{"id":1866,"date":"2019-04-02T07:12:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/eugene-stanford-6-meter-club-set-to-convene-at-pre-classic\/"},"modified":"2019-04-02T07:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:12:59","slug":"eugene-stanford-6-meter-club-set-to-convene-at-pre-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/eugene-stanford-6-meter-club-set-to-convene-at-pre-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene\/Stanford: 6-Meter Club Set to Convene at Pre Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"
It is not a dream. Every active member of the 6-meter (19-8\u00bc) club is prepared to vault, including the world record holder, the last two Olympic gold medalists, and every Diamond Trophy winner ever and every No. 1 world ranker by Track & Field News since 2010.<\/div>\n
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American Sam Kendricks, 26, is the reigning world champion, winning the first major vault gold for the U.S. since 2007. In 2018 he repeated as the world\u2019s No. 1 in the T&FN world rankings, the first American vaulter to be back-to-back No. 1 since Bob Seagren in 1968-69. In \u201917 he won the Diamond League title, ending a 7-year streak by Renaud Lavillenie.<\/div>\n
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Kendricks earned Olympic bronze in Rio \u2013 the first Olympic vault medal by an American since 2004. It also made him the youngest American Olympic medalist since Jan Johnson\u2019s bronze in 1972 at age 21. He has won every U.S. championship he\u2019s entered and is the two-time defending Prefontaine Classic champ.<\/div>\n
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The highest vault in the world last year came from Mondo Duplantis as an 18-year-old who won the European Championships at 19-10\u00bc (6.05). That clearance also equaled the highest outdoor vault since the turn of century, which came at the 2015 Pre Classic. As a 17-year-old, Mondo became the youngest-ever male vault finalist at the London World Championships, competing for mom Helena\u2019s Sweden.<\/div>\n
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Now 19, Mondo has torn into the collegiate records as a freshman at LSU, raising the collegiate standard to 19-5 (5.92) en route to winning the 2019 NCAA Indoor title. Mondo\u2019s dad, Greg, won the 1992 Pre Classic.<\/div>\n
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Renaud Lavillenie, 32, won last year\u2019s World Indoor Championships, the most recent of his achievements as one of the event\u2019s best ever. The 4-time Pre Classic champ is the world record holder (20-2\u00bd\/6.16) and owner of the best outdoor vault in America, 19-10\u00bc\/6.05,  set at the 2015 Pre Classic.<\/div>\n
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Known on social networks as Air Lavillenie, his appearances in the U.S. are always special. At last year\u2019s Texas Relays he topped a field that saw three over 19-5 (5.92) for the only time on U.S. soil besides the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.<\/div>\n
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Timur Morgunov, 22, is the newest member of the 6-meter club, joining minutes after Mondo at last year\u2019s European Championships in Berlin. While Mondo climbed a bar higher that day, Morgunov showed he had more in the tank, winning the Diamond League Trophy a month later. This will be his first competition in the U.S.<\/div>\n
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Brazil\u2019s Thiago Braz, 25, won the 2016 Olympic gold, becoming the first from his country to claim Olympic track gold since 1984, when Joaquim Cruz won the 800 in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.<\/div>\n
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Poland\u2019s Piotr Lisek, 26, was ranked No. 2 in the world in 2017 by T&FN and earned the 2017 World Championships silver medalist after a bronze in in 2015.  He won the February indoor gathering in France at Clermont-Ferrand, a vault favorite hosted by Lavillenie.<\/p>\n

Shawn Barber is Canada\u2019s only member of the 6-meter club. He won the 2015 World Championships in Beijing as a 20-year-old. Born in Texas, Barber won three NCAA titles while at the University of Akron.  <\/p><\/div>\n

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Men\u2019s Pole Vault<\/b><\/td>\nPersonal Best<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Renaud Lavillenie<\/td>\nFrance<\/td>\n20-2\u00bd<\/td>\n6.16m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mondo Duplantis<\/td>\nSweden<\/td>\n19-10\u00bc<\/td>\n6.05m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thiago Braz<\/td>\nBrazil<\/td>\n19-9\u00bc<\/td>\n6.03m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shawn Barber<\/td>\nCanada<\/td>\n19-8\u00bc<\/td>\n6.00m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sam Kendricks<\/td>\nUSA<\/td>\n19-8\u00bc<\/td>\n6.00m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Piotr Lisek<\/td>\nPoland<\/td>\n19-8\u00bc<\/td>\n6.00m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Timur Morgunov<\/td>\nANA<\/td>\n19-8\u00bc<\/td>\n6.00m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Tickets for the 45th annual edition of the Prefontaine Classic, to be held June 30 at Cobb Track & Angell Field in Stanford, Calif., are available now by clicking here or at gostanford.com\/tickets<\/link>. Tickets can also be ordered by calling 1-800-STANFORD.<\/p>\n

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