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Born to Allan and Cindy Stokke in Newport Beach, California, Stokke grew up in a sporting family – her older brother David was a national level youth gymnast.After trying gymnastics, she took up pole vaulting while attending Newport Harbor High School and soon became one of the country's best young vaulters. [2]
Since 2000, World Athletics makes no distinction between indoor and outdoor settings when establishing pole vault world records. This new rule was not applied retroactively. The introduction in the early 1950s of flexible vaulting poles made from composites such as fiberglass or carbon fiber allowed vaulters to achieve greater height.
The tip of the vaulting pole is angled higher than eye level until three paces from takeoff, when the pole tip descends efficiently, amplifying run speed as the pole is planted into the vault box. The faster the vaulter can run and the more efficient their take-off is, the greater the kinetic energy that can be achieved and used during the vault.
The following is the Men's pole vault indoor world record progression starting from 1889, with additional demonstration and professional records being noted. The best indoor performances on record as agreed to by the world's leading statisticians were accepted as the inaugural Indoor World Records from 1 January 1987; previous to this, they were regarded as world indoor bests. [1]
Pole vault: Ron Morris: 4.88 m John Cramer: 4.78 m Dave Tork: 4.78 m Long jump: Ralph Boston: 8.08 m Paul Warfield: 7.78 m Darrell Horn: 7.70 m Triple jump: Bill Sharpe: 15.88 m Herman Stokes: 15.57 m Kermit Alexander: 15.49 m Shot put: Gary Gubner: 19.37 m Dallas Long: 19.23 m Dave Davis: 18.22 m Discus throw: Alfred Oerter: 61.62 m Rink Babka ...
PARIS — A few months before she traveled to the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials earlier this summer, pole vaulter Brynn King began researching how to transport her poles from Rochester, New ...
Pole vault: Earle Meadows: 4.23 m none awarded: William Roy: 4.15 m William Sefton: Jack Mauger: Long jump: Eulace Peacock: 8.00 m Jesse Owens: 7.98 m John Brooks: 7.76 m Triple jump: Rolland Romero: 15.35 m Solomon Furth: 14.77 m none awarded: Stanley Johnson: Shot put: Jack Torrance: 15.70 m Gordon Dunn: 15.57 m John Lyman: 15.37 m Discus ...
The French pole vaulter went viral on Aug. 3 after a video of one of his pole vault attempts from the Paris Olympics made it appear like he knocked down the crossbar with his "bulge."