Canada's Alysha Newman competes in the women's pole vault qualification of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 5, 2024.

Canadian pole vaulter Alysha Newman took home the bronze medal at the Olympics in Paris, bringing the first women's pole vault medal to the Great White North and shattering a Canadian record in ...

A local woman has a unique perspective watching the Paris Olympics, and she’ll take extra interest in the pole vault and Westmoreland County’s Bridget Williams. That’s because she was in her ...

2024 Olympics: Canadian Pole Vaulter Alysha Newman Twerks After Winning Medal Alysha Newman, who represented Canada during the women’s pole vault finals, earned bronze at the 2024 Olympics and ...

Pole vault continues on Aug. 5 (men's final and women's qualifying) and Aug. 7 (women's final). By Liam Nee | NBC Olympics • Published August 4, 2024 • Updated on August 4, 2024 at 10:57 am ...

American pole vaulter Katie Nageotte is the new "Queen of Pole Vault." She won the Olympic gold medal in the women's pole vault competition at the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games and she chatted with ...

A local woman has a unique perspective watching the Paris Olympics, and she’ll take extra interest in the pole vault and Westmoreland County’s Bridget Williams. That’s because she was in her ...

BUDAPEST, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Swedish Olympic champion Armand Duplantis set his 13th world record by clearing 6.29 meters in men's pole vault at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial, a World Athletics ...

The athlete who clears the highest bar without knocking the bar down wins. Men's pole vault has been part of every modern Olympics. The women's event made its debut at the 2000 Sydney Games.

Pole vaulting first came to the Olympics in 1896, and has been propelled back into the limelight every four years since. Old Poles The earliest poles were made from wood, like ash or bamboo.