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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 ...
Allison Rebecca Stokke Fowler (born March 22, 1989) [1] is an American track and field athlete and fitness model. She broke a number of American records for high school pole vaulting. Images of her at age seventeen were widely shared on the Internet, resulting in her becoming an internet phenomenon. Stokke continued to pole vault, attending ...
Lavillenie, now 37, is 5-foot10, while Ammirati is listed at 5-foot11. The average height of the pole vaulters competing in Paris was 6-foot1, according to NBC Olympics. In fact, Ammirati is such ...
Katie Moon. Kathryn Elizabeth Moon (née Nageotte; [2][3][4] born June 13, 1991) is an American pole vaulter. [5][6] She won gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships (shared with the Australian Nina Kennedy), and silver medals at the 2022 World Indoor Championships [7] and the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Updated August 7, 2024 at 8:15 AM. Mondo Mania took over Paris during the Olympic pole vault. Swedish pole vault star Armand "Mondo" Duplantis put on a show on Aug. 5 on his way to setting a world ...
Jeremy Scott (athlete) Leland Stanford Scott. Bob Seagren. Bill Sefton. Doug Sharp. Cale Simmons. Guinn Smith. Steve Smith (pole vaulter) Ralph Spearow.
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.
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.