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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVLA) — A Swedish-American athlete from Louisiana has set a new world record in pole vaulting at the Olympics — and the celebration in the Stade de France was quite a sight to behold ...

JODI. ALL RIGHT, GREAT STORY, SCOTT. THE WORLD FAMOUS DRAKE RELAYS ARE IN APRIL AND ORGANIZERS ARE BRINGING BACK SOMETHING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A DECADE. WE ARE SO EXCITED THAT THE POLE VAULT EVENT ...

Waynedale's Anna Pittman was up against it but battled through to finish as the Division IV state runner-up in the pole vault ...

HERZOGENAURACH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pole vault world-record holder Armand “Mondo” Duplantis believes he can push the pole-vault world record to 6.40 metres in the next few years, the athlete ...

Bloom-Carroll junior Dominic Knapp didn't get out the district last year, but today he's a state champ. Here's how he did it.

For Del Norte’s Paige Echsner, last year’s state track and field championships were a major learning experience. A very stressful one. Echsner, the younger of the sister act that includes her senior ...

Pole vaulting is one of the more outlandish Olympic events. The primary instruments of the sport are curious creations—big sticks, between 10 and 17 feet in length, that certain track & field ...

NEW BRITAIN – It started when Sean Arms was four years old. His mother, Melissa, who had been a gymnast at Hand High School and went on to compete in college, showed him a video of pole vaulting. “I ...

A Maryland-based concept that trains area youngsters in the sport of pole vaulting has moved to an expanded location within the Sulphur Spring Business Park in Halethorpe. Founder and owner Jacob ...