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Pole Vault At The World Athletics Championships
The pole vault at the World Championships in Athletics has been contested by men since 1983 and women since 1999. The championship records for the event are 6.05 for men, set by Dmitri Markov in 2001, and 5.01 m for women, set by Yelena Isinbayeva in 2005. Age records *All information from IAAF Medalists Men Multiple medalists Medals by country Women Multiple medalists Medals by country See also * Pole vault * Pole vault at the Olympics References Bibliography * External linksOfficial IAAF website {{DEFAULTSORT:Pole vault at the World Championships in Athletics World Championships in Athletics The World Athletics Championships (until 2019 known as the World Championships in Athletics) are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics (formerly IAAF, International Association of Athletics Federations). Alongside the Ol ... Events at the World Athletics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitri Markov
Dmitri Markov ( be, Дзьмітры Маркаў; born 14 March 1975 in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR) is a retired Belarusian-Australian pole vaulter. He is a former World Champions in athletics (men), world champion and current Oceanian record holder. His gold medal winning jump at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault, 2001 World Championships made him the third person ever (Pole vault#Men (comprehensive), of seven, as of 2021) to clear . Biography He originally competed for his birth country Belarus, but fell out with the Belarusian Athletics Federation and refused to compete for the country at the 1998 European Championships in Athletics, 1998 European Championships. He moved to Australia and was granted citizenship in 1999. He soon set a new Oceanian record in pole vault with having already jumped in 1998 while representing Belarus. He later improved the Oceanic record to , the third person ever to clear that height, as he won the 2001 World Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
István Bagyula
István Bagyula (born 2 January 1969) is a retired Hungarian pole vaulter. Bagyula was born in Budapest and is a former world junior record holder, having equalled Radion Gataullin's 1984 record of at the 1988 World Junior Championships. A new championship record at the time, it has not yet been beaten at the WJC. Maksim Tarasov Maksim Vladimirovich Tarasov (russian: Максим Владимирович Тарасов, born 2 December 1970 in Yaroslavl, Soviet Union) is a retired Russian pole vaulter. He is the Russian national record holder for pole vault, with 6.05, ... is the world junior record holder with . International competitions References * 1969 births Living people Athletes from Budapest Hungarian male pole vaulters Olympic athletes of Hungary Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships athletes for Hungary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pole Vault At The Olympics
The pole vault at the Summer Olympics is grouped among the four track and field jumping events held at the multi-sport event. The men's pole vault has been present on the Athletics at the Summer Olympics, Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's event is one of the latest additions to the programme, first being contested at the 2000 Summer Olympics – along with the addition of the hammer throw, this brought the women's field event programme to parity with the men's. The List of Olympic records in athletics, Olympic records for the event are for men, set by Thiago Braz da Silva in 2016, and for women, set by Yelena Isinbayeva in 2008. Isinbayeva's 2008 mark was a Women's pole vault world record progression, world record at the time and her 2004 victory in had been the first women's world record in the pole vault to be set at the Olympics. In spite of its longer history, the men's Olympic event has only seen two world record marks – a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pole Vault
Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Mycenaean Greeks, Minoan Greeks and Celts. It has been a full medal event at the Olympic Games since 1896 for men and since 2000 for women. It is typically classified as one of the four major jumping events in athletics, alongside the high jump, long jump and triple jump. It is unusual among track and field sports in that it requires a significant amount of specialised equipment in order to participate, even at a basic level. A number of elite pole vaulters have had backgrounds in gymnastics, including world record breakers Yelena Isinbayeva and Brian Sternberg, reflecting the similar physical attributes required for the sports. Running speed, however, may be the most dominant factor. Physical attributes such as speed, agility and streng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacy Dragila
Stacy Renée Dragila (née Mikaelson; born March 25, 1971) is an American former pole vaulter. She is an Olympic gold medalist and a multiple world champion. Early life Dragila was born and raised in Auburn, California, northeast of Sacramento. She also participated in gymnastics, but had to give it up due to childhood asthma. She attended Placer Union High School where she played volleyball and ran on the track team as a sprinter, hurdler, and jumper. Early on she got coaching from Yuba Community College's John Orognen. She competed in the 300 meters hurdles at the CIF California State Meet, but didn't place. In 1990, she placed second at the Golden West Invitational in the 400 meters hurdles. She graduated from Idaho State University in 1995. At ISU, she competed in the heptathlon. She was introduced to pole vaulting by her coach, a former vaulter himself, and she participated in some of the earliest sanctioned women's pole vault competitions. Pole vaulting career D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Hartwig
Jeff Hartwig (born September 25, 1967 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American pole vaulter. Biography In 1998, Hartwig set two North American records with and . The latter was an improvement of 16 centimetres from his personal best of from 1997. In 1999, he won US national championships by improving his own record to , and his current North American record of followed in 2000. Jeff Hartwig held the American record until July 27, 2019, when Sam Kendricks set the American pole vault record by jumping . His personal best indoor is , also an area record. Only Renaud Lavillenie, Sergey Bubka, Steven Hooker, and current world record holder Armand Duplantis have jumped higher in an indoor competition. With on 4 July 2004, Hartwig holds the world's best performance for men over 35 years. He also has the world's best performance for men over 40 years at , achieved while placing second at the U.S. Olympic Trials, 29 June 2008. Hartwig has received the Jim Thorpe Award as the best A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenn Suhr
Jennifer Lynn Suhr (née Stuczynski; born February 5, 1982) is an American former pole vaulter. She has been an Olympic and World champion, has been ranked #1 in the World, has been the #1 American pole vaulter since 2006, and has won a total of 17 US National Championships (7 Indoor, 10 Outdoor). She holds the world indoor pole vault record at . She holds the American women's pole vault record indoors. In 2008, she won the U.S. Olympic trials, setting an American record of and won a silver medal in the Beijing Olympics. She won the gold medal at the London Olympics on August 6, 2012. ''Track & Field News'' named her American Female Athlete of the Year for 2008. Biography Suhr was born to Mark and Sue Stuczynski, grocery store owners in Fredonia, New York. The grocery store was previously owned by her grandfather, "Bunk" Stuczynski. She got involved in sports at a young age, playing softball at age 6. At 9, she competed in an adult golf league with her grandfather. At Fred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Björn Otto
Björn Otto (born 16 October 1977) is a retired German pole vaulter. On 30 January 2013 in Cottbus, Germany, with the mark of 5.90 m, he set the masters world record M35. Biography His personal best is a jump of 6.01 metres, achieved on 5 September 2012 in Aachen. He cleared 5.92 metres indoors in February 2012 in Potsdam, and equaled it also at the German national indoor championships in Karlsruhe later that month. Arguably his biggest success was a second place at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In the same year, he also won a silver medal at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, in March 2012 and a silver medal at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland in July 2012. Achievements See also * Six metres club * German records in athletics * Germany all-time top lists – Pole vault * List of world records in masters athletics Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Parnov
Vicky Parnov (born 24 October 1990 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an Australian athlete who competes in pole vault She has strong athletic pedigree, being the niece of Tatiana Grigorieva, who won the silver medal for in the women's pole vault at the |
Robeilys Peinado
Robeilys Mariley Peinado Méndez (born 26 November 1997) is a Venezuelan athlete whose specialty is pole vaulting. She won the bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships in London. In addition, she won multiple medals in several age categories. Peinado started off as a gymnast Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, sh ... but switched to pole vault aged 12 as she was getting too tall for the sport. Her personal best in the event is 4.70 metres set in Cochabamba in 2018. This is the current national record. Competition record References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Peinado, Robeilys 1997 births Living people Venezuelan female pole vaulters World Athletics Championships athletes for Venezuela Sportspeople from Caracas Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Isinbayeva
Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva ( rus, Елена Гаджиевна Исинбаева, p=jɪˈlʲɛnə gɐˈdʐɨjɪvnə ɪsʲɪnˈbajɪvə; born 3 June 1982) is a Russian former pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), a three-time World Champion (2005, 2007 and 2013), the current world record holder in the event, and is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time. Isinbayeva was banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics after revelations of an extensive state-sponsored doping programme in Russia, thus dashing her hopes of a grand retirement winning the Olympic gold medal. She retired from athletics in August 2016 after being elected to serve an 8-year term on the IOC's Athletes' Commission. Isinbayeva has been a major champion on nine occasions (Olympic, World outdoor and indoor champion and European outdoor and indoor champion). She was also the jackpot winner of the IAAF Golden League series in 2007 and 2009. After poor performances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Feofanova
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Feofanova (russian: Светлана Евгеньевна Феофанова; born 16 July 1980) is a Russian pole vaulter. Svetlana Feofanova was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. She has studied at the Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation. Feofanova was a gymnast in her youth but did not continue competing in the sport. In the World Athletics Championships, she was the second in 2001 and the first in 2003. She won also the World Indoor Championships in 2003, and she was the third in 2004. She finished fourth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. On 4 July 2004 she pole vaulted in Heraklion, Greece, which was a world record at the time. She won the silver medal in women's pole vaulting at the 2004 Summer Olympics (behind compatriot Yelena Isinbayeva). She won the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships gold medal for the pole vault in Birmingham, England, at . She won the bronze in the 2008 Summ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
