NEW YORK (USA): One other head-to-head in New York on the Millrose Video games (WIT Gold) on February 11 will come within the males’s pole vault, the place Olympic and world medallist Chris Nilsen will go up towards North American record-holder KC Lightfoot. They may face their US compatriots Zach McWhorter, Matt Ludwig, and Zach Bradford. It’s the first time since 2014 that the boys’s pole vault will likely be contested on the Millrose Video games.

RunBlogRun opines: The pole vault has a wonderful historical past on the Millrose Video games. In 2014, the Males’s pole vault was received by Mark Hollis.

If we return in 2009 on the way in which again machine, we do not forget that Steve Hooker, the 2008 Olympic champion, cleared 6.01 meters (19’8.75″), and Jenny Stuczynski (now Jenn  Suhr), would go on to win gold in London 2012 (Jenn received the silver in Beijing 2008).

The 2009 Millrose Video games was an actual barn burner, as noticed by Bob Ramsak for RunBlogRun, on the time. 

The pole vault at Millrose is on an elevated runway. I bear in mind Steve Hooker competing in 2009 at Millrose and his unbelievable bounce on that difficult runway on the MSG again then. Maurie Plante, whose meet was held right this moment in Australia to open the Continental Gold Tour, was there in 2009. Maurie handed away a few years in the past, and I miss his sarcasm and considerate, colourful descriptions of all issues athletics with some actual Aussie wit. 

The Millrose Video games is at all times a improbable meet; don’t miss it this yr on February 11, 2024.