#womanpolevaulter

[adrianmalloch]

Olympic pole vault bronze medalist @eliza_mac_ photographed on the @autmillennium training track, for Catherine Woulfe's story in the March April 2019 issue of @nzgeo magazine.⠀⁣⠀ '… POLE VAULT IS a sport of conjurors. The best vaulters summon energy from earth and muscle and channel it into a pole. Then they leap, and with a series of precise, fluid motions, they call that power back into themselves. They fly.⁣⠀⁣⠀ It’s not magic, of course. It’s a body working fit to bust. You’ve got to be fast, says Olympic bronze medallist Eliza McCartney. “You’ve got to be strong on the ground, but then you’ve also got to be mobile and spatially aware."⁣⠀⁣⠀ In women’s pole vaulting five metres is the magic mark, akin to the four-minute mile. Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva cleared it first. That was 10 years ago. In 2016, Americans Jennifer Suhr and Sandi Morris cracked it, too. And McCartney? Her personal best is now 4.94 metres. If her recent trajectory holds, she’ll be over five metres in a matter of months.⁣⠀⁣⠀ “I’m so close. I’ve been looking at it for so long and it’s just tantalisingly close." …' excerpt from NZ Geographic story on Eliza in the current issue: See link in bio.⁣⠀⁣⠀ 1 post from a set of 9. ⁣⠀⁣⠀ View this post in context by going to my profile.⁣⠀⁣⠀ All photographs ©Adrian Malloch, all rights reserved.⁣⠀⁣⠀ …⁣⠀⁣⠀ #sport #olympics #olympian #polevault #polevaulter #vault #womenspolevault #womanpolevaulter #compete #track #athletics #trackandfield #vaulternation #jumpnation #newzealand #auckland #sportsphotography #photojournalism #portrait #canonnz #yourshotphotographer ⁣⠀⁣⠀ ⁣⠀⁣⠀ (at AUT Millennium) https://www.instagram.com/p/Buc8YZZhBvb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dto4chc12vje

[adrianmalloch]

Olympic pole vault bronze medalist @eliza_mac_ photographed on the @autmillennium training track, for the March April 2019 issue of @nzgeo magazine. Story by Catherine Woulfe. '… POLE VAULT IS a sport of conjurors. The best vaulters summon energy from earth and muscle and channel it into a pole. Then they leap, and with a series of precise, fluid motions, they call that power back into themselves. They fly.⁣⠀⁣⠀ It’s not magic, of course. It’s a body working fit to bust. You’ve got to be fast, says Olympic bronze medallist Eliza McCartney. “You’ve got to be strong on the ground, but then you’ve also got to be mobile and spatially aware."⁣⠀⁣⠀ In women’s pole vaulting five metres is the magic mark, akin to the four-minute mile. Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva cleared it first. That was 10 years ago. In 2016, Americans Jennifer Suhr and Sandi Morris cracked it, too. And McCartney? Her personal best is now 4.94 metres. If her recent trajectory holds, she’ll be over five metres in a matter of months.⁣⠀⁣⠀ “I’m so close. I’ve been looking at it for so long and it’s just tantalisingly close." …' excerpt from NZ Geographic story on Eliza in the current issue: See link in bio.⁣⠀⁣⠀ 1 post from a set of 9. ⁣⠀⁣⠀ View this post in context by going to my profile.⁣⠀⁣⠀ All photographs ©Adrian Malloch, all rights reserved.⁣⠀⁣⠀ …⁣⠀⁣⠀ #sport #olympics #olympian #polevault #polevaulter #vault #womenspolevault #womanpolevaulter #compete #track #athletics #trackandfield #vaulternation #jumpnation #newzealand #auckland #sportsphotography #photojournalism #portrait #canonnz #yourshotphotographer ⁣⠀⁣⠀ ⁣⠀⁣⠀ (at AUT Millennium) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuaEz1plcWh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n9mpx6czuzud

[adrianmalloch]

Olympic pole vault bronze medalist @eliza_mac_ photographed on the @autmillennium training track, for the March April 2019 issue of @nzgeo magazine.⁣⠀⁣⠀ '… POLE VAULT IS a sport of conjurors. The best vaulters summon energy from earth and muscle and channel it into a pole. Then they leap, and with a series of precise, fluid motions, they call that power back into themselves. They fly.⁣⠀⁣⠀ It’s not magic, of course. It’s a body working fit to bust. You’ve got to be fast, says Olympic bronze medallist Eliza McCartney. “You’ve got to be strong on the ground, but then you’ve also got to be mobile and spatially aware."⁣⠀⁣⠀ In women’s pole vaulting five metres is the magic mark, akin to the four-minute mile. Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva cleared it first. That was 10 years ago. In 2016, Americans Jennifer Suhr and Sandi Morris cracked it, too. And McCartney? Her personal best is now 4.94 metres. If her recent trajectory holds, she’ll be over five metres in a matter of months.⁣⠀⁣⠀ “I’m so close. I’ve been looking at it for so long and it’s just tantalisingly close." …' excerpt from NZ Geographic story on Eliza in the current issue: See link in bio.⁣⠀⁣⠀ 1 post from a set of 9. ⁣⠀⁣⠀ View this post in context by going to my profile.⁣⠀⁣⠀ All photographs ©Adrian Malloch, all rights reserved.⁣⠀⁣⠀ …⁣⠀⁣⠀ #sport #olympics #olympian #polevault #polevaulter #vault #womenspolevault #womanpolevaulter #compete #track #athletics #trackandfield #vaulternation #jumpnation #newzealand #auckland #sportsphotography #photojournalism #portrait #canonnz #yourshotphotographer ⁣⠀⁣⠀ ⁣⠀⁣⠀ (at AUT Millennium) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuZW4wbhsPH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rl5mcf6qyefo

[adrianmalloch]

Olympic pole vault bronze medalist @eliza_mac_ photographed on the @autmillennium training track, for the March April 2019 issue of @nzgeo magazine.⁣⠀ '… POLE VAULT IS a sport of conjurors. The best vaulters summon energy from earth and muscle and channel it into a pole. Then they leap, and with a series of precise, fluid motions, they call that power back into themselves. They fly.⁣⠀ It’s not magic, of course. It’s a body working fit to bust. You’ve got to be fast, says Olympic bronze medallist Eliza McCartney. “You’ve got to be strong on the ground, but then you’ve also got to be mobile and spatially aware."⁣⠀ In women’s pole vaulting five metres is the magic mark, akin to the four-minute mile. Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva cleared it first. That was 10 years ago. In 2016, Americans Jennifer Suhr and Sandi Morris cracked it, too. And McCartney? Her personal best is now 4.94 metres. If her recent trajectory holds, she’ll be over five metres in a matter of months.⁣⠀ “I’m so close. I’ve been looking at it for so long and it’s just tantalisingly close." …' excerpt from NZ Geographic story on Eliza in the current issue: See link in bio.⁣⠀ 1 post from a set of 9. ⁣⠀ View this post in context by going to my profile.⁣⠀ All photographs ©Adrian Malloch, all rights reserved.⁣⠀ …⁣⠀ #sport #olympics #olympian #polevault #polevaulter #vault #womenspolevault #womanpolevaulter #compete #track #athletics #trackandfield #vaulternation #jumpnation #newzealand #auckland #sportsphotography #photojournalism #portrait #canonnz #yourshotphotographer ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ (at AUT Millennium) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuX_jF7ljkf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=z12lcosg0v1i