Caption: Flo Meiler

Posted: 12/06/2007 3:50pm

Category: Track & Field

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How do you picture your 70s? Do your dreams involve soaring through the air on a pole?

Flo Meiler always wanted to give the pole vault a shot. After taking up the sport in her 60s, she is now the world record holder for women over 70. She also holds the world record in the 300-meter hurdles and the U.S. record for the 2000-meter steeplechase.

Find out what prompted her to take up pole vaulting at 65 and how she taught herself the sport.