Men's pole vault indoor world record progression

The Men's pole vault indoor world record progression starting in 1909 and ratified by IAAF from 1986

Record Progression

Misure	Athlete	Date	Venue
3.73	Clair Jacobs	23.02.1909	Chicago Chicago Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
3.79	Walter Dray Walter Dray Walter Remy Dray was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.Dray attended Yale University, where he was the captain of the track team. He held the world record in pole vault three separate times. In 1904 he was sixth in pole vault competition.He died in...	06.04.1912	Chicago Chicago Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
3.86	John Kendall Gold	29.03.1913	Chicago Chicago Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
3.87	Florin W. Floyd	27.02.1916	Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
3.92	J. R. Graham	08.04.1916	Evanston Evanston, Illinois Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
3.93	Edwin Myers Edwin Myers Edwin Earle Myers was an American athlete who competed in the men's pole vault. He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics and won bronze, behind Danish pole vaulter Henry Petersen who won silver....	30.03.1923	Evanston Evanston, Illinois Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
3.93	Edward Knourek Edward Knourek Edward Emil Knourek was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.In 1920 he finished fourth in the pole vault competition.-External links:*...	30.03.1923	Evanston Evanston, Illinois Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
3.97,7	Dean Brownell	15.03.1924	Evanston Evanston, Illinois Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
3.98,7	Charles Hoff Charles Hoff Charles Hoff was a Norwegian athlete, coach, sports journalist and sports administrator.As an active athlete he competed in pole vault, long jump, triple jump, sprints and middle distance events...	04.02.1926	New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
4.00	Charles Hoff Charles Hoff Charles Hoff was a Norwegian athlete, coach, sports journalist and sports administrator.As an active athlete he competed in pole vault, long jump, triple jump, sprints and middle distance events...	06.02.1926	Boston Boston Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
4.03,8	Charles Hoff Charles Hoff Charles Hoff was a Norwegian athlete, coach, sports journalist and sports administrator.As an active athlete he competed in pole vault, long jump, triple jump, sprints and middle distance events...	13.02.1926	New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
4.06,3	Charles Hoff Charles Hoff Charles Hoff was a Norwegian athlete, coach, sports journalist and sports administrator.As an active athlete he competed in pole vault, long jump, triple jump, sprints and middle distance events...	17.02.1926	New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
4.07,9	Charles Hoff Charles Hoff Charles Hoff was a Norwegian athlete, coach, sports journalist and sports administrator.As an active athlete he competed in pole vault, long jump, triple jump, sprints and middle distance events...	23.02.1926	New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
4.09,2	Charles Hoff Charles Hoff Charles Hoff was a Norwegian athlete, coach, sports journalist and sports administrator.As an active athlete he competed in pole vault, long jump, triple jump, sprints and middle distance events...	27.02.1926	Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
4.13,3	Charles Hoff Charles Hoff Charles Hoff was a Norwegian athlete, coach, sports journalist and sports administrator.As an active athlete he competed in pole vault, long jump, triple jump, sprints and middle distance events...	06.03.1926	Chicago Chicago Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
4.13,9	Charles Hoff Charles Hoff Charles Hoff was a Norwegian athlete, coach, sports journalist and sports administrator.As an active athlete he competed in pole vault, long jump, triple jump, sprints and middle distance events...	16.03.1926	New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
4.15,1	Charles Hoff Charles Hoff Charles Hoff was a Norwegian athlete, coach, sports journalist and sports administrator.As an active athlete he competed in pole vault, long jump, triple jump, sprints and middle distance events...	20.03.1926	New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
4.16,5	Charles Hoff Charles Hoff Charles Hoff was a Norwegian athlete, coach, sports journalist and sports administrator.As an active athlete he competed in pole vault, long jump, triple jump, sprints and middle distance events...	27.03.1926	St.Louis
4.17,1	Charles Hoff Charles Hoff Charles Hoff was a Norwegian athlete, coach, sports journalist and sports administrator.As an active athlete he competed in pole vault, long jump, triple jump, sprints and middle distance events...	09.04.1926	Chicago Chicago Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
4.19,6	Sabin Carr Sabin Carr Sabin William Carr was an American athlete who competed in the men's pole vault. He competed in Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and won gold....	14.02.1927	New York
4.29,2	Sabin Carr Sabin Carr Sabin William Carr was an American athlete who competed in the men's pole vault. He competed in Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and won gold....	25.02.1928	New York
4.30,9	Keith Brown	15.03.1933	New York
4.36,8	Keith Brown	17.02.1934	New York
4.38,7	George Varoff George Varoff George Dimitri Varoff was an American pole vaulter.-Early life:Varoff was born in Hawaii to Ukrainian immigrants and grew up in San Francisco, where he competed for Balboa High School...	13.02.1937	Boston
4.42,2	Cornelius Warmerdam Cornelius Warmerdam Cornelius Warmerdam was a long time pole vault world record holder and is considered to be among the all time greatest vaulters....	11.02.1939	Boston
4.42,5	Earl Meadows	25.03.1939	Chicago
4.44	Earl Meadows	08.02.1941	Boston
4.44,7	Earl Meadows	08.03.1941	New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
4.48,5	Cornelius Warmerdam Cornelius Warmerdam Cornelius Warmerdam was a long time pole vault world record holder and is considered to be among the all time greatest vaulters....	07.02.1942	New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
4.58,1	Cornelius Warmerdam Cornelius Warmerdam Cornelius Warmerdam was a long time pole vault world record holder and is considered to be among the all time greatest vaulters....	07.02.1942	New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
4.62,2	Cornelius Warmerdam Cornelius Warmerdam Cornelius Warmerdam was a long time pole vault world record holder and is considered to be among the all time greatest vaulters....	14.02.1942	Boston
4.75,5	Cornelius Warmerdam Cornelius Warmerdam Cornelius Warmerdam was a long time pole vault world record holder and is considered to be among the all time greatest vaulters....	14.02.1942	Boston
4.79	Cornelius Warmerdam Cornelius Warmerdam Cornelius Warmerdam was a long time pole vault world record holder and is considered to be among the all time greatest vaulters....	20.03.1943	Chicago
4.81,5	Don Bragg Don Bragg Don Bragg was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault. He competed for the United States in the men's pole vault event at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy where he won the gold medal.Bragg grew up in Penns Grove, New Jersey, where he attended Penns Grove High...	13.02.1959	Philadelphia
4.83,2	John Uelses John Uelses John Uelses is a retired American pole vaulter and Corporal in the United States Marine Corps who graduated from La Salle University in Philadelphia in 1965. He was the first person to ever pole vault 16' he held the world record in the pole vault for a short time with his personal best of 4.89 m...	27.01.1962	Washington, DC
4.88,2	John Uelses John Uelses John Uelses is a retired American pole vaulter and Corporal in the United States Marine Corps who graduated from La Salle University in Philadelphia in 1965. He was the first person to ever pole vault 16' he held the world record in the pole vault for a short time with his personal best of 4.89 m...	02.02.1962	New York
4.89,5	John Uelses John Uelses John Uelses is a retired American pole vaulter and Corporal in the United States Marine Corps who graduated from La Salle University in Philadelphia in 1965. He was the first person to ever pole vault 16' he held the world record in the pole vault for a short time with his personal best of 4.89 m...	03.02.1962	Boston
4.91	Don Meyers	20.12.1962	Chicago
4.92	Pentti Nikula Pentti Nikula Pentti Nikula is a retired Finnish pole vaulter. During his career he won the European Championships and held the world record.-See also:*Men's pole vault world record progression...	19.01.1963	Pajulahti
4.93,2	David Tork	25.01.1963	Toronto
4.96	Yang Chuan-Kwang	26.01.1963	Portland
5.00	Pentti Nikula Pentti Nikula Pentti Nikula is a retired Finnish pole vaulter. During his career he won the European Championships and held the world record.-See also:*Men's pole vault world record progression...	02.02.1963	Pajulahti
5.05	Pentti Nikula	02.02.1963	Pajulahti
5.10	Pentti Nikula Pentti Nikula Pentti Nikula is a retired Finnish pole vaulter. During his career he won the European Championships and held the world record.-See also:*Men's pole vault world record progression...	02.02.1963	Pajulahti
5.11,6	John Pennel John Pennel John Thomas Pennel was an American pole vaulter, and four-time world record holder.When Robert Gardner became the first man to clear 13 feet in 1912 many people thought the pole vault limit was close at hand. It was nothing of the sort, of course, but progress was painfully slow – about one inch...	22.01.1966	Los Angeles
5.13,6	John Pennel	12.02.1966	Los Angeles
5.18,7	Robert Seagren	05.03.1966	Albuquerque
5.20	Robert Seagren	18.03.1966	Cleveland
5.20,6	Robert Seagren	29.12.1966	Saskatoon
5.23,1	Robert Seagren	28.01.1967	Albuquerque
5.25,7	Robert Seagren	18.02.1967	Cleveland
5.28,8	Robert Seagren	25.01.1968	New York
5.32,7	Robert Seagren	25.01.1969	Albuquerque
5.33,6	Robert Seagren	08.02.1969	Inglewood
5.34	Kjell Isaksson	08.03.1970	Göteborg
5.36	Jan Johnson	20.06.1970	Des Moines
5.38	Kjell Isaksson	12.02.1971	Inglewood
5.40	Wolfgang Nordwig	14.03.1971	Sofia
5.41	Kjell Isaksson	19.03.1971	Cleveland
5.45	Kjell Isaksson	26.02.1972	New York
5.46,1	Steve Smith	20.01.1973	Los Angeles
5.49,2	Steve Smith	26.01.1973	New York
5.51,1	Dan Ripley	18.01.1975	Los Angeles
5.51,7	Dan Ripley	09.01.1976	College Park College Park -Canada:* College Park , a former Eaton's department store building in Toronto* College Park, Saskatoon, a neighbourhood* College Park East, Saskatoon, a neighborhood-United States:...
5.54,2	Dan Ripley	06.02.1976	Inglewood
5.56	Tadeusz Slusarski	08.02.1976	Warsaw
5.57,4	Wladyslav Kozakiewicz	13.02.1976	Toronto
5.58	Dan Ripley	20.02.1976	New York
5.59	Mike Tully	07.01.1978	Long Beach
5.62	Mike Tully	11.03.1978	Detroit
5.63	Dan Ripley	03.03.1979	Fort Worth
5.64	Konstantin Volkov	09.02.1980	Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
5.70	Konstantin Volkov	06.07.1980	Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
5.70	Thierry Vigneron	18.01.1981	Lyon
5.70	Thierry Vigneron	22.02.1981	Grenoble
5.71	Billy Olson	29.01.1982	Toronto
5.72	Billy Olson	06.02.1982	Louisville Louisville, Kentucky Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
5.73	Billy Olson	19.02.1982	San Diego
5.74	Billy Olson	27.02.1982	Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
5.75	Billy Olson	14.01.1983	Ottawa
5.76	Billy Olson	21.01.1983	Inglewood
5.80	Billy Olson	04.02.1983	Toronto
5.81	Sergey Bubka	15.01.1984	Vilnius
5.82	Sergey Bubka	01.02.1984	Milano
5.83	Sergey Bubka	10.02.1984	Inglewood
5.85	Thierry Vigneron	04.03.1984	Goteborg
5.86	Billy Olson	28.12.1985	Saskatoon
5.87	Sergey Bubka	15.01.1986	Osaka
5.88	Billy Olson	17.01.1986	Inglewood
5.89	Billy Olson	25.01.1986	Albuquerque
5.91	Joe Dial	01.02.1986	Columbia
5.92	Sergey Bubka	08.02.1986	Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
5.93	Billy Olson	08.02.1986	East Rutherford
5.94	Sergey Bubka	21.02.1986	Inglewood Inglewood -Australia:Inglewood, QueenslandInglewood, VictoriaInglewood, Western Australia-England:Inglewood, a house in CheshireInglewood Forest, Cumberland-United States:Inglewood, CaliforniaInglewood, NebraskaInglewood, Mecklenburg County, Virginia...
5.95	Sergey Bubka	28.02.1986	New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
5.96	Sergey Bubka	15.01.1987	Osaka Osaka is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
5.97	Sergey Bubka	17.03.1987	Torino
6.00	Rodion Gataulin	22.01.1989	Leningrad Leningrad Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...
6.02	Rodion Gataulin	04.02.1989	Gomel
6.03	Sergey Bubka	11.02.1989	Osaka Osaka is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
6.05	Sergey Bubka	17.03.1990	Donetsk Donetsk Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...
6.08	Sergey Bubka	09.02.1991	Volgograd Volgograd Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...
6.10	Sergey Bubka	15.03.1991	San Sebastian San Sebastián Donostia-San Sebastián is a city and municipality located in the north of Spain, in the coast of the Bay of Biscay and 20 km away from the French border. The city is the capital of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. The municipality’s population is 186,122 , and its...
6.11	Sergey Bubka	19.03.1991	Donetsk Donetsk Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...
6.12	Sergey Bubka	23.02.1991	Grenoble Grenoble Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...
6.13	Sergey Bubka	22.02.1992	Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
6.14	Sergey Bubka	13.02.1993	Lievin Liévin Liévin is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.-Overview:The city of Liévin is an old mining city of Pas-de-Calais. Near Lens, this modest-sized city nevertheless has several nursery schools, schools, colleges, a university, a swimming pool, a city library, a cultural and...
6.15	Sergey Bubka	21.02.1993	Donetsk Donetsk Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region...

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