Molly Caudery

Molly Caudery
Molly Caudery in Glasgow, 2024
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born (2000-03-17) 17 March 2000
Truro, Cornwall, England[1]
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Pole vault
ClubThames Valley Harriers
Achievements and titles
Personal bests4.92 m (2024) NR
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
World indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place2024 GlasgowPole vault
Gold medal – first place2026 ToruńPole vault
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place2024 RomePole vault
European U20 Championships
Silver medal – second place2017 GrossetoPole vault
European U23 Championships
Silver medal – second place2021 TallinnPole vault
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place2022 BirminghamPole vault

Molly Caudery (born 17 March 2000) is a British athlete who competes in the pole vault event for England and Great Britain. Caudery is the 2024 and 2026 World Indoor champion. She was also a silver medalist at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and took bronze at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.

Caudery holds the British national record for the women's pole vault, with a best of 4.92 m.

Athletics career

In 2017, Caudery won the silver medal at the 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships in Grosseto, Italy.[2]

On 17 February 2018, she won her first senior title, indoors, at the age of seventeen.[3] She was selected to compete for England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia where she finished fifth.[4] She was England's youngest athlete at the games.[5] On 23 June 2018, she set a new British junior pole vault record of 4.53 m.[6]

Caudery won a silver medal at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia,[7] and repeated that result representing England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[8]

In 2023, she became the British pole vault champion after winning the 2023 British Championships, with a personal best of 4.71 m which qualified her for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary,[9] where she finished fifth in the final raising her personal to 4.75 m.[10]

In 2024, Caudery set a new personal best of 4.83 m at Meeting de l’Eure on 28 January.[1] She raised that mark to 4.85 m in taking first place at the 2024 British Athletics Indoor Championships on 17 February[11] before clearing 4.86 m one week later at a meeting in Rouen, France.[12]

On 2 March 2024, she won the gold medal at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow with a jump of 4.80 m.[13] She was Great Britain's first world champion in the event.

Caudery continued her good form into the outdoor season winning her first Diamond League event in Doha, Qatar, on 10 May 2024 with a best height of 4.73 m.[14][15] She subsequently took gold at the Golden Spike Ostrava on the 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour on 28 May, clearing 4.84 m, the highest successful vault of 2024 so far.[16]

Caudery won bronze at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, on 10 June 2024, clearing 4.73 m which was 5cms behind champion Angelica Moser.[17]

She set a new British record with a world-leading vault of 4.92 m at the Toulouse Capitole Perche meet in France on 22 June 2024.[18]

A week later Caudery won the British outdoor title with a jump of 4.83 m to confirm her place at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[19] At the Games in Paris she did not qualify for the final after failing three times at her opening height of 4.55m.[20][21][22]

In February 2025, Caudery won the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold title by taking two first places and a second across competition.[23] The following month she finished fourth at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in China.[24]

She won the Doha Diamond League on 16 May 2025, with a jump of 4.75 m.[25] Caudery then won a third consecutive British outdoor title at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships.

At the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, she injured her ankle during the warm-up before the qualifying competition and withdrew.[26]

On 22 March 2026, at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Poland, Caudery won the world indoor pole-vault title after successfully jumping 4.85 m.[27]

Caudery won the Diamond League Golden Gala in Rome on 4 June 2026, jumping 4.80 m.[28][29] Nine days later, on 13 June 2026, she announced she had undergone emergency spinal surgery to remove part of a spinal disc and consequently would miss the rest of the season.[30][31]

International competitions

  • All information from World Athletics profile[1]
Representing  Great Britain &  England
YearCompetitionVenuePositionResultNotes
2017European Junior ChampionshipsGrosseto, Italy2nd4.35 m
2018 Commonwealth GamesGold Coast, Australia5th4.40 m England
World U20 ChampionshipsTampere, Finland9th4.10 m
2021 European U20 ChampionshipsTallinn, Estonia2nd4.45 m
European Team ChampionshipsChorzów, Poland3rd4.35 m
2022 Commonwealth GamesBirmingham, United Kingdom2nd4.45 m England
European ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany7th4.55 m
2023World ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary5th4.75 m
2024 World Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdom1st4.80 m
European ChampionshipsRome, Italy3rd4.73 m
Olympic Games Paris, France – NM
2025 World Indoor Championships Nanjing, China 4th 4.70 m
2026 World Indoor Championships Torun, Poland 1st 4.85 m

National titles

Season's bests

  • All information from World Athletics profile[1]
Year Outdoor best Indoor best
20153.803.91
20164.063.93
20174.354.10
20184.534.30
20194.084.18
20204.154.05
20214.514.30
20224.60—
20234.75—
20244.92 NR4.85

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Molly Caudery - Athlete Profile". World Athletics.
  2. ↑ "Events & Meetings Nedasekau breaks 40-year-old record for high jump gold". European Athletics. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  3. ↑ "Athlete Profile". Power of 10.
  4. ↑ "Commonwealth Games: Athletics - Women's Pole Vault results". BBC Sport. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  5. ↑ "Molly Caudery: How England's youngest Gold Coast 2018 athlete heard about selection". BBC Sport. 26 October 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  6. ↑ "UK junior record for Molly Caudery". Athletics Weekly. 24 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "Loughborough success at European U23 Championships". Loughborough University. 15 July 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  8. ↑ "Molly Caudery: Cornish pole vaulter says Commonwealth silver medal 'felt like a dream'". BBC Sport. 3 August 2022. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  9. ↑ "Molly Caudery: British pole vault title 'way beyond dreams'". BBC Sport. 10 July 2023. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  10. ↑ "Budapest 23 report women pole vault". World Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  11. ↑ "CAUDERY FLIES TO WORLD LEAD ON DAY ONE OF MICROPLUS UK ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS". British Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  12. ↑ "Another world lead for Caudery with 4.86m". European Athletics. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  13. ↑ "World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024: Josh Kerr and Molly Caudery win gold medals for Great Britain". BBC Sport. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  14. ↑ "Daryll Neita and Molly Caudery in winning form in Doha". Athletics Weekly. 10 May 2024. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  15. ↑ "DOHA DIAMOND LEAGUE 2024". olympics.com. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  16. ↑ "GB's Caudery wins Continental Tour pole vault title". BBC Sport. 29 May 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  17. ↑ "Dobson claims 400m silver as Caudery wins pole vault bronze". BBC Sport. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  18. ↑ "GB's Caudery sets British pole vault record with new world lead". BBC Sport. 22 June 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  19. ↑ Bloom, Ben (29 June 2024). "Molly Caudery extends hot streak with pole vault victory at the British trials". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  20. ↑ "Pole vault elimination heartbreaking - Caudery". BBC Sport. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  21. ↑ "Team GB's Molly Caudery, Holly Bradshaw both miss out on pole vault final at Paris Olympics". Eurosport. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  22. ↑ "CAUDERY Molly". Paris 2024 Olympics. Archived from the original on 6 October 2024. (alternate link)
  23. ↑ "Caudery clinches World Indoor Tour Gold title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  24. ↑ "'Disappointed' Caudery misses out on world indoor medal". BBC Sport. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
  25. ↑ "Caudery wins pole vault at Diamond League in Doha". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 May 2025.
  26. ↑ "Molly Caudery out of World Champs with ankle injury". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  27. ↑ "World Indoor title 'means absolutely everything' - Caudery". BBC Sport. 23 March 2026. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
  28. ↑ "Caudery, Hunter Bell and Hodgkinson shine again in Rome". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
  29. ↑ "Caudery and Hunter Bell win at Rome Diamond League". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
  30. ↑ "British pole vaulter Molly Caudery ends 2026 season after emergency spinal surgery". The Independent. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
  31. ↑ "Molly Caudery ruled out for season after emergency spinal surgery". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
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