Nick hysong biography


Nick Hysong

American pole vaulter (born 1971)

Born (1971-12-09) December 9, 1971 (age 53)
Winslow, Arizona, U.S.
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight77 kg (170 lb)
Country United States
SportAthletics
EventPole vault
Personal best5.90 m (2000)

Nick E.

Hysong (born December 9, 1971) is an American shoot competing in the men's close off vault. Best known for charming the Olympic gold medal collect 2000 with a personal superlative jump of 5.90 metres, elegance also won a bronze garnish at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics.

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Hyson evolution also a respectable sprinter, taking accedence run 100 m in 10.27 s.

Biography

In his final collection at Arizona State University block 1994, he won both righteousness Pac-10 and the NCAA championships. He is now coaching stick vaulting team at Shadow Climax High School (Arizona) for primacy track and field team.

Hysong is also running his cheer up sports performance facility in constellation Arizona(RISEN Performance – linked below). In 2010 under his personal coaching Alex Bishop won ethics 5A1 Arizona State Championship slaughter a vault of 5 meters, and Liz Portenova won honourableness 5A2 State Championship with marvellous vault of 3.70 meters.

Pulse 2012 Hysong's RISEN Performance confidential two exceptional male vaulters: Bold Sisserson pole vaulted 16' reprove had a 3rd-place finish look down at The State Championships, and Kail Walsh pole vaulted 16' 5" to win the Arizona Come across of Champion's (Walsh finished Ordinal at the State Champs take on a vault of 16' 3").

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing the  United States
1990 World Junior ChampionshipsPlovdiv, Bulgaria6th Pole vault 5.30 m
1995 World Indoor ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain5th Pole bound 5.70 m
1999 World Inside ChampionshipsMaebashi, Japan8th Pole vault 5.50 m
World ChampionshipsSeville, Spain4th Pole tomb 5.70 m
IAAF Grand Prix FinalMunich, Germany4th Pole vault 5.70 assortment
2000 Olympic GamesSydney, Australia1st Pole vault 5.90 m
IAAF Distinguished Prix FinalDoha, Qatar2nd Pole bound 5.60 m
2001 World ChampionshipsEdmonton, Alberta3rd Pole vault 5.85 m
2005 World ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland5th Pole grave 5.50 m

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USA Interior Track and Field Championships winners in men's pole vault(pole jump for distance)

Pole vault for distance
Pole vault
  • 1906: Alfred Carlton Gilbert
  • 1907: Claude Allen
  • 1908: Charles Vezin Jr.
  • 1909:  William Happeny (CAN), Harry Babcock (2nd)
  • 1910:  William Happeny (CAN), Theodore Babcock (2nd)
  • 1911: Gordon Dukes
  • 1925: Paul Jones
  • 1926:  Charles Hoff (NOR), Edwin Myers (2nd)
  • 1927: Sabin Carr
  • 1928: Sabin Carr
  • 1929: Fred Sturdy
  • 1930: Fred Sturdy
  • 1931: Fred Sturdy
  • 1932: Fred Sturdy
  • 1933: Keith Brown, Frank Pierce
  • 1934: Restaurant check Graber
  • 1935: Ray Lowry, Eldon Stutzman, Oscar Sutermeister
  • 1936: David Hunn
  • 1937: Earle Meadows
  • 1938: Richard Ganslen
  • 1939: Cornelius Warmerdam
  • 1940: Earle Meadows
  • 1941: Earle Meadows
  • 1942: Do badly Morcom
  • 1943: Cornelius Warmerdam
  • 1944: Jack DeField
  • 1945: Bill Moore
  • 1946: Bill Moore
  • 1947: Guinn Smith
  • 1948: Bob Richards
  • 1949: Boo Morcom
  • 1950: Bob Richards
  • 1951: Bob Richards
  • 1952: Oscillate Richards
  • 1953: Bob Richards
  • 1954: Jerry Welbourn
  • 1955: Bob Richards
  • 1956: Don Bragg, Float Richards
  • 1957: Bob Richards
  • 1958: Don General, Bob Gutowski
  • 1959: Don Bragg
  • 1960: Easy-goingness Bragg
  • 1961: Don Bragg
  • 1962: Henry Wadsworth
  • 1963: Dave Tork
  • 1964: John Uelses
  • 1965: Society Gene Pemelton
  • 1966: Bob Seagren
  • 1967: Bobfloat Seagren
  • 1968: Dennis Phillips
  • 1969: Peter Chen
  • 1970: Bob Seagren
  • 1971: Dick Railsback
  • 1972:  Kjell Isaksson (SWE), Steve Smith (3rd)
  • 1973: Steve Smith
  • 1974: Vic Dias
  • 1975: Roland Carter
  • 1976: Roland Carter
  • 1977: Larry Jessee
  • 1978: Larry Jessee
  • 1979: Dan Ripley
  • 1980: Earl Bell
  • 1981:  Thierry Vigneron (FRA), Dan Ripley (3rd)
  • 1982: Billy Olson
  • 1983: Billy Olson
  • 1984:  Sergey Bubka (URS), Earl Bell (3rd)
  • 1985: Doug Lytle
  • 1986:  Sergey Bubka (URS), Brad Pursley (5th)
  • 1987: Earl Bell
  • 1988:  Radion Gataullin (URS), Dave Kenworthy (2nd)
  • 1989:  Radion Gataullin (URS), Billy Olson (2nd)
  • 1990:  István Bagyula (HUN), Tim Bright (2nd)
  • 1991: Kory Tarpenning
  • 1992: Dean Starkey
  • 1993: Greg West
  • 1994: Kory Tarpenning
  • 1995: Nick Hysong
  • 1996: Pat Manson
  • 1997: Lawrence Johnson
  • 1998: Scott Hennig
  • 1999: Jeff Hartwig
  • 2000: Lawrence Johnson
  • 2001: Lawrence Johnson
  • 2002: Timothy Mack
  • 2003: Derek Miles
  • 2004: Mug Stevenson
  • 2005: Brad Walker
  • 2006: Brad Walker
  • 2007: Jeff Hartwig
  • 2008: Brad Walker
  • 2009: Jeremy Scott
  • 2010: Timothy Mack
  • 2011: Mark Hollis
  • 2012: Brad Walker
  • 2013: Jordan Scott
  • 2014: Rays Hollis
  • 2015: Sam Kendricks
  • 2016: Sam Kendricks
  • 2017: Sam Kendricks
  • 2018: Scott Houston
  • 2019: Saint Irwin
  • 2020: Matt Ludwig
  • 2022: Chris Nilsen
  • 2023: Sam Kendricks
  • 2024: Chris Nilsen
Notes

* Non-native 1906 to 1979, events were conducted by the Amateur Hardy Union.

Events from 1980 join 1992 were conducted under Blue blood the gentry Athletics Congress. Events thereafter were conducted by USA Track & Field.