He won the NCAA outdoor crown as well in 2015, before taking gold later that summer at the Pan-Am Games. Canada’s Shawn Barber in action during the men’s pole vault final of Sainsbury’s ...

Canada's Shawnacy Barber celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Men's Pole Vault Final at the 15th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Athletics World Championships.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 24: Shawnacy Barber of Canada celebrates after winning gold in the Men’s Pole Vault final during day three of the 15th IAAF World Athletics Championships Beijing 2015 at ...

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 ...