Kendricks and Siderova, both world leaders at 2019 All-Star Perche (Clermont-Ferrand, France)

2025 Spring Racing/Training Program, May 20, 2025, week 10, day 3, Tenth Week of the season, easy Wednesday!

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Sam Kendricks, World Leader, PV at 5.90m, photo by PhotoRun.net

Both World leaders Kendricks and Sidorova, but not Lavillenie

CLERMONT-FERRAND (FRA): All-Star Perche special pole vault meet (EA Indoor Permit) will offer on Sunday the last top clash of the season before the European Indoor Championships. Unfortunately local hero and co-organiser Renaud Lavillenie will not be able to jump. Main favorite of the men competition will be so reigning World champion Sam Kendricks who is also World leader with 590. His main rivals will be top Polish jumpers Piotr Lisek and Pawel Wojciechowski, Olympic winner Thiago Braz, Commonwealth Champion Kurtis Marschall, former World indoor champion Kostadinos Filippidis and this season improved Swedish Melker Svard Jacobsson and Italian Claudio Stecchi. Women contest has also as big favorite fresh World Indoor Tour winner and World leader with 491 Anzhelika Sidorova with Canadian record holder Alysha Newman and former World champion Yarisley Silva. Best French Ninon Guillon-Romarin could not be missed.

Anzelhika Siderova, World Leader, PV, 4.91 meters, photo by PhotoRun.net

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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