Alysha Newman

Alysha Newman
Newman at the 2019 Birmingham Grand Prix
nation	Canada
birthday	29th June 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	London , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	4.82 m
society	University of Miami
Trainer	Doug Wood, Zdeněk Krykorka
status	active
Medal table
Commonwealth Games 1 × 0 × 1 × Pan American Games 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Commonwealth Games bronze Glasgow 2014 3.80 m gold Gold Coast 2018 4.75 m  Pan American Games bronze Lima 2019 4.55 m
last change: August 25, 2019

Alysha Newman (born June 29, 1994 in London , Ontario ) is a Canadian pole vaulter .

Athletic career

Alysha Newman gained her first international experience at the World Youth Championships in 2011 near Lille , where she finished twelfth with a jump of 3.75 m. The following year she took part in the Junior World Championships in Barcelona and was eliminated there with 3.65 m in qualification. In 2013 she won the Pan American Junior Championships in Medellín with 4.40 m and was fifth at the Francophonie Games in Nice with 4.10 m. In 2014 she won the shared bronze medal behind the Australian Alana Boyd and Sally Peake , who competed for Wales, at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with a height of 3.80 m . In 2016 she took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and was eliminated from the qualification with 4.45 m . At the World Championships in London 2017, she finished eighth with 4.65 m in the final .

In 2018 she was sixth at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham with 4.70 m and then won the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast with 4.75 m .

In 2019, she improved the Canadian indoor record twice in the indoor season, to 4.71 m and later 4.73 m. She also managed to do this outdoors, increasing her old record of 4.75 m from 2017, first in Guelph by one centimeter and on July 17 in Jockgrim by another to 4.77 m. At the Pan American Games in Lima in 2019 , she won the bronze medal with a jump of 4.55 m. Then she improved her national record again as the winner at the Meeting de Paris with 4.82 m.

In 2016, 2017 and 2019 Newman became the Canadian pole vault champion.

In 2020, Newman finished third in the Ultimate Garden Clash long-distance competition with Katie Nageotte and Katerina Stefanidi on May 16 .

Personal

Newman practiced gymnastics up to the age of 13 . After injuring her lumbar spine , she had to take a year off before starting athletics training. In 2013, the Canadian enrolled at Eastern Michigan University , where she won the Mid-American Conference in the pole vault. Newman moved to the University of Miami , where she graduated with degrees in exercise physiology (major) and nutritional science (minor) in 2016.

Personal best

• Pole vault: 4.82 m, August 24, 2019 in Paris ( Canadian record )
  • Hall: 4.82 m, August 28, 2019 in Zurich ( Canadian record )

Web links

• Alysha Newman in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Alysha Newman in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )