Caudery Aims For British Record, Medal in Tokyo

Molly Caudery believes she tin interruption the British rod vault grounds and triumph a medal astatine the World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo. The 25-year-old from Cornwall acceptable a caller British champion of 4.92m past twelvemonth and was the highest-ranked rival heading into past summer’s Olympic Games successful Paris.
Unfortunately, Caudery did not scope the Olympic final, failing to registry a palmy vault successful qualifying.

However, aft an inconsistent season, she feels she is peaking astatine the close infinitesimal for Tokyo, wherever she volition statesman qualifying connected Monday with the purpose of making Wednesday’s final.

“I deliberation if you leap a British record, portion not taking it for granted, you are apt to beryllium successful medal contention,” she told the BBC. “I decidedly americium successful that shape.

“It hasn’t been the smoothest season, and gaining consistency has been a struggle. However, implicit the past month, I person recovered much of that, which sets maine up good for Tokyo.” Caudery, who won bronze astatine the European Championships and the World Indoor Championships past year, finished 2nd astatine her astir caller Diamond League lawsuit successful Brussels past month, clearing 4.80m.

She jumped 4.85m to triumph the British rubric successful aboriginal August and hopes to replicate those heights to scope the podium. “Looking astatine past competitions and the marks that person earned medals, there’s usually a people astir 4.80m.

“However, successful the rod vault, it could beryllium 4.90m-plus if conditions are favourable oregon 4.70m if it’s raining oregon windy. There’s grounds suggesting it would beryllium astir 4.80-4.85, but you conscionable ne'er know.”
Caudery remarked that she has “learned truthful much” from her Olympic acquisition successful Paris past summer, wherever she entered qualifying 35cm higher than the different competitors but failed to wide 4.55m.

“Of course, the main extremity is to get done qualification. I was truthful focused connected the last and winning an Olympic medal past twelvemonth that I got caught up successful that.

This year, it’s astir staying present, getting done to the final, and past seeing what I tin execute from there.”