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The first world record in the women's pole vault was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1994. The inaugural record, 4.05 metres by Sun Caiyun of China set in 1992, was the world's best mark as of December 31, 1994. [1] As of June 21, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 54 world records in the event. [2]
The championship records for the event are 6.21 for men, set by Armand Duplantis in 2022, and 5.01 m for women, set by Yelena Isinbayeva in 2005. The world record has been broken three times total at the World Championships: the men's record by Duplantis in 2022, and the women's record by Dragila and Isinbayeva in 1999 and 2005 respectively.
The men's pole vault has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's event is one of the latest additions to the programme, first being contested at the 2000 Summer Olympics – along with the addition of the hammer throw, this brought the women's field event programme to parity with the ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... Below a list of all National Champions in the Women's Pole Vault (outdoor) ... List of pole vault national champions (men) Notes
At the U.S. Olympic Trials earlier this summer, American women’s record holder Sandi Morris told Yahoo Sports that she fears for the future of pole vault if the number of airlines that will take ...
The 24-year-old, who one publication called "the Timothée Chalamet of the pole vault," cleared a record 6.25 meters, the equivalent of 20.5 feet, on his final vault. The mark beat his own world ...
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis extended his dominant reign over the world of pole vaulting on Saturday, setting his eighth world record in the discipline at the season’s first Diamond League ...
Six women cleared 4.80 m, a record for the event. Prior to 2019, the maximum number of women who cleared 4.80 m in a World Championship final was three, in 2013 and 2015 . In fact, the winning height of 4.95 m would have won all previous World Championships except for 2005 when Yelena Isinbayeva won with a then-world record of 5.01 m.