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Nick E. Hysong (born December 9, 1971) is an American athlete competing in the men's
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. Best known for winning the Olympic gold medal in
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with a personal best jump of 5.90 metres, he also won a bronze medal at the
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. Hyson is also a respectable sprinter, having run 100 m in 10.27 s.


Biography

In his final year at
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in 1994, he won both the
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and the
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championships. He is now coaching pole vaulting team at Shadow Mountain High School for the track and field team. Hysong is also running his own sports performance facility in phoenix Arizona(RISEN Performance – linked below). In 2010 under his private coaching Alex Bishop won the 5A1 Arizona State Championship with a vault of 5 meters, and Liz Portenova won the 5A2 State Championship with a vault of 3.70 meters. In 2012 Hysong's RISEN Performance had two exceptional male vaulters: Grant Sisserson pole vaulted 16' and had a 3rd-place finish at The State Championships, and Cole Walsh pole vaulted 16' 5" to win the Arizona Meet of Champion's (Walsh finished 2nd at the State Champs with a vault of 16' 3").


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Nick Hysong's Training Facility – RISEN Performance
American male pole vaulters People from Winslow, Arizona Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field 1971 births Living people World Athletics Championships medalists Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners Arizona State Sun Devils men's track and field athletes American male sprinters 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-athletics-Olympic-medalist-stub