Olympic pole vault champion Jenn Suhr has suffered injuries to her upper body after her pole snapped during training. The 32-year-old, who won gold at London 2012 to go with silver earned in Beijing ...

Olympic pole vault gold medalist Nina Kennedy will miss the World Track and Field Championships that start next week after straining a leg muscle in training. Kennedy, a 28-year-old Australian, was ...

Greek pole vaulter Kostas Filippidis is suing the owners of the Athens Olympic Stadium for 530,000 euros ($625,000) after a pothole left him injured during a practice session, his lawyer reported ...

AUSTIN — Nicholas Estrada's best attempts at the state meet Thursday didn't clear the bar. Estrada twisted his ankle on a hard fall during his first try at 15 feet in the Class 3A boys pole vault. A ...

The Daily Republic, Mitchell, S.D. Landon Dierks, The Daily Republic, Mitchell, S.D. Jun. 13—EUGENE, Ore. — The University of South Dakota's national pole vaulting success continued at the NCAA ...

All 36 of these combined injuries involved the vaulter bouncing out of or landing out of the mat area. When taken into consideration that only 25,000 high school athletes compete in the pole vault ...

On the ground at Brown University’s Olney-Margolies Athletic Center, throwers were stretching, runners were sprinting and jumpers were getting ready for their jumps. Five meters and 20 centimeters ...

Lucas senior Rebekah Case and Crestview junior Liam Kuhn held a joint practice to prepare for the OHSAA Division III State Track and Field Championships. Both Case and Kuhn are two-time All-Ohio pole ...