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MELBOURNE, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Olympic pole vault champion Nina Kennedy will defend her world title in Tokyo without a single lead-up competition, coming in cold after a long injury layoff that has her ...

CHORZOW, Poland (AP) — Maybe only a track and field superstar like Mondo Duplantis could get away with such a mischievous question to Olympic 100-meter champion Noah Lyles. The pole vault world record ...

Gabby Thomas experienced a major health scare just three weeks before the Tokyo Olympic trials in 2021. “I did have a slight hamstring injury strain, and I got a routine, like, MRI for that,” Thomas, ...

Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis has broken the men’s pole vault world record for a 13th time. Duplantis, the two-time Olympic gold medalist, cleared 6.29 meters (20 feet, 7 1/2 inches) at a meet in Budapest, ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Mondo Duplantis raised his pole vault world record to 6.29 meters at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial meet in Budapest on Tuesday. The Olympic and world champion added a centimeter ...

Olympic Champion Mondo Duplantis has set the 13th pole vault world record of his career by clearing 6.29m at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial in Budapest, Hungary. Duplantis, 25, is the Olympic and World ...

NORMAL — The Flying Dragons Pole Vault Club of Normal is getting help from the community after nearly $50,000 of their equipment was stolen during an out-of-state competition trip. Head coach and ...

Track and field championships have been in full swing over the past few weeks as the summer comes to an end. While many Flagstaff-based athletes have had strong showings this year at the professional ...

Conditions were not optimal for competing in the pole vault -- hot, humid and windy -- but MacKenzie Sellers persevered and won a national title. Sellers won the girls 15-16 age group at the AAU ...

White has coached pole vault at the 'U' for 22 seasons. MINNEAPOLIS -- University of Minnesota volunteer assistant coach Caroline White has announced her retirement from coaching pole vault. White's ...