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T&FN Weekend Highlights
Monaco DL–Local favorite Renaud Lavillenie raised his own outdoor world lead in the vault by a centimeter, scaling 19-6. (5.96). He now has the 5 highest clearances in the world for the outdoor...
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Top World Vault Meets
Diamond League July 26–27……Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games; London, England August 22……………………………………DN Galan; Stockholm, Sweden 29……………………………………Weltklasse; Zürich, Switzerland September 06……………………..Van...
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Tulane adds two women to vault stable with Van Meter
NEW ORLEANS – Coming off one of the best years in recent memory, the Tulane track and field and cross country program has announced its signing class for the upcoming season, adding a total of ten...
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Isinbayeva pleased with Russian return
MOSCOW: Russian pole vault star Yelena Isinbayeva said she was feeling good after Monday qualifying for the finals of the Russian athletics championships. Isinbayeva cleared the qualification mark of...
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IAAF Diamond League Standings — Women
Competition overall 7 Yarisley SILVA – (CUB) 5Pts Rank 1 Silke SPIEGELBURG – (GER) 5Pts Rank 1 Jennifer SUHR – (USA) 5Pts Rank 1 Yelena ISINBAYEVA – (RUS) 4Pts Rank 4 Fabiana MURER – (BRA) 4Pts Rank 5...
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IAAF Diamond League — London Entries
July 26 – 28 Athlete DATE OF BIRTH Nation PB SB HINGST Carolin 18.09.1980 GER 4.72 4.71 HUTSON Kylie 27.11.1987 USA 4.67 4.67 MURER Fabiana 16.03.1981 BRA 4.85 4.73 RYZIH Lisa 27.09.1988 GER 4.65 4.50...
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ACC’s Swofford sees significant changes coming to NCAA
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford said Monday the next six months are “very important” to the future of the NCAA and predicted that significant structural and...
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Do Sport or Take Viagra, Putin Tells University Games Critics
MOSCOW, July 19 (R-Sport/RIA Novosti) – Critics of Russia’s extraordinary success at this month’s World University Games need help with their sex lives, President Vladimir Putin suggested Friday, after...
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Isinbayeva to Retire After Championship
MOSCOW, July 23 (R-Sport) – Two-time Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva announced Tuesday that she would retire after the world championships in Moscow next month....
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Vaulter a DIII Women’s Track & Field Scholar Athletes of the Year
NEW ORLEANS – Distance runner Christy Cazzola of UW-Oshkosh and pole vaulter Michelle Favre of Ramapo have been named the Scholar Athletes of the Year for the 2013 Division III track & field...
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Isinbayeva wins national title
Russia’s pole vault star Yelena Isinbayeva cruised to the national title on the second day of Russia’s track and field athletics championships on Tuesday. Isinbayeva cleared the 4.75-metre mark with...
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Novice vaulters excelling at event
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois –Jacob Terhune has coached pole vaulting at Rantoul Township High School for awhile, and he knows how hard it is to teach the sport to newcomers. During his first-ever pole...
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The moment I became champion of the world – Trey Hardee
In preparation for Moscow, SPIKES has tracked down 10 great world champions to ask them about their golden moment. In 2009, US decathlete Trey Hardee struck gold in Berlin with a personal best total of...
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vaulter returns to sport after 47 years
Kankakee, Illinois –It’s a surprising site: A regulation pole vault runway, bar and landing pit, tucked behind a barn and corn crib on a farm east of Chebanse. It’s more shocking when you realize...
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2013 USATF National Junior Olympic Championships–Decathlon vault
Decathlon: #8 Pole Vault 17-18 Men Decathlon 1 Williams, Harrison 96 57-Unattached 4.85m 15-11.00 865 1 Mahler, Wolf 94 57-Unattached 4.85m 15-11.00...
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Brad Walker at USATF Championships
Strong but inconsistent tailwinds bedeviled the vault, creating a varied narrative for what on paper was a lackluster competition. Consider Brad Walker, who said of career title No. 5, “It was a...
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Jenn Suhr at the USATF Championships
Blustery winds made the vaulting difficult, but didn’t change the formchart much. By 14-11(4. 55), the field had boiled down to the four projected contenders for the team: Jenn Suhr, Mary Saxer, Kylie...
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2013 USATF National Junior Olympic Championships–13-14 Girls
Linebarger vaulted into the Junior Olympic and national age-group record books after posting her best clearance of 3.75m/12-03.75Pole Vault 13-14 Division Girls 1 Linebarger, Makayla 99 14-Raise...
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Uckermark enters JOs battling Lyme Disease
New York –Warwick’s Todd Uckermark struggled in the closing weeks of the high school pole vault season, insisting there was something wrong with “the vaulter,” and not the heights he failed to clear....
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