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Athletics At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's Pole Vault
The women's pole vault event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 2 and 5 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. 31 athletes from 19 nations competed. In her first Olympics, 30-year-old American Katie Nageotte won the gold medal with a clearance of 4.90 metres. The silver medal went to Russian world champion Anzhelika Sidorova and the bronze to Holly Bradshaw of Great Britain. Summary Fifteen women qualified for the final by clearing 4.55m. 13 cleared the opening height of 4.50m, but the three who struggled at that height were among the favorites; defending champion Katerina Stefanidi, American champion Katie Nageotte and former junior world record holder Angelica Bengtsson each were down to their last attempt. At the next height, 4.70m, only four were able to get over the bar; World Champion Anzhelika Sidorova on her first attempt; 7 time British Champion Holly Bradshaw and Nageotte on their second; and again on her final attempt, Stefanidi. With a perfect series goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan National Stadium
The Japan National Stadium, officially named and formerly known as or , is a multi-purpose stadium used mostly for association football in Kasumigaoka, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The facility served as the main stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as the venue for track and field athletics events at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics in 2021. Demolition of the old National Stadium was completed in May 2015, allowing for the construction of the new stadium to begin on 11 December 2016. The original plans for the new stadium were scrapped in July 2015 by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who announced a rebid after a public outcry prompted by increased building costs. As a result, the new design was not ready for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, as originally intended. A new design created by architect Kengo Kuma was chosen in December 2015 to replace the original design, which was completed on 30 November 2019. History After Tokyo submitted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleni-Klaoudia Polak
Eleni-Klaoudia Polak ( gr, Ελένη-Κλαούντια Πόλακ; born 9 September 1996) is a Greek athlete specialising in the pole vault. She represented her country at one outdoor and two indoor European Championships. Her personal bests in the event are 4.70 metres outdoors (Athens 2020) and 4.71 metres indoors (Piraeus 2021). She was born in Greece to a Polish father and a Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...n mother. International competitions 1No mark in the final References External links * * 1996 births Living people Greek female pole vaulters Greek people of Polish descent Greek people of Sri Lankan descent Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Greece Athletes from Athens {{Greece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelica Moser
Angelica Moser (born 9 October 1997) is a Swiss athlete whose specialty is pole vaulting. She won the 2021 European Championships in Toruń and reached the final of the World Championships in Doha in 2019. Her personal bests in the event are 4.75 metres outdoors ( Budapest 2023) and 4.75 metres indoors (Toruń 2021). Competition record Personal life She is the daughter of former decathlete Severin Moser.Monica Schneider''Furchtlos höher und höher.''Porträt in: Tages-Anzeiger ''Tages-Anzeiger'' (), also abbreviated ''Tagi'' or ''TA'', is a Swiss German-language national daily newspaper published in Zurich, Switzerland. History and profile The paper was first published under the name ''Tages-Anzeiger für Stadt und K ... vom 18. Februar 2016 (Archiv) References External links * * 1997 births Living people Swiss female pole vaulters World Athletics Championships athletes for Switzerland Sportspeople from Plano, Texas Athletes (track and field) at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Šutej
Tina Šutej (born 7 November 1988) is a Slovenian pole vaulter. She won bronze medals at the 2022 World Indoor Championships and 2022 European Championships. Šutej earned a silver at the 2021 European Indoor Championships and again in 2023. She took silver at the 2006 World Junior Championships. Šutej is the Slovenian record holder both in and outdoors. Career Šutej was born in Ljubljana and began competing in athletics at an early age, practising in a variety of events from the age of seven. A change of coach at her local club saw the arrival of a pole vault specialist, who encouraged her to focus on vaulting the high bar.Slovenia's Sutej vaults to a prestigious American accolade |
Roberta Bruni
Roberta Bruni (born 8 March 1994) is an Italian pole vaulter. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Pole vault. Her personal best of is the Italian record for the event. Career Her personal best indoor (4.60 m) is the second best junior performance of all-time after the world record of the Swedish Angelica Bengtsson, established at the 2013 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships. Her height of 4.35 m established on 16 June 2012 in Misano Adriatico was the third best by a junior athlete that year. She is a friend of fellow Italian pole vaulter Giorgia Benecchi. National records * Pole vault outdoor: 4.72 m (Rovereto, Italy, 30 August 2022) - Current holder * Pole vault indoor: 4.60 m (Ancona, Italy, 17 February 2013) - Current holder Progression ;Pole vault outdoor Updatet to 28 May 2021 ;Pole vault indoor Achievements National titles Bruni has won seven national championships at individual senior level. *Italian Athletics Championships **Pole vault: 2014, 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yarisley Silva
Yarisley Silva Rodríguez (born 1 June 1987) is a Cuban pole vaulter. She won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics – the first Latin American athlete to win an Olympic medal in that event. Silva became the first Cuban woman to reach a world class standard in the pole vault. Her personal bests of outdoors and indoors are the Cuban and Central American and Caribbean records for the event. She emerged at the regional level with a silver medal at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, and a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games. She then won gold medals at the 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics and the 2011 Pan American Games. Silva represented Cuba at the 2008 Summer Olympics and came fifth at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. Career Early career Born in Pinar del Río in Cuba, Silva began to participate in pole vault competitions from the age of twelve. Many women in her family took part in athletics and her mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iryna Zhuk
Iryna Henadzeuna Zhuk, née Yakaltsevich ( be, Ірына Генадзеўна Жук (Якалцэвіч); born 26 January 1993), is a Belarusian athlete specialising in the pole vault. She represented her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics without qualifying for the final. She won the gold medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade. In 2021, Zhuk tied for third at the European Athletics Indoor Championships with Holly Bradshaw. Zhuk competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ..., this time reaching the final. Zhuk's personal bests in the event are 4.74 metres outdoors (2021) and 4.80 metres indoors (2022). Both marks are also national records. She is married to Belarusian athlete Vital Zhuk. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Kennedy
Nina Kennedy (born 5 April 1997) is an Australian athlete who holds the national record in the pole vault. She competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and won gold in the 2022 Commonwealth Games and the 2023 World Athletics Championships. Early years Kennedy was born in Busselton, three hours south of Perth. Her family moved to Perth and she completed primary school there. When she was 11 years old she joined her first club, Perry Lakes Little Athletics. Kennedy started pole vaulting one year later after a pole vault coach identified her talent at an athletics meet. In 2012, aged 14, Kennedy placed second in the senior Australian pole vault championships with a personal best of 4.10m. A year later she set a best of 4.31m and placed fifth at the IAAF World Youth (U18) Championships. At the 2014 IAAF World Juniors, she vaulted a personal best of 4.40m, just missing a medal to finish fourth. Senior career In February 2015 in Perth, Kennedy cleared 4.43m, then 4.50m and finall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michaela Meijer
Michaela Meijer (born 30 July 1993) is a Swedish athlete who specialises in the pole vault. She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, reaching the final. In 2016, Meijer competed at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, but was eliminated in the qualification round, finishing 17th with 4.45 meters. In addition she won silver medals at the 2009 World Youth Championships and the 2015 European U23 Championships, both times finishing behind her compatriot, Angelica Bengtsson. Her personal bests in the event are 4.83 metres outdoors (Norrköping, 2020), which is also the Swedish record and 4.75 metres indoors (Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ... 2019). Competition record (q = qualification round) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xu Huiqin
Xu Huiqin ( zh, 徐惠琴; born 4 September 1993) is a Chinese athlete specialising in the pole vault. She has won several medals on continental level. Her personal bests in the event are 4.70 metres outdoors (Jockgrim 2019) and 4.65 metres indoors (Lievin, 2022). International competitions References 1993 births Living people Chinese female pole vaulters Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for China Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for China 21st-century Chinese women 21st-century Chinese people {{PRChina-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Ling (pole Vaulter)
Li Ling (; born 6 July 1989) is a Chinese athlete, who specialises in the pole vault. She competed at the 2006 World Junior Championships, but no-heighted in the final. She achieved indoor and outdoor personal bests in 2008, clearing 4.45 metres indoors in Beijing in February and repeating the feat outdoors two months later in Hangzhou. She represented her country at the 2008 Summer Olympics but her mark of 4.15 m in the qualifying round was not enough to progress to the final. She fared better at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, but her season's best mark of 4.40 m was ten centimetres off making the final competition. She matched her personal best to take the gold medal at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games. The vault was one centimetre off Zhang Yingning's Asian record in the event. On September 8, 2013, she achieved a new Asian record at the Chinese National Games in Shenyang, China with 4.65 m. Since then Li had achieved Asian record in women's pole va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alysha Newman
Alysha Eveline Newman (born 29 June 1994) is a Canadian track and field athlete who specializes in the pole vault. She competed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. Newman was the 2018 Commonwealth Games champion in the women's pole vault, where she set a new Games record of . Early life Newman's first sport was gymnastics, which she was forced to abandon at the age of 13 after injuring a lower back vertebra. After one year off sports where she considered ice hockey and diving, she chose track and field, and was directed by a coach to vaulting due to her gymnastics background. NCAA career In 2013, Newman joined Eastern Michigan University, becoming the Mid-American Conference champion and competing in the NCAA tournament. Afterwards, she transferred to the University of Miami, following her coach Jerel Langley. Newman graduated in 2016 with a major in exercise physiology and a minor in nutrition. Newman successfully cleared at the University of Miami's Hurricane Alumni Invit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
