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Athletics At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's Pole Vault
The women's pole vault at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 5 and 7 August 2024. This was the seventh time that the event was contested at the Summer Olympics. Summary Two of the medalists from the previous Olympics, returned, Katie Nageotte and Holly Bradshaw. Russian athletes were not invited to these Olympics, eliminating Anzhelika Sidorova. 2016 champion Aikaterini Stefanidi, bronze medalist Eliza McCartney, 2023 World Co-Champion Nina Kennedy and bronze medalist Wilma Murto also competed. The seasonal world leader and World Indoor Champion Molly Caudery was expected to be a favorite. Angelica Moser was #2 on the list this year. In the qualification round, Bradshaw topped out early with three misses at . Caudery did not start until 4.55 m and then failed to clear the bar on any of her attempts. Eleven athletes cleared 4.55 m, so to include the top twelve plus ties, nine more athletes who cleared 4.40 on their first attempt moved on for a fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stade De France
Stade de France (, ) is the national stadium of France, located just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis. Its seating capacity of 80,698 makes it the List of football stadiums in France, largest stadium in France. The architecture of the Stade de France is inspired by the Worldport (Pan Am), Worldport of the American airline Pan Am, Pan American at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The stadium is used by the France national football team, French national football and France national rugby union team, rugby union teams for international competitions. It is the largest in Europe for sport of athletics, athletics events, seating 77,083 in that configuration. During other events, the stadium's running track is mostly hidden under the grandstands. Initially built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the Bids for the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics failed bid the stadium's name was recommended by Michel Platini, head of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Molly Caudery
Molly Caudery (born 17 March 2000) is a British athlete who competes in the pole vault event for England and Great Britain. Caudery is the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, 2024 World Indoor champion. She was also a silver medalist at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and took bronze at the 2024 European Athletics Championships. Caudery holds the List of British records in athletics, British national record for the women's pole vault, with a best of 4.92 m. Athletics career In 2017, Caudery won the silver medal at the 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships in Grosseto, Italy. On 17 February 2018, she won her first senior title, indoors, at the age of seventeen. She was selected to compete for England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia where she finished fifth. She was England's youngest athlete at the games. On 23 June 2018, she set a new British junior pole vault record of 4.53m. Caudery won a silver medal at the 2021 European Athle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Zurich
Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The Urban agglomeration, urban area was home to 1.45 million people (2020), while the Zurich Metropolitan Area, Zurich metropolitan area had a total population of 2.1 million (2020). Zurich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic. Both Zurich Airport and Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Zurich's main railway station are the largest and busiest in the country. Permanently settled for over 2,000 years, Zurich was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans, who called it '. However, early settlements have been found dating back more than 6,400 years (although this only indicates human presence in the area and not the presence of a town that early). During the Middle Ages, Zurich gained the independent and privileged status of imperial immediacy and, in 1519 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
World Athletics
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations and formerly abbreviated as the IAAF, is the international sports governing body, governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, racewalking, race walking, mountain running, and ultramarathon, ultra running. Included in its charge is the standardization of rules and regulations for the sports, certification of athletic facilities, recognition and management of list of world records in athletics, world records, and the organisation and sanctioning of athletics competitions, including the World Athletics Championships. The organisation's president is Sebastian Coe of the United Kingdom, who was elected to the four-year position in 2015 and re-elected in 2019 for a second four-year term, and then again in 2023 for a third four-year term. History The process to found World Athletics began in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 twice an Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), three-times a 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] [Amazon] |
List Of World Records In Athletics
World records in Sport of athletics, athletics are ratified by World Athletics. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking. Records are kept for athletics at the Summer Olympics, all events contested at the Olympic Games and some others. Unofficial records for some other events are kept by track and field statisticians. The only non-metric system, metric track distance for which official records are kept is the mile run. Criteria The criteria which must be satisfied for ratification of a world record are defined by World Athletics in Part III of the Competition Rules. These criteria also apply to national or other restricted records and also to performances submitted as qualifying marks for eligibility to compete in major events such as the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games. The criteria include: * The dimensions of the track and equipment used must conform to standards. In road events, the course must be accur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It marked the second time the Summer Olympics were held in Australia, and in the Southern Hemisphere, the first being in Melbourne, in 1956 Summer Olympics, 1956. Teams from 199 countries participated in the 2000 Games, which were the first to feature at least 300 events in its official sports program. The Games were estimated to have cost Australian dollar, A$6.6 billion. These were the final Olympic Games under the International Olympic Committee, IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch before the arrival of his successor Jacques Rogge. The final medal tally at the 2000 Summer Olympics was led by the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics, United States, followed by Russia at the 2000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Athletics At The Summer Olympics
Sport of athletics, Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient Greek Olympics. The modern program includes track and field events, road running events, and race walking events. Cross country running was also on the program in earlier editions but it was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics. Summary Events The events contested have varied widely. From 1900 to 1920, Tug of war at the Summer Olympics, tug of war was considered to be part of the Olympic athletics programme, although the sports of tug of war and Sport of athletics, athletics are now considered distinct. Men's events No new events have been added to the men's athletics programme since the 1956 addition of the short racewalk. The roster of events has not changed since then, with the exception of the omission of the long racewalk in 1976 (the IAAF h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 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 Olympic records for the event are for men, set by Armand Duplantis in 2024, and for women, set by Yelena Isinbayeva in 2008. Isinbayeva's 2008 mark was a 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 three world record marks – a clearance of by Frank Foss at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, Władysław Kozakiewicz's vault of to win at the 1980 Mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Amalie Svabikova , capital of the territory
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Imogen Ayris
Imogen Ayris (born 12 December 2000) is a New Zealand athlete who competes in the pole vault. She won the bronze medal in the pole vault representing her country at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Biography Ayris was born in Auckland on 12 December 2000, the daughter of Barny and Bridget Ayris. She was educated at Takapuna Grammar School, and studied exercise science at the University of Auckland. Ayris began competing in athletics as a six-year-old at the Takapuna Athletic and Harrier Club, but also was a promising gymnast, representing New Zealand in an international event against Australia. She took up the pole vault when she was 13 years old, coached by Jeremy McColl. She finished third in the pole vault at the national secondary schools championships six months later, and won the national junior title at the 2015 national athletic championships. In 2016, aged 15, she became the youngest female New Zealand athlete to clear four metres. In 2018, Ayris won both the national unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marie-Julie Bonnin
Marie-Julie Bonnin (born 17 December 2001) is a French pole vaulter. She won the gold medal at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships, and she was the bronze medalist at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Career From Bordeaux, as the French junior champion, Bonnin won the silver medal at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships held in Boras. In July 2022, Bonnin won the pole vault at the Open de France. Bonnin qualified for the final at the 2022 European Athletics Championships held in Munich in August 2022. She finished sixth in the final setting a new personal best height of 4.55 metres. In 2022, she was also the gold medalist at the French U23 Championships, and silver medalist at the French Elite Championships. In July 2023, Bonnin secured the gold medal in the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland with a winning jump of 4.50 metres, having started the competition with two fouls at 4.30. In July 2024, she improved her perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
