Barber Joins Six-Metre Club in Reno

Published by IAAF on January 16, 2016

World pole vault champion Shawn Barber continued his strong start to the season by setting a lifetime best of 6.00m – the best height by a Canadian under any conditions – at the Pole Vault Summit in Reno on Friday (15).

The 21-year-old opened his season with a 5.88m vault in Texas on 2 January and followed that with a 5.70m clearance in Akron one week later.

In Reno, Barber cleared all of his heights up to and including 5.83m on his first attempts. At that point, only Japan’s Seito Yamamoto was left in the competition. Yamamoto had cleared 5.77m to add six centimetres to his own national indoor record, but he was unable to match Barber at 5.83m and so exited the competition.