Few sports deal in thinner margins than track and field. A second, an inch or a centimeter might be all the separation between gold-medal glory and fourth-place disappointment.
Sometimes, however, the margin is even closer than that.
Such a situation arose at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest Wednesday, as pole vaulters Nina Kennedy of Australia and Katie Moon of the United States both cleared 4.90 meters—the best total in the world this season.
