Anicka Newell is a Canadian track and field athlete competing in the pole vault. She won the 2018 Canadian Athletics Championships and competed in the Rio 2016 Olympics and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Anicka Newell was born on August 5, 1993, in Denton, Texas. She is eligible to compete for Canada as her mother was …
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Angelica Bengtsson
Angelica Bengtsson is a Swedish track and field athlete who specializes in pole vault. She became the first pole vault winner at the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore in 2010. Angelica Therese Bengtsson was born on July 8, 1993, in Vackelsang, Sweden. She initially started out in gymnastics and also hoped to follow in …
Polina Knoroz
Polina Knoroz is a Russian track and field athlete who specializes in the pole vault. She is a Master of Sports of Russia of international class (2017). Polina Knoroz was born on born July 20, 1999, in St Petersburg, Russia. Her mother is Anna Chuprina-Knoroz is a former 400-meter hurdles runner, 1991 World champion, multiple …
Katerina Stefanidi
Katerina Stefanidi is a Greek pole vaulter. She won the gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics with a jump of 4.85 meters and has also competed at the 2012 and the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is the current European Outdoor (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019) and Diamond League (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019) champion, …
Alysha Newman
Alysha Newman is a Canadian track and field athlete specializing in the pole vault. She is the reigning Commonwealth Games champion in the women’s pole vault following the 2018 Games in the Gold Coast, where she set a new Games record of 4.75 meters (15.6 ft). Alysha Newman was born on June 29, 1994, in …
Nina Kennedy
Nina Kennedy is an Australian athlete who specializes in the pole vault. She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without clearing the opening height in the qualification round. As of March 2021, Nina Kennedy is ranked 20th in the world in the women’s pole vault category and holds the Australian Record of 4.82m, …
Anzhelika Sidorova
Anzhelika Sidorova is a Russian pole vaulter athlete. She won a gold medal at the 2019 World Championships and a silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. She also won silver medals at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships and 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships, and a bronze medal at the 2013 European Athletics …
Sandi Morris
Sandi Morris is an American pole vault record holder. She won the silver medal in the pole vault event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She also won silver at the pole vault event at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. In 2018 she won gold at the World Indoor Championships. Sandi Morris was born on …
Robin Bone
Robin Bone is a Canadian athlete and a 6-time Canadian national team member. She was born on February 13, 1994, in Toronto, Ontario, but grew up in Connecticut. During graduating there she kept on sprinting, took up lacrosse, and switched out gymnastics for pole vault, under a doctor’s proviso that she wear a helmet. As …
Allison Stokke
Allison Stokke is an American track and field athlete and fitness model. She broke a number of American records for high school pole vaulting and later continued, attending the University of California, Berkeley, and competing for their California Golden Bears collegiate track team. Allison Stokke competed at two NCAA Division I Championships, achieving All-American honors …