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Club. Pacific Coast Club. Achievements and titles. Personal best. 5.61 m (18 ft 5 in) (1975) [1][2] Stephen Norwood Smith (November 24, 1951 – September 23, 2020) was an American Olympic pole vaulter. [3] He was the first person to clear the 18 foot barrier indoors. [1] He was the number one ranked pole vaulter in the world in 1973.
Sandi Morris 4.95 m (16 ft 2 + 3⁄4 in) (2018) 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 ...
The California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (abbreviated CA MUTCD) is the standard for traffic signs, road surface markings, and traffic signals in the U.S. state of California. It is developed by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Division of Safety Programs "in substantial conformance to" the national Manual ...
Pole vault. Chelsea Johnson (born December 20, 1983, in Atascadero, California) is a former American pole vaulter. She is the daughter of Jan Johnson, who won three NCAA championships and a bronze medal in the pole vault at the 1972 Summer Olympics. She won the silver medal at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, but retired from the ...
Tori Anthony. Tori Anthony (born April 19, 1989) is an American pole vaulter from Woodside, California and the holder of the national indoor and outdoor records for high school women at 14' 2-1/2" (4.33 m) and 14' 1" (4.29 m) respectively. She was originally a gymnast, but burned out on the sport and switched to track and water polo.
Born in Long Beach, California, [1] he went to college at UCLA and was the NCAA champion in the pole vault in 1978 with a height of 5.53 metres. [2] He won three national titles in 1977, 1979 and 1986. [3] He also took the AAA Championships in 1976 and 1979 and the French championship in 1977. [4] [5]
After winning the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials and resetting the world record at 4.63 m (15 ft 2 in), Dragila won the first women's pole vault Olympic gold medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Stacy Dragila accepting her induction into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame. The World Championships in 2009 was Dragila's final major ...
French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati’s pursuit of Olympic gold ended on Saturday, August 3 — but he’s blessed with quite the consolation prize. The 21-year-old Olympian went viral after he ...