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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]
Kathryn Elizabeth Moon (née Nageotte; [2] [3] [4] born June 13, 1991) is an American pole vaulter. [5] [6] She won gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships (shared with the Australian Nina Kennedy), and silver medals at the 2022 World Indoor Championships [7] and the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Alysha Eveline Newman (born June 29, 1994) is a Canadian track and field athlete who specializes in the pole vault.She is 2024 Summer Olympics bronze medallist and 2018 Commonwealth Games champion, and holds both the Canadian national and Commonwealth Games records in the women's pole vault.
William Hoyt was the first Olympic champion in 1896 and Stacy Dragila became the first female Olympic pole vault champion over 100 years later in 2000. Armand Duplantis and Katie Nageotte are the reigning Olympic champions from 2021. Yelena Isinbayeva, Bob Richards and Armand Duplantis are the only athletes to win two Olympic pole vault titles ...
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 ...
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.
Canadian pole vaulter Alysha Newman is explaining her viral twerking celebration after taking home the bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. While speaking to CBC Sports on Friday ...
Sandi Morris (born July 8, 1992) is an American pole vault record holder. [2] She won the silver medal in the pole vault event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.She also won silver at the pole vault event at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics and another silver at the 2019 World Championships in Athletics.