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Almost a year later, Kennedy and Moon returned to an international stage on Wednesday night for the Olympic women’s pole vault final. They fittingly arrived in Paris as the co-favorites to win ...
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 ...
For the women's pole vault event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. 32 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by jumping the entry standard of 4.73 m (15 ft 6 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) or higher or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event.
King competed at the 2024 United States Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon in June 2024 and cleared a personal best height of 4.73 metres to finish third overall, with the minimum standard for the 2024 Paris Olympics. [9] [10] She subsequently competed in the pole vault at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [11]
The Ohio native was the only woman in the competition to clear 4.90m (16-1), making her the fourth American female track athlete to win gold at these Games and the third American woman to win pole ...
Nageotte became the third American woman to win pole vault at the Olympics, and her road was anything but smooth. Olympics: Kate Nageotte's wild journey to pole vault gold medal [Video] Skip to ...
Images of Stokke competing in New York in early 2007 were taken by a journalist for a Californian track and field website and placed online. In May, the image was then re-posted by With Leather, a sports blog with a large male fanbase, remarking on the attractiveness of seventeen-year-old Stokke under the headline "Pole Vaulting is Sexy, Barely Legal". [6]
The women's pole vault event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 2 and 5 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. [1] 31 athletes from 19 nations competed. [2]In her first Olympics, 30-year-old American Katie Nageotte won the gold medal by 5cm with a clearance of 4.90 metres.