Phoenix Country Day School senior Sam Novak is .75 inches away from breaking the state record in the pole vault.

Centimeter by centimeter, Mondo Duplantis is soaring closer to the sky and securing his legacy as the greatest pole vaulter in history.

Ira Welborn, a Georgia pole vault record-breaker who coached hundreds of young vaulters in Jacksonville, has died at age 83.

Sweden's Armand Duplantis soared 6.27 metres to shatter the world pole vault record for a staggering 11th time at the All Star Perche meet in Clermont-Ferrand, France on Friday.

It was common knowledge that the 2025 Indoor Meet of Champions' boys pole vault could easily end up being a battle between the two top athletes in the event in Pompton Lakes' Owen Keating, and West Morris' Cade Zeolla. That ended up being the case, and it was Keating who ended up top.

Sweden's Armand Duplantis soared 6.27 meters to shatter the pole vault world record for an 11th time at the All Star Perche meet in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on Friday.

At the highly anticipated 2025 Indoor Meet of Champions for boys' pole vault, all eyes were on the showdown between two formidable athletes: Owen Keating from

Hannah Byrd-Leitner of Moorestown celebrates after clearing 13-0 to win in the girls pole vault during the NJSIAA Track and Field Meet of Champions at Pennsauken in Pennsauken, NJ on 6/12/24. Chris Faytok | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Washington's Amanda Moll breaks her own collegiate record in the women's pole vault at the Big 10 Indoor Championships.

Sweden's Armand Duplantis soared 6.27 metres to shatter the world pole vault record for a staggering 11th time at the All Star Perche meet in Clermont-Ferrand, France on Friday. The two-times Olympic and world champion cleared the record height on his first attempt to break his previous global mark of 6.

Mondo Duplantis has lifted his pole vault world record to 6.27 meters in a World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting in France.

Armand Duplantis clears 6.27m at the All Star Perche event in France, while Britain's Molly Caudery has a big win in Madrid.