Molly Caudery

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Molly Caudery
Molly Caudery in Glasgow, 2024
Personal information
Born (2000-03-17) 17 March 2000 (age 24)
Truro, Cornwall, England[1]
Sport
Country Great Britain
SportAthletics
EventPole vault
Achievements and titles
Personal best4.86i m
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
World indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Glasgow Pole vault
European U20 Championships
Silver medal – second place 2017 Grosseto Pole vault
European U23 Championships
Silver medal – second place 2021 Tallinn Pole vault
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham Pole vault

Molly Caudery (born 17 March 2000) is a British athlete who competes in the pole vault event for England and Great Britain. Caudery is the 2024 World Indoor champion. She was also a silver medalist at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

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.[3] She was England's youngest athlete at the games.[4] On 23 June 2018, she set a new British junior pole vault record of 4.53 m.[5]

Caudery won a silver medal at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallin, Estonia,[6] and repeated that result representing England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[7]

In 2023, she won the British Championships with a personal best of 4.71 m which qualified her for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary,[8] where she finished fifth in the final raising her personal to 4.75 m.[9]

In 2024, Caudery set a new personal best of 4.83 m at Meeting de l’Eure on 28 January.[10] She raised that mark to 4.85 m in taking first place at the 2024 British Athletics Indoor Championships on 17 February[11] before clearing 4.86 m one week later at a meeting in Rouen, France.[12]

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.[13] She was Great Britain's first world champion in the event.

Caudery continued her good form into the outdoor season winning her first Diamond League event in Doha, Qatar, on 10 May 2024 with a best height of 4.73 m.[14] [15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Athlete Profile". World Athletics.
  2. ^ "Athlete Profile". Power of 10.
  3. ^ "Commonwealth Games: Athletics - Women's Pole Vault results". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Molly Caudery: How England's youngest Gold Coast 2018 athlete heard about selection". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  5. ^ "UK junior record for Molly Caudery". Athletics Weekly.
  6. ^ "Loughborough success at European U23 Championships". Loughborough University. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Molly Caudery: Cornish pole vaulter says Commonwealth silver medal 'felt like a dream'". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  8. ^ "Molly Caudery: British pole vault title 'way beyond dreams'". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  9. ^ "Budapest 23 report women pole vault". World Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  10. ^ "Molly Caudery Profile". World Athletics.
  11. ^ "CAUDERY FLIES TO WORLD LEAD ON DAY ONE OF MICROPLUS UK ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  12. ^ "Another world lead for Caudery with 4.86m". European Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ "Daryll Neita and Molly Caudery in winning form in Doha". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  15. ^ "DOHA DIAMOND LEAGUE 2024". olympics.com. Retrieved 11 May 2024.

External links[edit]

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