Field events have been struggling to cut through to fans in recent years - street meets are a way of bringing back the crowds ...

PISCATAWAY – Track and field events generally include sprints, high hurdles, relays and long distance runs around an oval track, the shot put, high jump, long jump and javelin. Not one of them compete ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Beth Grace says it’s “scary”: Running, planting a pole and bending the body over a bar 14 feet in the air. But Hannah Grace makes it look easy. The recent Coastal Christian ...

Three weeks after earning a gold medal and setting a world record at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Armand Duplantis keeps making history. On Sunday, the 24-year-old Swedish pole vaulter set yet another ...

McGee eclipsed Casey Carrigan's 56-year-old all-time best high school mark in Washington with his vault of 17 feet, 5 inches last week in his final home meet Camas' senior Chase McGee set the all-time ...

(Editor's note: A version of this story originally appeared in 2015.)Four years after the The Guinness Book of Records first published in 1955, an Indianapolis business owner had a brilliant idea for ...

WAYLAND, MI – A 2005 article from USA Today identified pole vaulting as the third-hardest thing to do in all of sports behind only hitting a baseball and driving a racecar. Yet, Wayland freshman Evie ...

In the pole vault final, Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis not only won gold with a 6.25-meter jump — he set a world record with the feat at the Paris Olympics on Monday. With the crowd from Stade de France in ...