The bar: Set high by the men's competition. Their mission: Raise it even higher. Three of the leading women’s pole vaulters get their turn to compete Saturday in the second edition of the Ultimate Garden Clash.
It's a rare track and field competition contested during the coronavirus pandemic. Individually, reigning Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi of Greece, two-time US indoor winner Katie Nageotte and Commonwealth Games champion Alysha Newman of Canada will compete head-to-head-to-head to see who can clear a bar set at 4 meters (13 feet, 1 ½ inches) the most times in 30 minutes.
Collectively, they will try to better the total of their male counterparts, who had a combined 98 clearances in a competition on May 3.