The Australian record holder showed all her class, nailing her final attempt at 4.35m to consolidate her title as the nation’s top female vaulter and claim the gold medal. The 24 year-old Olympian’s third jump sealed the deal to not only deliver her victory, but also a spot in Australia’s…
HOLLY BRADSHAW has revealed how her world championship hopes were almost ended by the biggest scare of her career. The Blackburn Harrier has a history of Achilles problems and after two accidents while vaulting, she feared she had once again hurt herself long-term. READ MORE
MOSCOW — Former Olympic pole vault champion and current International Olympic Committee member Yelena Isinbayeva has called on the IAAF to lift Russia’s ban from international track and field in time for the world championships next month. Russia has been suspended since 2015 over widespread doping, though the IAAF allows…
Still the wait goes on for Katerina Stefanidi. The 28-year-old might have come to Birmingham as the Greek with the Midas vaulting touch – on a roll of European outdoor, Olympic, European indoor, and world indoor titles – but, when it came to the world indoor final, the one gold…
(Reuters) – As he cleaned up after horses in his father’s barn, a teenaged Sam Kendricks thought how cool it would be to travel the world and pole vault in the Olympics. A decade later, the globe-trotting Mississippi native still calls himself “a small-town boy who loves to have big…
VERMILLION, S.D. – A pole vaulter from Pontiac hopes to reach new heights and bring a world championship back to her hometown. Emily Grove qualified for the track and field World Championships in London by winning a tiebreaker in the pole vault (15 feet, 1 inch) at the USA Track…
FAYETTEVILLE — After recently designing rings for others, Andrew Irwin brought home a precious medal all his own. It was authentic USA silver achieved last month in Sacramento, Calif. Placing second at the USA National meet certified the former Arkansas Razorback from Mount Ida as one of three pole vaulters…
EUGENE, Ore. – Within the first few bars of “O Canada,” the national anthem of our neighbors to the north, Brianne Theisen-Eaton could no longer contain her emotions, and tears of joy came flowing down her cheeks. It was her golden moment. Just two hours earlier, Theisen-Eaton had won her…
Ashton Eaton moved to the doorstep of his third consecutive men’s heptathlon title Saturday after finishing second in pole vault at the IAAF World Indoor Championships at Oregon Convention Center. Eaton and Germany’s Mathias Brugger tied for the highest pole vault mark at 16-8 3/4, though technically Brugger won the…
AUSTRALIA’S pole vault champion Alana Boyd has crashed out of the world indoor championships after injuring her ankle just minutes before the start of the competition. Boyd sent a scare through the Australian camp when she landed awkwardly during her final warm-up jump and was assisted out of the stadium…
