Donald George "Don" Bragg (born May 15, 1935) is a retired American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault and won a gold medal in that event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.Bragg grew up in Penns Grove, New Jersey, where he attended Penns Grove High School.Bragg was the last of the great pole vaulters to use an aluminum pole. From 1954 until 1960, he was always world ranked and capped a brilliant career in 1960 by setting a world record of 15' 9¼" (4.80 m) at the Olympic Trials and winning an Olympic gold medal with a vault of 15' 5" (4.70 m). He set a world indoor record of 15' 9½" (4.81 m) at Philadelphia in 1959 and, like Hall of Famer Cornelius Warmerdam, vaulted better indoors than outdoors. Wikipedia