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The following year, Fletcher Gilders highlighted his senior season with a national interscholastic pole vault record of 13' 3"; he was fast becoming one of the top all-around athletes in America. [3] Upon graduating from Northwestern High, Gilders joined the U.S. military; serving until 1953, Fletcher later enrolled at the Ohio State University.
Jan Johnson runs "Sky Jumpers," a pole vault camp based on the central coast of California. [4] Johnson also hosts auxiliary "Sky Jumpers" camps annually in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Johnson has been an outspoken innovator and advocate for pole vault safety. He co-authored The Illustrated History of the Pole Vault, published ...
She graduated from the school with a state record of 3.97 m (13 ft 0 in) in the pole vault. [9] She was the 2008 Division 1 state runner-up and the 2009 Division 1 state champion. After starting her college career at the University of Dayton , her results took off at Ashland University where she won two NCAA Division II 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.
Pole vault: 5.93 m (19 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) Armand Duplantis: Lafayette High School: Lafayette, Louisiana: Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LHSAA 5A State Championships May 5, 2018 6.05 m (19 ft 10 in) Armand Duplantis: Lafayette High School: Lafayette, Louisiana: Berlin, Germany European Championships: August 12, 2018 [33] Long jump: 8.18 m (26 ft 10 in ...
The tip of the vaulting pole is angled higher than eye level until three paces from takeoff, when the pole tip descends efficiently, amplifying run speed as the pole is planted into the vault box. The faster the vaulter can run and the more efficient their take-off is, the greater the kinetic energy that can be achieved and used during the vault.
Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis set a new meeting record on his return from a winter break by jumping 6.10 meters at the ISTAF Indoor meet in Berlin on Friday. The Swedish star attempted to beat his ...
Against all odds, Anthony Ammirati has become one of the faces of the 2024 Summer Olympics without even coming close to the podium. The French pole vaulter, 21, went viral on Saturday, August 3 ...