Athletics at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's pole vault

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Women's pole vault at the 2019 Pan American Games
VenueAthletics Stadium
DatesAugust 8
Competitors11 from 8 nations
Winning height4.75
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
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The women's pole vault competition of the athletics events at the 2019 Pan American Games took place on 8 August at the 2019 Pan American Games Athletics Stadium. The defending Pan American Games champion was Yarisley Silva from Cuba, who again won the gold medal. It marked her third successive championship and fourth straight medal.

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Summary

Five were over 4.55m, with Alysha Newman and Katie Nageotte still with perfect rounds going. At 4.65m, defending champion Yarisley Silva got over on her first attempt taking the lead. Nageotte got over on her second attempt and when nobody else could make the height, Newman was left with bronze. At 4.70m, Nageotte reversed the situation, taking the lead my making it on her second attempt while Silva had failed two times straight. With little to gain by clearing 4.70m, Silva passed to take her last chance, do or die, at 4.75 m (15 ft 7 in). After Nageotte missed once, Silva cleared to take the lead. Nageotte tried once more at 4.75m and then passed to 4.80. After she had exhausted her attempts, Silva's third championship in a row was confirmed.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record Flag of Russia.svg  Elena Isinbaeva  (RUS)5.06 Zürich, SwitzerlandAugust 28, 2009
Pan American Games record Flag of Cuba.svg  Yarisley Silva  (CUB)4.85 Toronto, CanadaJuly 23, 2015

Schedule

DateTimeRound
August 8, 201915:25 Final

Results

All times shown are in meters.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal bestDQDisqualified

Final

The results were as follows: [1]

RankNameNationality3.954.104.254.354.454.554.654.704.754.80MarkNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Yarisley Silva Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba oxxooooxx-o4.75 SB
Silver medal icon.svg Katie Nageotte Flag of the United States.svg  United States ooxoxoxx-x4.70
Bronze medal icon.svg Alysha Newman Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada oooxxx4.55
4 Olivia Gruver Flag of the United States.svg  United States ooxoxoxxx4.55
5 Robeilys Peinado Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela xoxoxoxxx4.55
6 Kelsie Ahbe Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada xxooxxx4.35
7 Katherine Castillo Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia ooxxx4.25 NR
8 Juliana Campos Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil oxxx4.10
9 Nicole Hein Flag of Peru.svg  Peru oxxx3.95
Diamara Planell Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico oxxx3.95
Rosaidi Robles Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba xxx NH

References

  1. "Women's pole vault − Final − Results" (PDF). Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). Retrieved 17 Aug 2019.[ permanent dead link ]