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World Champs Decathlon Vault Results
Group A 1 966 Ilya Shkurenev RUSRUS 5.40 2 824 Eelco Sintnicolaas NEDNED 5.30 3 1123 Ashton Eaton USAUSA 5.20 4 464 Kevin Mayer FRAFRA 5.20 5 822 Pelle Rietveld NEDNED 5.10 6 192...
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Back in the bear pit again with a sense of unfinished business
Tori Pena is smiling again after the shock of her failure at the Olympics, as she tells John O’Brien. IT was the first week of June and the business end of summer was fast approaching. Tori Pena cast a...
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Nieves a coach and an athlete for the ages
Coaches come in all shapes, sizes and physical abilities. I can remember the man shouting splits for one opposing team wearing a derby hat with the stopwatch around his neck, all while chomping on his...
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Nazzaro : What I’m Looking Forward To these Storylines from Moscow
by M. Nicole Nazzaro A world track and field championships often feels like a three-ring circus that goes on for nine days – one that can turn into a soap opera on a dime depending on the scandal of...
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Arnold claims the top prize in Henderson’s street vault
HENDERSON, Ky. — Just starting his path toward the Olympic dream, Nevada native Mike Arnold took the top prize in the men’s division of the Jammin’ and Jumpin’ Street Vault Saturday night on the...
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Eaton wins World Championships Decathlon
1 Ashton Eaton USA USA 8809 WL 2 Michael Schrader GER GER 8670 3 Damian Warner CAN CAN 8512 4 Kevin Mayer FRA FRA 8446 5 Eelco Sintnicolaas NED NED 8391 6 Carlos Chinin BRA BRA...
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14th IAAF World Championships: Women’s Qualification Results
Isinbaeva, Spiegelburg, Suhr, Murer and Silva would battle it out. Holliday, Hutson, Pena, Bengtsson, Rogowska don’t make the cut. Qualifiers Elena Isinbaeva RUSRUS 4.55 q Silke Spiegelburg GERGER...
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Ashton Eaton wins decathlon world title
Ashton Eaton of the United States won the decathlon world championship title Sunday to add to his Olympic gold medal. Eaton had a comfortable lead heading into the final event of the two-day...
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Isinbayeva Backtracks on Retirement Vow
MOSCOW, August 11 (R-Sport) – Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva backtracked Sunday on a vow that the ongoing 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow would be her last competition before...
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Quotes from the second day of the Worlds
Ashton Eaton, men’s decathlon “It feels good. It was the only thing I had left on my list to do. Now I have done everything there is to do in the multi-events. I’m very excited just to be able to be...
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New” Nationals Bidders?
Eugene & Des Moines have had a bit of a stranglehold on the hosting of the USATF Championships in recent years, but they are apparently now getting competition from a pair of California sites....
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Holzdeppe wins men’s pole vault at the worlds
AP –MOSCOW — Raphael Holzdeppe of Germany won the men’s pole vault Monday at the world championships, beating Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie of France.Both Holzdeppe and Lavillenie jumped 19 feet,...
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German Holzdeppe takes shock vault gold
Germany’s Raphael Holzdeppe was a shock winner of the men’s world pole vault title on Monday as he edged red-hot French favorite Renaud Lavillenie on countback. Both men failed three times to clear...
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Athlete of the Year: Jefferson’s Mason Hamrick
Gainesville, GA. –Mason Hamrick is the latest installment of a historically successful pole vault program at Jefferson High. With Hamrick’s two state championships, including his most recent title...
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Flying High: Over-the-Top Pole Vault Celebrations
Time Magazine photographed vaulters celebrating going over the bar at the world championships
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Flying High: Over-the-Top Pole Vault Celebrations
Time Magazine photographed vaulters celebrating going over the bar at the world championships
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Flying High: Over-the-Top Pole Vault Celebrations
Time Magazine photographed vaulters celebrating going over the bar at the world championships
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Flying High: Over-the-Top Pole Vault Celebrations
Time Magazine photographed vaulters celebrating going over the bar at the world championships
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Brad Walker finishes fourth
Brad Walker, who trains in Phoenix at the World Athletics Center, was fourth in pole vault Monday at the World Track Championships in Moscow. Walker cleared 19 feet, 1 inch but had one more miss than...
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Suhr aims to calm Isinbayeva mania in Moscow
Jenn Suhr, the Olympic pole vault champion, felt anxious for months leading up to the World Championships. The prospect of facing two-time Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva, in Isinbayeva’s home...
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