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Ageless Averbukh takes pole gold
Four years after retiring, Alex Averbukh won his second Maccabiah gold medal on Wednesday evening, finishing first in the pole vault competition at Hadar Yosef with a jump of 5.15 meters. The...
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Russian Championships
Sergey Kucheryanu needed just two jumps, first time clearances at 5.40m and 5.60m, to win the Pole Vault on count back from Aleksandr Gripich.
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Nebraska vault coach Grimes Hired at Texas A & M
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M track and field head coach Pat Henry, who won his seventh NCAA title at Texas A&M earlier in 2013, has hired Kris Grimes as an assistant coach for the Aggie...
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Emmert calls convention to consider NCAA reforms
NCAA president Mark Emmert has called for a special convention next January to reevaluate how the top level of college athletics is governed, the Indianapolis Star reported. The announcement comes...
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USC adds a new jumps coach
Berry Shumpert has been named jumps coach and Mary Angell has been named the director of operations for the USC track and field program, announced Director of Track & Field Caryl Smith Gilbert...
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Should Division I Athletics Become Further ‘Tiered’ Amidst Mounting Calls For...
by Patrick Rishe, Contributor Me thinks me smell a mutiny afoot…with the power brokers in Division I athletics perhaps implicitly longing for what eventually may become a tiered system in collegiate...
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Bo’s Dilemma
Strictly based on rumor Bo Haddock may not be attending Paradise Valley Community College, but instead attending Arizona State. True or not this points out a dilemma all vaulters face down the road....
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2013 USATF National Junior Olympic Championships–Women 17-18
Pole Vault 17-18 Women 1 Taylor, Lakan 95 57-Unattached 4.00m 13-01.50 2 Brigham, Emily 95 28-Unattached 3.85m 12-07.50 3 Freier, Desiree 96...
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Thorpe Cup celebrates 20 years
Twenty years has now passed since the first edition of the Thorpe Cup, but Harry Marra still points to the inaugural meet against Germany in 1993 as his favorite. Frank Zarnowski, who has witnessed all...
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Brewer competes in North Carolina
Glenrose, Texas –Incoming Lady Tiger eighth grader Amalie Brewer continued her busy summer of pole vaulting on Wednesday with a competition 1,200 miles away. Brewer and her family were in Greensboro,...
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Suhr far from disheartened after London defeat
LONDON (Reuters) – Olympic pole vault champion Jenn Suhr failed to repeat her London success of 2012 when Cuban Yarisley Silva turned the tables on her at the Anniversary Games on Friday, but the...
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London Diamond League
Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games London, 26/07/2013 Pole Vault – Women Pts 1 Silva , Yarisley CUB 4.83 4 2 Suhr , Jennifer USA 4.73 2 3 Murer...
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Boyd injured
BRISBANE (AUS): Australian pole vault record holder Alana Boyd is out of the world championships due to knee and achilles problems, reports the Ipswich Advertiser. The 29 year old has failed to...
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Clovis Street Vault: Pumped-up homecoming for Scott Greenman
Scott Greenman was once a wide-eye kid in the crowd, watching with amazement as some of the top pole vaulters in the nation raced down Pollasky Avenue and sailed over the bar onto the pit in the middle...
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Clovis Street Vault
Published on Jul 26, 2013 The North American Pole Vaulting Championships brought scores of people out to the streets of Old Town Clovis to watch all the action and enjoy a traditional family...
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Storm vaulter made it to the top
Celebration, Florida –Celebration High’s David Akins wrestled and played football during this first two years at the school, so he was accustomed to contact sports and exhausting physical training. As...
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FDA warns on vitamin supplement containing steroids, cites risks
Reuters) – A vitamin B dietary supplement called B-50 contains two anabolic steroids and has been cited as causing unusual hair growth in women and impotence in men, U.S. health regulators said on...
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2013 AAU JO Games–Performance List
- 7/27/2013 to 8/3/2013 — Olds-Marshall Track, Rynearson Stadium Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI Men Pole Vault 17-18 years old 1 2682 Jonathan Denby 95 Carlinville, IL...
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Lavillenie at Sainsbury
LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 27: Renaud Lavillenie of France competes in the Men’s Pole Vault during day two of the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games – IAAF Diamond League 2013 at The Queen Elizabeth Olympic...
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2013 USATF National Junior Olympic Championships–15-16 Boys
Pole Vault 15-16 Boys Finals 1 Volz, Deakin 97 07-Indiana TC 4.75m 15-07.00 2 Slater, Tristan 97 05-Capital City 4.45m 14-07.25 3 Wooten, Jacob 97 57-Unattached J4.45m 14-07.25 4 Littlefield, Luke 97...
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