Holly Bradshaw

Holly Bradshaw
Holly Bradshaw in Gateshead 2011
Full name	Holly Bethan Bradshaw
nation	United Kingdom of England
birthday	2nd November 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Preston , UK
size	175 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	4.87 m
society	Blackburn Harriers
Trainer	Scott Simpson
status	active
Medal table
Indoor world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Indoor world championships bronze Istanbul 2012 4.70 m  European championships bronze Berlin 2018 4.75 m  European Indoor Championships gold Gothenburg 2013 4.67 m silver Glasgow 2019 4.75 m  European championships gold Ostrava 2011 4.55 m  Junior World Championships bronze Moncton 2010 4.15 m
last change: April 14, 2019

Holly Bethan Bradshaw (* 2 November 1991 in Preston as Holly Bleasdale ) is a British pole vaulter .

Athletic career

Holly Bradshaw gained her first international experience at the 2010 Junior World Championships in Moncton , where she won the bronze medal with a jump of 4.15 m. The following year she retired at the European Indoor Championships in Paris with 4.45 m in qualification and then won with 4.55 m at the U23 European Championships in Ostrava . So she qualified for the World Championships in Daegu , where she was eliminated without a valid amount in the preliminary round. In 2012 she surprisingly won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul with 4.70 m behind Russian Jelena Issinbajewa and Vanessa Boslak from France. She qualified for the first time for the Olympic Games in London , where she finished sixth with 4.45 m in the final . The following year she won the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg with a height of 4.67 m and in 2014 she was ninth at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland, with 4.55 m .

In 2015 she again took part in the World Championships in Beijing , where she finished seventh with 4.70 m in the final . The following year she again took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was fifth with 4.70 m in the final . At the World Championships in London the following year, she reached sixth place with 4.65 m in the final . In 2018 she took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast , where she took fourth place with a jump of 4.60 m. In August she won the bronze medal with 4.75 m at the European Championships in Berlin behind the two Greeks Ekaterini Stefanidi and Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou . In the following year she secured the silver medal behind the Russian Anselika Sidorova at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow with 4.75 m .

In 2012, as well as from 2015 to 2019 , Bradshaw was British champion in outdoor pole vault and in 2013, 2014 and 2019 also indoors. She is graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University with a degree in Sports Science .

Personal best

• Pole vault: 4.81 m, July 15, 2017 in Rottach-Egern ( British record )
  • Pole vault (hall): 4.87 m, January 21, 2012 in Villeurbanne ( British record )

Web links

Commons : Holly Bradshaw  - Collection of Images

• Holly Bradshaw in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Holly Bradshaw in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait at Power of 10
• Holly Bradshaw in the database of TOPS in athletics (English)
• Steve Landells: My greatest challenge - Holly Bradshaw ( English ) IAAF. July 17, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result list of the U23 European Championships in Ostrava 2011
2. ↑ NDR: athletics, pole vault, women. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .