Most track and field athletes could easily fit their uniforms and gear in a suitcase to travel to a competition like the 2024 Paris Olympics. But some have massive poles to worry about. Reigning ...

Australian Olympic pole vault gold medalist Steve Hooker has developed a bad case of what golfers call "the yips," casting doubt over his ability to successfully defend his crown in London in July, ...

Katie Nageotte vaulted herself to gold. The 30-year-old Cleveland native cleared 4.90 meters (16 feet, 0.91 inches) on her second attempt in women’s pole vault to win the gold medal for the United ...

She dreams of flying high in the maroon and white uniform of Texas A&M. Of competing in pole vault events held on city streets. Of wearing the red and white of her birth nation in an Olympics. The ...

Don Bragg, who was denied his dream of playing Tarzan in the movies but parlayed his imposing physique into a gold medal in the pole vault at the 1960 Rome Olympics, died Saturday at his home in ...

The track and field event involves athletes sprinting down a runway toward a horizontal crossbar with a pole in hand. When ...