Mondo Duplantis broke the men’s pole vault world record for a sixth time by clearing 6.22 meters at an indoor meet in France on Saturday. Duplantis, a 23-year-old, Louisiana-raised Swede, has now raised the world record from Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie‘s 6.16 meters in 2014 to 6.22 meters (20 feet and nearly…
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…
France’s Kevin Mayer made up for recent disappointments in spectacular style when he set a decathlon world record of 9,126 points at the Decastar event in Talence, France on Sunday. World champion and Olympic silver medallist Mayer surpassed American Ashton Eaton’s 9,045 total at the 2015 world championships in Beijing.…
PARIS (AP) – On a spectacular day for track and field fans, Kevin Mayer of France set a decathlon world record in front of a home crowd, just hours after Eliud Kipchoge smashed the marathon world record in Berlin. Competing at the Decastar event in Talence, southwestern France, world champion…
If 2014 was the year of the high jump and 2015 the year of the triple jump, 2016 could turn out to be the year of the pole vault. One week after Jenn Suhr improved her world indoor record to 5.03m, US compatriot Demi Payne moved up to third on…
Olympic pole vault champion Jenn Suhr added a centimetre to her own world indoor record* when she cleared 5.03m at the Golden Eagle Multi and Invitational in Brockport, New York state, on Saturday (30). Her previous world indoor record of 5.02m came in Albuquerque on 2 March, 2013. Suhr jumped…
There was relative calm that night in Kiev, a year ago this weekend. An uneasy truce between the government and opposition saw Hrushevskoho Street partially cleared while the Maidan Nezalezhnosti protestors around the corner braced themselves for the violence they sensed was coming. The official beginning of the 2014 Ukrainian…
2009, Zurich, Switzerland – Womens Pole Vault, Yelena Isinbayeva missed at the world championships, but is back in form as she breaks her own world record again, at 5.06 meters.
Thousands of fans gathered at Roberts Wesleyan College to watch 2012 Olympic pole vaulting gold medalist Jenn Suhr. As a part of her world pole vaulting tour, Suhr competed against local athletes at her Alma Mater Friday night. She will be finishing off her competitive tour with one final performance…
Saying the feat was a gift to track and field followers in the United States, Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union yesterday became the first person to pole-vault 20 feet. In an international meet with an all-star cast in San Sebastian, Spain, Bubka cleared 20 feet 1/4 inch. That bettered…