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Video on YouTube Official Video Pole Vault competition starts @ 26:10 Morcom's final attempt @ 28:20. Morcom competed in the pole vault at the 1948 Summer Olympics for the United States, [8] finishing in 6th place after passing at lesser heights, then during a rainstorm, missing at the height the eventual winners would clear of 4.20 meters.
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 ...
The French pole vaulter went viral on Aug. 3 after a video of one of his pole vault attempts from the Paris Olympics made it appear like he knocked down the crossbar with his "bulge."
Hartwig has been hired as the pole vault coach for MICDS High School in St. Louis. Aside from vaulting Hartwig also had another passion, reptiles. For over 15 years Jeff has been raising reptiles - mostly boas and pythons, but also tortoises, monitors, iguanas, and caimans. Jeff's first snake was a Burmese python named "Fore", which was given ...
Abaca Press/INSTARimages 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 ...
The men’s pole vault was Ammirati’s only event at the 2024 Olympics. He previously came in second place at the 2022 Mediterranean Games and in first at that year’s World Athletics U20 ...
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.
Grove, who has traveled the world competing in pole vault, entered the trials ranked fourth in the U.S. and 18th in the world. It was her fourth Olympic trials. Grove’s career-best mark is 15-7.