BATON ROUGE, La. (WVLA) — A Swedish-American athlete from Louisiana has set a new world record in pole vaulting at the ...

USA’s Chris Nilsen became the first man to pole vault six metres in 2025, scaling 6.01m to win at the Perch’Xtrem ...

Who is the best female pole vaulter ever? Yelena Isinbayeva is the women's pole vault world record-holder at 5.06m (16 feet, 7 inches) from August 2009. She has the four best heights in history. How ...

Regarding Tuesday’s Olympic pole vault, “Mondo” says he has been “jumping my whole life for this moment”. With a golden performance, is Duplantis destined to become ‘The Face’ of ...

An international argument between Poland and the USSR nearly erupted due to an unusual triumphant gesture from the pole vault champion at the 1980 Olympics. Władysław Kozakiewicz's beaming face and ...

For most of us, the thought of running full speed with a pole, planting it into the ground and launching ourselves into the air seems more like an act of daredevilry than an athletic pursuit. But for ...

The twin sisters set mutliple records with a matching clearance that is the second-highest in the world so far this year.