{"id":1215,"date":"2016-08-31T20:29:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T20:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/zurich-bradshaw-takes-surprise-pole-vault-victory\/"},"modified":"2016-08-31T20:29:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T20:29:26","slug":"zurich-bradshaw-takes-surprise-pole-vault-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/zurich-bradshaw-takes-surprise-pole-vault-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich: Bradshaw Takes Surprise Pole Vault Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In a close competition, Britain\u2019s Holly Bradshaw pulled off a surprise victory by defeating Olympic champion Ekaterini Stefanidi and Olympic silver medallist Sandi Morris with a series of first-time clearances up to and including 4.76m.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland\u2019s world U20 champion Angelica Moser was the first to exit the competition after three misses at what would have been a PB of 4.51m. Germany\u2019s Martina Strutz and Swiss record-holder Nicola Buchler also bowed out of the competition at that height.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>Bradshaw, vaulting to \u2018Piece Of Me\u2019 by MK and Becky Hill, moved into an early lead after first-time clearances at 4.51m and 4.61m, with Morris matching her record at those heights.<\/div>\n<div>In her first competition since winning the Olympic title, Stefanidi brought down the bar on her opening attempt at 4.61m but sailed well clear of it on her second try.<\/div>\n<div>With Slovenia\u2019s Tina Sutej, Germany\u2019s Lisa Ryzih and Jirina Ptacnikova of the Czech Republic all failing to get over 4.61m, it left just three women in the competition.<\/div>\n<div>Bradshaw maintained her lead by sailing over a season\u2019s best of 4.71m on her first try. Morris and Stefanidi, though, both needed two attempts to clear it, giving the Briton the outright lead.<\/div>\n<div>A first-time 4.76m clearance from Bradshaw \u2013 a Swiss indoor all-comers\u2019 record and her best vault for more than three years \u2013 kept the pressure on the two Olympic medallists. Morris, jumping to \u2018Levels\u2019 by Avicii, also got over it on her first try, while Stefanidi passed to 4.81m, but both women still trailed Bradshaw.<\/div>\n<div>A miss at 4.81m for Bradshaw threw a lifeline to Morris and Stefanidi. Morris got over it on her first try \u2013 or at least she had appeared to, until the bar dropped down on the US vaulter a couple of seconds after she landed. Stefanidi, competing to a blast of \u2018Uptown Funk\u2019 by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, then also failed her opening attempt.<\/div>\n<div>In the second round of tries at that height, Bradshaw was closest but all three women missed again. The 2013 European indoor champion then left the competition after a third narrow failure at 4.81m, leaving Morris and Stefanidi with one attempt each to try to take the victory.<\/div>\n<div>Both women were unsuccessful, though, meaning Bradshaw held on to the victory.<\/div>\n<div><i>Jon Mulkeen for the IAAF and the IAAF Diamond League<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not have been one of the Diamond Race disciplines at the Weltklasse meeting, but the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}