TDK Corporation (TSE:6762), as an official World Athletics Partner, presents a prize money of USD 100,000 under the “New World Record Award” program to Armand Duplantis, Sweden who won the gold medal setting a new world record of Pole Vault at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 which took place in…
Australia raked in more gold medals in Birmingham on day five, when Australian pole vaulter Nina Kennedy kicked off the athletics with a comfortable win, Kate McDonald upset gymnastics golden girl Georgia Godwin and the men’s wheelchair basketball team stood atop the podium. The athletics got under way with Kennedy…
More than 1500 athletes from 145 teams are set to compete at the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22 between 1-6 August. The Moll twins from the USA could be the stand-out performers in this event. Seventeen-year-old Amanda and Hana have cleared 4.51m and 4.47m lifetime bests this year respectively, with Amanda…
MANILA, Philippines—No other Filipino athlete has had a year quite like Filipino pole vault star EJ Obiena. Obiena embedded his name in the record books by delivering the Philippines’ first-ever medal at the World Athletics Championships, claiming the bronze in a riveting pole vault final in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Read…
PINE ISLAND — So, it looks like Jarod White gets his best pole vaulting results when he’s spent two straight nights in a tent, rolled up in a sleeping bag, the hard earth beneath him. And when he follows that with about 8 hours in the hot sun, Lake Michigan…
Australian Nina Kennedy has shown nerves of steel, overcoming a horror start to the women’s pole vault final at the world athletics championships to claim the bronze medal. Kennedy missed her first attempt at her opening height of 4.45 metres and ran under the bar with her second, meaning she…
Sandi Morris won the silver medal Sunday night at the 2022 World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Morris, a 2010 graduate of Greenville High School, and Katie Nageotte both cleared 4.85 meters (15 feet, 11 inches) – the top height in the world this year – but…
Pole Vaulter Mondo Duplantis is on a record-breaking spree. So far, he has broken the World Record (WR) five times, setting an unprecedented landmark in his young career. After he began his career with the World Youth Championships in 2015, Duplantis was dubbed the successor of legendary Sergey Bubka, the…
EUGENE, Ore., July 13 (Reuters) – American pole vaulter Sandi Morris has emerged from Olympic disaster with a new outlook on competition, ready to battle for gold as the World Athletics Championships kick off this week in Eugene, Oregon. The two-times world silver medallist experienced an athlete’s worst nightmare at…
Pole vaulters of all ages, heights, and abilities showed off their athleticism at Rivervault this weekend. “It’s not the high stresses of a normal event like a track and field competition, where it’s a little bit more competition,” said Rivervault organizer Jeremiah Burish. “And this is a fun competition. Everybody…