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Katie Moon wins silver medal at Paris Olympics in women’s pole vault
SAINT-DENIS, France — Katie Moon added to Group USA’s medal rely Tuesday with a silver medal within the ladies’s pole vault occasion on the Stade de France venue of the Paris Olympics. Moon vaulted 15 toes, 11 inches in her last profitable try to achieve the rostrum.
Nina Kennedy of Australia took the gold medal (16 toes, ¾ inches), whereas Canada’s Alysha Newman gained bronze.
Moon cleared her first 4 vaults with no failed try, considered one of solely two opponents, together with Angelica Moser of Switzerland, to take action.
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For Moon, this marks back-to-back Olympic medals within the occasion. She gained gold with a vault of 16 toes, ¾ inches on the Tokyo Video games, and tied for first on the 2023 World Championship in Budapest with a vault of the identical peak. She is now simply the second Group USA ladies’s pole vaulter to earn a number of Olympic medals, becoming a member of Jennifer Suhr, who took silver on the 2008 Beijing Video games, and gold on the 2012 Video games in London.
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Moon’s end additionally gave Group USA essentially the most medals all-time in ladies’s pole vault (six).
Attain Tuscaloosa Information columnist Chase Goodbread at [email protected]. Observe on X @chasegoodbread.
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