The Bar for Entry to This Exercise Is Over Your Head Meet some of the brave adults who pole vault for fun—even into their 90s Rena Wong, 64 years old, clears the bar during practice near Seattle.

The Olympic pole vault competition will start on Saturday. Pole vault has been part of the Summer Olympics for men's competition since 1896. However, the women's competition was only added in 2000.

Gold medalist Katie Nageotte at the medal ceremony for the women's pole vault at the 2020 Summer Olympics on Aug. 6. (Martin Meissner/AP) Congratulations to Katie Nageotte on her pole vault gold ...

Not bad for a kid who really picked up pole vaulting as an eighth grader after watching his older sister, Shea, excel at it. "She was doing the (sport) transfer from gymnastics, and was good at it ...

At "takeoff" the vaulter has the pole at a 45-degree angle with the pole tip in the box, and the vaulter's arms are extended straight up and out.

Hayes and Jentry are also following in the footsteps of their older brothers, Pace and Jayden Bressler, and their cousin, Justin Bressler, who would briefly go on to pole vault at West Texas A&M ...

Backed by a deafening roar from those in the stands, the Swedish pole vault star broke his own world record with a giant clearance of 6.25 meters at the third and final time of asking.

The pole, and how far you’re running from and how hard you’re swinging… There’s just so many little things that can completely change and ruin or make a vault great, Owens said.

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (WOOD) — As pole vaulters prepare to compete in Paris for the 2024 Olympic Games, the 21st Beach Vault is underway this weekend in Grand Haven. The event on the shores of Lake ...