Molly Caudery is one of the big surprises of the 2024 season. She has improved from 4.83m to 4.85m, and now, 4.86m, on the eve of the World Indoor Champs in Glasgow, Scotland.
Stuart Weir did this first interview (of three) as a preview to the World Indoor Champs, March 1-3, 2024, in Glasglow, Scotland.
Molly Caudery
I first remember speaking to Molly Caudery at the European Championships in Munich in 2022. She had just cleared 4.50 to reach the women’s Pole Vault final. How things have moved on in a short time with seven vaults of 4.70 and above. In Budapest last year, she was fifth in the World Champs with 4.75, and in the current indoor season, she has recorded a 4.83, a 4.85, and 4.86. She is still just 23. On a recent UK Athletics press point, I asked her if the rapid progress from 4.50 to 4.80 had surprised her. Her honest answer was: “Definitely surprised how quick it’s all happened. Everything has come up all at once in the last six months following worlds. I knew that I had been in quite good shape, but to go from my PB being 4.60 at the beginning of 2023 to 4.85* already this year – getting up to the high heights – that’s a pretty big jump. So now it’s all happened very quickly for me actually”.
Having suffered a few serious injuries – two Achilles surgeries and almost losing a finger when she was lifting weights and caught her finger between the bar and the rack, requiring 3 surgeries and a nine-month lay-off, she attributes her recent to progress to “not getting injured;I think that’s been my main success at the minute. I’ve just been able to consistently build through training. I took so much confidence from last year, and I’ve improved physically, mentally, and just overall confidence, and I think that’s just taken me to the next step”.
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