(CNN)-- There are few sports that are so dominated by a single person like the way the women's pole vault is ruled by 26-year Russian Yelena Isinbayeva. Every time the world and Olympic champion ...

"I never imagined there was such a sport." When Takeda pleaded with the club supervisor that he wanted to try pole vaulting, the advisor procured a bamboo pole. Takeda spread out a mat on a ...

Unlike many other sports, pole vault doesn't crush athletes' dreams for one fumble. Instead, pole vaulters get three attempts ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVLA) — A Swedish-American athlete from Louisiana has set a new world record in pole vaulting at the ...