Sporting Witness - Stacy Dragila - Queen of the Women's Pole Vault
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At the 2000 Sydney games, women were able to compete in the Pole Vault at the Olympics for the first time. It followed the emergence of a generation of vaulters led by America’s Stacy Dragila, who proved that women could master an event traditionally regarded as too physically demanding and too technically difficult for them. Stacy Dragila went on to win the first women’s Olympic gold medal in her discipline. She talks to Simon Watts.
PHOTO: Stacy Dragila competing in 1999 (Getty Images)
Published on Thursday, 15th July 2021.
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