WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS, to date: For the women's vault, the IAAF qualifying requirements are 4.40m as the "A" standard and 4.30m as the "B" standard. This height must have been cleared in a legitimate competition between 1 January 2003 and 10 August. Each country is entitled to one entry who has bettered the B standard, but if more than one vaulter is entered for a country, all must have bettered the A standard. Each country can enter no more than three vaulters, except that the defending champion (in this instance, Stacy Dragila) does not count against that limit. Finally, it should be noted that each country can set a more stringent requirement for its own entries.
My list of qualifiers includes both indoor and outdoor marks and only the best of these results for each vaulter. Men's qualifiers tomorrow. Thanks to Mirko Jalava for permission to use data from his World Lists website <www.tilastopaja.net> for this purpose. --RR 4.80 Svetlana Feofanova RUS 16.7.80 163/50 1 Birmingham 16 Mar 4.78 Stacy Dragila USA 25.3.71 172/63 1 Boston 2 Mar 4.70 Tatyana Polnova RUS 20.9.79 1 Moskva 11 Feb 4.67 Annika Becker GER 12.11.81 170/67 1 Chemnitz 7 Feb 4.62 Yelena Isinbayeva RUS 3.6.82 170/59 2 Villeneuve d'Ascq 15 Jun 4.60 Pavla Hamácková CZE 5.2.78 170/66 1 Velenje 21 Jun 4.52 Monika Pyrek POL 11.8.80 168/52 1 Wuppertal 31 Jan 4.50 Yvonne Buschbaum GER 14.7.80 170/57 2 Chemnitz 7 Feb 4.50 Thórey Elísdóttir ISL 30.6.77 180/67 3 Athína 6 Mar 4.50 Kellie Suttle USA 9.5.73 170/58 1 Stanford 7 Jun 4.47 Anna Rogowska POL 21.5.81 170/52 1 Praha 19 Feb 4.47 Becky Holliday USA 12.3.80 160 1 Stanford 30 May 4.45 Monique de Wilt NED 21.3.76 172/60 1 Gent 15 Feb 4.45 Lacy Janson USA 20.2.83 1 Fayetteville 15 Mar 4.45 Jillian Schwartz USA 19.9.79 3 Fayetteville 15 Feb 4.45 Vanessa Boslak FRA 11.6.82 167/52 1 Aubière 2 Mar 4.45 Tania Koleva BUL 8.3.72 170/51 2 Velenje 21 Jun 4.40 Agnes Livebardon FRA 31.5.80 167/61 1 Aubière 18 Jan 4.40 Krisztina Molnár HUN 8.4.76 168/51 1 Budapest 15 Feb 4.40 Natalya Kushsch UKR 5.3.83 170/56 1 Donetsk 15 Feb 4.40 Anastasiya Ivanova RUS 3.5.79 3 Moskva 26 Feb 4.40 Marie Poissonnier FRA 4.5.79 166/53 2 Aubière 2 Mar 4.40 Carolin Hingst GER 18.9.80 2 Sindelfingen 8 Mar 4.40 Melina Hamilton NZL 15.6.76 172/64 1 Gold Coast 12 Apr 4.40 Tracy O'Hara USA 20.7.80 168/57 1c3 Walnut CA 19 Apr 4.40 Mary Sauer USA 31.10.75 2= Carson CA 1 Jun 4.40 Mel Mueller USA 16.11.72 2= Stanford 7 Jun 4.40 Yelena Belyakova RUS 7.4.76 178/55 4= Villeneuve d'Ascq 15 Jun 4.40 Yeoryía Tsiliggíri GRE 21.6.72 1 Trikala 26 Jun 4.39 Amy Linnen USA 15.7.82 1 Nampa ID 21 Feb 4.37 Kirsten Belin SWE 2.3.81 175/58 1cA Sätra 2 Mar 4.35 Christine Adams GER 28.2.74 182/72 4 Leipzig 23 Feb 4.35 April Steiner USA 22.4.80 3 Fayetteville 15 Mar 4.35 Alicia Warlick USA 11.10.77 1 Tucson 24 May 4.32 Floé Kühnert GER 6.3.84 1u19 Wipperfürth 24 May 4.31 Naroa Agirre ESP 15.5.79 177/67 6 Sevilla 7 Jun 4.30 Niki McEwen USA 1.4.80 1c1 Reno 18 Jan 4.30 Sabine Schulte GER 29.1.76 169/58 6 Leipzig 23 Feb 4.30 Anna Wielgus POL 27.10.81 169/60 3 Spala 2 Mar 4.30 Gao Shuying CHN 28.10.79 179/66 1 Guangzhou 8 Apr 4.30 Zsuzsanna Szabó HUN 6.5.73 176/63 3 Saulheim 17 May 4.30 Yevgeniya Savina UKR 21.4.76 166/48 2 Bydgoszcz 8 Jun 4.30 Stephanie McCann CAN 22.4.77 171/59 1 Victoria 11 Jun 4.30 Connie Jerz USA 26.4.82 165/62 2 Sacramento 14 Jun 4.30 Yuliya Golubchikova RUS 27.3.83 1 Moskva 15 Jun 4.30 Anna Fitidou CYP 22.4.77 160/57 1 Trikala 15 Jun ~~~~~ Noting the 4.60m of Hamácková in this list reminds me of a correction I need to make in my posting of this CZE national record three days ago. I wrote then that the previous record holder, Daniela Bártová, had broken the Czech Republic outdoor record sixteen times and their indoor record five times. I also noted that ten of her outdoor marks were recognized by the IAAF as world records, and all five of the indoor CZE improvements were ratified as world indoor records. I was right about her world records and world indoor records; however, I incorrectly stated the numbers of her CZE records. On later comparing two files, I found that the numbers for Bártová should have been 25 outdoor records and 10 indoor records! Her 35 national record improvements totaled more than 120 centimeters. I'm quite sure no other vaulter has ever broken his or her national record more times or by as much. (Bubka broke the USSR and Ukraine indoor and outdoor records also a total of 35 times.) I still may have missed some of Bártova's national records; almost certainly haven't missed any of Bubka's. I wonder whether any athlete in any event has bettered this? While I'm in a wondering mood, I wonder just when it was that IAAF t-and-f changed from an "amateur" to an admittedly professional sport. Bubka began his careful nudging-up of the world records in 1984. Between then and 1994, he raised the indoor record 19 times by a total of 34 centimeters, the outdoor record 16 times by a total of 29 centimeters. (For any reader who is still more comfortable in the Imperial measurement system than in metrics, that's an average of somewhat less than three-quarters of an inch per improvement.) His almost invariant increments of a centimeter at a time might have resulted in even smaller total increases, except for the inconvenience of Billy Olson, Joe Dial, Radion Gataullin, Pierre Quinon, and Thierry Vigneron interrupting with their own world records. Back, though, to when t-and-f became professional: In today's world, Bubka's careful (and profitable) raising of the record by a minimum amount at a time is acceptable. Under the "amateur" rules of an earlier day, payments for doing that would have had to be under-the-table and illegal. Just when did the change occur? _______________________________________________ pole-vault-canada mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/pole-vault-canada
