They’d twirl around a pole, so, next thing we know, you have a barber pole not made out of bloody rags and it became a symbol. There's not enough proof of that, but that’s the story.

Shawn Barber, the Canadian pole vault record holder and 2015 world champion, has died from medical complications. He was 29. Barber died Wednesday at home in Kingwood, Texas, his agent, Paul Doyle ...

Barber first competed when he was seven years old. “It was a lot of fun,” Barber told MileSplit in 2012, when he was the U.S.’s best high school pole vaulter. “I didn’t really understand it.

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 vault was six meters (19 feet, 8 ¼ inches) on Jan. 15 ...

W orld-champion pole vaulter Shawnacy “Shawn” Barber, who holds Canada’s pole vault record, has died at the age of 29, his agent confirmed in an Instagram post on Thursday.

Shawn Barber, a pole vault world champion, has died. He was 29. His Agent, Paul Doyle, told the Associated Press that he died at his home in Kingwood, Texas, on Wednesday.