NATIONAL OUTDOOR POLE VAULT RECORDS—WOMEN a/o 2006-09-05
Åland 2.01 Zaida Wiss2001-07-22 Mariehamn
Algeria 3.70Linda Méziani 2000-05-07 Franconville
Andorra 2.80Maria Martinez 2005-04-301 Andorra
Argentina 4.43Alejandra Garcia 2004-04-03
With the outdoor season getting underway, I've updated my files of national records in the women's pole vault as shown below. I appreciate the help I've had in this from Heinrich Hubbeling, Gyorgy Ciski, Grard Dumas, Carole Fuchs, Mirko Jalava, Stepanos Misiunas, and Michel Saint-Raymond.
I had hoped to update the national outdoor list before the assault on
records could resume in the current season. Too late; there already have
been nearly a dozen new marks set. Many thanks to Brett Addison, Heinrich
Hubbeling, Mirko Jalava, Doug Lang, and Graham Thomas for their help in
updating
Some general information about the pace of record changes:
During the 2000 outdoor season, I recorded 103 changes in the national
records of 55 countries.
The first time I posted this list, in 1997, it included 37 countries and
the average of the NR heights was 3.90m (12'9 1/2"). The average NR
