Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pol
Denys Yurchenko
…Denys Serhiyovych Yurchenko (Ukrainian: Денис Сергійович Юрченко) (born 27 January 1978 in Donetsk) is a Ukrainian pole vaulter with three medals in Indoor Athletics Championships. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he suffered a mishap with a vaulting pole, injuring his groin and…
An athlete in the middle of the vaulting phase
Pole vault in the 1890s at US Naval Academy
Pole vaulter Allison Stokke prepares for her jump.