Anicka Newell was born on August 5, 1993, in Denton, Texas. She is eligible to compete for Canada as her mother was born in the country. She was fond of athletics and won a New Mexico Activities Association state individual title in the pole vault for Highland High School (Albuquerque, New Mexico) in 2009.

Anicka Newell earned an honorable mentioned All-America award in the pole vault at the 2015 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. She is also a two-time Sun Belt Conference Outdoor track and field champion in the pole vault for Texas State Bobcats.

Anicka Newell placed 1st at the 2018 Canadian Athletics Championships in Ottawa (4.45 m) to qualify for the August 11 2018 NACAC Championships in Toronto but she did not clear a height.

She placed 7th in Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women’s pole vault (4.30 m) and placed 12th in women’s pole vault at the 2017 World Championship (4.45 m).

In July 2016, Anicka Newell was officially named to Canada’s Olympic team. She placed 29th at Athletics at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics – Women’s pole vault cleared 4.15 m. She was also part of the Canadian team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics but did not clear the height to reach the finals.

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Rafailia Spanoudaki was born on June 7, 1994, in Rhodes, Greece. She started training in athletics from an early age and proved as one of the leading sprinters in her country.

Rafailia Spanoudaki competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics but failed to reach the women’s 200m final.

At the Mediterranean Games 2018, she had won the silver medal. She has also numerous successes and distinctions in Panhellenic, Mediterranean, and Pan-European track and field events of 60, 100, and 200 meters respectively.

Rafailia Spanoudaki competed at the 2019 World Championships, 2019 European Indoor Championships, and 2021 European Indoor Championships.

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Angelica Therese Bengtsson was born on July 8, 1993, in Vackelsang, Sweden. She initially started out in gymnastics and also hoped to follow in her father’s footsteps in the javelin throw. It quickly became apparent that she had a talent for pole vaulting. She began her career at the club level for IFK Vaxjo, before going on to join Hasselby SK.

Angelica Bengtsson has won gold medals at the 2009 World Youth Championships and the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics. She set a mark of 4.47 m for the youth world record for the event in 2010 and broke the world junior record with a vault of 4.63 m in 2011. Angelica Bengtsson placed tied 4th at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, China, having set a national record of 4.70 m in the final. She set a then-national record with 4.81 m, set indoor in Clermont-Ferrand, on February 24, 2019. Angelica Bengtsson has won eleven national titles.

On November 1, 2021, Angelica Bengtsson announced her retirement from pole vaulting.

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Ana Peleteiro Brion, better know just as Ana Peleteiro, was born on December 2, 1995, in Ribeira, Galicia, Spain. She started training in athletics at an early age and received the award for Best Young Athlete from the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation in 2011.

In 2011, Ana Peleteiro won the bronze at the World Youth Championships in Lille, France. The same year she won the gold at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Trabzon, Turkey. Her great performance took the eyes of the athletics community and many experts predicted her a bright future.

Ana Peleteiro won the gold at World Junior Championships in 2012 and the bronze at the European Junior Championships in 2013.

In 2017, she won the bronze at the European U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The same year she took part at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, and the World Championships in London, United Kingdom, but remained out of the medals.

In 2018, Ana Peleteiro was third at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, United Kingdom, and the European Championships in Berlin, Germany, registering her personal best of 14.44 m.

In 2019, she won the gold at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, the United Kingdom with a result of 14.73 m.

Ana Peleteiro won the silver medal at the European Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland in 2021. The same year, she registered her biggest achievement winning the bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with a national record of 14.87 m.

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Ruth Usoro was born on October 8, 1997, in Nigeria. As a student at Texas Tech University, on 26 February 2021 Usoro jumped 6.82 m in the long jump to meet the qualifying standard for the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. It was the 2nd best jump in the world for the season at the time and the 3rd best on the Nigerian all-time list alongside Ese Brume.

On June 12, 2021, Ruth Usoro jumped 14.19 m to win the triple jump at the 2021 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon. She also won the NCAA indoor title in 2021. Her personal best triple jump of 14.50 in Texas met the qualifying standard for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the triple jump and placed her in the top 10 in the world for the year.

Despite arriving in Tokyo to compete at the Olympic Games, Ruth Usoro was ruled out when her name was included on a list of ten athletes from her country ineligible to participate due to non-compliance with out-of-competition drug testing requirements in the run-up to the Games. In a statement, The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) took responsibility for the failings and for not putting in place “appropriate measures to comply with rule 15 of the anti-doping rules of World Athletics”.

In her career, Ruth Usoro won several golds at 2021 Corky Classic, 2021 Texas Tech Open, 2020 New Mexico Collegiate Classic, 2019 David Noble Relays and etc.

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Patricia Mamona, with a full name Patrícia Mbengani Bravo Mamona, was born on November 21, 1988, in Sao Jorge de Arroios, Lisbon, Portugal. She started training in athletics from an early age. Patricia Mamona attended Clemson University and won two NCAA Championships in women’s triple jump (2010, 2011).

Patricia Mamona started her professional athletics career in 2006, winning bronze medals at Lusophony Games in Macau, PR China with Triple jump and Long jump. Thee years later at the same event, she returned and took the gold at Triple jump.

In 2011, at the Universiade in Shenzhen, China she finished second in the Triple jump, winning the silver medal. An year later, at the European Championships, she finished second, while at the London 2012 Olympics was 13th.

Patricia Mamona won the gold medal at the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The same year she had her second Olympics at Rio 2016, where she finished 6th.

In 2017, she was second at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.

In 2021 she won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland. Later the same year she won her biggest achievement, winning the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

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Georganne Rochelle Moline was born on March 6, 1990, in Missoula, Montana, the United States. She graduated from Thunderbird High School in Phoenix, Arizona. During her junior and senior years of high school, she was the 4A-1 State Champion in the 100-meter hurdles and 300-meter hurdles. Because of a stress fracture, Georganne Moline redshirted the outdoor season of her freshman year at the University of Arizona. At the University of Arizona, she anchored the 4×400 relay, setting indoor and outdoor school records in 2010. During the 2012 outdoor college season, Georganne Moline won the 400-meters hurdles title at the Pac-12 Championships. She was undefeated in every 400-meters hurdles event she entered that season until she fell in the preliminary round of the NCAA championship.

At the 2012 US Olympic trials, Georganne Moline placed second in 400-meters hurdles with a time of 54.33 to make the Olympic team. Georganne Moline made the Olympic team at age 22, after completing her junior year of college. At the Olympics, Georganne Moline won her 400-meters hurdles preliminary heat with a time of 54.31, a new personal best. She placed second in her semifinal to automatically qualify for the Olympic final. Georganne Moline finished fifth in the Olympic 400 meter hurdles final, again setting a personal best with a time of 53.92.

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Colleen Quigley was born on November 20, 1992, in St. Louis, Missouri, the United States. She started training from an early age and earned nine NCAA All-American honors while running for Florida State University.

Colleen Quigley signed professionally with the Bowerman Track Club in June 2015. Later that year, she finished third in the steeplechase in 9:24.92 at the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, and finished 12th in the 3,000 meters steeplechase event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China.

She ran 9:20.00 to place ninth in the Diamond League event, Meeting de Paris, 2016. Prior to that, Colleen Quigley had run a personal best time of 9:21.10 to place eighth in the 3,000 meters steeplechase at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Colleen Quigley had also run a personal best time of 9:21.29 to place third in the steeplechase behind Team USA teammates Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs at the 2016 United States Olympic Trials to qualify to represent the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics. On September 3, 2018, she lowered her steeplechase PR to 9:10.27 winning at ISTASF in Berlin, becoming the third-fastest American woman ever.

On June 30, 2019, Colleen Quigley ran 9:11.41 to place seventh, and third American, in the star-studded Diamond League steeple at the Prefontaine Classic held in Stanford, California. At the 2019 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, she finished first in the mile in 4:29.27 to become the 2019 Indoor Mile Champion.

On February 27, 2020, Colleen Quigley ran a personal best of 8:28.71 in the 3,000 meters at Boston University in a race made up of her Bowerman Track Club teammates Karissa Schweizer and Shelby Houlihan. This was faster than the previous American Record at this distance, 8:33.25 by Shalane Flanagan, but Quigley finished third behind her two teammates who also broke the record.

In a Bowerman Track Club inter-squad meet on July 31st, 2020, Quigley competed as a member of the 4 x 1500 meter relay team alongside Elise Cranny, Karissa Schweizer, and Shelby Houlihan. The team ran a time of 16:27.02 which broke the previous world record of 16:33.58 from Team Kenya by over 6 seconds.

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Lori Susan “Lolo” Jones was born on August 5, 1982, in Des Moines, Iowa, the United States. Despite her hard childhood and several movements to different cities by her parents, she started training in athletics from an early age. She had a dream – to become a professional athlete.

Lolo Jones was favored to win the 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but tripped on the penultimate hurdle, finishing in seventh place. She went on to win gold at the 2008 World Athletics Final, beating the newly crowned Olympic champion Dawn Harper with a time of 12.56. Jones was the American record holder in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.72 until 2018 when both Kendra Harrison and Sharika Nelvis improved the time to 7.70.

On June 23, 2012, Lolo Jones placed third in the 100 m hurdles at the US Olympics trials, qualifying her for a spot on the 2012 Summer Olympics team. At the London Olympics on August 6, she won her heat in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 12.68. On August 7, she placed third in the semi-finals of the 100-meter hurdles, gaining progression to the finals. In the finals later that day Lolo Jones finished fourth with a time of 12.58.

In May 2013, Lolo Jones earned her first win of the 2013 season at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo. She clocked 12.92 seconds in the race – well behind her Drake time of 12.79 and Queen Harrison’s 2013 world-leading time of 12.71 due to the headwind – to hold off Wells, who was still fast enough to finish with silver in 13.07 seconds

At the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Lolo Jones advanced to the finals. She qualified for the NACAC Championships in Costa Rica. She won the NACAC Championships women’s 100 m hurdles in 12.63.

On March 7, 2020, Lolo Jones ran her first outdoor race in three years at the 2020 Mississippi College Season Opener in Clinton, Mississippi, participating in the 100 Meters Hurdles & 100 Meters events. She won the 100 Meters Hurdles final with 13.45 (−0.1 wind) and the 100 Meters Dash final with 11.93 (1.3 wind.

Moreover, Lolo Jones also competes as a brakewoman on the US national bobsled team. She won a gold medal in the mixed team event at the 2013 World Championships. She represented the US at the 2014 Winter Olympics, making her one of the few athletes who has competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.

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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 Russian champion, and participant in the 1996 Olympic Games. Polina Knoroz trained at the Academy of Athletics of St. Petersburg. In 2015 she fulfilled the standard of master of sports, and in 2017 – a master of sports of international class.

Polina Knoroz is a champion of Russia among juniors indoors in 2017 and a champion of Russia among youth in 2017. She is also a bronze medalist of the Russian championship in 2017 and a silver medalist of the indoor championships of Russia in 2020 and 2021.

On July 4, 2021, Russian athlete Polina Knoroz won the pole vault at the Diamond League stage in Stockholm, overcoming the bar at a height of 4.71 meters.

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