Legendary alpine skier Stenmark competes in pole vault at World Masters


FILE PHOTO: Alpine Skiing - FIS Alpine World Ski Championships - Women's Downhill - Are, Sweden - February 10, 2019 - Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark smiles after the race. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

(Reuters) - Alpine skiing great Ingemar Stenmark is still wowing audiences with his skill between the poles at the age of 68, but this time it's in pole vault at the World Masters Athletics Championships.

Sweden's Stenmark, who won two Olympic golds and five Alpine World Ski Championships gold medals in slalom and giant slalom, cleared 3.0 meters, a personal second-best, in Gothenburg on Monday, driving the crowd into wild applause.

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