Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
On night one, Olympic champion and World Record holder Armand Duplantis vaulted 6.11 metres to win the men's pole vault title, which was a meeting record, as was the 69.96m winning throw of Matthew Denny in the men's discus. [2]
Miller competed in lacrosse and a variety of track and field events at Herndon High School in Virginia, and he was a district champion in the pole vault. He originally joined the High Point Panthers track and field program as a potential decathlete, but he switched to specializing in pole vault soon after joining the team.
To a man, though, other field athletes admit that pole vaulters have it the worst. The few American pole vaulters with lucrative sponsorships might be able to afford to have two or more sets of poles.
The French pole vaulter went viral on Aug. 3 after a video of one of his pole vault attempts from the ... Ammirati did not ultimately qualify for the pole vault final, as each athlete gets three ...
With the crowd eagerly watching and clapping in unison, over the next 20 minutes Duplantis made three attempts, but as in all pole vault competitions, they either end in withdrawal or failure. Duplantis failed to set a new record on this night.
SAINT-DENIS, France — At the end of a grueling three-hour pole vault competition in sun-baked Budapest last August, the U.S.’s Katie Moon and Australia’s Nina Kennedy made a snap decision ...
The men's pole vault at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha from 28 September to 1 October 2019. [ 1 ] Summary