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A man attempts to reach the flag during the Greasy Pole contest on Sunday, July 1, 2007. St. Peter's Fiesta is a five-day festival honoring the patron saint of the fisherman, St. Peter. Hosted by the Italian American community of Gloucester, Massachusetts, [1] the festival involves a carnival, seine boat races, and the Greasy Pole contest, and ...
Kellie Suttle (born May 9, 1973, in Saint Peters, Missouri) is a retired female track and field athlete from the United States, who competed in the pole vault event.. A two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), she won the silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and the silver at the 2001 World Indoor Championships.
Sandi Morris. Sandi Morris (born July 8, 1992) is an American pole vault record holder. [2] She won the silver medal in the pole vault event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She also won silver at the pole vault event at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics and another silver at the 2019 World Championships in Athletics.
Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping was already practiced by the ancient Egyptians, ancient Greeks and the ancient Irish people, although modern pole vaulting, an athletic ...
He began competing in track during his senior year at Interboro. He won the District I (Philadelphia suburban area) large-schools championship in pole vault, then finished fourth in the Pennsylvania state meet. Papale's best pole vault that year was 12 ft 9 in (3.886 m), which edged him into the top 10 of all-time Pennsylvania high school vaulters.
Continental Cup. 2018 Ostrava. Pole vault. Samuel Hathorn Kendricks (born September 7, 1992) is an American pole vaulter. [1] He is a three-time indoor and six-time outdoor national champion (2014–2019), the 2016 Olympics bronze [3] [4] and 2024 Olympics silver medalist, and the 2017 and 2019 World Champion.
Pole vault. Armand Gustav " Mondo " Duplantis[3] (born 10 November 1999) [4] is a Swedish-American pole vaulter. Widely regarded as the greatest pole vaulter of all time, [5][6][7][8][9][10] [excessive citations] Duplantis is the world outdoor and indoor record holder (6.26 metres or 20 feet 6 inches, and 6.22 metres or 20 feet 5 inches ...
European Team Championships. 2019 Bydgoszcz. Pole vault. Piotr Lisek in 2018. Piotr Lisek (born 16 August 1992) is a Polish athlete specialising in the pole vault. [3] He won bronze medals at the 2015 and 2019 World Championships and the silver medal at the 2017 World Championships. He is the first Polish vaulter to jump over 6 meters.