He took gold over Germany's Raphael Marcel Holzdeppe. A year later, Barber made the final at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in a pole vault event won by Thiago Braz of Brazil. Barber's best ...

Barber won gold medals at the Pan American Games in Toronto and then at the World Championships in Beijing—where he took home Canada’s first world medal in pole vaulting, as well as the ...

He took gold over Germany’s Raphael Marcel Holzdeppe. A year later, Barber made the final at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in a pole vault event won by Thiago Braz of Brazil. Barber's best ...

Shawn Barber, a pole vault ... including 2014 and 2015 NCAA Indoor Pole Vault Champion and 2015 NCAA Outdoor Pole Vault Champion. He became a 2015 Pan American Games Gold Medalist and was a ...

The University of Akron Department of Athletics announced Thursday the death of former Zips standout Shawn Barber. Barber, a world champion pole vaulter ... He earned the gold medal at the ...

Barber set the Canadian record for the men’s pole vault in January 2016. He earned a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto and also won the IAAF World Championships in Beijing ...

Barber was a standout pole vaulter at the University of Akron, where he captured back-to-back NCAA indoor championships in 2014 and 2015. He won the NCAA outdoor crown as well in 2015, before taking ...

He took gold over Germany’s Raphael Marcel Holzdeppe. A year later, Barber made the final at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in a pole vault event won by Thiago Braz of Brazil. Barber's best ...

A cause of death has not yet been made public, though Barber reportedly had been battling health issues. He won gold medals at the ... came at the Pole Vault Summit in Reno, a mark that remains ...