Shawnacy Barber

Shawnacy Barber
Full name	Shawnacy Campbell Barber
nation	Canada
birthday	27th May 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Las Cruces , United States
size	191 cm
Weight	79 kg
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	6.00 m
status	active
Medal table
World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Commonwealth Games 0 × 1 × 1 × Pan American Games 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Junior World Championships gold Beijing 2015 5.90 m  Commonwealth Games bronze Glasgow 2014 5.45 m silver Gold Coast 2018 5.65 m  Pan American Games gold Toronto 2015 5.80 m  Junior World Championships bronze Barcelona 2012 5.55 m
last change: July 26, 2018

Shawnacy Campbell "Shawn" Barber (born May 27, 1994 in Las Cruces ) is a Canadian pole vaulter .

Athletic career

Shawn Barber gained his first international experience at the Junior World Championships 2012 in Barcelona , where he won the bronze medal with 5.55 m. In 2013 he took part in the Summer Universiade in Kazan and finished eleventh there with 5.15 m. This was followed by participation in the World Championships in Moscow , where he was eliminated with 5.40 m in qualification. He then won the gold medal at the Pan American Junior Championships in Medellín with 5.25 m and silver at the Francophonie Games in Nice . In 2014 he won the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with a jump of 5.45 m. In 2015 he won the Pan American Games in Toronto with 5.80 m. At the World Championships in Beijing , Barber was world champion with a jumped height of 5.90 m in the final and thus the first Canadian to become world champion in a technical discipline, at the same time as the high jumper Derek Drouin .

On January 15, 2016, Barber managed to jump over the 6-meter mark for the first time at the indoor meeting in Reno. At the World Indoor Championships in Portland in March, he achieved a rather disappointing result with 5.75 m and a shared fourth place. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro he also fell short of expectations with a skipped 5.50 m and 10th place in the final . In 2017 he was eighth in the final at the World Championships in London with 5.65 m .

In 2018 he again took part in the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , where he jumped only 5.45 m and thus finished 15th. He then took part again in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast and won the silver medal behind the Australian with 5.65 m Kurtis Marshal .

Barber is a student at the University of Akron . He was the Canadian pole vault champion between 2013 and 2015 and 2017 and 2018.

Personal

On July 8, 2016, he tested positive for cocaine . A ban was waived after he was able to demonstrate that, during one-time sexual contact with an Internet acquaintance, while kissing, he swallowed the substance that the woman had recently consumed without his knowledge. In April 2017 , he came out as gay on Facebook .

Barber is also a US citizen.

Personal best

• Pole vault: 5.93 m, July 25, 2015 in London ( Canadian record )
  • Pole vault (indoor): 6.00 m, January 15, 2016 in Reno ( Canadian record )

Web links

Commons : Shawnacy Barber  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Footnotes

1. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Report: Barber joins six-meter club in Reno. In: IAAF. January 16, 2016, accessed March 20, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Cathal Dennehy: Report: men's pole vault final - IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016. In: IAAF. March 18, 2016, accessed March 20, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Markus Wanderl: Pole vaulter Shawn Barber: Contaminated while kissing . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 7, 2016
4. ↑ "Gay and Proud": Shawn Barber comes out . In: Leichtathletik.de. April 25, 2017
5. ↑ Devin Heroux: Canadian pole vaulter Shawn Barber comes out as gay. In: cbc.ca. April 25, 2017. Retrieved August 6, 2017 .