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Review: Sam Kendricks makes outdoor pole vault debut with 5.81 meters (Includes first-hand account)

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April 2, 2017

In his first outdoor appearance of 2017, Kendricks successfully cleared 5.81 meters in the pole vault competition, which is well over 19 feet. He ranked first place in Oxford, and this achievement is the second best outdoor performance in the world thus far (only second to Armand Duplantis who cleared 5.90 meters on April 1, 2017 in Austin, Texas at the Myers Stadium).

At the indoor championships in the United States, Kendricks won first place with a jump of 5.85 meters, as Digital Journal had reported.

Digital Journal chatted with Sam Kendricks about his American indoor pole vault championship win.

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Written By Markos Papadatos

Markos Papadatos is Digital Journal's Editor-at-Large for Music News. Papadatos is a Greek-American journalist and educator that has authored over 20,000 original articles over the past 18 years. He has interviewed some of the biggest names in music, entertainment, lifestyle, magic, and sports. He is a 16-time "Best of Long Island" winner, where for three consecutive years (2020, 2021, and 2022), he was honored as the "Best Long Island Personality" in Arts & Entertainment, an honor that has gone to Billy Joel six times.