The world's No. 1 ranked women's pole vaulter is a Washington Husky.
A current one, at that, as rising senior Hana Moll has taken the top spot of the World Athletics Rankings in the event as of Thursday, jumping up from the No. 6 spot after taking the silver medal at the World Ultimate Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
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Hana Moll has risen to the No. 1 spot in the newest @WorldAthletics Women's Pole Vault World Rankings.
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Hana's twin sister Amanda is No. 12 in the new rankings after winning the NCAA Outdoor title in June, then taking most of the summer season off. The rankings are based not just on personal bests, but are compiled using "points based on a combination
of result and place depending on the level of the competition in which the result is achieved. The ranking is then based on their average score over a certain number of competitions in a defined period of time," according to the World Athletics website.
Moll actually tied fellow American Sandi Morris at the World Ultimate Championships with a height of 16-0 1/4, but Morris won the title because she cleared the bar on her second attempt, while Moll required a third try. It was the third time Moll cleared the 16-foot mark this summer after setting that bar only once before: in January at the UW Invitational in Dempsey Indoor.
One of those 16-foot clearances came at the Diamond League Championships in Brussels, Belgium, where she cleared a personal best 16-1 1/4 (4.91m) and became the first college undergraduate student to win the Diamond League. The mark also tied her with Amanda at No. 9 in world history. Hana had previously won Diamond League competitions in Zurich and Lausanne in Switzerland to qualify for the Championships in Brussels.
Five of the top 12 women in the rankings are American: Hana in first, Morris second, Katie Moon fourth, Emily Grove eleventh, and Amanda twelfth. The Moll twins are the youngest vaulters ranked in the top 30, with American Molly Haywood, two months younger than the twins, clocking in at 32nd.
This article originally appeared on Huskies Wire: Washington pole vaulter Hana Moll tops World Athletics rankings
