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Men's pole vault world record progression

Not to be confused with Men's pole vault indoor world record progression.

The first world record in the men's pole vault was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912.[1]

As of April 20, 2024, 80 world records have been ratified by the IAAF (now World Athletics) in the event. Since 2000, World Athletics makes no distinction between indoor and outdoor settings when establishing pole vault world records. This new rule was not applied retroactively. The introduction in the early 1950s of flexible vaulting poles made from composites such as fiberglass or carbon fiber allowed vaulters to achieve greater height.[1][2][3] The present record of 6.26 m (20 ft 6+1⁄4 in) was set by Armand Duplantis, competing for Sweden at the Silesia Diamond League.[4]

Record progression

Ratified
Not ratified
Ratified but later rescinded
Pending ratification
Mark Athlete Nation Venue Date #[a]
3.15 m (10 ft 4 in) Francis Temple  Great Britain Woolwich October 6, 1849[5] 1
3.21 m (10 ft 6+1⁄4 in) Robert Mitchell London June 19, 1868[5] 1
3.225 m (10 ft 6+3⁄4 in) Edwin Woodburn Newton August 31, 1872[5] 1
Lancaster June 2, 1873[5] 2
William Kelsey Sheffield July 7, 1873[5] 1
John Wigfull 1
Edwin Woodburn London March 30, 1874[5] 3
John Wigfull Sheffield July 5, 1875[5] 2
3.38 m (11 ft 1 in) A. Hammond Bury St.Edmunds March 30, 1876[5] 1
Edwin Woodburn Ulverston July 21, 1876[5] 4
3.42 m (11 ft 2+1⁄2 in) Thomas Ray September 19, 1879[5] 1
3.43 m (11 ft 3 in) Birmingham July 16, 1881[5] 2
3.455 m (11 ft 4 in) Bradford August 12, 1882[5] 3
Nottingham June 16, 1883[5] 4
3.465 m (11 ft 4+1⁄4 in) Preston August 18, 1883[5] 5
3.48 m (11 ft 5 in) Grasmere August 20, 1885[5] 6
3.485 m (11 ft 5 in) Whitehaven August 13, 1886[5] 7
3.505 m (11 ft 5+3⁄4 in) Grasmere August 18, 1887[5] 8
3.52 m (11 ft 6+1⁄2 in) Whitehaven August 19, 1887[5] 9
3.53 m (11 ft 6+3⁄4 in) Ernest Stones Southport June 2, 1888[5] 1
3.555 m (11 ft 7+3⁄4 in) Thomas Ray Barrow September 22, 1888[5] 10
3.57 m (11 ft 8+1⁄2 in) Ernest Stones Grasmere August 23, 1889[5] 2
3.58 m (11 ft 8+3⁄4 in) Richard Dickenson Kidderminster July 4, 1891[5] 1
3.62 m (11 ft 10+1⁄2 in) Raymond Clapp  United States Chicago June 16, 1898[5] 1
3.69 m (12 ft 1+1⁄4 in) Norman Dole Berkeley April 23, 1904[5] 1
3.69 m (12 ft 1+1⁄4 in) Fernand Gonder  France Paris June 26, 1904[5] 1
3.74 m (12 ft 3 in) Gradignan June 4, 1905[5] 2
3.78 m (12 ft 4+3⁄4 in) Leroy Samse  United States Chicago June 2, 1906[5] 1
3.79 m (12 ft 5 in) Walter Dray New Haven May 18, 1907[5] 1
3.82 m (12 ft 6+1⁄4 in) Philadelphia April 25, 1908[5] 2
3.855 m (12 ft 7+3⁄4 in) Alfred Gilbert June 6, 1908[5] 1
3.86 m (12 ft 7+3⁄4 in) New Haven June 12, 1908[5] 2
3.90 m (12 ft 9+1⁄2 in) Walter Dray Danbury June 13, 1908[5] 3
3.91 m (12 ft 9+3⁄4 in) Leland Scott Berkeley April 30, 1910[5] 1
3.93 m (12 ft 10+1⁄2 in) Boulder May 27, 1910[5] 2
3.985 m (13 ft 3⁄4 in) Robert Gardner Philadelphia June 1, 1912[5] 1
4.02 m (13 ft 2+1⁄4 in) Marc Wright Cambridge, U.S. June 8, 1912[1] 1
4.09 m (13 ft 5 in) Frank Foss Antwerp, Belgium August 20, 1920[1] 1
4.12 m (13 ft 6 in) Charles Hoff  Norway Copenhagen, Denmark September 22, 1922[1] 1
4.21 m (13 ft 9+1⁄2 in) July 22, 1923[1] 2
4.23 m (13 ft 10+1⁄2 in) Oslo, Norway August 13, 1925[1] 3
4.25 m (13 ft 11+1⁄4 in) Turku, Finland September 27, 1925[1] 4
4.27 m (14 ft 0 in) Sabin Carr  United States Philadelphia, U.S. May 28, 1927[1] 1
4.30 m (14 ft 1+1⁄4 in) Lee Barnes Fresno, U.S. April 28, 1928[1] 1
4.37 m (14 ft 4 in) William Graber Palo Alto, U.S. July 16, 1932[1] 1
4.39 m (14 ft 4+3⁄4 in) Keith Brown Boston, U.S. June 1, 1935[1] 1
4.43 m (14 ft 6+1⁄4 in) George Varoff Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. July 4, 1936[1] 1
4.54 m (14 ft 10+1⁄2 in) Bill Sefton Los Angeles, U.S. May 29, 1937[1] 1
Earle Meadows 1
4.60 m (15 ft 1 in) Cornelius Warmerdam Fresno, U.S. June 29, 1940[1] 1
4.72 m (15 ft 5+3⁄4 in) Compton, U.S. June 26, 1941[1] 2
4.77 m (15 ft 7+3⁄4 in) Modesto, U.S. May 23, 1942[1] 3
4.78 m (15 ft 8 in) Robert Gutowski Palo Alto, U.S. April 27, 1957[1] 1
4.80 m (15 ft 8+3⁄4 in) Don Bragg July 2, 1960[1] 1
4.83 m (15 ft 10 in) George Davies Boulder, U.S. May 20, 1961[1] 1
4.89 m (16 ft 1⁄2 in) John Uelses Santa Barbara, U.S. March 31, 1962[1] 1
4.93 m (16 ft 2 in) Dave Tork Walnut, U.S. April 28, 1962[1] 1
4.94 m (16 ft 2+1⁄4 in) Pentti Nikula  Finland Kauhava, Finland June 22, 1962[1] 1
5.00 m (16 ft 4+3⁄4 in) Brian Sternberg  United States Philadelphia, U.S. April 27, 1963[1] 1
5.08 m (16 ft 8 in) Compton, U.S. June 7, 1963[1] 2
5.13 m (16 ft 9+3⁄4 in) John Pennel London, England August 5, 1963[1] 1
5.20 m (17 ft 1⁄2 in) Coral Gables, U.S. August 24, 1963[1] 2
5.23 m (17 ft 1+3⁄4 in) Fred Hansen San Diego, U.S. June 13, 1964[1] 1
5.28 m (17 ft 3+3⁄4 in) Los Angeles, U.S. July 25, 1964[1] 2
5.32 m (17 ft 5+1⁄4 in) Bob Seagren Fresno, U.S. May 14, 1966[1] 1
5.34 m (17 ft 6 in) John Pennel Los Angeles, U.S. July 23, 1966[1] 3
5.36 m (17 ft 7 in) Bob Seagren San Diego, U.S. June 10, 1967[1] 2
5.38 m (17 ft 7+3⁄4 in) Paul Wilson Bakersfield, U.S. June 23, 1967[1] 1
5.41 m (17 ft 8+3⁄4 in) A Bob Seagren Echo Summit, U.S. September 12, 1968[1] 3
5.44 m (17 ft 10 in) John Pennel Sacramento, U.S. June 21, 1969[1] 4
5.45 m (17 ft 10+1⁄2 in) Wolfgang Nordwig  East Germany Berlin, Germany June 17, 1970[1] 1
5.46 m (17 ft 10+3⁄4 in) Turin, Italy September 3, 1970[1] 2
5.49 m (18 ft 0 in) Christos Papanikolaou  Greece Athens, Greece October 24, 1970[1] 1
5.51 m (18 ft 3⁄4 in) Kjell Isaksson  Sweden Austin, U.S. April 8, 1972[1] 1
5.54 m (18 ft 2 in) Los Angeles, U.S. April 15, 1972[1] 2
5.55 m (18 ft 2+1⁄2 in) Helsingborg, Sweden June 12, 1972[1] 3
5.63 m (18 ft 5+1⁄2 in) Bob Seagren  United States Eugene, U.S. July 2, 1972[1] 4
5.65 m (18 ft 6+1⁄4 in) David Roberts Gainesville, U.S. March 28, 1975[1] 1
5.67 m (18 ft 7 in) Earl Bell Wichita, U.S. May 29, 1976[1] 1
5.70 m (18 ft 8+1⁄4 in) David Roberts Eugene, U.S. June 22, 1976[1] 2
5.72 m (18 ft 9 in) Władysław Kozakiewicz  Poland Milan, Italy May 11, 1980[1] 1
5.75 m (18 ft 10+1⁄4 in) Thierry Vigneron  France Paris, France June 1, 1980[1] 1
5.75 m (18 ft 10+1⁄4 in) Lille, France June 29, 1980[1] 2
5.77 m (18 ft 11 in) Philippe Houvion Paris, France July 17, 1980[1] 1
5.78 m (18 ft 11+1⁄2 in) Władysław Kozakiewicz  Poland Moscow, Soviet Union July 30, 1980[1] 2
5.80 m (19 ft 1⁄4 in) Thierry Vigneron  France Mâcon, France June 20, 1981[1] 3
5.81 m (19 ft 1⁄2 in) Vladimir Polyakov  Soviet Union Tbilisi, Soviet Union June 26, 1981[1] 1
5.82 m (19 ft 1 in) Pierre Quinon  France Cologne, Germany August 28, 1983[1] 1
5.83 m (19 ft 1+1⁄2 in) Thierry Vigneron Rome, Italy September 1, 1983[1] 4
5.85 m (19 ft 2+1⁄4 in) Sergey Bubka  Soviet Union Bratislava, Czechoslovakia May 26, 1984[1] 1
5.88 m (19 ft 3+1⁄4 in) Paris, France June 2, 1984[1] 2
5.90 m (19 ft 4+1⁄4 in) London, England July 13, 1984[1] 3
5.91 m (19 ft 4+1⁄2 in) Thierry Vigneron  France Rome, Italy August 31, 1984[1] 5
5.94 m (19 ft 5+3⁄4 in) Sergey Bubka  Soviet Union 4
6.00 m (19 ft 8 in) Paris, France July 13, 1985[1] 5
6.01 m (19 ft 8+1⁄2 in) Moscow, Soviet Union July 8, 1986[1] 6
6.03 m (19 ft 9+1⁄4 in) Prague, Czechoslovakia June 23, 1987[1] 7
6.05 m (19 ft 10 in) Bratislava, Czechoslovakia June 9, 1988[1] 8
6.06 m (19 ft 10+1⁄2 in) Nice, France July 10, 1988[1] 9
6.07 m (19 ft 10+3⁄4 in) Shizuoka, Japan May 6, 1991[1] 10
6.08 m (19 ft 11+1⁄4 in) Moscow, Soviet Union June 9, 1991[1] 11
6.09 m (19 ft 11+3⁄4 in) Formia, Italy July 8, 1991[1] 12
6.10 m (20 ft 0 in) Malmö, Sweden August 5, 1991[1] 13
6.11 m (20 ft 1⁄2 in)  Ukraine Dijon, France June 13, 1992[1] 14
6.12 m (20 ft 3⁄4 in) Padua, Italy August 30, 1992[1] 15
6.13 m (20 ft 1+1⁄4 in) Tokyo, Japan September 19, 1992[1] 16
6.14 m (20 ft 1+1⁄2 in) A[b] Sestriere, Italy July 31, 1994[1] 17
6.16 m (20 ft 2+1⁄2 in) i[7] Renaud Lavillenie  France Donetsk, Ukraine February 15, 2014 1
6.17 m (20 ft 2+3⁄4 in) i Armand Duplantis  Sweden Toruń, Poland February 8, 2020 1
6.18 m (20 ft 3+1⁄4 in) i Glasgow, UK February 15, 2020 2
6.19 m (20 ft 3+1⁄2 in) i Belgrade, Serbia March 7, 2022 3
6.20 m (20 ft 4 in) i March 20, 2022 4
6.21 m (20 ft 4+1⁄4 in) Eugene, U.S. July 24, 2022 5
6.22 m (20 ft 4+3⁄4 in) i Clermont-Ferrand, France February 25, 2023 6
6.23 m (20 ft 5+1⁄4 in) Eugene, U.S. September 17, 2023 7
6.24 m (20 ft 5+1⁄2 in) Xiamen, China April 20, 2024 8
6.25 m (20 ft 6 in) Paris, France August 5, 2024 9
6.26 m (20 ft 6¼ in) Chorzów, Poland August 25, 2024 10
Notes:
  1. ^ The numbered occurrence of the athlete breaking the world record, in other words "#7" would indicate the 7th time the athlete broke the world record.
  2. ^ "From 2000, IAAF Rule 260.18s (formerly 260.6.a) was amended to say world records (as opposed to indoor world records) can be set in a facility 'with or without a roof.' So far, only one event - the women's pole vault - has been affected by this change, which was not applied retrospectively."[6] Sergey Bubka set an indoor record of 6.15 m (20 ft 2 in) on February 21, 1993, in excess of the outdoor record, before this rule came into effect. Lavillenie's indoor world record was set after the rule came into effect, and thus since it exceeded Bubka's 6.14 m (20 ft 1+1⁄2 in) set outdoors, it also became the world record, the first indoor mark to do so in this event.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs "12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009" (PDF). Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department. 2009. pp. Pages 546, 555–6. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 29, 2011. Retrieved August 5, 2009.
  2. ^ "Man who broke 15 feet defends fiberglass pole". Ocala Star-Banner. Ocala, Florida. Associated Press. February 7, 1962. p. 10.
  3. ^ "World record progression in pole vault". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (table). May 23, 1963. p. 3D.
  4. ^ "Duplantis breaks own pole vault world record at Silesia Diamond League". Reuters. August 25, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai "Main > Men, Pole Vault > World Records Progression". Track and Field Statistics [d].
  6. ^ "Berlin 2009: Past results / Africa Champs, Asian Games" (PDF). IAAF. p. 546. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
  7. ^ "Progression of IAAF World Records — 2015 edition" (pdf). Monte Carlo: IAAF. 2015. pp. 163–171. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
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