Irie Hill

Hill was born in Germany but moved to England in 1996 and became a British citizen in 1999. She only began vaulting relatively late in life at the age of 26.^[2] Hill finished second behind Janine Whitlock in the pole vault event at the 1999 AAA Championships.^[3]

Hill became the British pole vault champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 2002 AAA Championships.^[4][5] Shortly afterwards, Hill represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester,^[6] winning a bronze medal.^[7]

Hill has also gone on to win numerous World and European Masters titles including achieving a world W50 record in the pole vault of 3.51m while winning the 2019 World Masters Indoor Athletics Championships in Torun, Poland.^[8] This is in addition to the world W45 pole vault record of 3.76m, set by Hill on 3 July 2015 in Regensburg, Germany.