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Christopher Nilsen (born January 13, 1998) is an American athlete specialising in pole vault and high jump. He won the silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the pole vault event with a jump of 5.97 m (19 ft 7 in).
Nilsen graduated from Park Hill High School in Kansas City, Missouri.[2] Nilsen was raised in hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. Nilsen set the United States high school record in the pole vault at the Missouri Class 5 sectional meet with a clearance of 5.61 m (18 ft 5 in).
Nilsen is a six-time NCAA Division I First Team All-American, and a three-time NCAA Track and field Pole vault champion.[4] Nilsen holds South Dakota Coyotes school records in the Pole vault indoor 5.80 m (19 ft 0 in) and outdoor 5.86 m (19 ft 3 in).[5]
Nilsen placed second at 2019 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships and won the pole vault title in an NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships meet record at 2019 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
On June 21, 2021, Nilsen was the only pole vaulter to clear 5.90 m (19 ft 4 in) at the 2020 Olympic Trials, cementing his first place win and getting him a spot on the Olympic team, alongside Sam Kendricks and KC Lightfoot. He won the silver medal at the Olympic games in Tokyo with a jump of 5.97 m (19 ft 7 in), improving his personal best by two centimeters.[13] Nilsen was full of praise for the winner, Armand Duplantis. He compared the competition against Duplantis that evening as being a regular footballer "trying to emulate Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo" and that his superiority over the world's best pole vaulters was "impressive and ridiculous".[14]
Following a fourth-place tie at the 2021 Olympics, Lightfoot is expected to miss his second straight opportunity to compete at a World Championships. It will mark the third straight global competition without Kendricks, including a positive COVID-19 test that prevented him from vaulting in Tokyo.
Duplantis, who competed at Louisiana State University, before joining the elite Diamond League circuit, is the son of former U.S. pole vaulter Greg Duplantis and Swedish mother Helena, a former heptathlete and volleyball player. Mondo has chosen to represent Sweden in international competition.
As was evidenced in Monaco, the tight-knit pole vault fraternity observed that Mondo is indeed human and not some futuristic robot designed to blast into uncharted layers of the Ozone. Nilsen believes that when the bar is raised at his second world championships next month, anything, in his friendly and often unpredictable sport, is possible.
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Park Hill senior Chris Nilsen reacts after he cleared 18 feet, 4 3/4 inches in the Class 5 Sectional 4 pole vault competition Saturday, May 21 at North Kansas City District Activities Complex in Kansas City, Mo. The vault set a new national high school record.
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Park Hill senior Chris Nilsen clears 18 feet, 4 3/4 inches in the Class 5 Sectional 4 pole vault competition Saturday, May 21 at North Kansas City District Activities Complex in Kansas City, Mo. The vault set a new national high school record.
Committed to vault at South Dakota, Nilsen went up to 17-1, a record-setting 17-6 1/2 in the prestigious Kansas Relays and 18-0 in the Suburban Conference Red Division championships. That effort made him just the ninth in high school history to clear 18 feet or better.
All season, Nilsen came in at 16-0 with most competitions over when he started vaulting. The somewhat risky strategy continues to pay off, keeping him fresh. He doesn't plan to change the process at state when he will look to first win another title before also looking to break his own meet record and possibly take one last shot at the Olympic Trials qualifying height while wearing a Park Hill uniform.
As reported by Kansas City Fox affiliate WDAF, Park Hill senior Chris Nilsen set an American prep record by clearing 18 feet 4-3/4 inches at the Missouri Class 5 Sec 4 meet at crosstown Staley High on Saturday. By definition, the record-setting vault was enough to earn Nilsen the Class 5 title. It was also within an inch of qualifying for the U.S. Olympic Trials via the event standard of 5.65 meters.
On the track, Nilsen's accolades precede him: two-time national champion, five-time All-American, 21-time Summit League athlete of the week, USD's pole vault record-holder, and he boasts the third-best indoor vault in NCAA history. But Nilsen attributes much of his success to the family that waits for him at home every night, "A lot of collegiate pole vaulters just do school and pole vault. I get to go home and Roman's not going to care what I jumped, [wife, Kelly]'s not going to care what I jumped. They're going to support me no matter what. It's nice to get out of the pole vault mindset, and just go home and be a father and a husband."
For Chris and his wife Kelly, pole vaulting has always been a common bond. "We met through pole vault", says Kelly. "We went to different high schools. The first time I said, 'I love you' was when he snapped a pole."
Miles says, "I've never coached an athlete that had family responsibilities. Being able to go home after a bad day of pole vaulting... not that he has many of those... but if he does, he can play with his one-year old kid, and he can put a smile on his face. That's a positive thing. I think any pole vaulter, especially at an elite level has to be able to balance that."
The lone competitor left, Nilsen set his sites on pole vaulting's holy height of 6 meters. He failed to clear the bar in three attempts, but will be one of the favorites - along with the other two Americans - in Tokyo at the Olympics.
After Nilsen cleared his final jump of the day, he had a brief conversation with USD jumps coach Derek Miles, who made the trip to Japan. Nilsen then blew a kiss to one of the television cameras that was showing the pole vault event.
South Dakota pole vaulter Chris Nilsen is the men's athlete of the month and North Dakota State's thrower Akealy Moton took home the honor on the women's side. Nilsen captured his second monthly honor of the 2018-19 academic year and tenth of his career while Moton garnered her first honor.
Nilsen captured his third pole vault NCAA Championships title with a lifetime best vault of 19-06.25 (5.95m) in early June. His height at the championship broke his own NCAA Championships meet record and moved Nilsen to third all-time in NCAA history and No. 25 on the IAAF's world record books.
A third-attempt make at 18 feet, 10- inches vaulted Nilsen ahead of Brazil's Augusto Dutra da Silva de O in the standings. Nilsen boasted a clean sheet through the first seven bars of the competition.
Nilsen broke the NCAA Championships meet record earlier this season with a personal best vault of 19-6-. He's a three-time NCAA champion in the pole vault and six-time All-American. Nilsen was the Summit League's Field Athlete of the Year for the third-straight season and named a semifinalist for The Bowerman for the second time of his career.
South Dakota alumnus Chris Nilsen '20 captured his third-straight U.S. Outdoor Championship pole vault title on July 8. He was the only athlete to make 19-4 (5.91m) in the competition, clearing the bar on his first attempt.
We turn next to Kansas City Park Hill graduate Chris Nilsen, a Missouri native who broke the national pole vault record in high school, before it was eventually broken by Mondo Duplantis two years later in 2018.
After a highly successful high school career that saw Nilsen win two state pole vault titles in Missouri and then finish seventh at the World U20 Championships in Poland, he went on to the University of South Dakota, where he racked up three NCAA titles, including his craziest in 2019 against a high-flying Duplantis with a mark of 19 feet, 6.25 inches.
Vaults are highly conserved ribonucleoprotein complexes found in a wide range of eukaryotic organisms. They are among the largest known ribonucleoprotein complexes, being approximately three times the size of ribosomes. Vaults have a distinct hollow barrel-like structure and consist of several copies of the major vault protein (MVP), telomerase-associated protein 1 (TEP1), vault poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (vPARP), and small untranslated vault RNAs. Although vaults are abundantly present in most cell types, their exact function is still poorly understood. However, studies have suggested that vaults play a role in various biological processes such as multidrug resistance, intracellular transport and signaling, and innate immunity. While vaults are present in most eukaryotes, some important model organisms, such as Drosophila melanogaster, Arabidopsis thaliana, Caenorhabditis elegans, and yeast, appear to lack these structures.
Recently, the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) genome was sequenced, and several genes encoding proteins related to the vault complex were identified. In this project, we aim to investigate the function of the vault complex using the salmon louse as a model. Given its distinct lifestyle, genome organization, and evolutionary characteristics, the salmon louse presents an exciting opportunity to shed new light on the function of vaults.
The salmon louse poses a huge threat to the welfare and economy of the fish farming industry, yet effective treatment methods are still limited. Engineered vaults have been explored as smart adjuvants for vaccines and it would therefore be interesting to investigate the potential of utilizing vault as a smart adjuvant in fish vaccines targeting the salmon louse.
In the pole vault, 2016 indoor national champion Lexi Weeks of Arkansas hopes to recapture the title again as a sophomore. However, her own teammate and twin sister stands in her way, as Tori Weeks owns the top mark in Division I this year. The pair headlines a field that features four other top-10 mark holders on the year.
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