Opened the ’21 season as a guest at her alma mater’s January intrasquad comp with 15-1 (4.60). At the ’20 USATF Indoor hit 15-5 (4.70) for 3rd. With that jump, she surpassed Morris as the highest-ever outdoor collegiate vaulter and moved to No. Two-time NCAA champ for Kentucky transferred to Washington in ’19 and at the Stanford Invitational that year cleared 15-6¼ (5.73). “She’s dealt with some injuries, but she’s a 4.70 girl,” says Nageotte, “and I mean, she’s been looking great.” Nageotte’s training partner and =6th at the ’19 USATF, the San Diego State (and Virginia Tech) alum climbed over 15-5 a few weeks before the ’16 Trials, where she placed 8th at 14-9 (4.50).
Among active American vaulters, these 4 women own PRs at or above it so stand out as possibles to knock one or more of the 4.90 trio off the plane to Tokyo. That setting is the Olympic qualifying standard and at both the ’16 OT and ’19 USATF Champs getting over it was required to place top 3. The bar height of 15-5 - 4.70 metrically – sets a line in the sky vaulters need to be above, or certainly near, to vie realistically for Tokyo berths. The list (affiliations are as at time of clearance): Mark They’re all also over the OT qualifying height of 15-1 (4.60). is already blessed with a baker’s dozen of active 15-foot vaulters. With virtually a whole domestic season still to go before the Olympic Trials, the U.S. 5th World Indoor Champs ’18, =7th World Champs ’19. Olympic champion 2012, silver medalist ’08, 7th in Rio. 2020 T&FN Podium “gold medalist.” Coach: Bryan Compton. World indoor champion, silver medalist Rio Olympics & World Champs ’17 & ’19. 3 on the world all-time list at 16-4¾ (5.00). claims a total of 13 active vaulters (see chart) who at some point in their career have scaled the OT-qualifying height.Ī rundown on the field: The 4.90-Plus Trio
And ’20, dismal competition year though it was, tallied 7.Īs of the end of January, the U.S. In fact, 9 if you count Lexi Jacobus, who has since retired. By contrast, the would-have-been pre-Olympics season of ’19 saw 8 at that altitude. The ’15 season which proceeded the last OT saw 6 Americans at 15-1 (4.60) or higher. There is evidence aplenty but one simple comparison says a lot. The fun news - though a pandemic has fogged the lead-up in many respects - is that a deeper corps of challengers than ever before is rising to take their shots. vaulters so far over 16-0 (4.88) as well as the metric 4.90 barrier.Īny other vaulter seeking to join Team USA for the Games will need to outjump at least one of them in the Olympic Trials final. They, not that coincidentally, are the top 3 Americans on the all-time world list in spots 2, 3 & 6, and the only U.S.
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