Masters’ Best: Bud Held (80-84)
75-79 80-84 3.00 m (9’10″) 2.75 m (9’0¼”) Bud Held (80) Santa Barbara, CA 2006-May-28 2008-Oct-04 Franklin Wesley (“Bud”) Held (born October 25, 1927 in Los Angeles, California) is an American...
View ArticleMasters Best: Don Isett (70-74)
70-74 3.24 m (10’7½”) (p) Don Isett (74) Olathe, KS 2013-Jul-12 Don Isett reports he bettered the listed M70 world indoor vault record four times Jan. 7 at the Texas Pole Vault Roundup at Joshua High...
View ArticleMasters’ Best: John Altendorf (60-70)
60-64 4.04 m (13’3″) John Altendorf (64) Sacramento, CA 2010-Jul-24 65-69 3.89 m (12’9″) John Altendorf (65) Bend, OR 2011-Aug-13 World champion John Altendorf took fourth Saturday in the masters...
View ArticleMasters’ Best: Gary Hunter (50-59)
50-54 4.75 m (15’7″) Gary Hunter (51) Orono, ME 2007-Aug 55-59 4.36 m (14’3½”) (p) Gary Hunter (57) Olathe, KS CARBONDALE – Gary Hunter and his friends didn’t have pole vault pits at their homes in...
View ArticleMasters’ Best: Larry Jessee (45-49)
45-49 5.10 m (16’8¾”) Larry Jessee (45) El Paso, TX 1997-Aug- 1970 Larry Jessee began his pole vaulting at Miamisburg High School under the direction of Ralph Bergdoll. With a vault of 15’10”, he...
View ArticleMasters’ Best: Jeff Hartwig (35-44)
35-39 5.86 m (19’2¾”) Jeff Hartwig (36) Jonesboro, AR 2004-Jul-04 40-44 5.70 m (18’8¼”) Jeff Hartwig (40) Eugene, OR 2008-Jun-29 Jeff Hartwig (born September 25, 1967 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an...
View ArticleMoon Valley Sports Scores – 9/4
Badminton 9/3 JV 2 @ Sunnyslope L 9/3 Varsity @ Sunnyslope L 1 – 8 Football 8/30 Varsity @ Greenway L 12 – 53 Volleyball – Girl’s 9/3 Freshman vs Thunderbird L 1 – 2 9/3 JV vs Thunderbird L 9/3 Varsity...
View ArticleTurkey offers job to Bubka
The Turkish Athletics Federation (TAF) has approached Ukranian pole vault legend Sergei Bubka to manage the sport in Turkey, Doğan News Agency has reported. The Ministry of Youth and Sports contacted...
View Article2014 Armory Invitational
Come see tomorrow’s stars today. That’s a pitch that works. And it aptly describes the Armory Invitational, New York City’s largest collegiate gathering for sport held at The Armory each February. The...
View ArticlePlans unveiled for Munich Olympics memorial
Tribute to the 11 Israelis and one German policeman murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the games to be completed by 2016. BERLIN — Plans for a memorial in Munich to 11 Israelis and a German police...
View ArticleMy odds of being recruited by the USNA Track&Field, Pole Vault
I am a Pole Vaulter, and I’m currently a senior in high school and I was contacted about half way through my junior by the naval academy because of the success I had earned the previous year as a...
View ArticleDuke’s Director of T&F Ogilvie Announces Team Award Winners
DURHAM, N.C. – Director of Track & Field Norm Ogilvie announced Duke’s 2013 track & field team award winners Saturday, Sept. 7, as part of the team’s welcome back celebration. The event was...
View ArticleDiamond League results
IAAF Diamond League Prize Money awarded for each event: 1. $10,000; 2. $6,000; 3. $4,000; 4. $3,000; 5. $2,500; 6. $2,000; 7. $1,500; 8. $ 1000. Overall winner gets $40,000 Renaud LAVILLENIE – (FRA)...
View ArticleMadrid left reeling after elimination
Buenos Aires: The Madrid delegation were left reeling on Saturday after their early elimination as host for the 2020 summer Olympics and defended their bid presentation as “the best” of the candidate...
View ArticleSyrian war cost Istanbul 2020 Olympic Games bid
The bloody Syrian civil war cost Istanbul votes over Tokyo to host the world’s biggest sporting event in 2020, two influential International Olympic Committee (IOC) members said. Istanbul – who had...
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