Pole vault
Pole Vault competition.
Pole vault is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible stick (which today is usually made either of fiberglass or carbon fiber) as an aid to leap over a bar.[1] Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts. It has been a full medal event at the Olympics since the Summer Olympics at 1896 for men and 2000 for women. It started in the ancient Greece.
Pole Vault Media
Pole vault in the 1890s at US Naval Academy
Traditional fierljeppen in the Netherlands, using poles to clear "horizontal distances" over rivers
Pole vaulter Allison Stokke prepares for her jump.
An athlete passes the bar with the aid of a pole.
Painting by former athlete Raffaello Ducceschi depicting the pole vault
Related pages
Notes
Other websites
- Statistics
- All-time Masters men's Pole Vault list Archived 2020-02-16 at the Wayback Machine
- All-time Masters women's Pole Vault list Archived 2018-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Pole Vault History Archived 2013-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Pole Vault World Records - by the International Association of Athletics Federations