"It's all about this rhythm,” he says. “I have it in my head and I can feel on the runway when it's right.” Finding that rhythm takes effort, but with enough practice, the payoff is a sweet reward.

While there’s a lot going on in the span of less than a minute, the best pole vaulters make a successful jump look easy. Red Bull pole vaulter Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis is a great example. He describes ...

Pole vaulting is one of the four jumping events in track and field. Competitors use a long, flexible pole to leap over a bar. There is a least 45 meters of runway for athletes to build up kinetic ...

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Jeff Hartwig, who set two North American pole vaulting records in 1998, was a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1996 and 2008. The pole vault is, at heart, simple physics. The athlete moving fastest ...

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

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

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

DEXTER – Geoff Gerstner doesn’t know how it happened, but he’s glad it did. After the 2020 spring sports season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gerstner, the Dexter pole vaulting coach, ...