Sandi Morris will start in Reno for 2018

GREENVILLE (USA): Pole Vaulter Sandi Morris has said she was plagued by back injuries in 2017 but still won a silver medal at the World Championships despite “not feeling 100%”, informs Track & Field News. “I would feel completely fine for a week or so and then something would just trigger it. Whether it was in the weight room or a long jump session, my back would just lock up and I couldn’t breathe and then I’d be out of commission for three days. So then the whole year I was kind of tiptoeing around the weight room. I wasn’t able to lift the weight that I needed to in order to get strong,” she said. Morris will open her indoor season at the Pole Vault Summit meeting in Reno in January and is aiming to compete at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.