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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 ...
Grove set Illinois state record in the pole vault at 4.08 m (13 ft 5 in). Grove also placed seventh in the 4x200-meter relay and 4x400-meter relay. Grove as a sophomore finished fourth in the pole vault at the state meet.
Richards was the second man to pole vault 15 ft (4.57 m). While a student at the University of Illinois, Richards tied for the national collegiate pole vault title and followed that with 20 national Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) titles, including 17 in the pole vault and three in the decathlon.
Pontiac grad and former state champion Emily Grove missed the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team by just six spots. We caught up with her after the trials.
PARIS — A few months before she traveled to the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials earlier this summer, pole vaulter Brynn King began researching how to transport her poles from Rochester, New ...
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 ...
Pole vault Donald Robert Laz (May 17, 1929 – February 21, 1996) was an American pole vaulter . He won a silver medal at the 1952 Olympics and a bronze at the 1955 Pan American Games.
Jul. 29—Certain athletic feats would seem to require almost constant practice. Trapeze acts. High diving. Pole vaulting. Consider the latter discipline from the track-and-field world. Pole ...