especially: an athlete who competes in the pole vault
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In 2024, her former Spartan teammate, Bridget Williams, competed in the 2024 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter, placing 22nd overall.—Christopher Derose, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026 All the federal attention has been unsettling to some Mainers, welcomed by others who don’t want transgender girls playing girls’ sports and disruptive to the 625-student Greely High School, which the transgender pole vaulter attends.—Callie Ferguson, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2025 Canadian Olympic pole vaulter Alysha Newman turned heads at last summer's Paris Games, going viral for a celebratory dance after winning the bronze medal.—Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025 The complaint cites just three examples of transgender athletes on girls’ teams in Maine, including the pole-vaulter.—Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for vaulter