Molly Caudery

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Molly Caudery
File:Molly Caudery Glasgow 2024.jpg
Molly Caudery in Glasgow, 2024
Personal information
Born (2000-03-17) 17 March 2000 (age 24)
Truro, Cornwall, England[1]
Sport
Country  Great Britain
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Pole vault
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 4.92 m (2024) NR
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
World indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Glasgow Pole vault
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Rome 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 and took bronze at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.

Caudery holds the British national record for the women's pole vault, with a best of 4.92 m.

Athletics career

In 2017, Caudery won the silver medal at the 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships in Grosseto, Italy.[2]

On 17 February 2018, she won her first senior title, indoors, at the age of seventeen.[3] She was selected to compete for England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia where she finished fifth.[4] She was England's youngest athlete at the games.[5] On 23 June 2018, she set a new British junior pole vault record of 4.53 m.[6]

Caudery won a silver medal at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia,[7] and repeated that result representing England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[8]

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,[9] where she finished fifth in the final raising her personal to 4.75 m.[10]

In 2024, Caudery set a new personal best of 4.83 m at Meeting de l’Eure on 28 January.[11] She raised that mark to 4.85 m in taking first place at the 2024 British Athletics Indoor Championships on 17 February[12] before clearing 4.86 m one week later at a meeting in Rouen, France.[13]

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.[14] 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.[15] [16] She subsequently took gold at the Golden Spike Ostrava on the 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour on 28 May, clearing 4.84 m, the highest successful vault of 2024 so far.[17]

Caudery won bronze at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, on 10 June 2024, clearing 4.73 m which was 5cms behind champion Angelica Moser.[18]

She set a new British record with a world-leading vault of 4.92 m at the Toulouse Capitole Perche meet in France on 22 June 2024.[19]

A week later Caudery won the British outdoor title with a jump of 4.83 m to confirm her place at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[20] At the Games in Paris she did not qualify for the final after failing three times at her opening height of 4.55m.[21][22]

International competitions

  • All information from World Athletics profile[1]
Representing  Great Britain
Year Competition Venue Position Notes
2017 European Junior Championships Grosseto, Italy 2nd 4.35 m
2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 5th 4.40 m  England (ENG)
World U20 Championships Tampere, Finland 9th 4.10 m
2021 European U20 Championships Tallinn, Estonia 2nd 4.45 m
European Team Championships Chorzów, Poland 3rd 4.35 m
2022 Commonwealth Games Birmingham, United Kingdom 2nd 4.45 m  England (ENG)
European Championships Berlin, Germany 7th 4.55 m
2023 World Championships Budapest, Hungary 5th 4.75 m
2024 World Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 1st 4.80 m
European Championships Rome, Italy 3rd 4.73 m

National titles

Season's bests

  • All information from World Athletics profile[1]
Year Outdoor best Indoor best
2015 3.80 3.91
2016 4.06 3.93
2017 4.35 4.10
2018 4.53 4.30
2019 4.08 4.18
2020 4.15 4.05
2021 4.51 4.30
2022 4.60 —
2023 4.75 —
2024 4.92 NR 4.85

See also

References

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