Irie Hill (born 16 January 1969) is an English female athlete who competes in the pole vault event. She has a personal best performance of 4.20 metres.[1]

Hill was born in Germany but moved to England in 1996 and became a British citizen in 1999. She only began vaulting relatively late in life at the age of 26.[2]

Athletics career

Hill competed for England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England winning a bronze medal. She also won the British title in the same year.[3]

Hill has also gone on to win numerous World and European Masters titles including achieving a world W50 record in the pole vault of 3.51m while winning the 2019 World Masters Indoor Athletics Championships in Torun, Poland.[4] This is in addition to the world W45 pole vault record of 3.76m set by Hill on 3 July 2015 in Regensburg, Germany.

References

  1. ^ "Athlete Profile". Power of 10.
  2. ^ "Hill invests hope in a higher vault". The Independent. 27 July 2002.
  3. ^ "Athlete Profile". World Athletics.
  4. ^ "Irie Hill wins W50 pole vault". Athletics Weekly. 31 March 2019.


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