Katie Moon Talks About Competing at Global Championships!

How do you describe the amazing Katie Moon?

Let’s start with some medals:

2026 Winter Middle Distance Training (800m-5,000m), Wednesday February 18, 2026, Week 7, Day 3, Wednesday is about recovery!

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Noah Lyles wins 200m in 20.56 PB at Tyson Invitational (Feb. 14)

In 2021, Katie Moon won the pole vault at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a clearance of 4.90 meters!

In 2024, Katie Moon won the silver medal in the Paris Olympic pole vault, with a clearance of 4.85 meters!

Katie Moon, Paris Diamond League, June 20, 2025, photo by Diamond League AG

Katie has three World Championship Outdoor gold medals!

In 2022, Katie Moon lead a US gold and silver rush in the pole vault, with a leap of 4.85 meters in Eugene, Oregon.

In 2023, in Budapest, Hungary, Katie Moon shared the title with Nina Kennedy of AUS, sharing gold with a clearance of 4.90 meters.

In 2025, Katie Moon returned to the Tokyo Olympic stadium, with 60-65,000 fans per night, and took the gold medal, number 3 with a leap of 4.90 meters, taking the “three-peat”!

Indoors, Katie has taken the silver medal in Belgrade 2022, with a clearance of 4.75 meters.

In 2024, at Glasgow, Katie took the bronze medal in the 2024 Glasgow World Championships.

Katie Moon has cleared 4.95 meter (16’3″) outdoors, with a jump o June 26, 2026, at the US Olympic Trials. Katie is number 5 on the all time best women’s pole vault outdoor list.

Indoors, Katie has cleared 4.94 meters (16’2.5″) on February 11, 2023, in New York City!

Katie Moon has a 100 meters PB (2020) of 11.91 seconds and at 60 meters of 7.93 seconds!

This interview, one of my favorties, was done in September 2025, just after Katie Moon took gold and Sandi Morris took silver, giving the U.S. gold and silver in the pole vault.

I wanted to know from Katie, how challenging it is to win a medal and how she focuses in competition! A lesson for all to learn!

#inthemixedzone, Olympic gold medalist and silver medalist, 3 time World Champion, Katie Moon tells it all: the challenges of winning a global medal, the sacrifices and the satisfaction of achieving your goals! Interview from 2025 Tokyo World Champs!
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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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