Morris Ready to Raise the Bar in 2017

Published by IAAF on September 28, 2016

Sandi Morris brought the 2016 IAAF Diamond League to a fitting conclusion at the second of this season’s finals in Brussels earlier this month.

The US pole vaulter was the last athlete in action in the 14-meeting series, with everyone else having finished competing in the Belgian capital, and she had the eyes of the King Baudouin Stadium trained upon her as she made three attempts at a world record height of 5.07m. 

“It was the coolest feeling ever because I was the last person competing on the night and everyone was still in the stands. Whether it was because of me or whether it was because there was a fireworks show afterwards, who knows?” she joked down the telephone line from her current home in Fayetteville, Arkansas.