TOKYO, Japan — UPDATE: Katie Nageotte brings home an Olympic gold medal for Team USA. Nageotte, who trains at the Atlanta Track Club, finished with a 4.90 and launched herself from third to first place.
She had missed her first attempt in the 4.90 and cleared it for her second attempt, which named her the Olympic champion.
Morgann Leleux failed to score in the finals after three attempts at the 4.50.
Original story below.
Two athletes with strong Georgia connections will be competing for a medal early Thursday morning at the Tokyo Olympics in the women's pole vault final.
The final will include Morgann Leleux, among the many UGA Bulldogs at the Tokyo Games, and Katie Nageotte, who trains at the Atlanta Track Club.
The pole vault final is set to begin at 6 a.m. ET. You can watch that event as it happens live here.
Nageotte, ranked fourth in the world, will be considered an especially strong contender for a medal, with a personal best set this season of 4.95 meters that ranks better than the season best of any other athlete competing in the final, including the world No. 1-ranked Anzhelika Sidorova of Russia (whose team is competing under the title "Russian Olympic Committee" at these Olympics due to sporting sanctions against the country).
Among those competing in the final, only Sidorova, the 2019 world champion in the pole vault, has ever equaled 4.95 meters as a personal best.
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Nageotte, originally from Ohio, won silver at the 2018 Athletics World Cup in London in the pole vault.
Leleux, meanwhile, was an All-American while with UGA and won silver behind Nageotte at the U.S. track team trials in Oregon in June. The 28-year-old cleared 4.70 meters to seal her place on the Olympic team.
Great Britain's Holly Bradshaw (4.90 meters personal and season best), Cuba's Yarisley Silva (4.91 meters personal best) and Greece's Katerina Stefanidi (4.91 meters personal best) could all also be in the mix for a medal.