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The men's pole vault at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 3 and 5 August 2024 at Stade de France. This was the 30th time that the event was contested at the Summer Olympics. Sweden's Armand Duplantis won his second consecutive Olympic gold medal, setting a world record of 6.25 metres (20 ft 6 in).
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]
William Hoyt was the first Olympic champion in 1896 and Stacy Dragila became the first female Olympic pole vault champion over 100 years later in 2000. Armand Duplantis and Katie Nageotte are the reigning Olympic champions from 2021. Yelena Isinbayeva, Bob Richards and Armand Duplantis are the only athletes to win two Olympic pole vault titles ...
The 24-year-old, who one publication called "the Timothée Chalamet of the pole vault," cleared a record 6.25 meters, the equivalent of 20.5 feet, on his final vault. The mark beat his own world ...
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.
French athlete Anthony Ammirati was getting in his own way at the Summer 2024 Olympics.. The 21-year-old pole vaulter missed out on the chance to win an Olympic medal on Saturday, Aug. 3, after he ...
On 25 February, at the All Star Perche pole vault meeting in the central French city of Clermont-Ferrand, Duplantis vaulted 5.88 m (19 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) vault to better the pending world U20 indoor record of 5.78 m set by Emmanouil Karalis of Greece on 11 February. The 18-year-old first topped 5.81 m on his first attempt before improving the ...
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 ...