Jennifer Stuczynski
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 Jennifer Stuczynski |
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Competitor for the  United States |
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| World Indoor Championships | |||
| Silver | 2008 Valencia | Pole vault | |
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| Gold | 2007 | Pole vault | |
| Gold | 2006 | Pole vault | |
| USA Indoor Championships | |||
| Gold | 2005 | Pole vault | |
Jennifer (Jenn) Stuczynski (born 5 February 1982) is an American pole vaulter and holder of the American women's pole vault record.
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[edit] Biography
Stuczynski is originally from Fredonia, New York. She won the New York State pentathlon title in 2000 as a senior at Fredonia High School[1]. Jenn attended Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, New York, where she competed in basketball and track and field. Jenn averaged 24.3 points and 6.7 rebounds a game for Roberts Wesleyan in 2003-04, taking her team to the NCCAA national championship game. She graduated as the school’s all-time leading scorer in basketball with 1,819 points; and school record-holder in the 100 meter hurdles, 400 meter hurdles, javelin and high jump. She transferred from Roberts to the University of Buffalo briefly, before returning to Roberts to complete her degree. She has started work on a graduate degree in child psychology.
[edit] Pole vaulting career
[edit] 2004
Stuczynski took up the pole vault in 2004 at Roberts Wesleyan.
[edit] 2005
In 2005, she won the 2005 NAIA indoor national title in the pole vault with a 4.00m (13ft 1½ in) clearance, following that up with a win at the 2005 USA Indoor championships in Boston, soaring over 4.35m (14ft 3¼ in).
[edit] 2006
Stuczynski started the 2006 indoor season by setting personal bests at nearly every meet and becoming the #2 American all time, behind only Stacy Dragila, with her clearance of 4.68m (15ft 4¼ in). She captured her first USA Outdoor title with her winning clearance of 4.55m (14ft 11in) at the 2006 AT&T USA Outdoor Championships. She finished third at the 2006 World Athletics Final.
[edit] 2007
On May 20, 2007, Jenn broke the American outdoor pole vault record at the Adidas Track Classic in Carson, California, beating a talented group including an Olympic champion to become the top pole vaulter in the country. She reached the record height of 15 feet, 10-1/2 inches, beating the American record set by Stacy Dragila in 2004 by a half inch. She was the only vaulter to clear 15 feet. She was successful on her first try at 15ft 3in and after a failed first attempt at the new record, cleared the bar on her second try.[2]
On June 2, 2007 at the Reebok Grand Prix, Jenn cleared 4.88m (16ft), becoming only the second woman in the world to do so. After clearing 14ft 7in and 15ft 3in on her first attempts to seal the victory, Stuczynski took three attempts at 16 feet, clearing the bar on her final try to eclipse by one and a half inches the American record she had set the previous month. The only woman who has vaulted higher is the Russian Yelena Isinbayeva, who holds the world record, 5.01m (16 ft 5¼ in). Another Russian, Svetlana Feofanova, has also vaulted 4.88m. Stuczynski then tried to vault over Isinbayeva. The bar was raised to 5.02m (16ft 6in), and she came tantalizingly close to clearing it on the second of her three attempts.[3]
[edit] 2008
Jenn won the Indoor US Nationals which also bought her a ticket into the 2008 IAAF Indoor World Championships in Valencis, Spain where she finished second on a countback to the Russian World Record Holder Yelena Isinbayeva. Both cleared 4.75 metres (15.58 ft).[4]
At the Adidas Track Classic on 18 May, Stuczynski cleared 16 feet 3/4 inches, breaking her own American record. She missed all three attempts at 16 feet 5-1/2 inches, which would have set the world record.
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| NAME | Stuczynski, Jennifer |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American pole vaulter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6 February 1982 |
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