BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team looks at the world record-breaking claw shoes worn by Armand Duplantis at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.

When Dave Gable, a former state-champion pole vaulter with Beaverton who has coached pole vaulters at Crescent Valley High for 35 years, was walking down toward the track for practice, he noticed that some of the athletes got there early and were doing ...

The 25-year-old dazzled in Tokyo to break the world record for a 14th time in another dominant display to the delight of 55,000 in attendance

The Dutch sport of "fierljeppen" sees athletes hoist themselves up and over canals on slender carbon poles in the Netherlands countryside.

After 22 years with the Gophers, assistant pole vaulting coach Caroline White retired from the position. White started her role back in the 2003-2004 season, just two years after she graduated from the College of St. Benedict. Initially, she did not want ...

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

There is now a three-time state champion residing at Parkside High School, and his journey to the top of the pole vault competition in the state of Maryland has taken an unconventional route. On Feb. 21, Parkside's Reese Howard won the MPSSAA Class 2A ...