Molly Caudery (born 17 March 2000) is a British athlete who competes in the

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event for England and Great Britain. Caudery is the 2024 World Indoor champion. She was also a silver medalist at the

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and took bronze at the

2024 European Athletics Championships The 26th European Athletics Championships were held from 7 to 12 June 2024 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. It was the third time Italy staged this sporting event after the inaugural 1934 European Athletics Championships, 1934 edition in T ...

. Caudery holds the British national record for the women's pole vault, with a best of 4.92 m.

Athletics career

In 2017, Caudery won the silver medal at the

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in Grosseto, Italy. On 17 February 2018, she won her first senior title, indoors, at the age of seventeen. She was selected to compete for England at the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that was held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia where she finished fifth. She was England's youngest athlete at the games. On 23 June 2018, she set a new British junior pole vault record of 4.53m. Caudery won a silver medal at the

2021 European Athletics U23 Championships The 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships were the 13th edition of the biennial athletics competition between European athletes under the age of twenty-three. It was planned to be held in Bergen, Norway from 8 to 11 July., but this venue was c ...

in Tallinn, Estonia, and repeated that result representing England at the

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. In 2023, she won the British Championships with a personal best of 4.71m which qualified her for the

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in Budapest, Hungary, where she finished fifth in the final raising her personal to 4.75m. In 2024, Caudery set a new personal best of 4.83m at Meeting de l’Eure on 28 January. She raised that mark to 4.85m in taking first place at the 2024 British Athletics Indoor Championships on 17 February before clearing 4.86m one week later at a meeting in Rouen, France. On 2 March 2024, she won the gold medal at the

2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships The 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships was the 19th edition of the international indoor track and field competition, organised by the World Athletics. The event was held between 1–3 March at the Commonwealth Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velod ...

in Glasgow with a jump of 4.80m. She was Great Britain's first world champion in the event. Caudery continued her good form into the outdoor season winning her first

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event in

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, Qatar, on 10 May 2024 with a best height of 4.73m. She subsequently took gold at the

Golden Spike Ostrava Golden Spike () is an annual athletics event at the Městský Stadion in Ostrava- Vítkovice, Czech Republic as part of the IAAF World Challenge Meetings. It was first organized in 1961. The history of the meeting was interrupted in 1999, whe ...

on the

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on 28 May, clearing 4.84m, the highest successful vault of 2024 so far. Caudery won bronze at the

in Rome, Italy, on 10 June 2024, clearing 4.73m which was 5cms behind champion

Angelica Moser Angelica Moser (born 9 October 1997) is a Swiss pole vaulter. She won the 2021 European Championships in Toruń, and placed fourth at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Her personal bests in the event are 4.88 metres outdoors (Monaco 2024) and 4.80 met ...

. She set a new British record with a world-leading vault of 4.92m at the Toulouse Capitole Perche meet in France on 22 June 2024. A week later Caudery won the British outdoor title with a jump of 4.83m to confirm her place at the

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. At the Games in Paris she did not qualify for the final after failing three times at her opening height of 4.55m. In February 2025, Caudery won the

World Athletics Indoor Tour The World Athletics Indoor Tour, formerly the IAAF World Indoor Tour, is an annual series of indoor track and field meetings, held since 2016. It was designed to create a Diamond League-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise th ...

Gold title by taking two first places and a second across competition. The following month she finished fourth at the

2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships The 20th World Athletics Indoor Championships were held from 21 to 23 March 2025 in Nanjing, People's Republic of China, at the newly built Nanjing's Cube gymnasium in the Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park. Nanjing was originally due to host the ...

in China. She won the

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on 16 May 2025, with a jump of 4.75m.

International competitions

*All information from World Athletics profile

National titles

British Indoor Athletics Championships The British Indoor Athletics Championships is the annual national championship in indoor track and field for the United Kingdom, organised by UK Athletics. Eight track and five field events for both men and women are contested, with athletes being i ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

British Athletics Championships The British Athletics Championships is the premier national championship in track and field held in the United Kingdom, and are organised by British Athletics. The event has doubled as the main trials meet for international team selection for maj ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

Season's bests

*All information from World Athletics profile

References

External links

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Paris 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...