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odinsblog · 8 months
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To say that I've seen mixed reviews about our decision to share the win would be an understatement. While part of me doesn't want to entertain the negative comments, I would like to help enlighten those that are calling us "cowards", "shameful", "pathetic" etc. I know you can't make everyone happy in this world, but in an effort to help people understand the sport that I love so much, I would like to explain my mentality in that moment. The pole vault is not an endurance event. We have a short window of jumps. Once the fatigue sets in, it not only becomes more difficult, but dangerous. The sport has seen everything from athletes just landing funny with minor tweaks, to horrific accidents. We had jumped an entire competition, vaulting for almost 4 hours in 85 degree heat. The competition ended, and we were exhausted. A World Championship is incredibly emotionally draining-even more so than a regular competition. My step (the point where I jump off the ground into the takeoff) to vault safely has to be in almost the exact same spot every time, give or take a few inches. My last few jumps, that takeoff step was moving further and further out, giving us real data showing my fatigue even with adrenaline.
To walk away healthy and with a gold medal, while celebrating with my friend that had jumped just as well, was a no-brainer. Part of the reason we've reached the highest level is by listening to our bodies, and knowing our limitations. We decided that in this particular moment, sharing glory was just as good as earning it outright. I understand that people want to see a clear winner. It is the exciting part of sport. But in this instance, it was without a doubt the right decision, and one that I will never regret.
Contrary to popular belief, you do not need a "win at all cost" mindset to have a champion's mentality.
—Katie Moon
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the-football-chick · 2 years
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Team Sweden Mondo DuPlantis sets a new pole vault world record and takes gold on the last day of the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon. DuPlantis cleared 6.21 meters (20 feet 4 inches) breaking his own previous record of 6.16 meters.
Team USA Chris Nilsen won silver and Team Phillipines Ernest John Obiena, the bronze.
IG: nbcolympics (7/24/22)
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Another WR with Mondo Duplantis and it doesn’t seem like this is his top yet!
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beatrack92 · 2 months
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Molly Caudery 🇬🇧
🥇 Pole Vault
2024 World Indoor Championships (Glasgow)
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elenitrack · 8 months
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Nina Kennedy 🇦🇺
🥇 Pole Vault
2023 World Athletics Championships (Budapest)
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waheelawhisperer · 2 years
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Seeing as you love the nerd jock pairing I'm curious now on who you would pair the doctor with. List all the jocks speedrun? :P
Nerd x Jock any% speedrun let's go
Listed in the rough order I came up with funny things to say about them:
Nearl: Big (Wo)Man on Campus, star quarterback of the football team, also plays basketball, baseball, and soccer and runs track and field. Could get athletic or academic scholarships to any college she wants for any sport or major she chooses. Everyone loves her. Regularly has gay gay homosexual gay sex with the cheerleading squad.
Siege: The football team's lockdown cornerback, has scholarship offers from multiple blueblood programs. Also plays soccer, basketball, baseball, and does track and field. Very popular among her peers. Regularly has gay gay homosexual gay sex with Indra.
Gladiia: Spoken of in hushed whispers within the halls of Rhodes Island High School because she led the football team to four straight state championships and graduated top of her class with full ride engineering scholarships from the best universities in the world. Played multiple sports and broke every record in all of them at both the high school and collegiate level, but declined to go professional in favor of putting her engineering degree to use. The best athlete in Rhodes Island High's history.
Blaze: Nearl's preferred wide receiver and the best player on the basketball team. Has posted a 1000-yard season every year since she was a freshman and the only reason she hasn't broken high school receiving records is because her quarterback has too many targets to spread the ball to. Also plays baseball and volleyball, wrestles, and does track and field. Is the only person to even come close to Gladiia's record in the long jump, high jump, triple jump, or pole vault. Has good grades, mainly because she makes frequent use of the school's tutoring program, but is more likely to go to college on an athletic scholarship than an academic one.
Indra: The team's other cornerback across from Siege. Plays every sport her girlfriend plays and also does wrestling. Also an excellent boxer who could fight professionally if she wanted to. Absolute turbojock. Has regularly shoved nerds in lockers and taken their lunch money. Would be in jail by now if her relationship with her girlfriend didn't keep her on the straight and narrow. Grades are mediocre because she doesn't care for school and knows she's going to college on an athletic scholarship anyway. Will choose her college based entirely on where her girlfriend goes. Regularly has gay gay homosexual gay sex with Siege.
Hoshiguma: The football team's left tackle and best offensive lineman. Also plays center for the basketball team (would be the star player if Blaze didn't exist), is the soccer team's goalkeeper, is a member of the wrestling team, plays volleyball, and has set state records for the throwing events in track and field. Was a delinquent at first and probably would have ended up in jail if Coach Hellagur hadn't convinced her that her natural athletic talent was better used on something more productive than petty crime. Has been a model citizen ever since.
Saria: The best edge rusher on the football team. The only offensive lineman that can stop her is Hoshiguma. Has a killer instinct that lets her put opposing quarterbacks in the dirt, has mastered the art of setting the edge against the run, and also plays center on offense because she's just that athletic and she likes to be bossy and call the shots for the offensive line. One of the center backs for the soccer team, plays basketball, and has a promising boxing/MMA career ahead of her after college. School valedictorian, has full ride offers from top-notch schools for both athletics and academics. Like Nearl, has slept with most of the cheerleading squad. Unlike Nearl, did not stay to cuddle afterward.
Sideroca: One of the strength and conditioning coaches for the school's athletic programs. Is so good at her job that she's somehow managed to get Rhodes Island's mysterious vice principal, known only as "The Doctor", into the weight room a couple times a week.
Bagpipe: The football team's 1000-yard rusher. Her Vouivre strength and speed make her hard to bring down. Will bowl right through opposing linebackers. Plays soccer, does the throwing events in track and field, and is a member of the wrestling team. Also, inexplicably, a cheerleader. Used to work on her family farm before her parents sent her off to live with Horn so she could get a better education and is a bit of a hick as a result. Is extremely sweet to everyone and does not have a single enemy on campus. Even the worst, most stereotypical cliquey high school girls adore her.
Skadi: Absolute ultramegajock. Plays on both sides of the ball as a running back and linebacker. Where Bagpipe is faster and more agile, Skadi just bulls through even the opposing defensive line and will run straight into a nose tackle without a care in the world. Give her the ball on 3rd/4th and short and she will move the chains. Posts only slightly fewer sacks than Saria. Can lift the most on the team despite not being a lineman. Also plays baseball, volleyball, and basketball and wrestles. One of the stars of the swim team. Banned from participating in track and field after she tried to do the shot put, launched the ball into the stratosphere, and nearly killed someone when it fell to earth on the other side of town. Grades are crap not because she's stupid but because she's constantly thinking about her next sportsball game. Gladiia constantly calls her to tell her to take her education more seriously.
Specter: Another ultramegajock. Likes to bully the nerds. Gladiia and Ulpian frequently get called in for parent-teacher conferences after she and Skadi engage in shenanigans. Plays strong safety for the football team and is also the third string running back, because having two living bulldozers wasn't enough and they needed a third. Member of the swim team, the basketball team, the baseball team, and the wrestling team. Grades are better than Skadi's because she at least isn't spacing out all the time, but she still spends a lot of time in detention for getting into fights.
Gavial: Extreme jock. One of the jockiest jocks to ever jock. Plays weakside linebacker for the football team because she likes hitting people. Also wrestles, swims, and plays baseball and basketball. The soccer team keeps trying to get her to join, but she refuses to play because she thinks any sport where you don't get to paste your opponent is for pussies. Hobbies include rock climbing and martial arts. Frequently trains and spars with the other jocks.
Whislash: Played soccer, volleyball, and tennis and ran track in high school and college and would have had a promising pro career if a nasty injury hadn't ended it three years into college. Switched to modeling for a while, somehow made absurd amounts of money in the stock market, and now trains Nearl and Blemishine and teaches at Rhodes Island High because she's bored and needs something to do. Is the volleyball coach and is good enough at her job that the administration overlooks her frequent, not-entirely-workplace-appropriate advances on the Doctor.
Dobermann: The school's hardass soccer coach. Will make you run until you puke and then call you a pussy afterward, but is really good at determining precisely how far she can push her players before it stops being productive. Also coaches wide receivers for the football team and helps with strength and conditioning. Played soccer, football, and basketball in high school and college before joining the Marines and doing two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Her brand of tough love is one of the few things that keeps the school's troublemakers in line.
Hellagur: Head coach of the basketball team. Played in the NBA and thus has the attention of all his students. Generally very kind and understanding, if a bit mischievous. Is the type of coach who treats his players like his own children and chose his career because he wanted to provide a positive example to young people in need of one.
Texas: Plays soccer (wing) and tennis and is a cheerleader. Generally fairly quiet, but is known as someone you don't want to mess with. Has a lot of admirers among the student body, many of whom are female. Going to college on a soccer scholarship.
Lappland: Delinquent who spends a lot of time around Texas. Also hangs out with Indra and Specter and bullies nerds. Plays soccer (the other wing) and wrestles. Joined the cheerleading squad to get close to Texas and ended up enjoying it more than she thought she would.
Pallas: Alcoholic wrestling coach who's had a few too many concussions in her time. Extremely strange, but there's some very useful advice hidden in the weirdness if you can parse through it. Also played football in high school and college and spent several years in the NFL before the aforementioned concussions caught up with her.
Ch'en: Captain of the soccer team. Also plays tennis and volleyball and is a member of the swim team. Has excellent grades (is the class salutatorian) and multiple scholarship offers from top universities for both athletics and academics. Had almost as many people asking her to prom as Nearl, despite her standoffish personality.
Schwarz: Middle linebacker for the football team and the one who calls the shots on defense. Puts the fear of God in opposing quarterbacks and is third on the team in sacks after Saria and Skadi. Also plays basketball, soccer, volleyball, and tennis and wrestles. Is part of the MMA group and is arguably the best of them. Has solid, but not exceptional, grades and sometimes gets in trouble for fighting. Very pretty, but very hard to approach. Ceylon somehow convinced her to join the cheerleading squad, but she's not really that into it. Very good at it, though.
Beehunter: Member of the wrestling team. Boxes on the side. Does not play any other sports, but typically hangs out with the jocks regardless.
Gravel: Plays football, basketball, baseball, and soccer. Lacks the exceptional athletic talent of some of her classmates, but is the type of person everyone wants on the team because she will give 110% in every practice and leave everything out on the field. Has a crush on the vice principal and will gush about them at every opportunity.
Platinum: Cheerleader, does not play sports at the high school level but intends to participate in archery and the rifle team in college and has been offered scholarships for both. Frequently squabbles with Gravel over who loves the vice principle more. Does not get along with Nearl or her younger sister.
Matoimaru: Plays soccer and has been offered scholarships for it. Is generally very friendly and popular and an excellent athlete, but her grades are poor and she worries about her ability to keep up with the work in college. Would play more sports, but soccer is her passion.
Wild Mane: Plays soccer and volleyball and runs track. Her grades aren't great and she has a problem with staying out of trouble on occasion, but she's received offers of athletic scholarships and is determined to use them to get herself a mechanical engineering degree.
Flamebringer: Plays football, basketball, and baseball and intends to fence at the college level. Highly competitive and not a great team player, but has a great deal of natural talent. His teammates and coaches grudgingly tolerate his attitude and the way he slacks off in practice because they know he'll give 120% in actual games, even if he has to be benched frequently as a reminder that he's not the only player on the team.
Akafuyu: Combination jock and video game nerd. Plays soccer and volleyball and is on the wrestling team, but her true passion is fencing and she hopes to do it at the collegiate level.
Zima: Free safety for the football team, keeps trying to switch to linebacker so she can hit people more. Is the member of the soccer team most likely to get red carded. Also wrestles and does track and field. Frequently gets in trouble for fighting and bullying the nerds.
Mountain: Plays nose tackle and right guard for the football team (eats both blocks and blockers like nobody's business) and is also a member of the basketball team. Plays baseball and wrestles. Has excellent grades and multiple athletic and academic scholarship offers to quality universities. Enjoys boxing in his free time and frequently clashes with some of the other jocks when they pick on the nerds.
Swire: Not actually a jock, but she is the captain of the cheerleading squad. Is a prizewinning equestrian and plays tennis. Ch'en and Hoshiguma keep trying to get her to join the soccer team. She refuses on the grounds that she feels it isn't sufficiently refined, but she's always there to watch Ch'en and Hoshiguma play their "barbaric" sports regardless. Actually joined the cheerleading squad initially so she could have an excuse to cheer them on.
Blemishine: Not as athletic as her sister, but she plays soccer and tennis and runs track and field and is competent at all of them. Joined the cheerleading squad so she could support Margaret. Is only a freshman, but is already taking advanced classes and is working hard to get accepted into top-tier engineering programs.
Liskarm: Plays soccer and wrestles. Is quite good at both. Often found with Franka.
Franka: Cheerleader. Rarely found apart from Liskarm.
Exusiai: Cheerleader, plays soccer and volleyball. Is the life of the party and very popular, but also frequently in trouble. Intends to join the rifle team in college.
Shining: Plays soccer, tennis, and volleyball and is also a cheerleader. Generally quiet and academically successful, but you don't want to make her mad. One of Nearl's biggest fans.
Nightingale: Tried going out for sports so she could hang out with Nearl and Shining and then nearly keeled over during warmups. Tried cheerleading instead out of fear for her own safety and almost hurt herself again, so now she just sits in the stand waving big handcrafted banners to cheer her (girl)friends on.
Mudrock: Plays right tackle for the football team and also wrestles. Known to be very odd, but her teammates generally like her because she works hard, does her job well, and doesn't cause trouble. A few people tried to pick on her for talking to rocks and promptly got suplexed into a mud pit.
Tomimi: Cheerleader and member of the swim and wrestling teams. Joined every team Gavial did to be closer to her, but is struggling to crack the starting lineups. She's a solid sub, though.
Eunectes: The other starting defensive end for the football team. Forms a solid 1-2 punch with Gavial. Also plays basketball and wrestles. Has engineering scholarships on lock.
Cuora: Loves baseball, is very good at it. Not the greatest student, but she can sure as hell knock the ball out of the park.
Meteor: Teaches Home Economics and coaches track. Friend of the Nearl family. Notorious among her students for being bad at technology.
Rosa: Cheerleader, plays tennis. Frequently found at equestrian events alongside Swire and SilverAsh.
Horn: Left guard for the football team, also plays basketball, tennis, and soccer. Bagpipe is currently living with her for access to better education.
Fang: Freshman who is quickly establishing herself as an asset to both the soccer team and the track and field squad. Dobermann is begrudgingly fond of her.
Talulah: Ch'en's estranged sister, left with her father when their parents separated. Spends too much time in the company of her creepy Uncle Kashchey and attends the Rich Rival Private School on the other side of the city. Plays the same sports Ch'en does, and their clashes on the field are legendary.
SilverAsh: Attends the Rich Rival Private School on the other side of the city. Is Swire's rival in the equestrian events and also fences and plays tennis. Met the Doctor once by chance at a sporting event and has been madly in love ever since.
Degenbrecher: Sportsball coach at the Rich Rival Private School on the other side of the city. All her students have a crush on her. Every single player she's coached has developed a femdom fetish. Had a multi-sport career in college and won multiple Super Bowls with the Kawalerielki Knights. Also did some modeling on the side. Has a burning rivalry with all of Rhodes Island High's sportsball coaches.
Sorry, this was originally meant to be a ship list, but my Writer Neurons started firing for the first time in forever and turned it into a full-blown high school AU, so I apologize for that. I don't ship the Doctor with every character on this list, but I think a good number of them are cute, funny, or otherwise workable.
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leeenuu · 2 years
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armand duplantis of sweden wins the gold medal in men's pole vault with a new world record of 6.21 metres at the 2022 world athletics championships in eugene, united states. (july 24, 2022)
+ legend the bigfoot recognises another legend
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freifraufischer · 2 years
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Why are we suddenly talking about an 87 year old Soviet Olympian?
Larisa Latynina was the first superstar of artistic gymnastics and for half a century she held the record for the most Olympic medals won by any athlete man or woman before that record was broken by Michael Phelps.  She also holds the record for the most Olympics or World Championship medals won by an artistic gymnast which it was believed that Simone Biles tied in Tokyo.
Without question gymnastics was a different sport in Latynina’s age.  At the beginning of her career women had a choice to do routines on the parallel bars rather than uneven bars, the equipment provided little or no rebound and the sport had only recently moved indoors.  There are a lot of technical differences for fans to argue about when comparing the feats, besides changes in the sport itself the format of the world championships was once every 4 years and there were no separate finals so that event and all around medals were awarded after compulsories and optional routines.
Latynina was also famously a woman of legend before the sport turned towards increasingly younger girls.  She won 5 gold medals at the 1958 World Championships while 4 months pregnant.  She has been incredibly gracious to and about the athletes who broke her records.  She had requested to give Michael Phelps the medal that broke her record (and made sure she met him to show her respects when the IOC declined her request).  She said nothing but positive things about Biles and even has talked about how she can’t fathom the things modern gymnasts do.  Besides being an amazing and dominant athlete she has been nothing but a gracious sports woman for decades.
As it turns out Simone Biles did not tie her record in Tokyo.  Research by an American historian of the sport based on primary documents has revealed that Latynina had yet another medal that wasn’t included in her previous counts from the 1954 World Championships.  The event in question is called Team Portable Apparatus, this would be a group demonstration routine that would look to a modern viewer very much like group rhythmic gymnastics--but at the time rhythmic gymnastics did not exist.  It’s worth understanding that gymnastics events have often been in flux where there were not only these group routines, drastic changes in the apparatus people are familiar with, but rope climbing and even pole vaulting were at one point considered artistic gymnastics events.
To my knowledge neither Biles nor Latynina have responded to this news.  Unfortunately there has been a fairly ugly side of fan reaction.  I’ve seen several try to rationalize away this medal as not “really” counting because it’s not really artistic gymnastics.  That this is some kind of Russian propaganda (comparing it to Plushenko’s infamous platinum medal).  Some dismissing Latynina’s achievements because of the perception that her gymnastics was easy (even comparing it to a stunt done by the mascot at 2022 Euros on a modern vaulting table with modern spring boards).
What makes me sad about all of this is that I can’t actually imagine Simone herself would want to be elevated on these terms.  And you don’t need to.  All you have to say is that the sports were very different and direct comparisons aren’t really helpful.  On the other hand it’s given many people a chance to learn about Latynina and there are few sports people who are as good role models.
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beardedmrbean · 8 months
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As employees return from their summer holiday, the challenge of transitioning workers back to the office in the post-pandemic era persists, Helsingin Sanomat writes on Thursday.
The newspaper surveyed HR leaders from various companies to ask about their policies on remote working.
"Personally, I would like to turn the conversation to focus on how to do the job well," Merja Ranta-aho, head of HR at telecommunications company Elisa, tells HS.
Ranta-aho says that it is important to assess whether the nature of one's work genuinely permits remote work as well as the role of physical presence in fostering workplace trust.
"Of course, we should think that the rules are not just about what is comfortable, but about what the job requires in the short and long term," she adds.
Hannakaisa Länsisalmi, Head of HR at Bank Group OP, concurs that a one-size-fits-all approach does not apply to different types of work.
"We agreed on the principles of hybrid work back when the pandemic began to subside. The teams themselves decide when to spend their days at the office and when to work remotely," she tells the paper.
At the same time, Länsisalmi adds that the hybrid approach of OP does not mean that employees can choose to always work remotely and never come to the office.
Tightening belts
The government is set to kick off its budget negotiations for the upcoming year on Thursday, as reported by Tampere-based Aamulehti.
Finance Minister Riikka Purra (Finns) has said that the proposed six billion euro budget plan will involve restructuring measures and difficult decisions.
"The government's task is to create a society in which everyone who is able to work has the opportunity to earn their own living. The importance of self-reliance should not be underestimated. Self-respect does not come at a price," Purra writes in a finance minstry column.
Despite criticising the borrowing practices of the previous government, Purra adds that given the current economic situation, the new government will need to continue to take on debt.
"Even if we begin implementing major reforms early on in 2024, the government will still have to take on a significant amount of additional debt in light of the current economic outlook. The additional borrowing combined with high-interest rates will continue to pose additional challenges for the necessary adjustment measures," she notes.
Murto wins bronze for Finland
Pole vaulter Wilma Murto etched her name into Finnish sporting history at the 2023 Athletics World Championship held in Budapest on Wednesday, as reported by Iltalehti.
By successfully clearing 4.80 metres, Murto became the first Finnish athlete to secure a medal at the World Championships in eight years. The last medal at the championships was won by javelin thrower Tero Pitkämäki in 2015, IL notes.
The 25-year-old missed all three attempts at 4.85. American Katie Moon and Australia's Nina Kennedy cleared 4.90 metres and decided to share first place after they both missed on all three attempts at 4.95.
"I can't quite say I'm disappointed with the bronze. But I did have that sense that anything was attainable, even the gold," Murto said of her result.
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jellybracelet · 8 months
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saw some of the world athletics championships on tv today and thought of you bestie! like idk if you watch those or not but still had you in mind nonetheless!!
Awwww ♥️♥️♥️ that's so sweet
I don't really follow track and field that much but I do love pole vault! Maybe I'll tune in!!
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shrivedog · 2 years
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I was there. It was rockin'! 2022 World Athletics Championships - Hayward Field - Eugene, Oregon. I took these photos. Note the world rrcord pole vault mark of 20' 4 1/2" set by Armand Duplantis.
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kicksaddictny · 2 years
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PUMA signs South Korean High Jumper Woo Sanghyeok
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PUMA has signed an agreement with successful South Korean high jumper Woo Sanghyeok, who will wear PUMA’s performance products starting at the Diamond League Meeting in Monaco
At 26 years old, Woo Sanghyeok already has several medals to his name such as gold at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade and silver at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene. In 2022, he set a personal best and the Korean Record of 2.36 meters at the indoor event in Hustopeče, Czech Republic.
“We are very excited to welcome Sanghyeok to the PUMA family,” said Pascal Rolling, Head of Sports Marketing at PUMA. “We believe he will be among the best high jumpers in the world in the next years.”
At PUMA, Woo Sanghyeok will join a roster of world-class athletes such as 400m hurdles World Record Holder Karsten Warholm, pole vault World Record Holder Armand “Mondo” Duplantis and Jamaican sprinters Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah.
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the-football-chick · 2 years
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Team USA went 1-2 in the womens pole vault at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon on Sunday. Katie Nageotte won gold and teammate Sandi Morris took silver.
Nageotte also won gold at the Tokyo Olympics last year.
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Team Australia Nina Kennedy won the bronze.
IG: worldathletics & nbcolympics (7/17/22)
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trackandfieldimage · 2 years
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Pole vault World Record holder, Mondo Duplantis, 🇸🇪. 2022 World Championships, Hayward Field. . . . #mondoduplantis #sweden #sverige #polevault #oregon22 #vaulter #trackandfield #athletics #jeffcohenphoto @mondo_duplantis @svenskfriidrott (at World Athletics Championships 2022) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgmj5gMrAYT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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beatrack92 · 2 months
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Molly Caudery 🇬🇧
🥇 Pole Vault
2024 World Indoor Championships (Glasgow)
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elenitrack · 8 months
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Nina Kennedy 🇦🇺
🥇 Pole Vault
2023 World Athletics Championships (Budapest)
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