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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).
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 ...
Paris-Bercy, France Pole vault: 6.16 m Renaud Lavillenie: 15 February 2014 Pole Vault Stars: Donetsk, Ukraine [91] Long jump: 8.27 m Salim Sdiri: 28 January 2006 Mondeville, France Triple jump: 17.92 m (2nd jump) Teddy Tamgho: 6 March 2011 European Championships: Paris, France [92] [93] 17.92 m (4th jump) Shot put: 20.51 m Fred Moudani-Likibi ...
He qualified for the final of the pole vault at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, placing eleventh overall. [5] He competed in the pole vault at the 2024 Paris Olympics . [ 6 ] [ 7 ]
Duplantis, the Lafayette, Louisiana-born Swedish pole vaulting sensation, won Olympic gold with a jump of 6.10 meters and then became one of Paris 2024's forever athletes once the competition was ...
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 ...
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.
Sergey Bubka's world and European records in pole vault have dominated the sport, marking him as one of the world's best athletes. Jonathan Edwards broke the triple jump world record three times. Marcell Jacobs set the European record in the 100 metres winning the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.