Sam Kendricks

Sam Kendricks
Kendricks at the 2017 World Championships in London
nation	United States
birthday	7th September 1992 (age 27)
place of birth	Oxford , Mississippi ,  USA
size	185 cm
Weight	77 kg
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	6.06 m (July 27, 2019 in Des Moines )
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Indoor world championships 0 × 2 × 0 × Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 5.85 m  World championships gold London 2017 5.95 m gold Doha 2019 5.97 m  Indoor world championships silver Portland 2016 5.80 m silver Birmingham 2018 5.85 m  Universiade gold Kazan 2013 5.60 m
last change: October 3, 2019

Sam Kendricks (born September 7, 1992 in Oxford , Mississippi ) is an American pole vaulter .

Athletic career

Sam Kendricks was born in Oxford , Mississippi and attended high school there before going to the University of Mississippi .

Sam Kendricks won the gold medal at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan , Russia . In 2015, after winning the US Trials, he qualified for the World Championships in Beijing , where he finished ninth with 5.65 m .

In 2016 he won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Portland with a jump of 5.80 m. In the outdoor season he was again US champion and thus secured a starting place for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . There he won the bronze medal with 5.85 m in the final .

At the 2017 World Championships in London , Kendricks won the pole vault final as the only athlete to jump the 5.95 m height, ahead of Piotr Lisek and Renaud Lavillenie .

In 2020, Kendricks took part in the Ultimate Garden Clash long-distance competition called Ultimate Garden Clash and took third place behind Renaud Lavillenie and Armand Duplantis .

Personal best

• Open air: 6.06 m, July 27, 2019, Des Moines ( American record )
• Hall: 5.93 m, 25 February 2018, Clermont-Ferrand

Web links

Commons : Sam Kendricks  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sam Kendricks in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Sam Kendricks website
• Sam Kendricks' Twitter account

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holzdeppes "Salto nullo" at Kendricks-Triumph , on sportschau.de, from August 8, 2017. Retrieved on August 14, 2017.
2. ↑ Pat Graham: Army reservist Sam Kendricks wins pole vault gold at worlds ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on abcnews.com , August 8, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2017.