Of course, it didn't take long for social media to take notice of the pole vaulter's Olympic Games' fail. "21-year-old French ...

Incredibly, that is exactly what you can see happening to Japanese pole vaulter Hiroki Ogita in ... Ogita goes up… But at the last second, the vault fails - leaving Ogita in 21st place and ...

With two failed pole vault attempts at 4.50 meters it looked like Katie Nageotte’s Olympic journey was over early. Contending with evident wind conditions, Nageotte and the 14 other women competing in ...

Isinbayeva, 34, owns the women’s pole-vaulting world record and won gold in Athens and Beijing before taking bronze four years ago in London. She has never failed a doping test and blasted the ...

Pole vault is a track and field event in which athletes attempt to clear a horizontal bar by sprinting down a runway and using a pole to catapult themselves into the air. The athlete who clears the ...

EJ Obiena opened his indoor pole vault season Wednesday by placing second in the International Jump Meeting Cottbus at the Lausitz-Arena in Germany.