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The South Pole Medal (Norwegian: Sydpolsmedaljen) or Medal Commemorating the 1910–1911 Fram Expedition to the South Pole (Medalje til erindring om "Frams"...

Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four other crew members made it to the geographical south pole on 14 December...

specializing in the pole vault who held the Olympic record of 6.03 metres. He won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2020...

competed. Thiago Braz da Silva of Brazil won the gold medal, the nation's first medal in the men's pole vault. Renaud Lavillenie of France was unable to successfully...

first medal of any color in the men's pole vault since 1952. Braz, who had won in 2016, became the ninth man to earn multiple medals in the pole vault...

Olav "for bold nautical achievement." He received the Fram Medal and the South Pole Medal. In 2017 a bronze sculpture of Lindstrøm made by Håkon Anton...

longitude to the South Pole. The medal's obverse was designed by Mr. Thomas Hudson Jones based on General Eisenhower's request that the medal include an invasion...

The men's pole vault at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 3 and 5 August 2024 at Stade de France. This was the 30th time that the event was contested...

Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass...

the Equator and the 100th meridian west longitude, thence south to the South Pole. The medal, made of bronze, is 1+1⁄4 inches (32 mm) inches wide. The...

Olympic medals. Athletes from Mongolia (which previously held the record for most medals without a gold) and Panama won their first gold medals. Serbian...

The men's pole vault at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 21 competitors from 13 nations, with two qualifying groups...

Pole to distinguish from the Magnetic North Pole. The North Pole is by definition the northernmost point on the Earth, lying antipodally to the South...

September 1986) is a French pole vaulter. Lavillenie won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London and the silver medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio...

is from the North Pole south along the 60th meridian east longitude to its intersection with the east boundary of Iran, then south along the Iran boundary...

H. M. The King's Commemorative Medal H. M. The King's Gold Medal South Pole Medal Norwegian Constitution Day medals, 1884–1920 1893 Original Die for...

Wisting were the first to reach the South Pole. For his participation in the expedition, he was awarded the South Pole Medal (Sydpolsmedaljen), the Royal Norwegian...

including a silver medal performance in 2000 Olympic games Sydney. Lawrence resigned as Assistant Coach/Pole Vault at the University of South Carolina in August...

the South Pole Medal (Sydpolsmedaljen), the Royal Norwegian award instituted by King Haakon V in 1912 to reward participants in Roald Amundsen's South Pole...

3 March 2011. "Pole vault tie boosts Canada's medal count on Day 9". CBC News. 12 October 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2011. "Official Medal table". Archived...