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2020 Nike Pre Classic Diary: Mondo Duplantis and Sam Kendricks lead amazing Men’s PV field for Pre Classic!

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My first Pre Classic was in the early 1990s. I have missed few since.

Gosh, how I love this meet. I did not see a European meet until 1995, and the Pre Classic was a revelation. Tom Jordan and his team built this meet as a homage to the late Steve Prefontaine, who had hosted a small series of elite meets in Oregon before his death.

Jordan was fortunate to get the support of Nike athletics. That meant that Nike would support the meeting with their finest athletes. And they have, since the mid 1980s.

The men’s pole vault field announced today via the Pre Classic press release is a case in point. The men’s PV will be the finest field outside of the Olympics. Watch upcoming releases on the other events at the Pre Classic, coming June 6-7, 2020.

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Recordsetters Duplantis & Kendricks Top Pre Classic’s Vault Field Royalty

(The 46thPre Classic, a member of the Wanda Diamond League of elite international track & field meets, will be held June 6-7 at Hayward Field)

Eugene, Oregon – Vault fans can’t wait for the royal field assembled for the Prefontaine Classic’s return to a brand-new Hayward Field.

Even the vaulters can’t wait. Armand “Mondo” Duplantis and two-time reigning World Champion Sam Kendricks top an amazing field that includes every Olympic and World Championships medalist since the Rio Games. Both set records Saturday, with Duplantis taking down the six-year-old world record of Renaud Lavillenie with a 20-2¾ (6.17) clearance in ToruÅ„, Poland; several hours later in France, Kendricks set the American indoor best of 19-9 (6.02).

Mondo Duplantis is off to a scorching start this year. He kicked off the season with a narrow miss at the world record height in his first meet. His huge clearances there had vaulting aficionados scrambling for comparisons to legendary the Sergey Bubka, the only member besides Lavillenie in the 20-foot club (6.10). That is, until Mondo raised the absolute world record to 6.17 last weekend.

The 20-year-old Duplantis said “It’s something that I’ve wanted since I was three years old. It’s a big year, but it’s a good way to start it.”

Mondo’s highlight reel includes winning the 2018 European Championships, when he set three PRs for the first time and ultimately cleared 19-10¼ (6.05), which at the time was the highest outdoor performance since the turn of the century.

A favorite worldwide, Mondo’s connection to the Pre Classic is as good as it gets. In 2017 as a high school junior from Louisiana he made his Diamond League debut here (fourth), returned as a prep senior in ’18 (runner-up) and last year recorded his first win on the DL circuit. That victory gave the Pre Classic its first set of father-son winners (Greg Duplantis, his dad and co-coach with mom Helena, won in 1992).

Sam Kendricks, 27, is the two-time reigning World Champion, winning in Doha and London. He also won Diamond League crowns in the same years. In the eyes of the world’s best experts, he is riding a three-year run as world No. 1 by Track & Field News – the longest streak in the pole vault by an American since Bob Richards had seven from 1949-55.

Just a couple hours after Mondo’s WR, Kendricks got into some recordbreaking of his own, jumping 19-9 (6.02) in Rouen, France to break the American indoor record set by Jeff Hartwig in 2002. Kendricks has won every U.S. championship he’s entered since 2014, but last year’s in Des Moines might have been the most special yet. With victory already secured, he had the bar set at an American record height of 19-10½ (6.06) and his clearance – the highest ever outdoors in the U.S. – set off a celebratory dogpile as his rivals shared in the joy.

Sam, who is coached by his dad Scott, earned Olympic bronze in Rio – the first Olympic vault medal by a U.S. man since 2004. He was then 23 and it made him the event’s youngest American Olympic medalist since Jan Johnson’s bronze in 1972 at age 21. This will be Pre Classic No. 6 for Kendricks, a two-time winner who has never finished lower than third here.

Renaud Lavillenie, 33, is one of the event’s treasures and his appearances in the U.S. are always special. Fortunately he is set to contest his eighth consecutive Pre Classic. The former world record holder at 20-2½ (6.16) earlier this winter recorded his 148th meet with at least one clearance of 5.80 meters (19-0¼) or better (Bubka has the most with 183). Next week he will host his annual “All Star Perche” meet in Clermont-Ferrand, France, with both Mondo and Kendricks on the guest list.

The 4-time Pre Classic champ won his last title in 2016 while competing in a University of Oregon singlet. He holds the Hayward Field record at 19-10¼ (6.05) set while winning the 2015 Pre Classic. Lavillenie was among the first to congratulate Mondo on breaking his WR, tweeting “This is your day! Congrats to my baby bro!”

Poland’s Piotr Lisek, 27, was ranked No. 3 in the world last year by T&FN after earning bronze in Doha behind Kendricks and Duplantis. In 2017 he was a notch higher at No. 2 after winning silver in London – the best major performance by a Pole since Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz won the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Lisek, who owns the indoor and outdoor Polish records, has been world ranked every year since 2014 and this will mark his fifth consecutive appearance at the Pre Classic, having taken third in each of the last three years.

Polish countrymate Pawel Wojciechowski, who will turn 31 the day before this year’s Pre Classic, was next in last year’s T&FN world rankings at No. 4. The 2018 European Indoor champion, he won the 2011 World Championships when he was 22.

Brazil’s Thiago Braz, 26, won the 2016 Olympic gold, becoming the first from his country to claim Olympic gold in this sport since 1984, when Joaquim Cruz won the 800 in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

This will be a homecoming of sorts for Cole Walsh, 24. The Arizona native was runner-up to Kendricks in last year’s U.S. Championships in Des Moines and finished 10th in Doha en route to his first T&FN world rankings appearance at No. 6.

Walsh last competed at Hayward Field in 2017, taking fifth for Oregon in the NCAA Championships. His first competition at Hayward Field came in 2014, when as a freshman he won the U.S. U20 (Junior) title, securing a spot on the national team for the World U20 Championships, also held at Hayward Field.

Men’s Pole Vault Personal Best
Mondo Duplantis (Sweden) 20-2¾ (6.17)
Renaud Lavillenie (France) 20-2½ (6.16)
Sam Kendricks (USA) 19-10½ (6.06)
Thiago Braz (Brazil) 19-9¼ (6.03)
Piotr Lisek (Poland) 19-9 (6.02)
Pawel Wojciechowski (Poland) 19-5½ (5.93)
Cole Walsh (USA) 19-1½ (5.83)

The 8th spot is reserved for the athlete vaulting the best just prior to Pre.

Fans can follow the event lineups as all announced fields are posted at PreClassic.com. The direct link to current start/entry lists is HERE and will include updates to all announced fields.

Tickets for the 46th annual edition of the Prefontaine Classic, to be held June 6-7 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., will be available in early March. Details will be posted on www.preclassic.com and www.eugene.diamondleague.com.

The Prefontaine Classic is the longest-running outdoor invitational track & field meet in America and is part of the elite Wanda Diamond League of meets held worldwide annually. The Pre Classic’s results score has rated No. 1 or No. 2 in the world in nine of the last 10 years. Sponsored by NIKE continuously since 1984, the Pre Classic will be shown live to an international audience by NBC.

Wanda Group is a multinational entertainment conglomerate based in China. It has become the series title sponsor of the Diamond League for the next 10 years. The series will henceforth be known as the “Wanda Diamond League.”

Steve Prefontaine is a legend in the sport of track & field and is the most inspirational distance runner in American history. He set a national high school 2-mile record (8:41.5) while at Marshfield High School in Coos Bay, Oregon, that is the fastest ever in a National Federation-sanctioned race. While competing for the University of Oregon, he won national cross country championships (3) and outdoor track 3-Mile/5000-meter championships (4), and never lost a collegiate track race at any distance. As a collegiate junior, he made the 1972 U.S. Olympic Team and nearly won an Olympic medal, finishing 4th in the 5K at the 1972 Munich Olympics, at age 21. After finishing college in 1973 and preparing for a return to the Olympics in 1976, he continued to improve, setting many American records. His life ended tragically on May 30, 1975, the result of an auto accident, at age 24. The Pre Classic began that year and has been held every year since.

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