Shawn Barber, Canada’s pole vault file holder, useless at 29
- Shawn barber died on Wednesday at 29 at his residence in Kingwood, Texas
- He had been experiencing well being points and died from medical problems
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Shawn Barber, the Canadian pole vault file holder and 2015 world champion, has died from medical problems. He was 29.
Barber died Wednesday at residence in Kingwood, Texas, his agent, Paul Doyle, confirmed to The Associated Press. A explanation for dying was not but identified. Barber had been experiencing well being points.
‘More than simply an unbelievable athlete, Shawn was such a good-hearted person who all the time put others forward of himself,’ Doyle stated Thursday.
‘It’s tragic to lose such a great individual at such a younger age.’
Barber was a standout pole vaulter on the University of Akron, the place he captured back-to-back NCAA indoor championships in 2014 and 2015.
Shawn Barber, the Canadian pole vault file holder and 2015 world champion, has died
The 29-year-old Barber died Wednesday at residence in Kingwood, Texas, his agent stated
He received the NCAA out of doors crown as nicely in 2015, earlier than taking gold later that summer season on the Pan-Am Games.
Barber carried a wave of momentum into worlds that season in Beijing. He took gold over Germany’s Raphael Marcel Holzdeppe.
A yr later, Barber made the ultimate on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in a pole vault occasion received by Thiago Braz of Brazil.
Barber’s greatest vault was six meters (19 ft, 8 ¼ inches) on Jan. 15, 2016, in Reno, Nevada. His mark stays the Canadian file.
He´s survived by his mom, Ann; father, George; and brother, David.
