{"id":70066,"date":"2024-01-19T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/canadian-olympic-pole-vaulter-shawn-barber-dead-at-29\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T15:35:07","slug":"canadian-olympic-pole-vaulter-shawn-barber-dead-at-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/canadian-olympic-pole-vaulter-shawn-barber-dead-at-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Olympic Pole Vaulter Shawn Barber Dead at 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Shawn Barber, who competed in the 2016 Olympics, has died at the age of 29, his manager, Paul Doyle, confirmed on Thursday, January 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than just an incredible athlete, Shawn was such a good-hearted person that always put others ahead of himself,\u201d Paul told the Associated Press. \u201cIt\u2019s tragic to lose such a good person at such a young age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shawn was best known for his participation in pole vault at the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro. He made the finals in the event, with <strong>Thiago Braz da Silva<\/strong> from Brazil winning the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The athlete\u2019s manager revealed that Shawn died on Wednesday, January 17. He was at home in Kingwood, Texas and had \u201cbeen experiencing health issues\u201d prior to his death. The specifics of Shawn\u2019s medical complications were not shared and a cause of death has not been confirmed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:146.25%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"photo-credit\"><span class=\"credit\">Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cA friend that will never be forgotten,\u201d Shawn\u2019s management company wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C2QRGnIP2f6\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cCanadian Olympic Pole Vaulter Shawn Barber has passed away. He is currently the Canadian record holder with his personal best of 6.00m and was the 2015 World Champion in the Pole Vault. Shawn was also an Olympic finalist at the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro. He will be greatly missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before competing in the Olympics, Shawn competed in pole vault at the University of Akron. He was the NCAA Outdoor Pole Vault Champion in 2015 and the NCAA Indoor Pole Vault Champion in 2014 and 2015. He also became a high school world record holder in pole vault during his time at Kingwood High School. Shawn\u2019s best vault of 6 meters still holds the record in Canada, according to Olympics.com.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn\u2019s father, <strong>George Barber<\/strong>, was also a pole vaulter and previously competed on the Canadian National Team. <em>The Associated Press<\/em> confirmed that the late Olympian was survived by his father, his mother, <strong>Ann Barber<\/strong>, and his brother, David Barber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarber had fallen ill and had been experiencing poor health for some time,\u201d the University of Akron\u2019s Athletics Department confirmed in a statement. \u201cA well-liked teammate and competitor, Barber enjoyed a distinguished collegiate career that was highlighted by capturing a trio of NCAA pole vault titles as a member of the Akron Track and Field program from 2013-15.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school went on to list more of Shawn\u2019s accomplishments, including his win at the 2015 IAAF World Championship in China and his gold medal victory at the 2015 Pan American Games.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/canadian-olympic-pole-vaulter-shawn-barber-dead-at-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Barber, who competed in the 2016 Olympics, has died at the age of 29, his manager, Paul Doyle, confirmed on Thursday, January 18. \u201cMore than just an incredible athlete, Shawn was such a good-hearted person that always put others ahead of himself,\u201d Paul told the Associated Press. \u201cIt\u2019s tragic to lose such a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}