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.
 Molly Caudery in Glasgow, 2024 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 March 2000 Truro, Cornwall, England[1] |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Great Britain |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Pole vault |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests | 4.92 m (2024) NR |
Medal record | |
Caudery holds the British national record for the women's pole vault, with a best of 4.92 m.
Athletics career
editIn 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.[1] 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] 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.[16]
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.[17]
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.[18]
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.[19] At the Games in Paris she did not qualify for the final after failing three times at her opening height of 4.55m.[20][21]
International competitions
edit- All information from World Athletics profile[1]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Result | 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 | ||
| Olympic Games | Paris, France | – | NM |
National titles
editSeason's bests
edit- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d "Molly Caudery - Athlete Profile". World Athletics.
- ^ "Events & Meetings Nedasekau breaks 40-year-old record for high jump gold". European Athletics. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ "Athlete Profile". Power of 10.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: Athletics - Women's Pole Vault results". BBC Sport. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ "Molly Caudery: How England's youngest Gold Coast 2018 athlete heard about selection". BBC Sport. 26 October 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ "UK junior record for Molly Caudery". Athletics Weekly. 24 June 2018.
- ^ "Loughborough success at European U23 Championships". Loughborough University. 15 July 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ "Molly Caudery: Cornish pole vaulter says Commonwealth silver medal 'felt like a dream'". BBC Sport. 3 August 2022. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ "Molly Caudery: British pole vault title 'way beyond dreams'". BBC Sport. 10 July 2023. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ "Budapest 23 report women pole vault". World Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ "CAUDERY FLIES TO WORLD LEAD ON DAY ONE OF MICROPLUS UK ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ "Another world lead for Caudery with 4.86m". European Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Daryll Neita and Molly Caudery in winning form in Doha". Athletics Weekly. 10 May 2024. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ "DOHA DIAMOND LEAGUE 2024". olympics.com. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- ^ "GB's Caudery wins Continental Tour pole vault title". BBC Sport. 29 May 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ "Dobson claims 400m silver as Caudery wins pole vault bronze". BBC Sport. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "GB's Caudery sets British pole vault record with new world lead". BBC Sport. 22 June 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
- ^ Bloom, Ben (29 June 2024). "Molly Caudery extends hot streak with pole vault victory at the British trials". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ "Pole vault elimination heartbreaking - Caudery". BBC Sport. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ "Team GB's Molly Caudery, Holly Bradshaw both miss out on pole vault final at Paris Olympics". Eurosport. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
