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The six-meter club
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Family links, from Tokyo in 1991 to 2021
Derartu Tulu and Genzebe Dibaba, Eilish McColgan and Liz McColgan, and Katrin Dorre-Heinig and Katharina Steinruck (© Getty Images)
Athletics is often a family affair, with parents, grandparents and siblings frequently forming part of an athlete’s support group.
But sometimes that sporting talent is in the genes and in Olympic year, to mark the International Day of Families, we take a look at some of the familial connections between athletes who competed at the 1991 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo and those who are contenders for this year s Games in the Japanese capital.
Leroy Burrell – father of Cameron Burrell
Sergey Bubka, Tim Mack, Steve Hooker, Thiago Braz and Mondo Duplantis (© Getty)
The six-metre pole vault remains one of the most elusive barriers in elite athletics yet it is also one of the most universal.
Pole vault legend Sergey Bubka was the first to achieve the feat, topping 6.00m exactly on 13 July 1985. Then on 22 January 1989 – 32 years ago today – an unofficial ‘club’ of six-metre vaulters was formed when Rodion Gataullin became the second person to scale the height.
The club now boasts 24 members, including seven of the past eight Olympic champions in the event. Between them, the group has won 13 world titles outdoors and 14 indoors. The barrier has been scaled at the sport’s three biggest senior global events: the Olympic Games, the World Athletics Championships and the World Athletics Indoor Championships.