Jenn Suhr Quotes

• When you’re jumping, it’s just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you’re falling. That’s the best part – a few seconds to celebrate and relax.

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• There’s so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.

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• Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

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• It’s not like I’ve been vaulting my whole life. I haven’t. So my body hasn’t taken that physical beating. I’m still on the upscale.

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• It’s hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.

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• It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

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• I’ve made some mistakes before.

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• I’m becoming more powerful.

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• I’m actually improving.

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• I have a wild game camera.

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• I feel healthy.

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Jenn Suhr (11)

Birth:	5th February, 1982
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Pole Vaulter

About

Jennifer "Jenn" Suhr was born in Fredonia, New York, USA. She is an American pole vaulter. She studied at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, New York, where she competed in basketball and track and field. She holds the world indoor pole vault record at 5.03 m. In 2008, she won the U.S. Olympic trials, setting an American record of 4.92 m and won a silver medal in the Beijing Olympics. She won the gold medal at the London Olympics in 2012. Track & Field News named Suhr the American Female Athlete of the Year for 2008. In 2010, she married her coach, Rick Suhr, in Rochester.

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