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…
Olympic pole vault bronze medallist and Loughborough scholar Holly Bradshaw (coach: Scott Simpson) won the UK Championships this weekend, securing her automatic selection to compete at the World Athletics Championships next month. The World Champs in Oregon, USA is the first of three major track and field competitions this summer,…
Thanks to a rival’s religious convictions, University of Louisville pole vaulter Gabriela Leon is close to qualifying for next month’s World Athletics Championships. Though Leon was initially designated as an alternate for the world meet by finishing fourth in last week’s USA Track and Field Championships, second-place finisher Alina McDonald has announced her…
Oxford junior John Scott Kendricks finished first in the pole vault competition at the 2022 Adidas Outdoor National Championships on June 19, becoming the first Oxford athlete to win a national championship in track and field in over a decade. Kendricks bested his previous record with a jump of 16-feet-10-inches…
Justin Rogers, Hershey, clears 16’ 9” before breaking his own state pole vault recored later clearing 17’ 2’, at the 2022 Mid Penn Track & Field Championships at Chambersburg Area High School in Chambersburg, Pa., May. 14, 2022. Justin Rogers, Hershey, sets a new state recored in the pole vault,…
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. – Senior Joe O’Connor (Henrico, Va. / Douglas Freeman) led the Washington and Lee men’s track and field team’s performances at the Mount Olive First Chance meet on Saturday with a new program and ODAC record. -O’Connor posted 5.05m (16’6.75″) in the pole vault to take first…
Kerry Seekamp remembers it well. Just a scrappy 12-year-old at Destin Middle School, every Sunday she’d get to share the pole vaulting pit alongside her idols, Niceville’s Maddy Kish and Kobe Babin. They were larger than life. They could clear monstrous heights. They, more than anything, represented all that Seekamp wanted for…
BERLIN, May 16 (Reuters) – Russian members of the International Olympic Committee can take part in this week’s IOC session despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the Olympic body saying on Monday they are not representatives of their country. Yelena Isinbayeva, Olympic pole vault champion and member of the International…
The Washington State track and field team wrapped up its Pac-12 season this weekend with the Pac-12 Championships in Eugene and senior Jacob Englar is bringing some hardware back to Pullman after winning the Pac-12 pole vault championship Englar cleared 5.11 meters on his first attempt and that proved to…
Hamilton College’s Andrea Shipton ’22 finished fourth in the women’s pole vault in Nazareth College’s 2022 ROC City Final Qualifier at Golden Flyer Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Shipton cleared 3.05 meters (10 feet, 0 inches) on the first try, 3.20 meters (10 feet, 6 inches) on her second attempt at…