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Elnesvågen, Norway 3000 m steeplechase: 8:12.05 Jim Svenøy: 22 August 1997 Memorial Van Damme: Brussels, Belgium High jump: 2.36 m Steinar Hoen: 1 July 1997 Bislett Games: Oslo, Norway Pole vault: 5.86 m [b] Pål Haugen Lillefosse: 25 June 2022 Stjørdal, Norway Sondre Guttormsen: 8 September 2022 Weltklasse Zürich: Zürich, Switzerland [31 ...
In spite of its longer history, the men's Olympic event has only seen three world record marks – a clearance of 4.09 m (13 ft 5 in) by Frank Foss at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, Władysław Kozakiewicz's vault of 5.78 m (18 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) to win at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and Armand Duplantis' 2024 winning clearance of 6.25 m (20 ft 6 in).
The introduction in the early 1950s of flexible vaulting poles made from composites such as fiberglass or carbon fiber allowed vaulters to achieve greater height. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The present record of 6.26 m ( 20 ft 6 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) was set by Armand Duplantis , competing for Sweden at the Silesia Diamond League .
Olympic records; Men: ... the first man to clear more than ten feet in the pole vault. ... holder of the world record for the pole vault of 12ft 9 1/2in (3.90m) set ...
Three weeks after earning a gold medal and setting a world record at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Armand Duplantis keeps making history. On Sunday, the 24-year-old Swedish pole vaulter set yet another ...
The Swede broke fresh ground in Paris with a clearance of 6.25m – having already secured the second Olympic gold of his young career Armand Duplantis breaks pole vault world record again to top ...
Norwegian athletes have won a total of 160 medals at the Summer Olympics, with sailing and shooting as the top medal-producing sports. At the Winter Olympic Games , Norway has won 405 total medals including 148 gold medals, both considerably more than any other nation in Winter Olympic history.
Nageotte became the third American woman to win pole vault at the Olympics, ... She then wanted to try for Sandi Morris' American record — it's 5.00 meters, or 16 feet, 4.75 inches — and tried ...