Champion Russian pole-vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, who was barred from the Rio Olympics under a blanket doping ban, has announced her retirement. The announcement comes one day after Isinbayeva was ...

W orld-champion pole vaulter Shawnacy “Shawn” Barber, who holds Canada’s pole vault record, has died at the age of 29, his agent confirmed in an Instagram post on Thursday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva will not compete next year but is fixing her sights on the Rio Olympics in 2016, the Russian said on Thursday.

MOSCOW, November 17. /TASS/. Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has joined the Putin Team public movement, the renowned athlete wrote on Instagram on Friday. "I’m on the ...

In her third and last attempt, Russian athlete Anzhelika Sidorova cleared 4.95 meters in dramatic fashion to win the women’s pole vault event at the track-and-field world championships in Qatar ...

Russian athlete Anzhelika Sidorova, competing as a neutral because of her country's ban from athletics, soared to the women's world pole vault title with the best leap of the year on Sunday.

Russian pole-vaulting legend Yelena Isinbayeva is in Rio for this year’s Olympics, but she isn’t competing: Russia’s entire track and field team was banned from the Games over the a massive ...

ROME — Russian Yelena Isinbayeva improved her own pole vault world record to 16 feet, 6 inches Friday at the Golden Gala meet.

Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia broke her own world record in the women’s pole vault, clearing 16 feet, 2 inches at the Athletissima Grand Prix track meet in Lausanne, Switzerland. The ...