Twelve athletes had been due to make it through to the final, but Lewis will be one of 14 to compete on Friday evening after finishing in joint-ninth place with six other athletes. Lewis, along with some of the event’s top names in recent years including medal hope Bjorn Otto…
For one brief track and field season, I held the pole vault record at St. John Vianney High School in Holmdel, New Jersey: 8 feet, 6 inches. Before you laugh though, I should tell you what the circumstances were and note that this was around 1972 when clearing 10 feet…
SOLIHULL pole vaulter Rowan May says his return to full fitness could not have gone any better as he prepares to make his comeback from a debilitating knee injury. The 16-year-old tore the patella tendon in his knee last October, forcing him into a lengthy lay-off that ruined his summer…
LONDON – University of New Orleans head track and field coach Ty Sevin is participating in the 2012 London Olympic Games as a member of the United States track and field coaching staff. Sevin is coaching two athletes – Kara Patterson (javelin) and Brad Walker (pole vault) – who are…
Steve Hooker needed only one attempt to go through to the final of the men’s pole vault at the Olympic Stadium. The reigning champion easily cleared 5.50m to progress to the final on Day 14 as the equal-ninth qualifier. World indoor champion Renaud Lavillenie of France and Germany’s Raphael Holzdeppe…
The pole vault is, at heart, simple physics. The athlete moving fastest down the runway has the greatest potential to go vertical using an enormous lever. That said, running quickly is but one part of being a great pole vaulter. Success in this most entertaining of events requires the speed…
After nearly two hours of competition in the men’s pole vault qualification at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the athletes had had enough. They started a discussion, first among themselves and then with the officials, that led to what the Twitterverse is calling the #PoleVaultersMutiny. Led by 2008 gold medalist Steven…
LONDON — Jenn Suhr stole the heart of every single fan in Olympic Stadium on Monday night. Including the one that belonged to her teammate, Becky Holliday. Holliday, 32, a graduate of Reed High, finished ninth in the women’s pole vault final after failing to clear a height of 14.93…
There were no tears at the end of this reign, no face buried in her hands, sobbing. Yelena Isinbayeva has abdicated her Olympic pole-vaulting throne after consecutive victories in Athens and Beijing. But she stepped down at Olympic Stadium Monday with laughter and a bronze-medal-winning lap of the track with …
Benton, Ill. — Benton pole vaulter Sara Miller is making the jump to college track, accepting a scholarship to vault at Rend Lake College. Miller, who was also being recruited by Greenville College and a small school in Iowa, is ready for the move and ready to keep vaulting. “Rend…
