Kelsie Elizabet Ahbe (born July 6, 1991 in

Akron Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 Census, the city prop ...

Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...

) is an American-born

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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 Myc ...

er. Kelsie placed 12th at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, coached by Tim Mack, 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist. Kelsie competed in the 2017 and 2019 World Championships. She was coached by Jim Bemiller in 2019. He coached Tim Mack and Lawrence Johnson, among others. At the

2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics The 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition for athletes under the age of 20 which was held at the Moncton Stadium in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada from 19 to 25 July 2010. A total of 44 athletics ...

she finished 7th competing for the United States. Domestically, she won the Canadian national championship in 2015. She took silver at the

2015 NACAC Championships in Athletics The 2015 North American, Central American and Caribbean Championships was a regional track and field competition held at the Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica in San José, Costa Rica from August 7-9, 2015. It was the second edition of a senior ...

and finished 5th at the

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. She has the third best jump in Canadian woman's history. In July 2016 she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team.

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published
retirement article
with Kelsie Ahbe Holahan in January 2021.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahbe, Kelsie 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Akron, Ohio Canadian female pole vaulters American female pole vaulters Pan American Games track and field athletes for Canada Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic track and field athletes for Canada 21st-century American sportswomen 21st-century Canadian sportswomen