When junior high school student Osamu Takeda saw a pole vaulter at a track and field competition for the first time, he found ...

This story has been updated to reflect Mondo Duplantis breaking the pole vault world record at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Only Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis would describe the pole vault ...

Honvou has shown dramatic year-over-year improvement in pole vault. His 2025 regular-season PR was 12-0. He was a Division I ...

The competition at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo was almost two-and-a-half hours old when it finally got serious. On went the special “claw” shoes, an innovation by Puma with a hooked ...

Having qualified for the Class 2A boys track and field state meet three times in his first three years, Taylorville pole vaulter Drake Howard is more motivated than ever to finish his high school ...

AUSTIN — Hayes Bressler's athletic career at Happy High School came to an end Saturday. After four years competing in football as well as track and field, Bressler earned a bronze medal in Class 1A ...

Last spring, world class pole vaulters competed in the Drake Relays pole vault competition at Jordan Creek Town Center in West Des Moines. The track and field event involves athletes sprinting down a ...

West Ouachita’s Kelsey Adams stepped into the pole vaulting scene and immediately shook things up. Watch her compete and you may think she has been doing this for years, but what you probably didn’t ...

Of the eight Jim and Amy Harbert children, Isaiah Harbert is the last still in high school — though with 12 grandchildren already, Jim and Amy don’t get a reprieve from traveling to and from sporting ...