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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.
On 25 February, at the All Star Perche pole vault meeting in the central French city of Clermont-Ferrand, Duplantis vaulted 5.88 m (19 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) vault to better the pending world U20 indoor record of 5.78 m set by Emmanouil Karalis of Greece on 11 February. The 18-year-old first topped 5.81 m on his first attempt before improving the ...
Brian Sternberg (June 21, 1943 – May 23, 2013) [2] was a world record holder in the men's pole vault who was paralyzed from the neck down after a trampoline accident in 1963. Sternberg set one of his world records on May 25, 1963, in Modesto , California jumping 16 feet 7 inches (5.05 m) using new technology for the sport, a fiberglass pole.
In 1999, he won US national championships by improving his own record to 6.02 m (19 ft 9 in), and his current North American record of 6.03 m (19 ft 9 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) followed in 2000. Jeff Hartwig held the American record until July 27, 2019, when Sam Kendricks set the American pole vault record by jumping 6.06 m ( 19 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in).
Three weeks after earning a gold medal and setting a world record at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Armand Duplantis keeps making history. On Sunday, the 24-year-old Swedish pole vaulter set yet another ...
Armand Duplantis of Sweden in action while winning the gold medal and breaking the world record jumping 6.25m during the Men's Pole Vault Final during the Athletics Competition at the Stade de ...
Paul Wilson (born July 30, 1947) [1] is an American athlete specializing in the pole vault. He was the world record holder in the event. The first vaulter to clear his age in feet. In 1967 he was the number-one ranked pole vaulter in the world, but his career was cut short by injury.
The 24-year-old cleared the bar at 6.24 meters, a full eight centimeters higher than anyone else has ever achieved and, further underlining his dominance, more than 40 centimeters higher than his ...