Athletics at the 2023 African Games – Women's pole vault
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The women's [[pole vault]] event at the [[2023 African Games]] in [[Accra]], Ghana, was held on 19 March 2024 at the [[University of Ghana Sports Stadium]]. |
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[[Miré Reinstorf]] of [[South Africa at the 2019 African Games|South Africa]] won the event, setting a [[List of African Games records in athletics|African Games record]] with a mark of 4.35 metres. Reinstorf bested Tunisian [[Dorra Mahfoudhi]], the former record holder. Mahfoudhi finished with the silver medal with a mark of 3.70 metres. |
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==Medalists== |
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==Background== |
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Only two competitors competed in the [[pole vault]] at the [[2019 African Games]]. South African [[Miré Reinstorf]], making her African Games debut, won [[2021 World Athletics U20 Championships – Women's pole vault|the pole vault event]] at the [[2021 World Athletics U20 Championships]]. Tunisian [[Dorra Mahfoudhi]] was a two-time African Games champion coming into the event, having previously won in [[Athletics at the 2011 All-Africa Games – Women's pole vault|2011]] and the most recent event in [[Athletics at the 2019 African Games – Women's pole vault|2019]]. At the 2019 event, Mahfoudhi set the African Games record with a jump of 4.31 metres.{{cite news |last1=Olus-Galadima |first1=Yemi |title=Duguma adds to medal haul and Nigeria sets area mixed 4x400m record at African Games in Accra |url=https://worldathletics.org/news/report/duguma-800m-nigeria-mixed-4x400m-record-african-games-accra |access-date=20 April 2026 |work=[[World Athletics]] |date=20 March 2024}} |
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===Records=== |
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The women's pole vault [[List of world records in athletics|world record]] of 5.06 metres was set by [[Yelena Isinbayeva]] at the [[Weltklasse Zürich]] event on 28 August 2009 in [[Zurich]], Switzerland.{{cite news |last1=Dufresne |first1=Chris |title=Yelena Isinbayeva sets world record in pole vault |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-aug-29-sp-newswire29-story.html |access-date=20 April 2026 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=29 August 2009}} The [[List of African records in athletics|African record]] of 4.42 m was set by [[Elmarie Gerryts]] on 12 June 2000 in [[Wesel]], Germany. The Games record was broken in last year's edition of the contest by Mahfoudhi at 4.31 m. |
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| [[List of world records in athletics|World record]] || {{flagathlete|[[Yelena Isinbayeva]]|RUS}} || 5.06 m || [[Zurich]], Switzerland || 28 August 2009 |
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| [[List of African records in athletics|African record]] || {{flagathlete|[[Elmarie Gerryts]]|RSA}} || 4.42 m || [[Wesel]], Germany || 12 June 2000 |
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| [[List of African Games records in athletics|African Games record]] || {{flagathlete|[[Dorra Mahfoudhi]]|TUN}} || 4.31 m || [[Rabat]], Morocco || 27 August 2019 |
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|[[Miré Reinstorf]] {{flagIOC2|RSA|2023 African Games}} |
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|[[Dorra Mahfoudhi]] {{flagIOC2|TUN|2023 African Games}} |
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|''Not awarded as the event had 2 athletes'' |
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==Results== |
==Results== |
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The event was held at 4:40 p.m. [[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]] on 19 March at the [[University of Ghana Sports Stadium]].{{cite web |title=Results |url=https://results.accra2023ag.com/wrs/resAG2023/pdf/AG2023/AT/AG2023_AT_C73M%20RESULTS_ATW072F01.pdf |website=[[2019 African Games]] |access-date=20 April 2026 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319231522/https://results.accra2023ag.com/wrs/resAG2023/pdf/AG2023/AT/AG2023_AT_C73M%20RESULTS_ATW072F01.pdf |archive-date=19 March 2024}} Mahfoudi first cleared the mark of 3.50 metres on her first attempt, and cleared 3.70 metres on her second attempt. Reinstorf would clear the 3.80 metre mark on her second attempt. Mahfoudi's day would end at the 3.70 mark, as she failed to clear 3.85 metres, meaning Reinstorf was guaranteed the gold medal. |
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Reinstorf would go on to clear 4.00 metres on her first attempt at that mark, before equaling her [[personal record]] with a jump of 4.15 metres on her second attempt. Reinstorf's run of good form would continue with a jump of 4.25 metres on her third attempt, before breaking Mahfoudi's African Games record with a jump of 4.35 metres on her third attempt. Reinstorf's day would end after failing on 4.45 metres thrice. |
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