PISCATAWAY – Track and field events generally include sprints, high hurdles, relays and long distance runs around an oval track, the shot put, high jump, long jump and javelin. Not one of them compete ...

Against all odds, Anthony Ammirati has become one of the faces of the 2024 Summer Olympics without even coming close to the podium. The French pole vaulter, 21, went viral on Saturday, August 3, when ...

At 74-years-old, Atascadero resident Jan Johnson has won a bronze medal, set a world record and helped train and mold the next generation of pole vaulters over the past 50 years. It started when he ...

Even 53 years later, David Butler remembers the feeling of executing his first pole vault for New Haven High School. “I jumped 6 feet,” Butler said. “Now, 6 feet is not very high. But I thought it was ...

The latest social media sensation coming out of the Paris Olympics is a French pole vaulter who experienced a eye-grabbing, NSFW mishap during a qualifying event. In the hopes of making it to the ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — Sweden’s Armand Duplantis, pole in hand, stood on the runway staring down a bar higher than anyone’s ever cleared. Something special was brewing. It was tangible inside Stade de ...

Pole vaulter Austin Miller. Photo Credit: Leroy Ryser. Pole vaulter Austin Miller. Photo Credit: Leroy Ryser. American pole vaulter Austin Miller chatted about his latest endeavors in athletics, ...

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 York, ...

HERZOGENAURACH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pole vault world-record holder Armand “Mondo” Duplantis believes he can push the pole-vault world record to 6.40 metres in the next few years, the athlete ...

Graduate student pole vaulter Alli Lofquist stood at the end of the runway, pole in hand, staring down the opening bar set at 3.52 meters — a height she cleared countless times before during her ...

She dreams of flying high in the maroon and white uniform of Texas A&M. Of competing in pole vault events held on city streets. Of wearing the red and white of her birth nation in an Olympics. The ...