepper colored beard few have seen. He’s beloved by students and peers. He…
The event first featured in the sixth World Championships in Seville in 1999. It was at the time the highest-quality pole vault in history with seven women bettering 4.40m. Stacy Dragila remarkably achieved her gold medal winning vault with her 15th jump of the competition, recording 4.60m to equal the world…
Pole vaulting has been added as a new event for this year’s Benicia Elementary School Track & Field Championships, which take place this Friday afternoon at Benicia High’s Drolette Stadium. Young athletes ready to brave the complex sport will have a world-class vaulter on hand to give them pointers and…
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Stacy Dragila’s 2012 Pole Vault camp Stacy Dragila’s Pole Vault Camp 2012 Video from Vaulter Magazine on Vimeo. FROM: http://vimeo.com/46997913
Growing up on a 34-acre farm in California, it’s hard not to enjoy the agricultural lifestyle that comes with it. The horses, the cows, the goats and the dirt roads are part of the countryside charm. Stacy Dragila, former women’s pole vault world record holder and gold medalist, couldn’t resist…
PARIS — Former world and Olympic champion Stacy Dragila ended her 14-year pole vaulting career with a second-place finish at the DecaNation athletics meet on Wednesday. The 38-year-old American won gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the first games in which women competed in the pole vault, and is…
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…
