Sam Kendricks, photo by PhotoRun.net
Sam Kendricks, photo by PhotoRun.netrr
Sam Kendricks had an amazing USATF championships. He cleared his first eight heights on first attempts. At 6.06m, he took two attempts, and cleared the new American record. Sam Kendricks is the 2016 Olympic bronze medalist in the pole vault. In 2017, Sam won the London World Champ s in the pole vault. In 2016, at the World Indoor Championships, Sam Kendricks took the silver, as he did in 2018 World Indoor Championships.
Sam Kendricks now has the World Leader of 6.06 meters.
This podcast is our salute to Sam Kendricks, one of our favorites. Special thanks to Mike Deering/The Shoe addicts, for handling the production of the podcast.
Author
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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