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Sam Kendricks
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Key facts
- Nationality
- American
- Born
- Samuel Hathorn Kendricks , ( 1992-09-07 ) September 7, 1992 (age 33) , Oceanside, California , U.S.
- Home town
- Oxford, Mississippi , U.S.
- Height
- 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
- Weight
- 175 lb (79 kg)
- Country
- United States
- Sport
- Track and field
- Event
- Pole vault
- College team
- University of Mississippi
- Club
- Nike , U.S. Army , UST-ESSX
- Personal bests
- Pole vault : Outdoor 6.06 m ( 19 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) ( Des Moines 2019) Indoor 6.01 m ( 19 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) ( Rouen 2020)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sam
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Oceanside
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 79
- Image
- Sam Kendricks Rio 2016b.jpg
- Height
- 186
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- personal best
- 6.06
- date of birth
- 1992-09-07
- sports discipline competed in
- pole vault
- Commons category
- Sam Kendricks
- social media followers
- 9498
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Encyclopedic overview
Samuel Hathorn Kendricks (born September 7, 1992) is an American pole vaulter. He is a three-time indoor and six-time outdoor national champion (2014–2019), the 2016 Olympics bronze and 2024 Olympics silver medalist, and the 2017 and 2019 World Champion. In 2019, Kendricks set the American pole vault record at 6.06 m, tying him with Steve Hooker for sixth all time. He later won the gold medal at the World Championships in Doha.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sam Kendricks” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.