Richard Hall, Managing Director, Track and Field Sports
RICHARD Hunter will have more reasons than most to feel pleased with himself when he settles down to watch the Olympics in London this August.
He is one of the lucky few who have managed to secure tickets to not one but three of the athletics sessions taking place in the main arena (and in the very sports he had hoped to see).
That means he will be in the enviable position of witnessing the world’s top sportsmen and women in action from close quarters.
And, if all goes to plan, he will have the satisfaction of knowing he had no small part to play in what should be a record-breaking Team GB medal haul.
Hunter’s Northumberland-based athletics and sports equipment company, Track and Field Sports, supplies British Olympic pole vault hopefuls Kate Dennison and local girl Sally Scott with their apparatus.
If, as predicted, they both make it into the final Olympic squad, then Hunter could, metaphorically at least, claim to have put his sports equipment firm top of the podium.
Kate and Sally, who hails from Morpeth in Northumberland, aren’t the only two sportspeople who favour the same Pacer carbon FX poles Hunter’s company supplies, though.
So too does British decathlete Ashley Bryant, Anna Rogowska from Poland, who is the current women’s world champion in the discipline, and Australian Steve Hooker, the 2008 Olympic men’s gold medallist.
Hunter could have as many reasons to smile as Team GB hopefully will have when the first Olympics to be held on British soil since 1948 finally come to a close as a whole on September 9 with the Parlaympic Games closing ceremony.
His Olympic involvement doesn’t end with the pole vault, however. Track and Field Sports has also been chosen to supply all the athletics equipment for the US team’s training venue at London’s Mile End Stadium in the run-up to the Olympics.
As American firm Gill Athletics’ preferred UK and European distributor, the Cramlington firm has been tasked with providing everything from pole and high jump landing areas to hurdles, relay batons, starting blocks, discus and hammer cages, steeple chase barriers and even gazebos.
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While playing any game, the most important thing is its sports gears and accessories. Whether you are playing a ball game or a track and field sport like pole vault, you need to have all the equipment required for the game. The sports gears are available online which are specific to the game and have varied choices, depending on your pocket needs you can choose a good option.
As far as pole vault is concerned, it is a game which is played outside and requires some specific tools to support the game. In pole vault, poles are one of the most important accessory without which this game can’t be played. In this game, the quality of pole is a major concern as the game is all about poles.
It is basically a variation of high jump that allows the players to get more height through the use of poles. These pole vault poles are made of different materials such as fiberglass or carbon fiber as these are highly sturdy.In pole vault, poles have been changed from time to time; their material, quality and various other features have been considered seriously and changed accordingly.
If we peep into the history of these poles then we will find that earlier there were solid poles which are now replaced with flexible poles, which allows for greater height and comfort. This game was a part of the ancient Greek, Cretan and Celt competitions. Till 1896, this game was organized for men only but after 2000 women also enter this game and became a part of this exciting and eventful field game.
In the 1840′s significant modernized changes were noticed in the game in Germany and Italy, which was further honed till the end of 19th century in the U.S. It is a great game with rich history and heritage which is still popular in the United States of America and other parts of the world. Various events are organized which makes pole vault a popular game world over. If you want to play this game professionally you first need to understand the rules of the game and the usage of pole vault poles.
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