Before delivering the year's top pole vault, 4.90 meters, at the recent Pole Vault Summit in Reno, Nevada, Morris took center stage for the national anthem - with a little help.
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But the second event -- the general election -- is the pole vault.
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He was set to pole vault at the University of Washington.
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Pole vault-Sam Kendricks (WC), Cole Walsh, K.C. Lightfoot, Zach Bradford.
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His last Olympic pole vault competition will be another highlight, he recalled.
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Don Bragg, Olympic Pole-Vault Champion, is Dead at 83 Run Well!
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The event continues on Thursday with the pole vault, javelin and final 1,500m.
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The U.S. pole vault team for Rio will all be first time Olympians.
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For most performers, that's the equivalent of a pole vault to the sun.
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That means a 21-foot pole vault will be recorded as 2600 meters.
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Sam Kendricks won the pole vault (5.90m) and Erik Kynard the high jump (2.29m).
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World indoor champion Sandi Morris cleared 4.85 meters to win the women's pole vault.
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He was mobbed by his competitors after he landed in the pole vault pit.
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We're a pretty tight-knit group all around the world in the pole vault.
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Isinbayeva, two-time Olympic champion and the current world-record holder in pole vault.
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" - Katerina Stefanidi, Greek reigning Olympic pole vault champion "There is no postponement, no cancellation.
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" * Katerina Stefanidi, Greek reigning Olympic pole vault champion "There is no postponement, no cancellation.
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Anzhelika Sidorova - Pole Vault (Women) ** Won gold at the 2019 World Championships in Doha.
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Anzhelika Sidorova - Pole Vault (Women) *Won gold at the 2019 World Championships in Doha.
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American Sandi Morris won the women's pole vault with Britain's Holly Bradshaw coming second.
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And Armand Duplantis set the boys' junior world indoor pole vault mark at 18-10 ¼.
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The event continues on Thursday, with the 100m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500m.
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Kendricks claimed his fifth consecutive pole vault title as he cleared 21.95 meters without a miss.
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The discrepancy is even bigger for some other field events, such as javelin and pole vault.
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Kendricks was competing in the qualifying round of the men's pole vault in Rio on Aug.
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High jump - Erik Kynard, Brad Adkins, Ricky Robertson, Pole vault - Sam Kendricks, Cale Simmons, Logan Cunningham.
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The Olympic gold medalist Katerina Stefanidi took the women's pole vault at 15 feet 9 ¾ inches.
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A competitor vaults in the women's pole vault during the Sydney Track Classic in Sydney, Australia.
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Elliott occasionally entered Bragg in sprint events to refine his approach to the pole-vault bar.
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His coach sends me texts: 'Ashton jumped 18 feet and I'm in the pole vault in practice.
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Zipline prototyped its new drone-snatching system using two pole-vault poles, a ladder, and a broomstick.
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It can no more steal an election than Donald Trump can pole vault over his Mexican wall.
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There are also finals in the women's hammer, in the morning session and the men's pole vault.
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Hopefully, I'll one day find a Nice Guy with whom I also want to pole vault into bed.
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There are also gold medals to be won in the women's pole vault and the men's shot put.
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At the IAAF Indoor World Championships, Sam Kendricks placed second in the pole vault, which looks like fun.
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The Women's pole vault final includes the U.S.'s Sandi Morris and Jennifer Suhr and Canada's Kelsie Ahbe.
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Her dream was to pole vault in the Olympics, and her coach was Icelandic Olympian Thórey Edda Elísdóttir.
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Be bold, these call to arms exhorted: Dare to tilt at windmills with your own handmade pole vault.
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Along with Lyles's 200m, the meeting sparked 2019-leading performances in the men's pole vault and 1,500 meters.
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Barber won the pole vault at the 2015 world championships in Beijing and Drouin claimed the high jump title.
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We'll have medal rounds in the women's hammer throw, the women's 853 meter steeplechase and the men's pole vault.
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At 1:35 local, the U.S.'s Sam Kendricks and Canada's Shawnacy Barber will participate in the pole vault.
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In the pole vault, Sam Kendricks became a member of the 6-meter club on his way to winning.
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Polish world silver medalist Piotr Lisek conquered a talented field in the pole vault with a national-record 6.01m.
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Canadian Alysha Newman surprised a world class field to win the women's pole vault with a lifetime best 4.82 meters.
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London Olympic champion Jenn Suhr was upset in the women's pole vault by Canadian Alysha Newman, who cleared 4.60 metres.
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Cramer had a fairly simple explanation for why friendlier rapport between the two presidents helped the market pole-vault: nostalgia.
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In the men's pole vault, France's world record holder and Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie won with his season's best of 5.83m.
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U.S. men also claimed the 3,000m steeplechase, where the only three contestants were Americans, the pole vault, 1,500m, and 4x400m relay.
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Thiago Braz Da Silva of Team Brazil set a world record in the Men's Pole Vault with a height of 6.03m.
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Coming into the Games, his personal best in the pole vault had been 5.93 meters, or about 19 feet six inches.
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Also with top performances for 2018 are Javianne Oliver (60m), Courtney Okolo (400m), Katie Nageotte (pole vault), world champion Reese (long jump) and Erica Bougard (pentathlon) Other notable inclusions in the team are world outdoor hurdles record holders Keni Harrison and Aries Merritt and world outdoor champions Sam Kendricks (pole vault) and Phyllis Francis (women's 4x400 relay).
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Olympic silver medallist Sandi Morris claimed the women's pole vault at 4.80 metres as she outdueled London gold medallist Jenn Suhr (4.65m).
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The fact that Warner made mistakes by hitting the first two hurdles cost him the overall lead going into the pole vault.
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American Katie Nageotte surprised Olympic and world gold medalist Katerina Stefanidi by clearing 4.86m in the pole vault to the Greek's 4.71m.
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But today's pole-vault world record is 53% higher than the 1912 record, set by American Marc Wright on June 8th 1912.
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"Rumor has it she's in the pole vault in the upcoming Olympics in Rio and she's the favorite to win," Timberlake joked.
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The son of an oil-field worker, Mr. Warren played football in high school and was the 1974 state pole vault champion.
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Up-and-coming Katie Nageotte added another season-best in the pole vault, soaring 4.91m to defeat world silver medalist Sandi Morris (4.86m).
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Thiago Braz Da Silva clears 6.03 meters during the Men's Pole Vault Final at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Cuba's Yarisley Silva won her third consecutive Pan Am Games pole vault title with a gutsy last-ditch attempt on Thursday.
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Going into the eighth event, the pole vault, Jenner had moved up to second place – just nine points behind Avilov, according to USOC.
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In the women's pole vault, Sandi Morris upset the world-record holder Jenn Suhr with a personal best of 16 feet 2 ¾ inches.
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Olympic pole vault double gold medalist Yelena Isinbayeva, one of Russia's most successful sportswomen, called the IAAF decision a violation of human rights.
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Aengus Meldon was solidly on his way to victory in his race when the unthinkable happens — a pole vault bar falls onto him.
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It's inspiring — it makes you want to pole vault your way to a gold medal, even if you normally trip over your own feet.
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They also included men's 2013 European under-23 high jump champion Ilya Ivaniuk and Alayna Lutkovskaya, the 2014 junior women's pole vault world champion.
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He's still able to turn his body into a pole vault and his field goal percentage at the rim is higher than ever before.
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World outdoor champion Shawn Barber of Canada was upset by American Sam Kendricks in the men's pole vault, Kendricks jumping 5.77m to Barber's 5.67m.
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Even though they're barely friends anymore, the high-powered guest list grants Lacie the opportunity to pole-vault into the upper-echelon of scores.
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French world record holder Renaud Lavillenie won the pole vault on countback with a 5.70m effort, holding off brother Valentin and Dutchman Menno Vloon.
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He listed the other requirements: the patience of Job, the wiles of a fox and the quiet determination to pole-vault Egypt's discriminatory regulations.
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Sandi Morris of the United States competes in the Women's Pole Vault qualification at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 in Doha, Qatar.
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The pole vault world record (without a skateboard) currently stands at 20.21-feet, but Boirie has already cleared heights of 19.36-feet with minimal effort.
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Michael Norman won the 400 meters in 44.62 and Swedish teenager Mondo Duplantis topped world champion Sam Kendricks in the pole vault, clearing 5.93 meters.
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Op-Ed Contributor Volgograd, Russia — In less than two months, I hope to be competing in the pole vault at the Olympic Games in Rio.
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Meanwhile in Europe, the three pole vault medalists from Doha - American Sam Kendricks, Swede Mondo Duplantis and Poland's Piotr Lisek - will feature in Dusseldorf's Feb.
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Eaton edged France's Kevin Mayer, who had threatened his position with strong showings in the pole vault and javelin throw, into the silver medal position.
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Another Greek athlete, pole vault gold medalist Ekaterina Stefanidi, will be the last to carry the Olympic flame at the Panathenaic Stadium on March 19.
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Kendricks explained that camaraderie mitigates the high risks of the pole vault, which requires athletes to be upside down, approaching 20 feet in the air.
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Such a nail-biting finish hardly looked possible going into the pole vault, the final event of the morning session which Mayer was expected to dominate.
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Greece's Stefanidi claimed the pole vault with a third attempt clearance at 4.75 meters and Jamaican McLeod dominated the 110 meters hurdles, winning in 13.21 seconds.
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Russia's highest-profile track athlete is Yelena Isinbaeva, who won pole vault gold in 2004 and 2008 and is hoping to participate in her fifth Games.
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After that, we'll go to women's pole vault final, the men's hammer throw, the women's 211,211 meter final, and the men's and women's 280X267 meter finals.
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" When told a potential suitor has been losing weight, Dorothea answers, "Does he regard me as an athletic event, the high jump or the pole vault?
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Murphy, a personal trainer, threw the javelin and did pole vault, long jump and the sprint relays in high school, but did not compete in college.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twice Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva will stand in the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) presidential election this year, she said on Wednesday.
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French pole vault world record holder Renaud Lavillenie also was a winner, defeating Canadian world champion Shawn Barber, winning on fewer misses, as both cleared 5.81 meters.
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Not Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, not American swimmer Michael Phelps, not even Thiago Braz da Silva falling from the night sky as Brazil's surprise pole vault champion.
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Kennedy won the 5A pole vault state championship in the spring and helped the men's track team win the school's first ever state title, according to KGW.
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But when Blum sees a glimmer of something bigger, he can pole-vault his low-budget films into wide release with the help of a major studio.
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Sergey Bubka's 6.14m mark in 1994 remains the highest outdoor clearance, but the IAAF has not distinguished between indoor and outdoor records in pole vault since 2000.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twice Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva will be out of action for four weeks due to a leg injury, the Russian said on Wednesday.
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Ukraine's Maksym Mazuryk, who had competed in the men's pole vault event at the same Games, also tested positive for steroids in the re-tests, the IOC said.
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The difference was most pronounced in the hammer-throw events, where women with higher testosterone performed 4.53 percent better, and pole vault, where they did 2.94 percent better.
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Ashton Eaton competes in the Men's Decathlon Pole Vault during the 303 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field on July 3, 2016 in Eugene, Oregon.
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In fact, of the various jumping competitions for men, the pole vault is the only one to have seen regular progression in the world record throughout its history.
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Ekaterini Stefanidi, Greece's pole vault master who owns all the major outdoor titles, successfully defended her title with a 4.85 meters effort, ahead of her compatriot Nikoleta Kiriakopoulou.
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Ukrainian Sergey Bubka's 6.14m mark in 1994 remains the highest outdoor clearance but the IAAF has not distinguished between indoor and outdoor records in pole vault since 2000.
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Ukrainian Sergey Bubka's 6.14m mark in 1994 remains the highest outdoor clearance, but the IAAF has not distinguished between indoor and outdoor records in pole vault since 2000.
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It's about time the IOC started spicing up the games so they're more interesting—like letting athletes compete with the aid of electric skateboards, starting with the pole vault.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dmitri Shlyakhtin was re-elected as President of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) on Friday after twice Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva withdrew her candidacy.
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"Pole vault units?" sounds like it should refer to height or distance in the sport of pole vaulting, but we're going in a totally different direction with this one.
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For home supporters there will be one memory above all as Thiago da Silva pulled off a shock pole vault victory to win Brazil's first athletics gold for 34 years.
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In the pole vault, American Sam Kendricks set a personal best to beat world record holder and Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie and world champion Shawn Barber in a major upset.
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Poland's Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz joyfully claims the gold medal after clearing the best height and setting a new world record in the Olympic pole vault event on July 30, 1980, in Moscow.
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Schrader, who was second at the 2013 world championships in Moscow but also missed the 2012 London Olympics due to injury, suffered the latest setback during pole-vault training on Friday.
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"The IAAF have only listed certain events where they feel athletes with high levels of testosterone have an advantage, but what about the hammer throw and pole vault?" asked Jean Verster.
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Qatar's Mutaz Barshim won the men's high jump with a world leading leap of 2.37 meters, while Cuba's Yarisley Silva produced a year's best of 4.84 in the women's pole vault.
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Coleman, Lyles, Kendricks, Muhammad, Michael Norman (400m), Grant Holloway (110m hurdles), Will Claye (triple jump), Jenn Suhr (women's pole vault) and DeAnna Price (women's hammer throw) all top the yearly list.
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Isinbayeva said she had been confident of winning the pole vault after clearing 4.90 metres on June 2 on her first competitive appearance for three years after giving birth to a daughter.
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" Whoever wins, she said, "I will congratulate the new pole vault champion, of course, but I'm sure she will feel it's not entirely gold because goal number one is to beat Isinbayeva.
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Renaud Lavillenie gained a measure of revenge for defeat in the Olympic men's pole vault final by becoming the first athlete to win the Diamond Race trophy for a seventh consecutive time.
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And in the day's big surprise, a WADA official said the pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva would be out as the chairwoman of Russia's antidoping agency by the end of the month.
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His coach, Harry Marra, said Eaton's performance was all the more impressive given that he had thrown poorly in the javelin as a result of a sore shoulder from the pole vault.
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Competing in the era of relatively rigid aluminum poles, which required superior upper-body strength, the muscular Bragg, a 6-foot-3 200-pounder, dominated the pole vault in the late 113s.
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The wunderkind in the pole vault who began setting age group records at age seven opened his day at 5.52m, then cleared 5.72, 5.92 and a indoor lifetime best 6.01 without a miss.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eleven Olympic champions feature in Saturday's NYRR Millrose Games including women's pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi of Greece, who will renew her Rio rivalry with U.S. silver medalist Sandi Morris.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Three Russian athletes, including the women's defending European indoor pole vault champion, were cleared on Thursday to compete in international competition under a neutral flag after proving their anti-doping credentials.
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MOSCOW, March 7 (Reuters) - Former Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva was confirmed on Tuesday as a member of the supervisory board of Russia's anti-doping agency RUSASA, the Russian Olympic Committee said.
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World indoor record holder Jenn Suhr won the women's pole vault at 4.82 meters before unsuccessfully trying three times at the highest mark ever cleared by a woman indoors or out, 5.07 meters.
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Gold could also come in the men's pole vault where Olympic bronze medalist Sam Kendricks has been dominant and in the women's 400m where world champion Allyson Felix is the outdoor season's fastest.
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Coaches who go 25-31 in two seasons at a relatively unknown college program don't pole vault into the NBA, but all Unseld saw was someone who could make his own life easier.
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One of only three women to win Olympic pole vault gold, the American hopes to challenge two-time Russian Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva's 2009 outdoor world record of 5.06 meters later this year.
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On his second, Duplantis again touched the bar again but it stayed up and the young pole vault star who began setting age group records when he was seven was now the event's king.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twice Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva was named on Wednesday as head of a new Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) Supevisory Council which will control the actions undertaken by the organization.
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Big round numbers are easier to remember and visualize than the ones marking records leading up to them, just as the 1896-foot pole vault seems easier to imagine than 19 feet, 11½ inches.
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Over several visits with the couple, Ashton sometimes looked more dialed into Brianne's training than his own, interrupting his pole vault practice to shout advice to Brianne as she worked on her javelin technique.
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LONDON (Reuters) - American pole vault world champion Sam Kendricks completed a double triumph over the weekend by winning at the inaugural World Cup in London 48 hours after Diamond League success in Rabat on Friday.
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SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - Fred Kerley ran the second fastest 400 metres of the year and Sam Kendricks soared to the outdoor season's first six metre pole vault at the United States' national championships on Saturday.
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Watman, the co-editor of Athletics International, also was impressed by Olympic bronze medalist Sam Kendricks, who provided the first six meters pole vault of the outdoor season and the U.S. 4x400 meters relay's chances.
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Two athletics bronze medalists, Ukraine's Denys Yurchenko (men's pole vault) and Greek Chrysopigi Devetzi (women's triple jump), were disqualified along with Kazakhstan's Asset Mambetov, who took part in the men's 84-96kg Greco-Roman wrestling.
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Duplantis, son of an American pole vaulter and who grew up with a pole vault pit in his garden at home in Louisiana, was vaulting higher than a London double decker bus as a teenager.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Sergei Tetyukhin, the captain of the Russian men's volleyball team, will carry the country's flag during the opening ceremony of the Rio Games, twice Olympic pole vault champion Elena Isinbayeva said on Thursday.
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He is also happy to take selfies with teenage fans and high-five volunteers just 15 minutes before the start of his event, as he did ahead of the pole vault in the Czech Republic.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twice Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has resigned as chair of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), the Interfax news agency reported — a move that may help Russian athletes return to international competition.
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The two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva said she would file a lawsuit if Russia's ban from global track and field competition was upheld and she was barred from competing in Rio de Janeiro.
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LONDON (Reuters) - American Sam Kendricks capped his memorable, unbeaten season by wining the pole vault at the World Championships on Tuesday as the title once again eluded world record holder and former Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Reigning Olympic pole vault champion Jenn Suhr has contracted a serious virus in Rio de Janeiro that could affect her jumping, her husband and coach Rick Suhr said on Twitter on Monday.
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Ten winners from the recent world athletics championships in Doha also are under consideration for the global honor: Americans Donovan Brazier (800m), Christian Coleman (100m), Sam Kendricks (pole vault), Noah Lyles (200m), Christian Taylor (triple jump).
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"It is off the scale; nobody's seen anything like this," said Earl Bell, a prominent pole-vault coach from Arkansas who won bronze at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and once held the world record.
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Mayer, silver medallist at the Olympics last year, produced personal bests in the 2100 and 13.453 meters and still has two of his strongest events to come on Saturday - the pole vault and 213.45 meters hurdles.
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As well as twice Olympic pole vault champion Isinbayeva (2004 and 2008) and high jump gold medalist Ukhov (2012), it includes world 110 meters hurdles champion Sergei Shubenkov and former European long jump title holder Darya Klishina.
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Video of a freak accident that kept an Irish runner for claiming victory at the Irish University Indoor Championship on Friday is going viral – but not because of the rogue pole vault band that took him down.
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Former Olympic pole vault champion Sergey Bubka won another term on the powerful executive board, with United States member Angela Ruggiero also joining the decision-making body after being elected as head of the IOC's athletes' commission.
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After outperforming Eaton in the pole vault (5.40 meters to 5.20) and in the javelin (65.04 meters to 59.77), Mayer headed into the final event, the 1500 meters, trailing Eaton by the small margin of 44 points.
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In a widely reported incident in 2013, Nike withdrew a contract offer to the American record-holder in the pole vault, Brad Walker, after Walker taped over a strap on his shoes and covered the swoosh logo.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Armand Duplantis cleared 6.01 meters easily to win an indoor meeting in Clermont Ferrand on Sunday but for the second time in five days the Swede could not break his own pole vault world record.
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Thiago da Silva won his home country's first athletics gold of the 2016 Games Monday in the pole vault, toppling French favorite Renaud Lavillenie and locking in an Olympic record to wild applause from his fellow countrymen.
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Angelica Bengtsson set a Swedish record to win the women's pole vault with 4.76m, while in the men's high jump home favorite Gianmarco Tamberi could only muster 2.28m to finish fourth, with Ukraine's Bohdan Bondarenko winning with 2.31m.
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At 18, he set a Canadian record in the pole vault and would go on to represent his country at cricket, scoring 238 not out for his club, which stood as a Canadian record for nearly 40 years.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Olympic women's pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi got back on track, while Rio gold medalist Shaunae Miller celebrated her nuptials with a stunning victory in the 21 meters at the NYRR Millrose Games on Saturday.
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World champion and Olympic bronze medallist Sam Kendricks snatched the men's pole vault title by clearing 5.93 meters with his last attempt, pipping Sweden's Armand Duplantis who had already failed at that height but had the better scorecard.
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USA Track & Field officials, however, said Morris, the world indoor silver medalist, would receive credit only for the best outdoor pole vault ever by an American since records in the event can be established both indoors or out.
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If the International Olympic Committee is ever wise enough to adopt this vast improvement, Baptiste Boirie is well on his way to a gold medal, having been practicing the electric skateboard pole vault for the past few months now.
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American Suhr is the 2012 Olympic women's pole vault gold medalist and world indoor record holder, and Ethiopia's Defar is a six-times IAAF world champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder at 5000 meters.
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Isinbayeva came third at London 2012, with Jenn Suhr of the United States claiming the gold, but as the pole vault world-record holder and champion in Beijing and Athens, she would have been a serious challenger in Rio.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Greece's Ekaterini Stefanidi, the new queen of the pole vault, added the one missing gold medal to her big-event collection when she soared to the world title with the best vault of her life on Sunday.
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Young shared the spotlight with the American champions Bob Mathias (decathlon), Bob Richards (pole vault), Pat McCormick (diving), Harrison Dillard (hurdling) and the runner Horace Ashenfelter, who set a world record in the steeplechase, and who died on Saturday.
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Amateur athletes from throughout the Northeast went head-to-head in about a dozen events, including the 50-yard dash, pole vault, sack hurdle race and "Running Two Hops and Jump," according to the next day's New York Times.
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The study showed that women with elevated testosterone levels gained a competitive advantage from 1.78 percent to 4.53 percent in events like the 400 meters, the 400-meter hurdles, the 800 meters, the hammer throw and the pole vault.
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The 54-year-old Bubka, who won pole vault gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and is a member of the executive board of the International Olympic Committee, said change is essential for track and field events to remain attractive.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian Thiago da Silva edged out world record holder Renaud Lavillenie of France to win the Olympic pole vault in dramatic fashion on Monday and give the host country its first athletics gold medal of the Games.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Barred from competing at the Rio Games, Russia's double Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva announced her retirement on Friday and said whoever won the women's pole vault in her absence would not have achieved a proper gold medal.
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MOSCOW, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva is among four candidates to register for an election to choose a new president of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF), the organisation said on its official website.
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Rio Olympic pole vault silver medalist Sandi Morris also could be in the mix for medals, Watman said World 400 meters champion Allyson Felix also is moving into contention after working on her speed in the 100 and 200 at Sacramento.
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The pole vault, so often the forgotten event of athletics as it chugs on relentlessly in the background with all the attention on the track, gradually became the prime focus when the crowd realized that the man in green kept clearing.
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EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) - American world champion Sam Kendricks outlasted a high-quality pole vault field in tricky conditions while Olympic gold medalist Thomas Rohler led a German domination of the javelin at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Friday.
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One example that showed the good sense in talking to foreign athletes was an interview with the winner of the men's pole vault, Thiago Braz da Silva of Brazil, whose delight in the gold medal was matched by his marked disbelief.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has been re-elected the head of the supervisory board of Russia's anti-doping agency, whose activity was suspended by the world anti-doping agency for non-compliance, Russian state TV reported.
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The sport should continue to welcome technological advances, he said, just as it did when tracks upgraded from cinder to synthetic rubber, pole vault poles evolved from bamboo to fiberglass and shoes began to incorporate air bladders and gels for cushioning.
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Don Bragg, who was denied his dream of playing Tarzan in the movies but parlayed his imposing physique into a gold medal in the pole vault at the 1960 Rome Olympics, died on Saturday at his home in Oakley, Calif.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Pole vault must evolve if it is to remain relevant as individual sports look for new ways to attract fans but any changes introduced should not be at the expense of athlete safety, former great Sergey Bubka has told Reuters.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The United States is expected to run away with the athletics competition in Rio, taking podium spots often the preserve of Russians such as double pole vault gold medalist Yelena Isinbayeva and 110m hurdles world champion Sergei Shubenkov.
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Our shoes' long, narrow, sharp spikes went into the track crisply, cinders flew out with each step; and once, during a quarter-mile race, a little boy playing in the pole-vault pit rolled into the first lane right in front of us.
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Worst Performance, Medal in Hand The dark side of Braz's gold medal in the pole vault was that the Brazilian crowd, sparse though it was, booed the Lavillenie during the competition as he — quite rightly — tried to clear the same heights and win.
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" European pole vault champion Armand Duplantis, who trains in the heat of the southern U.S. state of Louisiana, said the humidity can prove helpful in practice because the addition of moisture to the chalk on his hands "makes for a really nice grip.
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WADA said Russian agency had made some progress, listing 19 criteria that had been met, including access to "closed cities" for testing athletes and the removal of twice Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva from her position as head of RUSADA's supervisory council.
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Famously, the decathlete Dan O'Brien, who was an Olympic gold-medal favorite in 1992, failed to qualify for the 10-event discipline at the Barcelona Games when he could not clear a height in the pole vault at the Olympic trials in New Orleans.
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Sports Briefing | Track and Field The reigning Olympic champion Jenn Suhr broke her own women's world indoor pole vault record by clearing 5.03 meters (16 feet 6 inches) at the Golden Eagle Invitational meet in Brockport, N.Y. Suhr broke the mark she established in 2013.
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Collegian Byron Robinson claimed second (2494) behind Clement and Olympic silver medallist Michael Tinsley took the third spot (48.82) Olympic champion Jenn Suhr won her 10th national pole vault with a clearance of 4.80 metres with Sandi Morris the runner-up at 4.75 metres.
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Yet impressive as it was, Mr da Silva's bound over the bar could only match the world record for the pole vault as it stood nearly 264 years ago, in 21980: since then the record has crept up to a heady 153m, set in 215.
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High, long and triple-jump records have risen around 45-20163% in the last century; the pole-vault mark has lifted from a paltry 1.44m to 5.06m, set in 2009 by Yelena Isinbayeva, a towering Russian responsible for setting 17 of the last 19 records.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva, a fierce critic of a Russian track and field ban at the Rio Olympics, was elected an International Olympic Committee member on Sunday but a third of the votes were against her.
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The Diamond League, which will celebrate its 10th season beginning in May, currently features nine races for men and women, including the 3,000m steeplechase and 5,000m, and seven field events - high jump, pole vault, long jump, triple jump, shot put, discus throw and javelin throw.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva announced her retirement on Friday at a combative news conference where she said God would be the judge of whether athletics' governing body was right to exclude Russia from the Rio Games.
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Justin Gatlin (219m), Sam Kendricks (pole vault), Christian Taylor (triple jump), Tori Bowie (women's 29m), Phyllis Francis (women's 229m), Kori Carter (women's 100m hurdles), Emma Coburn (women's 3,000m steeplechase) and Brittney Reese (women's long jump) will defend world titles they won in London in 2017.
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Greece's Olympic gold medalist and world champion Katerina Stefanidi headlines a field that includes Morris, U.S. world indoor pole vault record holder Jenn Suhr, who won the 2012 Olympic gold medal, plus American Katie Nageotte and Canada's Alysha Newman, both ranked in the top seven globally.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Thiago da Silva won Brazil's first athletics gold of their home Games on an extraordinary, unforgettable Monday night in Rio, producing an Olympic record of 282.29 meters in the pole vault to beat hot favorite Renaud Lavillenie and send the fans into raptures.
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It is also about the esoteric nature of the decathlon itself: an early-20th-century tribute to the ancient Greek pentathlon with a mix of running, jumping and throwing events, including the 100 meters, the long jump, the discus and shot-put and the pole vault.
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