hoisting a tall pole into a boxed area and launching themselves into the air over a raised bar before finally landing on a large padded mat in a vault pit. These athletes are practicing a sport ...

Ira Welborn, a Georgia pole vault record-breaker who coached hundreds of young vaulters in Jacksonville, has died at age 83.

Kankakee Valley's Haylee Hass has worked tirelessly with her father David to get better at the pole vault. Early in the ...

Centimeter by centimeter, Mondo Duplantis is soaring closer to the sky and securing his legacy as the greatest pole vaulter in history. The 25-year-old Swede broke his own world record for the ...

For those who are still living under a pole vault pit, “American Ninja Warrior” is a long-running TV game show where participants compete against a formidable obstacle course that routinely ...

I asked, since most monitors play a sport. “Track.” What event?” “I do the pole vault.” “How’s it going?” “I broke the Bowdoin [College] indoor pole vault record yesterday.” ...

There is now a three-time state champion residing at Parkside High School, and his journey to the top of the pole vault competition in the state of Maryland has taken an unconventional route.

Destined to be great in their own ways. In the case of Hana and Amanda Moll, this is true as both have fallen for the pole vault. Only they're doing so at a remarkable level, they share history ...

He even constructed a pole vault pit in his own backyard for training. "I can't think of anybody in the last 30 years who was in pole vaulting in the Jacksonville area that didn't encounter him ...