World Athletics Championship 2025: Molly Caudery targets medal and new British record in pole vault

Caudery, who won European Championship bronze and the World Indoor Championships last year, came second in her most recent event at the Diamond League meeting in Brussels last month with a clearance of 4.80m.

She jumped 4.85m to win the British title in early August and hopes that a repeat of those heights can get her on the podium.

She continued: “Looking at past competitions and the kind of marks that have got on the podium in previous competitions, there’s always a mark around 4.80m.

“But with pole vault it could be 4.90m-plus if the conditions are great and it could be 4.70m if it’s raining or windy out there.

“There’s previous evidence to show what it would be around 4.80-4.85, but you just never know.”

Caudery said she has “learned so much” from her Olympic experience in Paris last summer, when she entered qualifying 35cm higher than the other athletes but failed to get over 4.55m.

She added: “Of course the main goal is get through qualification, I was so focused on the final last year and getting that Olympic medal and I think I just got caught up in that, whereas this year it’s just kind of staying in the present and going there getting through to the final and then seeing what I can do from there.”