Vaulting Pole Tips

From vaulting in high school on a vaulting pole made of bamboo, to the modern fiberglass or carbon fiber vaulting poles of today Bud Held has seen the event of pole vaulting evolve over his many years of jumping. At the young age of 80, Bud Held set the world record in his age class [...]

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As I was reading my daily dose of Pole Vaulting news, searching for the most recent and impressive vaulting pole tips, I stumbled upon a real treasure. This treasure was about Derek Miles.

Most of the media has been concerned with the pole vaulting drama that occurred during the Olympics, and the Olympic pole vaulters who [...]

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The results are in for the Women’s Pole Vaulting event from the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and American Jennifer Stuczynski has valiantly earned a silver medal for her vault of 4.80 meters. She came in second to the favored Russian women pole vaulter, Yelena Isinbaeva who grabbed the gold with a world record vault of [...]

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