Marie-Julie Bonnin of France reacts during the women's pole vault final of Athletics at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, Aug. 7, 2024. (Xinhua/Song Yanhua) Robeilys Peinado of Venezuela competes during the women's pole vault final of Athletics at the Paris 2024 Olympic Gam...
LAUSANNE - Armand Duplantis picked up from where he left off at his world record-setting, gold medal-winning showing at the Paris Olympics by dominating the men's pole vault at the Lausanne Diamond League meet on Wednesday. The meeting is the first on World Athletics' elite circuit since the...
A pole vaulter competes in qualifying at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Antonin THUILLIER / AFP Pole vault is a track and field event in which athletes attempt to clear a horizontal bar by sprinting down a runway and using a pole to catapult themselves into the air. The athlete who clears the ...
The Men's Pole Vault Final was held on 05/08/2024 at Stade de France, Paris. Armand Duplantis (SWE) claimed the Gold, Sam Kendricks (USA) Silver and Emmanouíl Karalís (GRE) completed the podium.
She showed talent early on, becoming the first Canadian high school girl to vault over 4 meters. She went on to set national youth and junior records. While competing for the University of Miami, Newman earned six First Team All-American citations. Her pole vaulting career has been marked ...
According to the Olympics, the elder Duplantis' pole vault personal best was 5.80 meters in 1993. Though Duplantis was born in the U.S. and went to college in Louisiana, he competes for Sweden, his mother's native country. He spent his summers in Sweden as a child, according to the ...
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Mondo Classic 2024 - pole vault - full results *The Mondo Classic in Uppsala, Sweden, featured some of the best pole vaulters in the world. See the full results here. * 1. Armand Duplantis (SWE) 5.92m 2. K.C. Lightfoot (USA) 5.92...
25 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Olympic pole vault champion Thiago Braz da Silva on Thursday received a 1kg gold bar from his former club as a reward for his triumph at the Rio Games. The 22-year-old won Brazil's first ever Olympic pole vault gold medal by upsetting France's defending ...
FULL RESULTS: Men's Pole Vault Final "The biggest dream since I was a kid was to break the world record at the Olympics," Duplantis said. "I’ve been able to do it in front of the most ridiculous crowd I’ve ever competed in front of." ...