Molly Caudery

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Molly Caudery

| image = Molly Caudery Glasgow 2024.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Molly Caudery in Glasgow, 2024

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|2000|03|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Truro, Cornwall, England{{cite web|url=https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/molly-caudery-306898|title=Molly Caudery - Athlete Profile|website=World Athletics}}

| height = 175cm

| country = {{GBR2}}

| sport = Athletics

| event = Pole vault

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| coach =

| nationals =

| pb = 4.92{{nbsp}}m (2024) NR

| medaltemplates =

{{Medal|Country|{{GBR2}}}}

{{Medal|Country|{{ENG}}}}

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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 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.european-athletics.com/news/nedasekau-breaks-year-old-championship-record-for-high-jump-gold|title=Events & Meetings Nedasekau breaks 40-year-old record for high jump gold|publisher=European Athletics|accessdate=5 August 2024}}

On 17 February 2018, she won her first senior title, indoors, at the age of seventeen.{{cite web|url=https://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=277349|title=Athlete Profile|website=Power of 10}} She was selected to compete for England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia where she finished fifth.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/43749268|title=Commonwealth Games: Athletics - Women's Pole Vault results|date=13 April 2018 |publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=2024-05-11}} She was England's youngest athlete at the games.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/41760044|title=Molly Caudery: How England's youngest Gold Coast 2018 athlete heard about selection|date=26 October 2017 |publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=2024-05-11}} On 23 June 2018, she set a new British junior pole vault record of 4.53{{nbsp}}m.{{cite web|url=https://www.athleticsweekly.com/event-reports/uk-junior-record-for-molly-caudery-100158/|title=UK junior record for Molly Caudery|website=Athletics Weekly|date=24 June 2018 }}

Caudery won a silver medal at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia,{{cite web|url=https://www.lboro.ac.uk/sport/news/2021/july/lboro-success-at-european-champs/|title=Loughborough success at European U23 Championships

|date=15 July 2021

|publisher=Loughborough University|access-date=2024-05-11}} and repeated that result representing England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/commonwealth-games/62406218|title=Molly Caudery: Cornish pole vaulter says Commonwealth silver medal 'felt like a dream'|date=3 August 2022 |publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=11 May 2024}}

In 2023, she won the British Championships with a personal best of 4.71{{nbsp}}m which qualified her for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary,{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/66154522

|title=Molly Caudery: British pole vault title 'way beyond dreams'|date=10 July 2023 |publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=11 May 2024}} where she finished fifth in the final raising her personal to 4.75{{nbsp}}m.{{cite web|url=https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/world-athletics-championships-budapest-2023-7138987/news/report/wch-budapest-23-report-women-pole-vault|title=Budapest 23 report women pole vault|publisher=World Athletics|access-date=11 May 2024}}

In 2024, Caudery set a new personal best of 4.83{{nbsp}}m at Meeting de l’Eure on 28 January. She raised that mark to 4.85{{nbsp}}m in taking first place at the 2024 British Athletics Indoor Championships on 17 February{{cite web|url=https://www.britishathletics.org.uk/news-and-features/caudery-flies-to-world-lead-on-day-one-of-microplus-uk-athletics-championships/|title=CAUDERY FLIES TO WORLD LEAD ON DAY ONE OF MICROPLUS UK ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS|publisher=British Athletics|access-date=11 May 2024}} before clearing 4.86{{nbsp}}m one week later at a meeting in Rouen, France.{{cite web|url=https://www.european-athletics.com/news/caudery-leaps-to-world-lead-with-4-86m|title=Another world lead for Caudery with 4.86m|publisher=European Athletics|access-date=11 May 2024}}

On 2 March 2024, she won the gold medal at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow with a jump of 4.80{{nbsp}}m.{{cite web |title=World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024: Josh Kerr and Molly Caudery win gold medals for Great Britain |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/68459875 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=3 March 2024 |date=2 March 2024}} 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{{nbsp}}m.{{cite web|url=https://athleticsweekly.com/event-reports/daryll-neita-and-molly-caudery-in-winning-form-in-doha-1039985745/|title=

Daryll Neita and Molly Caudery in winning form in Doha|date=

10 May 2024|publisher=Athletics Weekly|access-date=11 May 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://olympics.com/en/news/doha-diamond-league-2024-dos-santos-gardiner-neita-wrap|title=DOHA DIAMOND LEAGUE 2024|publisher=olympics.com|access-date=11 May 2024}} She subsequently took gold at the Golden Spike Ostrava on the 2024 World Athletics Continental Tour on 28 May, clearing 4.84{{nbsp}}m, the highest successful vault of 2024 so far.{{cite web |title=GB's Caudery wins Continental Tour pole vault title |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/c6ppx90ejj7o |website=BBC Sport |access-date=29 May 2024 |date=29 May 2024}}

Caudery won bronze at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, on 10 June 2024, clearing 4.73{{nbsp}}m which was 5cms behind champion Angelica Moser.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/c100zz66j4qo|title=Dobson claims 400m silver as Caudery wins pole vault bronze|date=10 June 2024 |publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=10 June 2024}}

She set a new British record with a world-leading vault of 4.92{{nbsp}}m at the Toulouse Capitole Perche meet in France on 22 June 2024.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cgllv872g18o|title=GB's Caudery sets British pole vault record with new world lead|date=22 June 2024 |publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=22 June 2024}}

A week later Caudery won the British outdoor title with a jump of 4.83{{nbsp}}m to confirm her place at the 2024 Summer Olympics.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun/29/molly-caudery-extends-hot-streak-with-pole-vault-victory-at-the-british-trials|title=Molly Caudery extends hot streak with pole vault victory at the British trials|work=The Guardian|date=29 June 2024 |access-date=29 June 2024 |last=Bloom |first=Ben }} At the Games in Paris she did not qualify for the final after failing three times at her opening height of 4.55m.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/cvgrrlv7d42o|title=Pole vault elimination heartbreaking - Caudery|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=5 August 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.eurosport.com/athletics/olympic-games-paris-2024/2024/molly-caudery-pole-vault-holly-bradshaw-olympics-alastair-chalmers-jessie-knight-hurdles_sto20025712/story.shtml|title=Team GB's Molly Caudery, Holly Bradshaw both miss out on pole vault final at Paris Olympics|publisher=Eurosport|accessdate=5 August 2024}}

In February 2025, Caudery won the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold title by taking two first places and a second across competition.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/c3rn8qq2elxo|title=Caudery clinches World Indoor Tour Gold title|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=28 February 2025}} The following month she finished fourth at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in China.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/c5y06gwx34jo|title='Disappointed' Caudery misses out on world indoor medal|publisher=BBC Sport|accessdate=22 March 2025}}

International competitions

All information from World Athletics profile

{{AchievementTable\|Result=yes\|nation=GBR2\|nation2=ENG}}
2017	European Junior Championships	Grosseto, Italy	bgcolor=silver\|2nd	4.35 m
rowspan=2\|2018 \| Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	5th	4.40 m	{{flagCGFteam\|ENG\|2018}}
World U20 Championships	Tampere, Finland	9th	4.10 m
rowspan=2\|2021 \| European U20 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	bgcolor=silver\|2nd	4.45 m
European Team Championships	Chorzów, Poland	bgcolor=cc9966\|3rd	4.35 m
rowspan=2\|2022 \| Commonwealth Games	Birmingham, United Kingdom	bgcolor=silver\|2nd	4.45 m	{{flagCGFteam\|ENG\|2022}}
European Championships	Berlin, Germany	7th	4.55 m
2023	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	5th	4.75 m
rowspan=3\|2024 \| World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	bgcolor=gold\|1st	4.80 m
European Championships	Rome, Italy	bgcolor=cc9966\|3rd	4.73 m
Olympic Games \|Paris, France \|– \|NM
2025 \|World Indoor Championships \| Nanjing, China \| 4th \|4.70 m

National titles

Season's bests

All information from World Athletics profile

Year !Outdoor best !Indoor best
class=wikitable
2015	3.80	3.91
2016	4.06	3.93
2017	4.35	4.10
2018	4.53	4.30
2019	4.08	4.18
2020	4.15	4.05
2021	4.51	4.30
2022	4.60	—
2023	4.75	—
2024	4.92 {{AthAbbr\|NR\|British}}	4.85

References

External links

{{World Athletics}}
{{British Athletics}}
{{Power of 10}}
{{Team GB|molly-caudery/4K0bvvP8Zsrl6ZwclbS9PA}}
{{Team England|molly-caudery}}
{{Olympics.com profile|molly-caudery}}
[https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/molly-caudery_1924403 Molly Caudery] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
{{2022 Commonwealth Games profile|62448}}