BANGKOK, July 14 (Xinhua) — The Chinese track and field team swept the gold and silver medals in both the women’s discus throw and women’s pole vault at the Asian Athletics Championships here on Friday. In the women’s pole vault final, Li Ling took the gold medal with 4.66 meters.…
Kenna Stimmel’s first competition in a Team USA uniform ended with a gold medal around her neck and the United States flag wrapped around her shoulders. The Margaretta graduate placed first in the pole vault Sunday afternoon at the U-20 Pan American Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. READ MORE
Former pole vault world record holder Renaud Lavillenie is to miss the World Athletics Championships in Budapest due to a hamstring injury, the Frenchman said on Monday. It rounds off a miserable year for the 36-year-old 2012 Olympic champion, who did not manage one successful vault at the French championships…
Thiago Braz, the Rio Olympic pole vault champion from Brazil, was provisionally suspended over a banned substance. Braz, 29, was provisionally suspended for the presence or use of ostarine glucuronide or ostarine, according to the Athletics Integrity Unit, which handles doping cases in track and field. READ MORE
KUALA LUMPUR: Former national pole champion Aliuddin Jumaat died on Tuesday after he collapsed while training at Likas Stadium for the Sabah Masters Athletics Championships on Oct 7-8. He was 67. The Sabah-born athlete held the men’s national pole vault record in the 1980s and he had also competed in…
Pole vaulter Juho Alasaari gave the home crowd the perfect climax to a superb European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo on Sunday (16) evening, winning Finland’s third gold medal of the championships. He said that his daughter has won the pole vault championship consecutively between 2018 and 2022 and she…
Pole vaulter Juho Alasaari gave the home crowd the perfect climax to a superb European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo on Sunday (16) evening, winning Finland’s third gold medal of the championships. The 19-year-old improved his personal best by 11 centimetres to 5.71m to win a surprising gold in the…
Independent investigation finds McColl’s conduct as a coach over “a number of years” was improper and amounted to serious misconduct The findings included harassment, inappropriate communication with athletes through social media and text messages, and making sexualised remarks to athletes who were minors. Olympic pole vault coach Jeremy McColl has…
July 2023 High School State As we find ourselves back in the familiar embrace of July, it’s hard to believe that just yesterday we were bidding farewell to June. The swift passage of time has brought us to July 2023, where the exhilarating summer vaulting season is in full swing.…
AUSTIN – Julia Fixsen of Virginia Tech won the women’s pole vault title at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships on Thursday, clearing 4.45m/14-7.25. Fixsen, a sophomore, set a personal best with her winning jump. This spring, Phillips set a new Ashley Ridge record in the Boys Pole Vault with a…