Nicholas ("Nick") Jean Buckfield (born 5 June 1973) is an English former pole vaulter.
[2] He finished fifth in the 1997 World Championships and narrowly missed out on medals at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games.
[3] His career suffered setbacks due to a series of injuries, fracturing his pelvis whilst competing at the 1998 European Athletics Championships,[1] suffering an abdominal injury after falling onto his pole at a meeting in Cottbus in 2004,[4] and sustaining an Achilles tendon rupture in 2006.
This was a British national record, which he held for 14 years until Steven Lewis broke it in 2012.
This was also a British national record, and stood for 12 years until it was bettered by Luke Cutts in 2014.