Molly Caudery
 Molly Caudery in Glasgow, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 17 March 2000 Truro, Cornwall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Pole vault | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 4.86i m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Molly Caudery (born 17 March 2000) is a Cornish athlete who competes in the pole vault event for England and Great Britain. Caudery is the 2024 World Indoor champion.
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games she won the silver medal in pole vault. Caudery was born in Truro and lives in Redruth, Cornwall, in the West Country.[1]
Athletics career[edit]
In 2017, Caudery won the silver medal at the 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships in Grosseto, Italy.
On 17 February 2018, she won her first senior title, indoors, at the age of seventeen.[2] She was selected to compete for England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia where she finished fifth. She was England's youngest athlete at the games.[3] On 23 June 2018, she set the British junior pole vault record of 4.53 metres.[4][5]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Caudery won the silver medal in the pole vault evemt.[6]
In 2023, she won the British Championships with a personal best of 4.71 m which automatically qualified her for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. In Budapest she finished fifth in the final with a new personal best of 4.75 m.
In 2024, Caudery again set a new personal best of 4.83 m at Meeting de l’Eure.[7] She raised that mark to 4.85 at the 2024 British Athletics Indoor Championships and again to 4.86 one week later.
A week later, on 2 March 2024, she won the gold medal at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow with a jump of 4.80 m.[6] She was Great Britain's first world champion in the event, and only the second British global medalist after Olympic medalist Holly Bradshaw.
She and Bradshaw share a coach, along with New Zealand World medalist Eliza McCartney, Scott Simpson.
References[edit]
- ^ "Athlete Profile". World Athletics.
- ^ "Athlete Profile". Power of 10.
- ^ "Molly Caudery England's Youngest Athlete". BBC Sport.
- ^ "All time rankings". The Power of 10.
- ^ "UK junior record". Athletics Weekly.
- ^ a b "World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024: Josh Kerr and Molly Caudery win gold medals for Great Britain". BBC Sport. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "Molly Caudery Profile". World Athletics.
External links[edit]
- Molly Caudery at World Athletics
- Molly Caudery at British Athletics
- Molly Caudery at Team England
- Molly Caudery at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
World Indoor Champions in women's pole vault | |
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