APELDOORN, Netherlands (AP) — Peter “Gramps” Dejong has been based in Amsterdam for The Associated since March 1989. He has ...

Feb 28 (Reuters) - Sweden's Armand Duplantis soared 6.27 metres to shatter the world pole vault record for a staggering ... The two-times Olympic and world champion cleared the record height ...

Simone Biles is targeting two more Olympic golds on Monday to crown a historic Games in Paris as pole vault king Armand Duplantis aims for yet another world record. Barber set the Canadian indoor ...

Jan Johnson, the bronze medalist in the men's pole vault at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and gold medalist at the 1971 Pan American Games, died Feb. 23 in Atascadero, California. He was 74. Born ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Sweden's Mondo Duplantis retained his Olympic pole vault title with ludicrous ease ... as the winner on that height, without a fail. Karalis, 24, cleared his personal best of ...

CLERMONT-FERRAND, France -- Armand "Mondo Duplantis" lifted his pole vault world record to 6.27 meters in a World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting on Friday. The Olympic and world champion added a ...

Armand Duplantis improved his own men's pole vault world record to 6.27m at the All Star Perche event in Clermont-Ferrand, France. It is the 11th time Olympic and world champion Duplantis has ...

In Paris, Duplantis became the first man to retain the Olympic pole vault title since American Bob Richards in 1952 and 1956, while in 2025 he will have the opportunity to complete hat-tricks of ...