When she quit dancing to focus on pole vaulting, she began feeling as though pole vaulting alone wasn't giving her a good enough workout.
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Blindness didn't stop her from pursuing her dream of pole vaulting.
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Meanwhile, Kimmel's son was Photoshopped to look like he excelled at pole vaulting.
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Armand Duplantis, nicknamed Mondo, demonstrating a training device for pole-vaulting this month.
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I hope you appreciate, even a bit, what a great sport pole vaulting is.
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Yelena Isinbayeva is a Russian pole vaulting star and the current world record-holder.
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The profile included a photo of what was stated to be Kimmel's son pole vaulting.
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Even high diving and pole vaulting can look like fun in the hands of competent experts!
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That was when Thiago Braz (pictured) won an unexpected gold medal, and set an Olympic record, in pole vaulting.
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Yelena Isinbaeva, a Russian pole-vaulting champion, charged the IAAF with discriminating against Russians just because they are Russian.
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Pole vaulting eventually eclipsed his childhood dream of playing in the Little League World Series like his older brother.
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Pole vaulting eventually eclipsed his childhood dream of playing in the Little League World Series like his older brother.
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Ogita was initially dismayed by the mockery, but has now used his notoriety to bring attention to the sport of pole vaulting.
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The son of a high school coach who is his trainer, Kendricks turned to pole vaulting after unsuccessful tries at other sports.
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Bijoux d'artistes is pleasurably guilty of pole vaulting "art" into the category of fashionable, high-end luxury products: art à la mode.
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Arguably, this display is pleasurably guilty of pole vaulting "art" into the category of fashionable, high-end luxury products: art à la mode.
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Students were fraudulently presented as pole-vaulting champions or crew stars, knowing such an artifice would be their ticket into the school of their dreams.
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The calculations apply more generally to determining the crack formation of other rod-like structures, like poles used in pole vaulting and other engineering situations.
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Elena Isinbaeva, a Russian pole-vaulting champion, called the decision a "human rights violation", charging the IAAF with discriminating against Russians "on the basis of nationality".
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The focus at the moment, though, is pole vaulting, and the competition on Saturday at the NYRR Millrose Games in New York City could not be finer.
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Shalev wants to know where that $2 million came from and, in an Olympian feat of logical pole-vaulting, sees Salvator Mundi's $450.3 million price tag in his crosshairs.
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Though Vergesten's mother died of Huntington's in 2013, her fighting spirit inspired Vergesten to push her own body to its limits through sports like gymnastics, pole vaulting and swimming.
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Glatezer, who took up cycling after injuries ended his pole vaulting dreams, became the first man to break one minute for the time trial at sea level last November.
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"Pole vault units?" sounds like it should refer to height or distance in the sport of pole vaulting, but we're going in a totally different direction with this one.
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Pole vaulting seems patently dangerous: Competitors run down a track at top speed, holding a giant, flexible stick that they use to launch themselves nearly 20123 feet into the air.
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Pole vaulting seems patently dangerous: Competitors run down a track at top speed, holding a giant, flexible stick that they use to launch themselves nearly 20 feet into the air.
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The oldest of three children, he attended Shaker Heights High School, where he developed dual passions for science and pole-vaulting, and served in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps.
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We're also exploring a reversal by the Obama Administration regarding Atlantic oil drilling, and we're featuring a Character Study of a college athlete who doesn't let blindness prevent her from pole vaulting.
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A six-foot-nine, 220-pound Super Ball, the versatile 163-year-old is a pole-vaulting human hyphen whose regular assaults on gravity have encouraged expectations that land somewhere around Jupiter's fourth moon.
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On December 7th, before the report was even released, the country's "reformed" anti-doping agency named as chair of its supervisory board Yelena Isinbayeva, a retired pole-vaulting great who has long disputed Mr McLaren's findings.
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Last summer, when an adviser at the University of Southern California asked an incoming freshman about his plans for the track team, the student — unaware that his parents and Mr. Singer had sold him as a track standout, complete with a pole-vaulting photo — phoned home, clearly confused.
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They haven't grown in length—the limit remains 5.3m—but there was a marked improvement in pole-vaulting records with the move from static wooden or steel poles to more flexible carbon-fibre ones in the 1960s: the men's world record stretched 64cm further from the ground in that decade.
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He took a tumble off a motorized longboard days before, and while a collegiate pole-vaulting career and a lifetime of skiing taught the 66-year-old how to fall, the remote control in his paw stopped him from tucking his thumb in—and when said thumb met the street, the street won.
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CreditCreditEdmund D. Fountain for The New York Times LAFAYETTE, La. — A pole-vaulting runway extends about 125 feet from the side of the Duplantis family's Acadian-style home, under a gate and into the backyard, where it ends at a foam landing pit, floodlit by a light made for an oil rig.
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Libertarian presidential nominee Gary JohnsonGary Earl JohnsonProgressive Democrats' turnout plans simply don't add up Trump's GOP challenger: 'I may be reduced' to debating Alec Baldwin Amash won't rule out Libertarian challenge to Trump MORE on Friday mocked Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's plan to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, joking that the businessman is worried about Olympians pole vaulting over.
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Kira Grünberg's dream of becoming a professional pole vaulter began when she was seven years old and watched the Olympic Games in Sydney on TV. The pole vaulting competition especially fascinated her. However, at a young age she first started with gymnastics and general athletics and specialized in pole vaulting a few years later. Since she couldn’t find a coach for pole vaulting in her hometown Innsbruck, her father Frithjof Grünberg who used to do pole vaulting as a hobby started to coach her. Her father is described as eager to deepen his technical know-how and seeking contact with international experts in pole vaulting and athletics for new training inputs.
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Competitive pole vaulting began using solid ash poles. As the heights attained increased, the bamboo poles gave way to tubular aluminum,McCormick, Matthew. "Soaring to New Heights: The Evolution of Pole Vaulting and Pole Materials" . Illumin. Retrieved on 25 January 2014.
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Kathryn (Katie) Nageotte (born June 13, 1991) is an American athlete, specializing in pole vaulting.
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Télie Mathiot (born 25 May 1987 at Dijon) is a French athlete who specializes in pole vaulting.
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Pole Vaulting to a New Crowd . The New York Times. Retrieved on 2016-04-10.Kremp, Matthias (June 5, 2006).
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Sports Press NW. Retrieved on 2014-01-25. Running speed, however, may be the most dominant factor. Physical attributes such as speed, agility and strength are essential to pole vaulting effectively, but technical skill is an equally if not more important element. The object of pole vaulting is to clear a bar or crossbar supported upon two uprights (standards) without knocking it down.
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Kelly also competed at the Australian Track and Field Championships in 1990. In 1996 she held the New Zealand record for women's pole vaulting.
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Galfione could not take part in the 2004 Olympics because he failed to clear the minimum Olympic qualifying height. Galfione retired from pole vaulting in 2005.
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Augustine, Bernie (February 12, 2015). Allison Stokke takes viewers over the bar in wild pole-vaulting GoPro video . New York Daily News. Retrieved on 2016-04-10.
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The Czech Republic made its men's pole vaulting debut. The United States made its 23rd appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.
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There are four athletics running lanes (six for sprint distances up until 110 metres), and facilities for pole vaulting, high jumping, hammer throwing, shot putting and long jumping.
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The town's coat of arms, designed by Arvydas Každailis, shows three hazelnuts symbolizing solidarity of the population. Polish pole vaulting Olympic champion Władysław Kozakiewicz was born in the town.
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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 heading "Pole Vaulting is Sexy, Barely Legal".Ufford, Matt (May 8, 2007). Pole Vaulting is Sexy, Barely Legal . Uproxx.
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This record also made her eligible to compete at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.Korea’s pole vaulting hope Lim sets national record and qualifies for Berlin. IAAF (2009-04-28).
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And also has two directional approaches for pole vaulting and all of the jumping events, two shot put circles, discus and hammer cage, and a runway for the javelin area .
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UST Essx, simply referred to as Essx is a brand of pole vaulting poles used by athletes for the competition. Essx is currently owned by UST Mamiya, a golf club manufacturer. Started in the mid 1990s by Bruce Caldwell, Essx gained notoriety as a major pole vaulting brand when their sponsored athlete Sam Kendricks made the list of the world's best pole vaulters list. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Essx manufactures several vaulting poles and pole vault accessories.
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After the 2004 Olympics, Komrsková decided to end her gymnastics career and try pole vaulting, following the example of Daniela Bártová, a former Czech gymnast who went on to set pole vaulting records. However, Komrsková was hindered by her elbow injury. She then tried to join her sister Lucie in long jumping, but ultimately decided to return to gymnastics. Her parents had retired from coaching, so Komrsková began training with the Czech national team coach, Stanislav Vyzina, in Brno.
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These far-jumping competitions (Frisian: Fierljeppen) are not based on height. In his book The Mechanics of the Pole Vault, Richard Ganslen reports that the London Gymnastic Society under Professor Voelker held measured pole vaulting events in 1826, involving 1,300 participants and recording heights up to . Other early pole vaulting competitions where height was measured took place at the Ulverston Football and Cricket Club, Lancashire, north of the sands (now Cumbria) in 1843.Turnbull, Simon (13 June 2009).
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That turned out to be the right decision. Gunnarsson had a natural talent for pole vaulting and cleared 2.40 metres in her very first competition on 27 April. Just 50 days later she had improved her personal best to 3.42. When asked what she thinks is the key to her rapid improvement in the event, Gunnarsson answered that she is very grateful of her gymnastics background which has provided her with the strength and flexibility required for pole vaulting.
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Besides pole vaulting, in 1918 Högström won the national title in the high jump at 1.902 m, which was world's second-best jump that year. After retiring from competitions he became a bank executive.
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Uzbekistan made its men's pole vaulting debut after entering a vaulter in 2004 who did not start. The United States made its 25th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.
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Currently, he is the pole vaulting coach for the Track and Field team at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, where he attended high school. Rob has a wife, Natalie, and two children, Joey and Maria.
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Among the different track and field sports, Donetsk especially has a big name in pole vaulting. Serhii Bubka, regarded by many as the greatest pole vaulter in history, grew up in the city, and also started in 1992 an annual pole vaulting event in Donetsk, called Pole Vault Stars. Bubka himself set the world indoor record at the event three times (1990, 1991, 1993). His indoor world pole vault record of 6.15m, set in the Donetsk Olympic Stadium on 21 February 1993, was not broken until 2014.
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Other athletes include HS National Champions Dan Tierney, and Tiffany Maskulinski. Suhr’s contribution to American pole vaulting has had tremendous impact at the grass roots and professional levels. He has improved pole vault safety and technique through clinics, public speaking, and his consultation service at the youth level. Suhr has been a big advocate in helping push professional pole vaulting back into the American Track and Field circuit. Suhr’s success over the last 8-year period took the National pole vault scene by surprise.
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John Uelses pole vaulting, 1964. Photo by Harold E. Edgerton, MIT. After his tour with the Marines, Uelses received a scholarship to La Salle University in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Explorer track team.
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It is said, for example, that pole vaulting "may have originated in the Netherlands, where people used long poles to vault over wide canals rather than wear out their clogs walking miles to the nearest bridge. Others maintain that pole vaulting was used in warfare to vault over fortress walls during battle." The equipment for such sports has become increasingly sophisticated. Vaulting poles, for example, were originally made from woods such as ash, hickory or hazel; in the 19th century bamboo was used and in the 21st century poles can be made of carbon fibre.
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Colwick was first interested in gymnastics at an early age, which he says is the ideal sport from which to transition into pole vaulting due to gymnasts' ability to control their body in the air. He has stated that he looked to pole vaulting as something he would "enjoy more and be better at" than other sports he was participating in at the time. Colwick adheres to a strict diet that includes fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and minimal alcohol consumption. He is also an avid and technically advanced guitar player.
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Sergei Bubka Jnr, son of pole vaulting great, seriously injured in fall from third floor of Paris apartment He returned to play tennis in February 2014.Win or lose, Bubka a success story, espn.go.com; accessed October 3, 2016.
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She survived a likely bout with viral meningitis during a 2004 summer Spanish immersion program in Costa Rica. While pole vaulting in high school and college, Bachman would wrap her pole in camouflage to symbolize her passion for hunting.
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The majority of track and field-related fatalities in the United States is associated with pole vaulting. Other fatalities and catastrophic injuries in track and field occur by a participant or bystander being struck by a discus, shot put, or javelin.
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Pole vaulting gets her lots of Internet looks, not all by sports fans . Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2016-04-10. It was noted by the Los Angeles Times, among others, that Stokke did not seek or endorse such attention.
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Modra with his cycling pilot and wife Kerry Modra during the 1 km Time Trial at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Modra and his pilot Scott McPhee at the 2012 London Paralympics Modra began pole vaulting in 1987 and won the pole vaulting competition at the 1989 Australian All-School Championships. He competed in athletics at the 1988 Seoul Paralympics where he competed in the Men's 1500 m B3 and Men's Javelin B3., retrieved 23 January 2012. He took up swimming to aid his recovery from a knee injury, and began competing in the sport in 1990.
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Besides her sports career, Kira Grünberg started studying pharmacy in autumn 2013. Kira Grünberg participated in various international competitions and set several Austrian national records in pole vaulting. She holds the Austrian records for U16 (3.72m), U18 (4.01m), U20 (4.15m) and U23 (4.45m).
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Robeilys Mariley Peinado Méndez (born 26 November 1997) is a Venezuelan athlete whose specialty is pole vaulting. She won the bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships in London. In addition, she won multiple medals in several age categories. Meeting Madrid 2017.
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The pole vault has been an Olympic event since 1896 for men, but it was over 100 years later that the first women's world championship competition was held at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships. The first women's Olympic pole vaulting competition occurred in 2000.
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Kate Dennison: 'It helps being a little bit crazy'. The Independent. Retrieved on 2009-06-15. Modern competition began around 1850 in Germany, when pole vaulting was added to the exercises of the Turner gymnastic clubs by Johann C. F. GutsMuths and Friedrich L. Jahn.
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Rigoberto Pérez Identity Card for Berlin 1936 Olympic Games Rigoberto Pérez Amavisca (born 26 November 1912, date of death unknown) was a Mexican pole vaulter who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. His personal best in pole vaulting is 4.10 m set in 1939.
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Besides pole vaulting he competed nationally in the high jump, long jump, and in alpine ski jumping. After retiring from competitions he worked as an athletics coach from 1918 to 1927 and then as an athletic grounds supervisor. He died after being hit by a motorcycle.
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This way of moving is considered to resemble that of pole vaulting, making A. gigas a good climber even of vertical concrete surfaces. This leaping locomotion may help prevent predators from following the snail's chemical traces, which would otherwise leave a continuous trail on the substrate.abstract.
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She has represented Africa twice at the IAAF Continental Cup.Nisrine Dinar. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-08-07. She competed in pole vaulting from a young age, winning the 2003 African Junior Athletics Championships at age fifteen and the 2004 Arab Youth Athletics Championships at age sixteen.
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Philippe Collet, Philippe d'Encausse and Thierry Vigneron were instead selected to represent France at those Olympics. In 1989, Quinon settled in Bordeaux. He became a member of a sports club there and was coached by Georges Martin. He lived in Bordeaux until his retirement from pole vaulting in 1993.
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Angelica Moser (born 9 October 1997) is a Swiss athlete whose specialty is pole vaulting. She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing without qualifying for the final. Her personal bests in the event are 4.66 metres outdoors (Basel 2020) and 4.65 metres indoors (Glasgow 2019).
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Aaron Yoo worked for Siemens corporate from 2001 to 2003. He is married to Fara Homidi, who works in the fashion industry as a make-up artist. In his spare time, he practices DJing, pole-vaulting and playing the cello. He is fully bilingual in Korean and English.
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On 20 August 2006, Israeli newspaper Ynet revealed that the competition had not accepted European Pole vaulting champion, Aleksandr Averbukh, due to his Israeli nationality. After a four-year hiatus, the meet restarted under its new name in 2012 and was held over two days. The 2015 edition was cancelled.
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Michael Stolle pole vaulting at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin 2004 Michael Stolle (born 17 December 1974 in Buxtehude) is a German pole vaulter. His personal best was 5.95 metres, achieved in August 2000 in Monaco. This ranks him third among German pole vaulters, only behind Tim Lobinger and Andrei Tivontchik.
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UCS Spirit is a company based in Minden, Nevada that specializes in track and field equipment. They are best known for their fiberglass pole vaulting poles. UCS Spirit also sells other track equipment like throwing implements, hurdles, and landing mats. The production and sale of track equipment began in 1987.
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She was raised in North Bay, Ontario, by actress Joanne Scott and physicist Raymond Bernier. Her sister, Trista Bernier Grant, is a professional athlete who won a bronze medal for pole-vaulting at The Commonwealth Games in 1998. She obtained a BFA in acting at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
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In April 2012, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel put out a film produced by the Tunisian Jamel Dallali about Ben Youssef's life, titled Salah Ben Youssef, un crime d'État (which translates to "Salah Ben Youssef, a Crime of the State"). His granddaughter, Leila Ben Youssef, is an athlete who performs pole vaulting.
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The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz is a 1968 DeLuxe Color (Deluxe Entertainment Services Group) American comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Elke Sommer, Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer and Leon Askin. The screenplay concerns an East German athlete who defects to the West by pole- vaulting over the Berlin Wall.
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Bruce Caldwell started ESSX Sport Corporation in 1998. His main goal was to sell pole vaulting poles that were different from the others on the market. By 2004, several world-class athletes were jumping with Essx poles. He teamed up with UST Mamiya in 2004 before selling the company outright to UST in 2016.
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"Crenshaw Defies Odds to Reach NFL", Kansas State University Athletics, September 3, 2013. In high school, his main sport was pole vaulting, with a personal best of ; he started out with a double scholarship at Kansas State, where he recalled being one of approximately 50 Black students, before focusing on football after weight training.
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Vasiliy Bubka (; born 26 November 1960 in Voroshilovgrad) is a retired pole vaulter who represented the USSR and later Ukraine. His personal best was 5.86 metres, achieved in July 1988 in Chelyabinsk. Bubka is the older brother of pole vaulting world record holder Sergey Bubka and father of pole vaulter Oleksandr Bubka, born 1986.
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He was later inducted into the university's athletic hall of fame. In the 2008 season he turned professional and focused full-time on pole vaulting. His first season brought great improvement: in April he cleared at a Drake Relays promotion meeting. He improved to soon after – a feat which ranked him twelfth in the global lists that year.
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"Americans Pole-Axed: Olympic Pole Vault Controversy", trackandfield.about.com. Retrieved March 13, 2013. Following his Olympic disaster, Smith rededicated himself to pole vaulting. His reward came on January 20, 1973 when he broke the world record indoors with (beating a record previously held by Kjell Isaksson at ()."Steve Smith Sets Pole Vault Record", Associated Press, Reading Eagle, January 21, 1973.
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He currently trains in Italy with pole vaulting star Yelena Isinbayeva, co-coached by Vitaly Petrov. In 2010 Germán won the Platinum Konex Award from Argentina as the best Atlete from the last decade in his country. In 2015, he finally broke his own national record (after 9 years), jumping 5.75 at the Pan-American Games.
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In spite of its strong traditions in track and field, pole vaulting was a discipline in which Cuba had not historically been successful. As a result, Silva quickly established herself nationally at the age of sixteen, coming second at the Cuban Athletics Championships and winning the Barrientos Memorial in 2003.Yarisley Silva. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 24 March 2013.
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The Polish team was also very strong, including returning champion Ślusarski as well as Kozakiewicz, who had held the world record before Vigneron. Soviet Konstantin Volkov was the home-nation favorite. No nations made their pole vaulting debut in 1980. France made its 15th appearance, the most of any nation competing, though behind the absent United States's 18 appearances.
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The 6.16 was the absolute world record for the pole vault for over 6 years, 2014–2020. He has been the pole vault overall winner of the IAAF Diamond League in seven consecutive years, from 2010 to 2016. Outside pole vaulting, Lavillenie is a keen motorcyclist, and raced in the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours for motorcycles, finishing 25th.
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Whitt was born in Norman, Oklahoma in 1990, the son of Kevin and Ki Whitt. At his father's urging, Whitt started pole vaulting in the seventh grade. "My dad talked me into vaulting in the seventh grade. I was tall for my age and he thought a non-team sport would be better for me," said Whitt.
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Her total score for all four events was 46.398 points. Gunnarsson took up athletics at the age of 12, after she had moved to Paris, France with her parents. She first tried pole vaulting in the spring of 2013 and, despite injuring herself after a fall during her second practice, she decided to give it another try.
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The men's pole vault at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Beograd, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 13 and 15 September 1962. Just before the meeting, the IAAF council approved the use glass fibre poles for pole vaulting. As a consequence, competitors were able to use them during the meeting if they wished.
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On 4 July 2004 she pole vaulted in Heraklion, Greece, which was a world record at the time. She won the silver medal in women's pole vaulting at the 2004 Summer Olympics (behind compatriot Yelena Isinbayeva). She won the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships gold medal for the pole vault in Birmingham, England, at . She won the bronze in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Six days later he raised the record to .Ron Reid (February 12, 1973) "He's Raising The Roof A week after setting the world record, Steve Smith wins coast to coast and it seems the sky is his limit", Sports Illustrated."Long Beach's Steve Smith Sets New Mark For Indoor Pole Vaulting At 18 Feet", Associated Press, Gettysburg Times, (January 27, 1973).
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In 1994, Chow received an advanced level certificate of merit for piano. In high school, she was a competitive diver for Castilleja School, and continued with the sport at Stanford. She also competed in pole vaulting as an unattached athlete at "open" track and field events. Because she received monetary compensation following the 1996 Olympics, she was ineligible to be a collegiate athlete.
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In his teens he assisted his father, a plumber, and worked as a bricklayer. In 1946 he joined the army where he trained in boxing, diving and pole vaulting. Only in 1952, while stationed in Singapore, he became interested in gymnastics and later won nine consecutive British titles between 1956 and 1964. In 1962 he was appointed MBE for his achievements in sport.
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A move which was intended to be a temporary means to earn some money before retiring would later turn out to be permanent. He based himself in Hannover, and joined a local club where he also became a pole vaulting coach. In May 1986 Kozakiewicz gained West German citizenship as his wife's grandparents were born in Germany.Kozakiewicz/Pol 2013, p. 300.
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In addition to Lavillenie, the returning finalists from 2008 were bronze medalist Raphael Holzdeppe of Germany, sixth-place finisher Konstadinos Filippidis of Greece, and seventh-place finisher Jan Kudlička of the Czech Republic. No nation made its men's pole vaulting debut, the fifth Games that occurred. The United States made its 27th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.
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Pole Vault Stars is an annual indoor pole vaulting competition which is typically held in February at the Druzhba Palace of Sports in Donetsk, Ukraine.Ramsak, Bob (2006-02-12). Isinbayeva 4.91 World Indoor record in Donestsk - Updated. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-02-12. The meeting was founded in 1990 by Sergey Bubka, the pole vault world record holder who grew up in the city.
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Femke Pluim (born 10 May 1994) is a Dutch athlete whose specialty is pole vaulting. She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, without qualifying for the final. In addition she won the silver medal at the 2013 European Junior Championships. Pluim started off as a gymnast before turning to athletics in 2011, first doing the sprints and only later the pole vault.
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Mr. Moto's personal life is rarely touched upon. In Think Fast, Mr. Moto he tells Bob Hitchings that he went to Stanford University, graduating in 1921 as an honorary member. There, he set a pole vaulting record and was a member of the fraternity Alpha Omega. In the movies, Mr. Moto travels a great deal and manages to have his cat, Chunkina, along for the journey.
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Uelses went to Miami Senior High School where they had an outstanding athletic program. An all-around athlete, he was a star hurdler and high jumper and ran the 440 on track team and played on the football team while also an honor student. When he injured an ankle on the hurdles, someone suggested he try pole vaulting. He did, and was soon obsessed.
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Stokke initially tried to control the situation herself, but after being bombarded with emails and requests for photo shoots, she sought a media consultant to handle her new-found fame. She gave an interview on pole vaulting technique which was uploaded to YouTube, and it received over one hundred thousand views, but comments and discussion on the internet largely remained in relation to her looks.
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In high school, Shirley was a standout athlete, winning six varsity letters, winning the league pole vaulting championship and was named "Most Improved Athlete" his senior year. He was also the editor of his high school newspaper. In 1978 Shirley graduated from Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he majored history and political science. He was also a member of the school’s lacrosse team and track team.
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The 7th European Athletics Championships were held from 12–16 September 1962 in the JNA Stadium in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia). Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Just before the meeting, the IAAF council approved the use glass fibre poles for pole vaulting. As a consequence, competitors were able to use them during the meeting if they wished.
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In addition there is an indoor long jump, triple jump, and pole-vaulting area. This 200-meter track is equipped with the same material used in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, mondotrack. Mondotrack is prefabricated synthetic rubber track surfacing, vulcanized with a particular closed cell structure, with consistent thickness. This material is hard enough to bounce a ball but feels like a sponge when running on it.
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Jean Galfione started pole vaulting as part of the decathlon when he was 13 years old and a member of the Stade français sports club. He was talent-spotted by Maurice Houvion, who was a coach at INSEP. In 1987, he became part of the group of pole vaulters trained by Houvion at INSEP. In 1988, he broke the pole vault national youth record by clearing 5.16m.
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Evald Äärma (28 December 1911 – 13 October 2005) was an Estonian pole vaulter. He competed at the 1934 European Championships and 1936 Summer Olympics and placed 7th and 26th, respectively. Äärma studied veterinary medicine at the University of Tartu (1937–39) and then at the University of Helsinki. He took up pole vaulting in 1927 and won the Estonian title in 1936 and 1937.
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Since the fall of 2002, Stevenson has been a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. He won the 2004 Olympic silver medal in pole vaulting, the 2003 Pan American Games gold medal, and the 2004 USA Indoor gold medal. He is known for his emotional antics after a successful vault. He played his pole like a guitar after his silver medal vault.
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The show was created by Irwin Allen. With a budget of US$250,000 per episode, Land of the Giants set a new record. The actors had to be physically fit, as they had to do many stunts, such as climbing giant curbs, phone cords, and ropes. Don Marshall, who played the part of Dan Ericson, credited his previous football, track, and pole vaulting work for helping him with the stunts required.
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Finish of the Elfstedentocht in 1956 The province is famous for its speed skaters, with mass participation in cross-country ice skating when weather conditions permit. When winters are cold enough to allow the freshwater canals to freeze hard, the province holds its traditional Elfstedentocht (Eleven cities tour), a ice skating tour. A traditional sport is Frisian handball. Another Frisian practice is fierljeppen, a sport with some similarities to pole vaulting.
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Zhong Guiqing (; born 5 July 1977) is a Chinese former track and field athlete who competed in the pole vault. Her best of is a former world record. She was a one-time Chinese national champion. Zhong was active in the early history of women's pole vaulting, starting to achieve results at national level in 1994 – five years before the women's event first featured at the World Championships in Athletics.
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Blake resumed his pole vaulting career and was again RAF champion, in 1946 and 1948–1949. He was in the running to make the British track and field team for the 1948 Summer Olympics. In 1950, Blake switched to personnel duties, this time for Bomber Command. A role at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) followed, when he was posted to Oslo as Inspector-General for Northern Command, NATO.
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Francisco Nuno Fernandes (born 1 April 1969 in Porto, Portugal) is a retired Portuguese athlete who specialised in pole vaulting. He represented Portugal at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992, each time failing to qualify for the final. His personal record was 5.66 metres outdoors and 5.62 metres indoors, both set in 1996. Those marks stood as national records until being broken by Edi Maia in 2013 and 2012 respectively.
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Allison Rebecca Stokke Fowler (born March 22, 1989) is an American track and field athlete and fitness model. She broke a number of American records for high school pole vaulting. Images of her at age seventeen were widely shared on the Internet, resulting in her becoming an internet phenomenon. Stokke continued to pole vault, attending University of California, Berkeley and competing for their California Golden Bears collegiate track team.
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Patrick Abada (born 20 March 1954 in Paris) is a retired French pole vaulter and Olympian, having competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. His best vault was one of 5.70 m, made on 26 August 1983, in Brussels. As of August 2001, that mark was the 126th best pole vault of all time.World men's all-time best pole vault He represented France in pole vaulting 25 times between 1973 and 1985.
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Samantha Mills (born 23 March 1992) is an Australian diver. Mills was a gymnast through her childhood and early teens, briefly turned to pole vaulting before switching to diving. At the 2013 Summer Universiade, she won the gold medal in the Women's 1m and teamed with Esther Qin to win the silver medal in the Women's 3m Synchronized. In December 2014, she won the Women's 3m at the Australian Diving Championships.
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He competed in track and field, modern pentathlon, and fencing at the 1912, 1920, 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics and won two bronze medals: in the pole vault in 1912 and in the modern pentathlon in 1924. The 1912 pole vaulting competition was unusual in that two silver and three bronze medals were given to athletes who cleared equal heights. Uggla was awarded Stora Grabbars Märke in 1928.
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Lavillenie was the favorite to win the Olympic gold in pole vaulting, but a strong performance from the host country's Thiago Braz da Silva left him with the silver medal. Lavillenie cleared 5.93 m with his third effort at the finals. This meant that each of the five other competing athletes had to equal or beat their personal best to stay in the competition. Only da Silva managed to do so.
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Gordy grew up in the small city of Abbeville, Louisiana. As Abbeville was home to a bamboo grove, local athletes had easy access to bamboo poles that would otherwise have been expensive, and pole vaulting became popular as a result. In high school, Gordy also competed in high jump, long jump and triple jump, but LSU head coach Bernie Moore felt the pole vault would be his best event.
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In 2007 competition of pole stars the «Pole Vaulting at Maidan» was initiated by National Olympic Committee of Ukraine. This event is organized by NOC of Ukraine and the Athletics Federation of Ukraine and is included to the official IAAF calendar. The top athletes compete in the outdoor event at the main square of the country. In 2011 Russian Aleksey Kovalchuk set a record of the tournament- 5.72 m.
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Although Brown had tried pole vaulting early on, he only took it up seriously after being cut from the basketball team of his high school, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. In May 1931, he cleared 13 ft in (4.08 m) at an interscholastic meet at the Harvard Stadium, a new national high school pole vault record. By doing so, he was following in the footsteps of his uncle Bobby Gardner, who in 1912 had become the first jumper to clear 13 feet (3.96 m). Brown graduated from Phillips Academy in 1931 and went to Yale, which at the time was a top pole vaulting school thanks to its coach A. C. Gilbert. As a freshman in 1932, he jumped 13 ft 10 in (4.21 m) to win the Eastern Olympic Tryouts; at the final Olympic Trials in Palo Alto, he only cleared 13 ft 4 in (4.06 m) and tied for seventh with nine other athletes, failing to qualify for the Olympic team.
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In 1929, his final year at Stanford, Edmonds shared first place at the IC4A championships, clearing 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m). He also repeated as NCAA champion, improving his own meeting record to 13 ft in (4.18 m) and sharing first place with Tom Warne. In addition to pole vaulting, Edmonds took up the hurdles in 1929, defeating his Stanford teammate and 1928 IC4A hurdles champion Ross Nichols in several trial races.
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Nguyen was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest to a Vietnamese father and a Hungarian mother. Her father left the family when Anasztázia was a child and she was brought up by her mother. She began her career in 2002 by KSI SE under the guidance of former Summer Universiade winner decathlete Dezső Szabó. First she also practiced long jumping and pole vaulting, but eventually decided to concentrate fully on sprint running.
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Educated at Bedford School and Christ's College, Cambridge, Webster competed in both the 1936 Olympics and the 1948 Olympics. He held the British pole vaulting record between 1936 and 1950. He also competed for England in the pole vault at the 1934 British Empire Games in London and four years later he competed for England at the 1938 British Empire Games in the pole vault again. He was the 1936 and 1939 AAA champion.
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In the indoor seasons he jumped other six times at least 5.70 m, one time in 2003 and 2010, and 4 times in 2004. Gibilisco retired from pole vaulting in August 2014. Since 2016, Gibilisco has represented Italy at international bobsleigh competitions. On January 29, 2017, he made his Bobsleigh World Cup debut at Königssee as a brakeman for the four-man team of veteran pilot Simone Bertazzo, finishing in 25th place.
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Owen Guinn Smith (May 2, 1920 – January 20, 2004) was an American athlete, the 1948 Olympic champion in the pole vault. Born in McKinney, Texas, Smith moved to California when he was a child. He was originally a high jumper, but UC Berkeley, the university he wanted to attend, already had a strong high jumping team, so he took up pole vaulting. He won the NCAA championships in 1941, the year before he graduated as a history major.
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Floé Kühnert performing Pole vaulting Floé Kühnert (born 6 March 1984) is a former German pole vaulter. She was successful at a junior level, winning a silver medals at the 1999 World Youth Championships, the gold medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships, and silver at the 2003 European Junior Championships. She competed at the 2004 Olympic Games, but did not reach the final. Her personal best was 4.41 metres, achieved in June 2002 in Mannheim.
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Eleven days later, in Madrid, Spain, she added an additional 2 cm to clear 4.95 m. In Crystal Palace, London on 22 July, after improving the record to 4.96 m, she raised the bar to 5.00 m. She then became the first woman in history to clear the once mythical five-metre barrier in pole vaulting, achieving the monumental mark with a single attempt. Isinbayeva being interviewed after her victory at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka.
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His sponsorship contract with Nike had expired in 2008 and was not renewed.Naked pole vaulter seeks sponsor ESPN, March 29, 2009 Mesnil finished in 10th position (5.50m) in the pole vault final of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, his fourth and final Olympic Games. He had previously taken part in the last three Olympics in Sydney, Athens and Beijing but had failed to qualify for the final each time. Mesnil retired from pole vaulting in July 2013.
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William Coperthwaite attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he majored in art history. His extra-curricular activities included track and pole vaulting, and he served as vice-president of the Outing Club. He later enrolled in the innovative Putney Graduate School of Teacher Education (Antioch University New England) Master's degree program and in 1972 was awarded a Ph.D in education from Harvard University. Coperthwaite's Harvard research examined the process of instructing groups of students on yurt construction.
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Li Caixia (Chinese: 李彩霞) is a Chinese track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault. Li was born 23 August 1987 in Xi'an. She began pole vaulting in 2005 and began to make progress in the senior ranks in 2009. She cleared a personal best mark of 4.40 metres at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix and did the same feat again to win the silver medal at the 11th Chinese National Games behind Wu Sha.
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In the ensuing inferno, the 'Masters of Death' tell Ogami that they recognize him but that they will not attack him as long as he makes no move against them, and they leave him. The companionway is blocked by flames, so he cuts through the deck planking. Ogami then puts Daigorō in his cart and throws them both overboard to safety before pole-vaulting himself into the sea. The Supreme Ninja attacks Ogami from underwater but he overpowers her.
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As a former national level hurdler in Russia, Grigorieva took up pole vaulting when she migrated to Australia in 1997. Within 12 months of picking up a pole, she became one of the world's best, placing third in the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York. In her first appearance at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics, she won the bronze medal. But it was at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney when she stepped into the spotlight and became a household name.
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National High School Record Book Women were so new to pole vaulting that Price won the 1994 and 1995 National Championships while still in high school. Her 1995 victory set a new American record at , beating another upstart pole vaulter from Idaho State University, Stacy Dragila. Price, then competing for Fresno State University finished second to Dragila the next two years and finished third in 1999. But 2000, the first Olympic year for women's pole vault, the competition had increased.
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It honors athletes who either (1) have excelled in sports in San Diego or (2) are native San Diegans who have excelled in sports elsewhere. As of 2008, 117 athletes have been inducted, representing 20 sports: archery; badminton and tennis; baseball; basketball; bowling; boxing; diving and swimming; football; figure skating; golf; hockey; horse racing; marksmanship; motor sports; pole vaulting; sailing; skateboarding; soccer; track and field; triathlon; and wrestling. New members are inducted in February at the Salute to the Champions dinner.
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Castillo attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri on a leadership and academic scholarship and received his bachelor's degree, with honors, in Atmospheric Science. While in college, he was secretary of the Meteorology Club, a member of the Delta Tau Delta, fraternity and a cheerleader. Castillo grew up loving sports, including soccer, gymnastics, diving, pole vaulting and scuba diving. His passion for weather sparked after a F-3 tornado struck his neighborhood and made national news on April 7, 1980.
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On Sports Day, Mildred and Enid become partners. Enid places a spell on Mildred's pole, so in the pole- vaulting contest, Mildred springs high into the air and lands into Miss Hardbroom's study via the window. Moments later, Miss Cackle, Miss Hardbroom, and Miss Drill arrive and Miss Cackle angrily says that if there is any more bother from Mildred that term, she will be expelled. Determined to avoid expulsion for the rest of the term, Mildred refuses every daring suggestion Enid makes.
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As a coach, he is credited with inventing a new pole-vaulting technique and with coaching numerous Olympic gold medalists, including Archie Hahn, Ralph Rose, Charles Dvorak and Ralph Craig. He was also the trainer for the Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1894 to 1895 and 1898–1909, including Fielding H. Yost's legendary "point-a-minute" teams from 1901 to 1905. Fitzpatrick was born in Natick, Massachusetts in 1864. He died in Princeton, New Jersey at age 79 in 1944.
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Her brother is Cameron who was also selected to compete at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, in the men's 77 kg division weightliftng. McTaggart was a competitive gymnast for 10 years before changing to pole vaulting due to a back injury in 2014. After less than six months in the sport, she competed at the Australian Junior Championships in the under-16 event and won a bronze medal. In 2017 McTaggart broke the New Zealand under-17 record previously held by Eliza McCartney.
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Knowing it would take too long to dig out the sand, the two then try multiple ways to get over the walls, all which fail. As Jarnail suggests pole-vaulting over, Tarsem starts giving up hope. Jarnail convinces him that he will do it, that he must do it, for his son's sake. At the same time, The Jail Minister is making a speech, and then asks Jalaur to come up and say a few words before bringing out Tarsem and Jarnail.
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Hogan's portrait on Notre Dame's Wall of Honor (center). Following a stint in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War I, Hogan enrolled at the University of Notre Dame, where he reportedly intended to play football under coach Rockne. Hogan's athletic career took an unexpected turn, however, when Rockne observed as Hogan demonstrated a pole-vaulting technique to a member of the school's track and field team. An impressed Rockne, who also coached track, informed Hogan that he was no longer a member of the football team.
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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. She won the age 15/16 United States title in 2004 with a championship record of .USATF Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships Past Winners By Event . USATF. Retrieved on April 10, 2016.
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Retrieved on 2 March 2014. Cutts quit his work doing 10-hour night shifts loading lorries at a depot at the beginning of 2013 to allow himself to focus full-time on pole vaulting. He added a centimetre to his personal best in Sheffield in July 2013 then won the second British outdoor title of his career in a new best of . More came at the London Grand Prix/Anniversary Games, where he defeated national rival Steven Lewis and came fourth with another best of .
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At Michigan, Dvorak worked with track coach Keene Fitzpatrick, who has been credited with inventing modern pole-vaulting technique. Fitzpatrick taught Dvorak to grasp the pole with his hands close together, resulting in a significant increase in the heights Dvorak was able to clear. In 1901, Dvorak won the first Western Conference pole vault championship with a jump of 11 feet, 6 inches. After the 1901 season, Dvorak received his bachelor's degree as a member of the University of Michigan's literary class of 1901.
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Anna holds the school records in both events. In 2017 Sam Martin won a state title in pole vaulting clearing a height of 13 feet 6 inches. In 2019, Justin Lehmkuhler won the high jump competition for the school clearing 6’6”. In 2006, the boys cross country team celebrated the title of KHSAA Runner Up. The Girls Soccer team participated in the state championship in 2007, defeated by Sacred Heart Academy 2-0; and in the 2008 State Final Four, losing to Highlands 1-0.
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Hurwitz grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California. While completing a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University (1995) and a master's from Trinity College, Oxford in Shakespearean tragedy (1996), he wrote his first novel. At Harvard, he was a student of psychologist Jordan Peterson who influenced his writing. He was the undergraduate scholar-athlete of the year at Harvard for pole vaulting and played college soccer in England, where he was a Knox Fellow.
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Cool Cat, a student at Disco Tech, sings about how he's "workin' through college to gain a lotta knowledge." A bee disturbs him which he swats to the ground with his guitar. As the angry bee sharpens its stinger, Cool Cat checks out the college's sports programs and decides to try out pole vaulting to impress the female students. His first attempt goes wrong when his pole gets stuck in a chipmunk's hole, and when he goes again the bee stings him as he begins his run-up.
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War Memorial Stadium is also home to the Maui Interscholastic League (MIL) High School Football association and soccer matches are played in the stadium. War Memorial Stadium is also equipped with a state of the art 440 yard track, long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole vaulting pits. In 1972, the stadium was the site of the first State High School Track and Field Championships held outside of Honolulu, chosen in part because of the new state of the art rubberized asphalt surface. The football field has a grass surface.
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Chapelle was born in Colombes and began pole vaulting in 2005, at the age of 10. He won his first major medal at the 2013 European Athletics Junior Championships in Rieti, Italy, with a vault of 5.25 m. At the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Eugene, Oregon, Chapelle won his first major gold medal, vaulting to a world junior leading height of 5.55 m. He broke into tears as he listened to La Marseillaise, the national anthem of France, after he received his gold medal on top of the podium at Hayward Field.
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Although more than thirty years have elapsed since Gabbett last completed a decathlon, he is still ranked as the sixth best British decathlete, behind Daley Thompson, Dean Macey, Alex Kruger, Simon Shirley and David Bigham. His time for the 400m in a decathlon is still the fastest ever run at sea level. Gabbett's athletic form can be seen in sequences of the BBC Two documentary The Ascent of Man from 1973, narrated by Jacob Bronowski. He was filmed in slow motion running a sprint, pole vaulting and throwing a javelin.
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Barney comes to share her reservations when he sees how the life of an old friend, "Insane Duane", has changed since marrying and having children. Both Robin and Barney are relieved when the doctor informs them that Robin is not pregnant. For a day Robin celebrates not being pregnant, until she receives additional news from the doctor: she is unable to have children. Robin struggles to find a way to tell her friends, so she lies and says instead that she is disappointed at not making the Canadian women's pole vaulting team.
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There was then further controversy when Noël finished in fourth place: the officials in charge of the event disallowed a throw that is believed to have been farther than gold medal winner John Anderson's 49.39 m attempt. The throw was not accepted because the officials did not see where it landed, their attention being drawn to the pole vaulting competition instead. Noël was allowed an additional attempt but could not match his earlier performance, reaching 47.74 m and finishing fourth.Athletics at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Discus Throw.
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The party departed on 2 April, passing Lingga and Mende on the way to Tengkye Dzong. Here a football match was staged, Boustead gave an exhibition of boxing and Longland put on a display of pole-vaulting using a bamboo pole (photographed by Smythe). Leaving the town on 5 April, the party travelled on to Khengu over the Bahman Dopté pass; at Khengu Lopsang Tsering fell off his pony and broke his collarbone; the anaesthetic administered by Greene stopped his heart, and only vigorous resuscitation, aided by coramine, saved his life.Ruttledge (1941), pp. 84–6.
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He completed his training a few months later and was posted to No. 17 Squadron, which operated Gloster Gauntlets from Kenley. In September 1937 Blake was promoted to flying officer and became one of No. 17 Squadron's flight commanders. In March 1939, Blake received a further promotion, to flight lieutenant, and a few months later, the squadron moved to North Weald where it began converting to Hawker Hurricanes. He remained active in athletics, particularly in pole vaulting, becoming the RAF champion three years running from 1937 to 1939.
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He was beaten only once during his pole vaulting career, which continued until 1895.New York Athletic Club, The Winged Foot, Volume 62, 1951, page 105 H. Henry Baxter's brother Algernon Sidney Baxter (1819-1897) was a successful businessman in St. Louis, Missouri and New York City. An acquaintance of Ulysses S. Grant from Grant's time as a resident of St. Louis, A. Sidney Baxter served on Grant's staff as a Captain of Quartermasters from 1861 to 1862, resigning because of illness shortly after the Battle of Shiloh.
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There was no sport the nine boys and one girl didn't do, from pole vaulting to high jumping to playing football. Those translated into the roles she played in her secondary school - St Anne's School, Ibadan, Nigeria - where she was into high jumping and table tennis. She was nominated to represent her school and eventually West Africa in the bid to qualify for the All African Games. She has a gold medal for playing table tennis for West Africa but she didn't make it to the All African games.
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This was the 21st appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1984 Games were the two bronze medalists, Earl Bell of the United States and Thierry Vigneron of France. Sergey Bubka was dominant: he had won the 1983 and 1987 world championships, won the 1986 European championship, set the world record nine times between 1984 and 1988, and was the only man to have cleared 6 metres. South Korea made its men's pole vaulting debut.
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On his limited budget, he could not afford any protective measures other than a pole-vaulting mat and an 18-inch- thick foam seat. It has been observed that Poole's stunt work is what sets his film apart from other fan films, overcoming "bad dialogue, pre-CGI special effects, and irregular production values". For one shot, he swung on a rope from an abandoned high-rise, swinging four stories above the ground without a safety net. At one point, the difficulty of the project pushed Poole to contemplate suicide.
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Buschbaum competed in women's pole vaulting before his gender transition, winning the title of German Youth Champion multiple times. In 1999 Buschbaum became the German pole vault champion, later that year setting the German record for pole vault with a height of 4.42 m, beating his previous junior world record of 4.37 m. His personal best is 4.70 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Ulm. On 21 November 2007 Buschbaum announced his retirement from the sport due to a persistent injury and the desire to begin gender reassignment.
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In his final year at Arizona State University in 1994, he won both the Pac-10 and the NCAA championships. He is now coaching pole vaulting team at Chaparral High School (Arizona) for the track and field team. Hysong is also running his own sports performance facility in phoenix Arizona(RISEN Performance – linked below). In 2010 under his private coaching Alex Bishop won the 5A1 Arizona State Championship with a vault of 5 meters, and Liz Portenova won the 5A2 State Championship with a vault of 3.70 meters.
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In an infamous incident in the 1960s, pole-vaulting champion Brian Sternberg became paralyzed from the neck down in a trampoline accident. Danger can be reduced by burying the trampoline so the bed is closer to the surrounding surface to lessen falling distance, and padding that surrounding area. Pads over the spring and frame reduce the severity of impact injuries. Keeping the springs covered also reduces the risk of a limb falling between the gaps in the springs and the rest of the body falling off the trampoline.
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Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long flexible pole (which today is usually made either of fiberglass or carbon fiber) as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, Cretans and Celts. It has been a full medal event at the Olympic Games since 1896 for men and since 2000 for women. It is typically classified as one of the four major jumping events in athletics, alongside the high jump, long jump and triple jump.
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Each vaulter gets one attempt at each height until one makes and one misses. The equipment and rules for pole vaulting are similar to the high jump. Unlike high jump, however, the athlete in the vault has the ability to select the horizontal position of the bar before each jump and can place it a distance beyond the back of the box, the metal pit that the pole is placed into immediately before takeoff. The range of distance the vaulter may place the standards varies depending on the level of competition.
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Emerson Obiena is a Filipino pole vaulter and coach. Obiena is a silver medalist at the 1995 Southeast Asian Games finishing behind fellow countryman, Edward Lasquete in the pole vault event. The last medal he won in an international competition was a bronze, which he obtained at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games Obiena is married to Jeannete, a former hurdler for the Centro Escolar University, with whom he had two children: Ernest and Emily both of which are pole vaulters. By 2014, Obiena was already serving as the Philippine national coach for pole vaulting.
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Pierre Quinon, whose father was an 800 metres runner, started his pole vaulting career at the Rhodia Club Omnisports (athletics section), which is based in the town of Salaise-sur-Sanne (in the department of Isère). Pierre's father coached him at that club. Pierre did his first pole vaulting training session in the Lyon suburb of Saint-Priest under the supervision of his coach, Christian Bourguignon, who was from Lyon. He made his pole vault competition debut in 1976, at the age of 14, in the town of Le Péage-de-Roussillon (in the department of Isère). He became the French national champion at the youth level (under the age of 18 years) in 1979. He burst onto the scene at the national level in 1981 thanks to a height clearance of 5.50 metres outdoors. He won the silver medal at the 1981 European Junior Championships in Utrecht by clearing a height of 5.30 metres. In 1981, Quinon joined the Racing Club de France in Paris and trained there on a group basis with Patrick Abada, Jean- Michel Bellot and Thierry Vigneron (a former pole vault world record holder), all under the supervision of Jean-Claude Perrin, who was a member of the club's coaching staff.
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On Friday, January 29, 2010, he officially retired from pole vaulting at the 2010 National Pole Vault Summit in Reno, NV. From February, 2014, he is working as Head of Activity for Hammarby Athletics in Stockholm, Sweden. After a four-year stint coaching at the University of Kentucky, where he coached Olivia Gruver to her second straight NCAA outdoor title, as well as coaching decathlete Tim Duckworth to both the NCAA decathlon and heptathlon crowns, Stevenson was named associate head track & field coach in charge of the jumps and multi-events at the University of Washington on July 11, 2018.
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As a basic attack, Davy and his friends, who have the same powers, can stick out their tongue and swallow enemies that stick to it. Once inside their mouth, the Chameleons have the option of spitting the enemies back out of their mouths at other enemies. In order to jump up to levels of ground that are usually impossible to reach, the characters are able to launch themselves into the air by using their tongues. If used while the chameleon is moving in a particular direction, the jump is given even more altitude, in what is comparable to pole vaulting.
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The United States had dominated the event through 1968 and still maintained perennially contending teams; Bell and Mike Tully were among the favorites. France also had a strong team and was the only nation of the four to compete in both 1980 and 1984; Vigneron's finish in Moscow had been disappointing, and he sought a better result in Los Angeles along with teammate Pierre Quinon. The People's Republic of China and the Virgin Islands each made their men's pole vaulting debut. The United States made its 19th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.
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Sergey Bubka statue, Donetsk Bubka possessed great strength, speed and gymnastic abilities. He gripped the pole higher than most vaulters to get extra leverage, though Bubka himself played down the effect of grip alone. His development and mastery of the Petrov/Bubka technical model is also considered a key to his success. (A technical model is a sequence of positions and pressures which describe the method and style form of pole vaulting.) The Petrov/Bubka model is considered superior to many others today, because it allows the vaulter to continuously put energy into the pole while rising towards the bar.
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Alex Johnson was born and raised in Hudson, Wisconsin. She began climbing in 1997, won her first American Bouldering Series Youth Climbing National Championship in 2002 at age twelve, and won the Adult National Championships in 2003 at age thirteen. She continued to win professional bouldering competitions throughout her childhood, but in her last two years of high school she turned away from climbing to focus her energy on track, and in 2007 she won the Wisconsin State Championships in pole vaulting. This win helped her earn a track and field scholarship to attend Minnesota State University.
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Born in Auckland to a New Zealand father and Finnish mother, Vandy holds a dual citizenship, and chose to represent her mother's birthplace Finland at numerous sporting events, including the Olympic games. At age ten, Vandy moved with her family to Vaasa, Finland, where she began pole vaulting at age 13. She eventually became a member of, and trained full-time at Vasa Idrottssällskap, under her personal and head coach Johan Westö. In 2007, Vandy made her international debut at the European Junior Championships, where she achieved a seventh-place finish in the women's pole vault.
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Lawrence Johnson (born May 7, 1974) is an American pole vaulter, born in Norfolk, Virginia. He earned the nickname "LoJo" at the University of Tennessee where he won four NCAA titles in the pole vault. LoJo began pole vaulting in 1989 and since has/holds records on all stages and led the charge to return the US to the international medal podium with two Olympic appearances, including a silver medal performance in 2000 Olympic games Sydney. Lawrence resigned as Assistant Coach/Pole Vault at the University of South Carolina in August 2011 to grow his online concept www.vaultassaultonline.
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Dr. Hennessy is a retired international athlete, who competed and holds records at the Pole Vault in international competition representing Ireland on more than 55 occasions, the first occasion being at the age of 15. Decades after ending his competitive involvement Liam is still listed amongst the best Irish performers in international competition. Hennessy broke his first Irish record in 1977 "Liam Hennessy, an 18-year-old from Tipperary, leapt to the top of Irish Pole-vaulting." One of Hennessy's records that still stands today is his Munster U-23 Men's Indoor record, set in 1978, of 4.70, with his career personal best at 4.96.
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Born in Liverpool, England to a Jamaican mother and American father stationed with the US Air Force in the UK, his family moved to the United States when he was a toddler, and proceeded to move around until finally settling in Washington, D.C. With his early love of music, he was a gifted athlete from an early age, competing in swimming and pole-vaulting. He and his younger brother Earl both entered the local D.C. music scene as teenagers with their friends and future bandmates Dr. Know (guitarist) and Daryl Jenifer. H.R. was an early nickname that initially stood for "hunting rod", but which he changed to stand for "human rights".
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The 1892 Kalamazoo football team was an American football team that represented Kalamazoo College in the 1892 college football season. In their first season fielding a football team, the Kalamazoo eleven lost two games against Olivet College, being outscored 32 to 8 by their opponent. The first game, played October 24 at Olivet, was planned as a part of Olivet's field day of 1892, which also included boxing matches, tennis, and track and field events like the hammer throw and pole vaulting. During the contest, Kalamazoo took an early 4–0 lead, but allowed 20 answered points, 8 in the first half and 12 in the second.
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Landström studied in the United States at the University of Michigan and graduated as Bachelor of Science in 1959. He was a two-time Big Ten champion in pole vaulting while at Michigan, in 1956 and 1959. In 1961 he became the first Finnish participant at the Olympic Academy arranged by the International Olympic Committee in Athens. Landström was a member of the Finnish parliament in 1966–1971 and worked also in executive positions, for example as Assistant Director of Finance in the Finnish Broadcasting Company in 1976–1981 and as a member of the Administrative Council of the Finnish Broadcasting Company in 1967–1976.
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The number of victims is estimated to range between 2,000 and 3,000 people. Local newspapers in the Southern Netherlands carried almost daily reports about people who were 'lightninged to death'. However, many also succeeded in overcoming the fence, often by employing dangerous or creative methods, ranging from the use of very large ladders and tunnels to pole vaulting and binding porcelain plates onto shoes in an attempt to insulate themselves.Fact sheet 'Bunkergordel' on the wire The wire also separated families and friends as the Dutch–Belgian border where Dutch and Flemings (Dutch-speaking Belgians), despite living in different states, often intermarried or otherwise socialized with each other.
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Richard "Rick" Suhr (pronounced like "sure", born 1967) is an American Olympic level pole vaulting coach in Rochester, New York who coached the #1 women's vaulter in the World from beginner to World #1 two years in a row. He has been awarded the National Coach of the Year for the 2nd consecutive year at the professional level. In the last 8 years, Suhr's athletes have won 18 National Championships and set 16 National Records in the pole vault at the high school, collegiate, and professional levels. Suhr is the only pole vault coach to have received the United State Olympic Committee's Ikkos award (excellence in coaching).
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has classified sports based on the likelihood of collision and contact. It recommends against participation in boxing. Those classified as contact and collision sports include basketball, boxing, diving, field hockey, football, ice hockey, lacrosse, martial arts, rodeo, rugby, ski jumping, soccer, team handball, water polo, and wrestling. Those classified as limited contact include baseball, bicycling, cheerleading, whitewater canoeing and kayaking, fencing, floor hockey, flag football, gymnastics, handball, horseback riding, racquetball, skating (ice skating, inline skating, roller skating), skiing (cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, water skiing), skateboarding, snowboarding, softball, squash, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, and windsurfing or surfing, and the track and field events high jump and pole vaulting.
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Longland was the eldest son of the Rev E. H. Longland (successively curate of Hagley, vicar of St Paul's, Warwick (1908–16) rector of St Nicholas's Droitwich (1916–27), and vicar of Cropthorne (1927)) and his wife, Emily, elder daughter of Sir James Crockett. Longland was educated at the King's School, Worcester, and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was Rustat Exhibitioner and scholar, won a Blue for pole-vaulting, and gained a first in Part I of the Historical Tripos in 1926,"University News", The Times, 26 June 1926, p. 16 and first class honours with distinction in the English Tripos in 1927."Obituary: Sir Jack Longland", The Times, 2 December 1993, p.
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Salto del pastor practitioners have developed a wide range of techniques to facilitate quick and agile movement across extremely difficult and dangerous terrain. These techniques range from pole-vaulting across crevices to the "dead drop" in which the practitioner leaps into space from heights of up to eight metres, jamming his/her garrotte into the ground below and then sliding down the pole. There are many other types of leaps, depending on the nature of the obstacle that needs to be cleared. Some of these are so fraught with risk that they have given rise to beautiful legends, such as the salto del enamorado (lover's leap) and the salto de media luna (half moon leap).
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Lafayette records indicate that the first athletic meeting between the two schools was a series of baseball games played in Easton and Bethlehem in October 1869. The first game was a 45–45 tie, and Lafayette won the second meeting 31–24. The first joint athletic track and field event held between the two institutions was on May 14, 1881 on the grounds of the Lehigh University Athletic Association. The meet consisted of fourteen events; Hundred Yards Dash, Half-Mile Run, Throwing the Hammer, Running High Jump, 440 Yards Dash, Mile Walk, Putting the Shot, Running Broad Jump, 220 Yards Dash, Mile Run, Pole Vaulting, 120 Yards Hurdle Race, Bicycle Race, Standing High Jump, and Tug of War.
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Sergey Bubka started competing on the international athletics scene in 1981 when he participated in the European Junior Championship finishing seventh. But the 1983 World Championship held in Helsinki was his actual entry point to the world athletics, where a relatively unknown Bubka snatched the gold, clearing 5.70 metres (18 feet 8 inches). The years that followed witnessed the unparalleled dominance of Bubka, with him setting new records and standards in pole vaulting. He set his first world record of 5.85m on 26 May 1984 which he improved to 5.88m a week later, and then to 5.90m a month later. He cleared 6.00 metres (19 feet 8 inches) for the first time on 13 July 1985 in Paris.
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This was the 18th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1972 Games were fifth-place finisher Bruce Simpson of Canada, eighth-place finisher François Tracanelli of France, ninth-place finisher Ingemar Jernberg of Sweden, tenth-place finisher Wojciech Buciarski, and twelfth-place finishers Antti Kalliomäki and Tadeusz Ślusarski of Poland (each of whom had not cleared any height in the final). The favorites were David Roberts (the world record holder) and Earl Bell of the United States and Władysław Kozakiewicz of Poland. Cuba was the only nation that made its pole vaulting debut in the event.
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Melee combat is also more varied, with the ability to perform several attacks using Corvus' bladestaff and cut off the limbs of enemies, rendering them harmless. Players are also able to utilize magical shrines throughout the game that grant a variety of effects upon use, such as silver or gold armor, a temporary boost in health, a permanent enhancement to the bladestaff, etc. The game consists of a wide variety of high fantasy medieval backdrops to Corvus's adventure. The third-person perspective and three- dimensional game environment allowed developers to introduce a wide variety of gymnastic moves, like climbing up ledges, back-flipping off walls, and pole vaulting, in a much more dynamic environment than the original game's engine could produce.
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Mark Hatton (born 28 March 1973) is a British luge coach and former luger who competed from 1997 to 2007, including two Winter Olympic Games: Salt Lake City 2002 and Torino 2006. He finished in 25th place in the singles event at the 2002 Games, the highest placed sledder without a track in their home country. Hatton's first competitive sport was athletics, specifically pole vaulting. He attended Brunel University London, where he graduated with a degree in sports science, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Education and earned a double blue in athletics and ice hockey, following in the footsteps of his father, who attended the same college and earned two blues in tennis.
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Pole vault in the 1890s at US Naval Academy Traditional fierljeppen in the Netherlands, using poles to clear distances over rivers Poles were used as a practical means of passing over natural obstacles in marshy places such as the province of Friesland in the Netherlands, along the North Sea, and the great level of the Fens in England across Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk. Artificial draining of these marshes created a network of open drains or canals intersecting each other. To cross these without getting soaked, while avoiding tedious roundabout journeys over bridges, a stack of jumping poles was kept at every house and used for vaulting over the canals. Distance pole vaulting competitions continue to be held annually in the lowlands around the North Sea.
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On June 29, 2008, the opening ceremony which officially opens the cause for sainthood for Kapaun was made on Father Kapaun Day held at St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church in Pilsen, Kansas. On June 26, 2009, Dr. Andrea Ambrosi, the Roman Postulator for Kapaun's cause for canonization arrived in Wichita in order to interview doctors in relation to alleged miraculous events. Among these is the claim of 20-year-old Chase Kear, who survived a severe head injury last year in part, he and his family claim, because they petitioned Fr. Emil Kapaun to intercede for them. Kear, a member of the Hutchinson Community College track team, fell on his head during pole vaulting practice in October 2008, but, it is said, was miraculously healed despite being near death.
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The track and filed academy is offered to high school, gap year and post graduate athletes. The facility has hosted the Big Ten Conference for over six years in a row and was set to hold the 2020 conference. In April 2020, it was announced that Tim Mack would be joining SPIRE as their field training and development director. Prior to joining SPIRE, Tim Mack won many awards including an Olympic gold medal while setting a new pole vaulting record of 5.95 meters and has joined the "6 meters club" by finishing first at the 2nd IAAF World Athletics Final. In May 2020, Andrew Liskowitz, a SPIRE athlete, won the shot put title at the Big Ten Championships with the nation’s best mark (and a SPIRE Institute record) of 21.02 meters.
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When nations around the world gave gifts of art works for display at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the government of Luxembourg donated Wercollier's sculpture Ascension as its gift to honor John F. Kennedy.Gifts on Tour at the Kennedy Center (pdf) Another notable work of Wercollier is his sculpture Altius ("Higher")—a tribute to the sport of pole vaulting—which stands in the Olympic Sculpture Garden at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Among his best-known works are sculptures dealing with the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg during World War II. For example, his bronze The Political Prisoner stands at the National Monument to the Resistance and to the Deportation at the Notre-Dame cemetery in Limpertsberg, Luxembourg City. It is also exhibited at the National Resistance Museum in Esch-sur- Alzette.
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On set, the actors had to perform many of their own stunts, and here Marshall's athleticism was an asset; he credited his previous football, track, and pole vaulting work with enabling him to do many of the stunts required. In one of the episodes, "Ghost Town", while diving over a fire, Marshall actually dislocated his shoulder and the next day had to shoot new scenes with his arm in a sling. Another episode, "Giants and All That Jazz", which featured former world champion boxer Sugar Ray Robinson as Biff Bowers and Mike Mazurki as Loach, had Marshall teaching Biff Bowers how to play the trumpet. This episode, which Marshall called "Beautiful", seems to have been a favorite of his and made him want to act rather than follow or figure out what dialogue to use or say.
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Karabelen was among those taken out of Military School in 1915 to participate in the Turkish defence against the Allied Gallipoli Campaign.Ilknur Boray, A Friendship that Survived Two Continents, One War, 70 Years, Voice of Atatürk, Fall 2010, Atatürk Society of America Surviving this, he became an officer in the Turkish Army and worked closely with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and taking a lead in developing some sports in the new Republic of Turkey, becoming Turkey's first national pole-vaulting champion. Karabelen was one of sixteen soldiers (including Turgut Sunalp, Ahmet Yıldız, Alparslan Türkeş, Suphi Karaman, and Fikret Ateşdağlı) who were sent to the United States in 1948 for training in special warfare. These people were to form the core of what would later be called the Special Warfare Department (, or ÖHD), founded by Karabelen as the Tactical Mobilisation Group in September 1952.
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Demi Payne (born September 30, 1991) is an American track and field athlete whose specialty is pole vaulting. She is the daughter of American pole vaulter Bill Payne. Payne competed collegiately for Stephen F. Austin State University. She competed in the pole vault event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China. Demi Payne won gold medal on March 1, 2015 2015 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships Pole Vault with a height of . She won a bronze medal June 28, 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships Pole Vault with a height of Her personal bests have been indoors. She set her personal best in Albuquerque at 4.75 on January 24, 2015, which ranked her tied with Kylie Hutson for the fourth best American in history. On February 6, 2016, she improved upon that, first clearing a new personal best 4.76 to break the tie and to move into a tie for third with Sandi Morris.
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This was the 22nd appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1988 Games were gold medalist Sergey Bubka of the Soviet Union (now the Unified Team), fifth-place finisher Philippe Collet of France, seventh-place finisher István Bagyula of Hungary, eighth-place finisher Philippe d'Encausse of France, ninth-place finisher Asko Peltoniemi of Finland, tenth-place finisher Kory Tarpenning of the United States, and thirteenth-place finisher Hermann Fehringer of Austria. Bubka was an "overwhelming favorite" to repeat; in addition to the 1988 Olympic gold, he had won all three world championships held to date (1983, 1987, and 1991), set 14 world records, and been the only man to clear 20 feet. Cyprus, Israel, Latvia, Mauritius, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Portugal each made their men's pole vaulting debut; some former Soviet republics competed as the Unified Team.
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that Brookside Stadium has been in continuous use since around 1894 - 1896. Regardless of discussions of elaborate infrastructure improvements, we do know that on May 2, 1909, Brookside Stadium hosted a double-header for opening day of the Cleveland League, the first game between the Ohio A C's versus the Commadores and the second between McWatters-Dolan and the Treadways. The official dedication ceremonies of Brookside Stadium took place on May 29, 1909 and consisted of a 15-mile City Marathon originating in Gordon Park and finishing on the main field, other track and field competitions (shot put, pole vaulting, etc.) involving 152 participants representing 12 gymnasiums, an act by Minnie the Brookside elephant who performed between events, and a concert from Rossini's band who "sent waltzes and two steps singing through the air". The thousands that lined the hillsides were seated on a "circus-like" arrangement of wooden bench seating that outlined the field.
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Amelia Cackle (Ada Cackle in the 2017 TV series) is the kind-hearted headmistress of the Academy. Plump and pleasant, Miss Cackle is more lenient towards Mildred when she is in trouble, and rather than intimidate the girl as Miss Hardbroom does, Miss Cackle gives long, sorrowful lectures which causes Mildred to feel guilty for the trouble she is in. Her birthday is celebrated at her beloved Academy, and her students believe it to be the most boring event of the year. Despite her kind heart, Miss Cackle can be intimidating when she wants to, and has occasionally broken into fits of rage at Mildred, most notably both when Mildred humiliated the reputation of the Academy by ruining a broomstick display to honour the Wizards' Council (Ethel had cursed Mildred to ensure she would make a fool of herself), and after she incorrectly believed Mildred was cheating at the school sport's day, after Enid cast an improper spell upon Mildred to make sure she won the pole-vaulting competition.
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Zita Ajkler (born June 9, 1975) is a Hungarian long jumper. She is a 16-time Hungarian national champion in the long jump, triple jump, heptathlon, and 100-meter hurdles. Her personal best is 676 cm in the long jump and 13.99 m in the triple jump (the national record is 14.00 m); 13.75 s in 100-meter hurdles (wind-1.2), 8.35 s in 60-meter hurdles, and 5,323 points in the heptathlon. Ajkler began by pole vaulting recreationally, achieved 360 cm in training after 3 months of practice, but never competed in this event. Her first big achievement was in 1998, at the European Athletics Championships in Budapest, where she came in 6th with a personal best of 664 cm. She reached 6th place again in Vienna at the indoor European Athletics Championships in 2002. Ajkler has competed during two Olympic Games: Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004; she did not reach the finals, however. Ajkler competed three times at the World University Games: 1999 - Mallorca, 2001 - Beijing, and 2003 - Daegu (long jump, triple jump, and 4X100-meter relay in all competitions).
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The aquatic department was run by Trent Trees from 1983 to 1997. Per student request and interest, he was responsible for bringing the sport of water polo to the Atlanta Area Schools in the late 1980s. It paid off for the school and him when in 1995, the 1996 Olympics contacted him to work poolside during the events. He also coached gymnastics, swimming, diving, pole vaulting, and track. Under Charlie Owens, the baseball team won the Georgia Class A State Championship from 1993 to 1995, all of which included future Major League Baseball player Michael Barrett. Led by Ricks Carson, the boys' soccer team won the final three Fall Soccer League championships (2002 to 2004), and finished second nationally in the final NSCAA (National Soccer Coaches of America) poll during the fall of 2003. In its first season in the GHSA Spring League in 2006, the team captured the Class AA/A State Championship and finished 19th nationally and 5th in Region II in the Final NSCAA poll. The boys' lacrosse team, coached by Grady Stevens, has consistently contended for the GHSA All-Classification championship.
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Duplantis was born into an athletic family; his American father, Greg Duplantis, who is of Cajun descent, is a former pole vaulter with a personal best of 5.80 m (19 ft in), while his Swedish mother Helena (née Hedlund) is a former heptathlete and volleyball player. His two older brothers, Andreas and Antoine, and his younger sister, Johanna, also took up sports; Andreas represented Sweden as a pole vaulter at the 2009 World Youth Championships and 2012 World Junior Championships, while Antoine dropped pole vault for baseball in high school before heading to Louisiana State University where he became the team's career hits leader in 2019. Youth world record progression Armand Duplantis first tried pole vaulting as a three-year-old at the family's home in Lafayette, Louisiana, and took to the event rapidly; he set his first age group world best at age 7, and his jump of 3.86 m (12 ft 8 in) as a ten-year-old surpassed the previous world bests for ages 11 and 12 as well. , he holds the world best in all age groups from age 7 to age 12; he held the age 13 record until it was broken in May 2015.
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