{"id":360901,"date":"2024-01-18T19:46:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T20:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=360901"},"modified":"2024-01-18T23:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T23:02:17","slug":"shock-as-champion-record-holder-dead-at-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=360901","title":{"rendered":"Shock as champion record-holder dead at 29"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shawn Barber, the Canadian pole vault<\/a> record holder and 2015 world champion, has died from medical complications. He was 29.<\/p>\n

Barber died at home in Kingwood, Texas, his agent, Paul Doyle, confirmed to The Associated Press. A cause of death was not yet known. Barber had been experiencing health issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than just an incredible athlete, Shawn was such a good-hearted person that always put others ahead of himself,\u201d Doyle said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s tragic to lose such a good person at such a young age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barber was a standout pole vaulter at the University of Akron, where he captured back-to-back NCAA indoor championships in 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n

\"Shawn<\/p>\n

He won the NCAA outdoor crown as well in 2015, before taking gold later that summer at the Pan-Am Games.<\/p>\n

Barber carried a wave of momentum into worlds that season in Beijing. He took gold over Germany\u2019s Raphael Marcel Holzdeppe.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Barber's best vault was six metres in January 2016, in Reno, Nevada. His mark remains the Canadian record.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s survived by his mother, Ann; father, George; and brother, David.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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