Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows then lifted the mark above 4.5 meters, to 4.54/14-10¾, at the same Los Angeles meet in 1937. Duplantis cleared 6.17 meters — or 20 feet and nearly 3 inches — in Torun, Poland. Pennel set his second mark after borrowing a pole from American Fred Hansen. Since 2000, World Athletics makes no distinction between indoor and outdoor settings when establishing pole vault world records. The first world record in the men's pole vault was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912.. As of June 21, 2009, 71 world records have been ratified by the IAAF (now World Athletics) in the event. Brian Sternberg returned the pole vault mark to the U.S. in 1963. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) began recognizing a women’s pole vaulting world record in 1992, when China’s Sun Caiyun cleared 4.05 meters (13 feet, 3¼ inches). George Davies broke the record in 1961 with a fiberglass pole, then John Uelses – who topped the 16-foot mark – and Dave Tork both erased the record within a month of each other in 1962. Berlin 2009", "Progression of IAAF World Records — 2015 edition", North, Central American and Caribbean U23, North, Central American and Caribbean U20, North, Central American and Caribbean Youth, Central American Junior and Youth Championships, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Men%27s_pole_vault_world_record_progression&oldid=1001337144, Men's world athletics record progressions, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 January 2021, at 07:03. Sweden’s Kjell Isaksson set the first three records, then Seagren returned to the top by clearing 5.63/18-5½ at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Under today’s rules, an indoor record is eligible to be considered as the pole vault’s overall world mark, but the rules change wasn’t made retroactive. [1], A = mark set at altitude The record remained on the books until 1995, when the sport’s increasing acceptance led to a steady improvement in the quality of women’s vaulting. The following year was quiet, then four new marks were set in 1972. American Sabin Carr leaped 4.27/14-0 in 1927 to break the 14-foot barrier and begin the United States’ 35-year hold on the world record. Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis has broken Sergey Bubka's 26-year-old outdoor world record at the Diamond League in Rome. Fellow American John Pennel drove the record higher in August, breaking it twice and topping out at 5.20/17-¾, becoming the first to clear 17 feet. ROME — Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis broke Sergey Bubka's 26-year-old outdoor world record on Thursday. Mike Rosenbaum is an award-winning sports writer covering various sports and events for more than 15 years. Mondo Duplantis breaks pole vault world record By OlympicTalk Feb 8, 2020, 11:59 PM EST Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, a 20-year-old Swede raised in Louisiana, broke a six-year-old record in the pole vault at an indoor meet on Saturday. 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. She holds the world indoor pole vault record at 5.03 m (16 ft 6 in). American Sabin Carr leaped 4.27/14-0 in 1927 to break the 14-foot barrier and begin the United States’ 35-year hold on the world record. As of 2014 the IAAF has ratified 71 world records in the event, although they were set by just 33 different vaulters. The 22-year-old pole vault prodigy soared to the world record at the Paris International Track and Field Meet, shattering his previous mark of 5.94m, set in Rome in August 1984. Duplantis, who was a child prodigy born in a renowned Athletic family, started the year 2020 on a sharp note and registered a new world record of 6.18 … Then on 22 January 1989 – 32 years ago today – an unofficial ‘club’ of six-metre vaulters was formed when Rodion Gataullin became the second person to scale the height. Lavillenie’s world pole vault lead was improved a short while later as KC Lightfoot cleared a 5.94m US collegiate indoor record at the Corky Classic meet. American Marc Wright was credited with the first recognized men’s pole vault world record with a leap of 4.02 meters (13 feet, 2¼ inches) in 1912. She has been an Olympic and World champion, has been ranked #1 in the World, has been the #1 American pole vaulter since 2006, and has won a total of 17 US National Championships (7 Indoor, 10 Outdoor). Yelena Isinbayeva 5.01 m (16 ft 5 in) (2005) Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Vigneron took the record back in 1981 – leaping 5.80/19-¼ to top the 19-meter barrier – but only owned it for six days before Russia’s Vladimir Polyakov reached the record books with a leap of 5.81/19-¾. His final record stood … Jennifer Lynn Suhr (née Stuczynski; born February 5, 1982) is an American pole vaulter. Hansen’s poles then broke the record twice in 1964, but this time with Hansen holding them, as he peaked at 5.28/17-3¾. Undeterred, Seagren set his third world record in 1968, clearing 5.41/17-9 at altitude in California. He set his first official world mark by clearing 4.60/15-1 in 1940, then raised the mark twice more, reaching 4.77/15-7¾ in 1942. Because of IAAF rules at the time, the higher leap is accepted as the indoor world mark, while the 6.14-meter leap is considered the overall world record. He broke the outdoor world record 17 times and the indoor world record 18 times. Vigneron briefly led the meet with a world-record leap of 5.91/19-4½. (CNN) He may be in the early stages of his pole vault career, but Armand "Mondo" Duplantis has already scaled the summit of his sport. Bubka’s name has been in the record books ever since. Armand Duplantis Breaks the Pole Vault World Record Duplantis of Louisiana is the world’s best pole-vaulter, but he will represent Sweden instead of the United States at the Olympics. Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis broke Sergey Bubka's 26-year-old outdoor world record on Thursday. In his career, Bubka broke the outdoor pole vault mark 17 times and the indoor record on 18 occasions. Since 2000, World Athletics makes no distinction between indoor and outdoor settings when establishing pole vault world records. Pole Vault New World Record 6.17m | Armand Duplantis | Toruń 08.02.2020Just crazy !! But his fifth world mark was also his briefest. East Germany’s Wolfgang Nordwig became the world record-holder in 1970, breaking the mark twice, then Greece’s Christos Papanikolou topped the 18-foot barrier and set a new mark of 5.49/18-0 in October of that year. The following year, Seagren leapfrogged Pennel with a jump of 5.36/17-7, but the mark survived for just 13 days before 19-year-old Paul Wilson cleared 5.38/17-7¾ at the U.S. Championships. His effort is one of the longest-lived men’s pole vault records, surviving until 1920, when American Frank Foss won the Olympic gold medal by clearing 4.09/13-5. Sergey Bubka broke the pole vault world record in 1984 and then spent a decade edging it upwards at a rate that suited his sponsors. Norway’s Charles Hoff beat Foss’ Olympic mark in 1922 and improved the record three more times, peaking at 4.25/13-11¼ in 1925. The first world record in the men's pole vault was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912. The men's pole vault world record had only been beaten once in the last quarter-century, until 20-year-old Swede Armand Duplantis set new marks twice in a week. The men’s pole vault record left America for good (as of 2014) in 1980 when Poland’s Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz cleared 5.72/18-9. Over the next nine years, Americans Lee Barnes, William Garber, Keith Brown and George Varoff all inched the pole vault record upward, reaching 4.43/14-6¼ in … ROME — Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis broke Sergey Bubka's 26-year-old outdoor world record on Thursday. On July 31, 1994 – jumping at altitude in Sestriere, Italy – Bubka set his final world record by clearing 6.14/20-1¾. Robert Gutowski finally edged Warmerdam out of the record books by clearing 4.78/15-8 in 1957, the first record set with a metal pole. Just more than two months later, however, Pennel took the record back with a leap of 5.34/17-6¼. Dmitri Markov 6.05 m (19 ft 10 in) (2001) Women. Cornelius Warmerdam was the first man to clear 15 feet – the initial clearance apparently occurred in 1940, although it wasn’t recognized as a world record. The pole vault record is the most frequently broken word mark in men’s track and field history. Sweden's Armand Duplantis set a new outdoor pole vault world record, at 6.15 metres, at the Diamond League event in Rome. Don Bragg’s leap of 4.80/15-9 in 1960 marked the beginning of a 5-year period in which the pole vault mark changed hands 11 times. This new rule was not applied retroactively. [1], As of June 21, 2009, 71 world records have been ratified by the IAAF (now World Athletics) in the event. Bubka lost his outdoor world record only once in his illustrious career. He hit the 6-meter (19-8¼) mark in 1985, reached 6.05/19-10 in 1988 and 6.10/20-0 in 1991, topping 20 feet for the first time. This time he enjoyed the record for nine months before old nemesis Pennel topped 5.44/17-10 in 1969. Men's pole vault indoor world record progression, International Association of Athletics Federations, Women's pole vault world record progression, List of pole vaulters who reached 6 metres, "12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. The mark was broken four more times that year, twice by France’s Thierry Vigneron, once by another Frenchman, Phillippe Houvion, and then by Kozakiewicz again, who finished the year as the world record-holder after clearing 5.78/18-11½ at the Moscow Olympics. The latter mark stood for one month shy of 15 years. Lavillenie was vaulting from his home in Clermont-Ferrand, Kendricks was competing from his back garden in Oxford, Mississippi, and Duplantis was taking part from his base in Lafayette, Louisiana. i = mark set indoors Bubka broke the world record for men's pole vault 35 times during his career. Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a … Place Competitor DOB Nat Score Event List; 1 Anzhelika SIDOROVA 28 JUN 1991 In June of 1962, Finland’s Pentti Nikula briefly took the record away from the United States when he cleared 4.94/16-2½. Armand Duplantis broke the world pole vault record on Saturday for the second time in eight days. On May 26, 1984, Sergey Bubka of Ukraine – then competing for the Soviet Union – leaped 5.85/19-2¼ to begin his reign on top of the men’s pole vault lists. Mondo Duplantis broke Sergey Bubka‘s 26-year-old outdoor pole vault world record, clearing 6.15 meters at a Diamond League meet in Rome on Thursday. Championship records. Bubka immediately surpassed him to win the meet, and take the record back, by clearing 5.94/19-5¾. Seagren’s fourth world mark survived until 1975, when fellow American David Roberts topped 5.65/18-6½. Men. Duplantis, the … The first world record in the women's pole vault was recognised by the International … Foss had been credited with a clearance of 4.05/13-3½ the previous year, but the feat wasn’t recognized by the IAAF for record purposes. 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. It took almost two years before the record fell again. Over the next nine years, Americans Lee Barnes, William Garber, Keith Brown and George Varoff all inched the pole vault record upward, reaching 4.43/14-6¼ in 1936. France’s Pierre Quinon broke Polyakov’s mark in 1983 but Vigneron took it for the fourth time four days later after topping 5.83/19-1½. In April he became the first vaulter to hit the 5-meter mark, then he improved the record to 5.08/16-8 in June. In 1966 American Bob Seagren gained his first world mark by clearing 5.32/17-5½. p = pending ratification. Thirty-five years ago today, Sergey Bubka defied the odds, and gravity, becoming the first pole vaulter ever to clear six metres. Earl Bell and then Roberts set new marks in 1976, with Roberts peaking at 5.70/18-8¼. The contest, devised by the three pole vaulters, was a race to see who could produce the most 5.00m vaults within a 30-minute period, all from the comfort and safety of their own back gardens. Pole vault legend Sergey Bubka was the first to achieve the feat, topping 6.00m exactly on 13 July 1985. Duplantis also holds the official pole vault world record of … One year earlier, however, Bubka – now competing for Ukraine in the post-Soviet era – had cleared 6.15/20-2 indoors at Donetsk. 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