Derek Miles

Derek Miles (born September 28, 1972 in Sacramento ) is an American pole vaulter .

Career

In 2003 he was US indoor champion and fifth at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham . Outdoors he was national runner-up and sixth at the World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis . The following year he qualified as third in the US eliminations for the Olympic Games in Athens , where he was seventh.

After three relatively unsuccessful years, he won the 2008 national qualifiers for the Beijing Olympic Games . There he was first fourth and narrowly missed the bronze medal, as he had only one more failed attempt than the third Denys Yurchenko , who also jumped 5.70 m. In November 2016, the International Olympic Committee published that Yurchenko had started doping in Beijing. With that, Miles advances to Bronze Square. On September 8, he jumped 5.85 m in a show competition in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin , thus setting his personal record, which he had achieved in the hall on February 12, 2005 in Donetsk . As US runner-up, he went back to Berlin the following year, but this time retired from qualifying at the 2009 World Athletics Championships .

Derek Miles is 1.91 m tall and weighs 86 kg. He is a graduate of the University of South Dakota and has been married to Tori Devericks since 2004.

Web links

Official website
Derek Miles in the database of World Athletics (English)
Athlete portrait at USA Track & Field

Individual evidence

↑ Olympic Summer Games 2008: Another 16 athletes tested positive. www.spiegel.de from November 18, 2016; accessed on November 28, 2016
↑ IOC SANCTIONS 16 ATHLETES FOR FAILING ANTI-DOPING TESTS AT BEIJING 2008 , www.olympic.org from 17 November 2016; accessed on November 28, 2016
↑ Larry Eder, Jörg Wenig: Miles clears 5.85m in front of Brandenburg Gate - Berlin 2009. ( Memento from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) berlin.iaaf.org from September 8, 2008; Retrieved from Wayback on November 28, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Miles, Derek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American pole vaulter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sacramento

[1] Olympic Summer Games 2008: Another 16 athletes tested positive. www.spiegel.de from November 18, 2016; accessed on November 28, 2016

[2] IOC SANCTIONS 16 ATHLETES FOR FAILING ANTI-DOPING TESTS AT BEIJING 2008 , www.olympic.org from 17 November 2016; accessed on November 28, 2016

[3] Larry Eder, Jörg Wenig: Miles clears 5.85m in front of Brandenburg Gate - Berlin 2009. ( Memento from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) berlin.iaaf.org from September 8, 2008; Retrieved from Wayback on November 28, 2016.