SUHR’S MISSION FOR RIO PODIUM (PART 2)
(This is a continuation of part 1 of this article)
An ecstatic Jenn Suhr had this to say after the huge win, “To have it come true, I can’t even explain it. I’ve been dreaming about this since I started vaulting in 04. I always thought, ‘Maybe some day’, but to have it here and come true is just magical. It takes a lot of strength and dedication, and it takes a lot of mental toughness. Out there you have to be mentally tough. (Here are some high quality mean green vaulting poles).
“The vault is so hard because you have such time to think in between jumps, and then they delay you for the races, and I’m like: ‘I gotta go! I have to jump now!’. It’s just anxiety and I’m glad that it’s over,” she added. “The psychological barrier was in myself. I knew it was going to come together one day. Beijing taught me a lot. That silver medal was so precious to me but I knew I wanted the gold. Before we came out here, Rick said I would win and he never says that. He normally says he will see me on the beach. It put that extra spunk and I thought that I could do this. “If he could push me over that bar he would. He cares so much. He has that passion and he knows how much I wanted it. It's two people working for one goal.”
Jenn Suhr has put together an amazing string of accomplishments that have placed her on the throne for US women’s pole vaulting. Some of her impressive achievements include being a 15 time national indoor & outdoor champion. She is also only the second female pole vaulter to clear the five meter height, and she accomplished this by
breaking Isinbaeva’s (the only other woman to break 5 meters) indoor record. The new indoor record is 5.02 m, and she set it in Albuquerque, USA in March 2013.