NATIONAL OUTDOOR POLE VAULT RECORDS—MEN a/o 2006-12-10
Åland 4.95 Rune Sjölund 1978-06-30
Vasteras
Albania 5.40 Sazan Fisheku 1991-07-07
Athina
Algeria 5.34 Lakhdar Rahal 1979-06-04
Paris
Andorra 4.70 Bernat Vilella 2005-05-31
Andorra La Vella
Angola 4.05 José Francisco 1984-06-11
Luanda
Anguilla 2.83 Andre Samuel 2001-05-11
Buffalo
Antigua 3.80 Calvin Greenaway 1973-06-02
Newham
Antilles 3.50 Ivor Landburg 1997-08-31
Sittard
Argentina 5.71 Germán Chiaraviglio 2006-08-19
Beijing
Armenia 4.40 Onik Khachatrian 1978-06-15
Yerevan
Aruba 3.30 Ericko Pieternella 1995-
Australia 6.05 Dmitriy Markov 2001-08-09
Edmonton
Austria 5.77 Hermann Fehringer 1991-07-05
Linz
Azerbaijan 5.00 Aleksandr Zyatin 1973-05-05
Kharkov
Bahamas 4.89 Brent Vanderpool 1987-
Nassau
Bahrain 4.45 Ibrahim Hussein 1995-04-16
Manama
Bangladesh 4.32 Humayun Kabir 2003-03-04
Mirpur
Barbados 3.70 Clifford Brooks 1977-08-13
London
Belarus 6.00 Dmitriy Markov 1998-02-20
North Shore
Belgium 5.70 Thibault Duval 2000-06-11
Oordegem
Belize 3.20 Joel Wade
1994-01-21 San Salvador
Benin 3.50 John Godonou-Dossou 1957-06-30
Dakar
Bermuda 3.86 Brooke Onley 1987-05-15
Tuscaloosa
Bolivia 3.90 Daniel Araujo 1986-08-24
Cochabamba
Bosnia-Herze 4.80 Borivoje Bosnjak 1974-06-30
Sarajevo
Botswana 2.50 Geofehngwe Osupile 1987-07-25
Gaborone
Brazil 5.76 Tom Hintnaus 1985-08-21
Zurich
Brit Virgin Isl 4.20 Paul Hewlett 1987-08-13
Indianapolis
Brunei 4.70 Domingo Kapal 1995-09-03
Singapore
Bulgaria 5.80 Atanas Tarev 1986-09-02
Lausanne
Burkina Faso 3.85 Alassane Néya 1993-05-02
Ouagadougou
Burundi 4.10 Pierre Ntibarashirwa 1979-09-09
Bujumbura
Cambodia 3.90 Péou Chin
1968-07-18 Phnom Penh
Cameroon 4.05 Bienvenu Djakissam 1966-08-21
Viry-Chatillon
Canada 5.61 Doug Wood
1991-07-14 Papendal
Cape Verde Is 2.60 Pericles Pinto 1975-07-27 Lisboa
Central Africa 3.80 Mickael Conjungo 1989-04-30
Noisy-le-Grand
Chad 3.80 Hubert Djimtoloum 1963-
Brazzaville
Chile 5.50 Thomas Riether 1992-05-28
Tallahassee
China 5.70 Liu Feilang
2005-06-04 Eugene
Chinese Taipei 5.30 Lee Fu-An 1990-10-29
Kaohsiung
Colombia 5.40 Miguel Saldarriaga 1991-07-27
Medellin
Congo 4.25 Jean-Prosper Tsondzabéka 1969-06-14 Tunis
Cook Islands 3.10 Akanoa William 1987-12-18 Nouméa
Costa Rica 5.20 Roger Borbon 1998-07-11
San Antonio
Croatia 5.12 Zoran Radovanovic 1989-05-20
Ljubljana
Cuba 5.65 Angel Garcia 1992-06-12
La Habana
Cyprus 5.56 Fotis Stephani 2000-06-09
Minsk
Czech Republic 5.80 Adam Ptacek 2002-07-13
Praha
Denmark 5.75 Piotr Buciarski 2002-04-27
Fort-de-France
Dominica 2.90 Andy Baron
2003-07-19 Bridgetown
Dominican Rep 4.45 Natanael Semeis 2005-06-25 Santo
Domingo
Ecuador 4.46 Lenin Zambrano 2005-07-09
Quito
Egypt 5.05 Ahmed Abou Zid 1995-08-26
Cairo
El Salvador 4.74 Oscar Hernandez 2003-07-12
San Salvador
Estonia 5.86 Valeri Bukrejev 1994-07-03
Somero
Ethiopia 3.65 Yohanes Giorgis 1975-
Addis Ababa
Fiji 4.45 Joe Rodan
2002-07-28 Manchester
Finland 5.82 Jani Lehtonen 1993-06-26
Kuortane
France 5.98 Jean Galfione 1999-07-23
Amiens
Gabon 4.50 Sylvain Lindzondzo 1981-08-08
La Valbonne
Gambia 5.30 Alhaji Jeng
1999-07-18 Halmstad
Georgia 5.30 Sergey Amosov 1983-07-17
Kharkov
Germany 6.00 Tim Lobinger 1997-08-24
Köln
Ghana 4.45 Edward Abaye 1997-07-05
Kumasi
Great Britain 5.80 Nick Buckfield 1998-05-27 Khania
Greece 5.75 Konstadínos Filipídis 2005-08-18 Izmir
Greenland 3.90 Jan Hansen 1984-
Arhus
Grenada 3.66 Dunstan Campbell 1976-06-13
Arima
Guatemala 4.60 Jorge Solorzano 2001-08-18
Cd Guatemala
Guernsey 4.00 Dale Garland 2004-07-04
Hengelo
Guinea-Bissau 2.70 Arnaldo Fernandes 1984-02-29
Santiago
Guyana 4.11 Reginald Dash 1967-04-01
Ponce
Haiti 3.25 Jean Théard
1951-05-24 Port-au-Prince
Honduras 4.15 Cecil Koehling 1994-12-03
Tegucigalpa
Hong Kong 4.23 Fung Kam Lung 1999-12-12
Hong Kong
Hungary 5.92 Istvan Bagyula 1991-07-05
Linz
Iceland 5.31 Sigurdur Sigurdsson 1984-05-31
Lage
India 5.10 Vijay Pal Singh 1987-12-27
Trivandrum
Indonesia 5.13 Nunung Jayadi 2002-03-30
Sidoarjo
Iran 5.30 Mohsen Rabbani 2006-12-10
Doha
Iraq 4.43 Mehdi Muhsin 1982-10-02
Mossul
Ireland 5.00 Alan Burke
1989-08-13 Birmingham
Isle of Man 3.60 Alfred Oddie 1986-07-28
Edinburgh
Israel 5.93 Alex Averbukh 2003-07-19
Madrid
Italy 5.90 Giuseppe Gibilisco 2003-08-28
Saint-Denis
Ivory Coast 5.10 Alan Andji
1992-06-21 Yerres
Jamaica 5.30 Jabari Ennis 2002-03-16
Coral Gables
Japan 5.83 Daichi Sawano 2005-05-03
Shizuoka
Jersey 4.00 Fraser Alexander 1991-06
Horsham
Jordan 4.30 Mohamed Marei 2004-04-10
Irbid
Kazakhstan 5.92 Igor Potapovich 1992-06-13
Dijon
Kenya 4.60 Kenneth Kirui 2000-07-20
Nairobi
Korea, North 5.00 Han Il Hak 1990-06-02
Sofia
Korea, South 5.63 Kim Yoo-Suk 2006-07-05
Van Nuys, CA
Kuwait 5.11 Ali Al-Sabagha 2005-05-15
Al-Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan 5.10 Sergey Melnichenko 1985-06-10
Frunze
Laos 3.70 Sisomphone Vongpharkdy 2003-12-11 Hanoi
Latvia 5.80 Aleksandrs Obizajevs 1987-07-17 Bryansk
Lebanon 4.40 Mohamed Nasser 1971-10-15
Izmir
Liberia 3.00 John Brent
1999-04-17 Clemson
Libya 3.70 Ali Magrowi
1969-07-25 Tripoli
Liechtenstein 4.20 Franz Biedermann 1971-08-12
Helsinki
Lithuania 5.40 Zigmas Biliunas 1981-08-21
Vilnius
Luxembourg 5.40 Fabian Mores 2005-05-15
Innsbruck
Macau 3.30 Tam Kam Hung 1980-02-02
Hong Kong
Macedonia 3.90 Vladimir Karer 1968-08-15
Livorno
Madagascar 4.30 Dominique Rakotorahaly 1967-04-16
Antanarivo
Malawi 3.81 C. Msompha
1967-08-26 Blantyre
Malaysia 5.00 Teh Weng Chang 2002-03-24
Kuala Lumpur
Mali 4.00 Bassan Bagayoko 1982-10-31
Arles
Malta 4.25 Stefan Mohnani 2000-06-16
Marsa
Mauritania 3.15 Sidy Ould M'Barek 1968-05-10
Nouakchott
Mauritius 5.50 Kersley Gardenne 1996-06-12
Dreux
Mayotte 3.50 Abrahim Alhamda 2003-09-06
Bambous
Mexico 5.72 Paul Benavides 1994-06-18
El Paso
Micronesia 3.85 Keitani Graham 2003-07-10
Suva
Moldova 5.70 Aleksandr Zhukov 1987-06-20
Chelyabinsk
Monaco 3.60 Yvan Ornella 1988-03-20
Monaco
Mongolia 3.80 Tserendesh Tsogtbaatar 1970-07-12
Ulaanbaatar
Montserrat 3.58 Lloyd Maloney 1959-09-14
Uxbridge
Morocco 5.34 Mohamed Karbib 2004-05-23 Rabat
Mozambique 4.00 Candido Coelho 1974-04-28
Maputo
Myanmar 4.75 Kyaw Zaw
1974-03-31 Rangoon
Namibia 4.84 Johan Mostert 1984-02-25
Windhoek
Nepal 3.85 Rudra Bhattarai 1994-09-16
Kathmandu
Netherlands 5.81 Rens Blom
2004-06-08 Zaragoza
New Caledonia 5.20 Eric Reuillard 2003-06-14
Bressuire
New Zealand 5.51 Paul Gibbons 1992-01-25
North Shore
Nicaragua 3.75 Eduardo Garcia 1990-01-11
Tegucigalpa
Nigeria 4.45 Festus Saliu 1991-08-01
Lagos
Niue 3.10 John Kumitau 1979-09-07
Suva
Norfolk Island 1.60 Jayden Nicolai 1997-11-24
Middlegate
Norway 5.72 Trond Barthel 1996-07-21
Halmstad
Oman 4.30 Yahya Al-Hashmy 2001-05-22
Muscat
Pakistan 4.87 Javed Iqbal
2002-07-05 Peshawar
Palau 3.20 Filomena Ngirabedul 1969-07
Saipan
Palestine 3.90 Dirar Izat
1983-06-03 Al Kuwait
Panama 4.75 Antonio Morales 1999-05-21
Fairfax
Papua N Guinea 4.20 Eric Momberger 1992-08-06
Barcelona
Paraguay 4.50 Hugo Ramos
1990-05-26 Asuncion
Peru 5.18 Francisco Léon 2005-05-12
Abilene TX
Philippines 5.00 Edward Lasquette 1992-08-05
Barcelona
Poland 5.90 Miroslaw Chmara 1988-06-27
Villenuve d'Ascq
Portugal 5.66 Nuno Fernandes 1996-07-13
Maia
Puerto Rico 5.65 Edgar Diaz
1998-05-14 Abilene
Qatar 5.30 Ahmed Abdulkarim 1998-12-02
Doha
Reunion 5.21 Malik Unia
1985-06-01 Aubagne
Romania 5.50 Tiberiu Agoston 2003-06-13
Pierre-Benité
Russia 6.05 Maksim Tarasov 1999-06-16
Athina
Rwanda 4.10 Jean-Baptiste Biményimana 1981-11-16
Bugesera
Samoa, American 5.41 Makisi Haleck 2005-05-29 Norman
OK
Samoa, Western 3.80 Iafeta Sua'mene 1975-03-15
Christchurch
San Marino 4.50 Paolo Maiani 1989-07-01
Imola
Sao Tomé 2.81 Carlos Amado 1996-08-31
Hasselby
Saudi Arabia 4.71 Abdul Al-Shahrani 1997-03-06 Taif
Senegal 5.21 Karim Sene
2003-08-23 Fribourg
Seychelles 3.90 Donny Magnan 1995-09-17
Harare
Sierra Leone 3.48 Thomas Sandy 1972-12-26
Freetown
Singapore 4.75 Kean Mun Ng
1990-05-21 Norman
Slovakia 5.41 Rudolf Haraksim 2003-08-23
Fribourg
Slovenia 5.61 Jurij Rovan
2004-07-08 Zagreb
Solomon Islands 3.70 Leonard Nonifi 1989-08-26
Nuku'alofa
Somalia 3.50 Mohamed Osman Yussuf 1970- Sheikh
South Africa 6.03 Okkert Brits 1995-08-18 Köln
Spain 5.81 Montxu Miranda 2000-09-02
Barcelona
Sri Lanka 4.85 Ruwan Perera 1999-07-31
Colombo
St. Kitts 3.88 Arthur Jeffers 1978-05-20
Basseterre
St. Lucia 5.70 Dominic Johnson 2000-08-26
El Paso
St. Vincent 3.50 Dan Winsboro 1965-08-01
Bridgetown
Sudan 4.02 Barnaba Mariam 1964-11-05
Khartoum
Surinam 3.50 Ludwig de Sanders 1954-07-
Haarlem
Sweden 5.87 Oscar Janson 2003-06-29
Somero
Switzerland 5.71 Felix Böhni
1983-06-11 Bern
Syria 4.60 Ousama Nihlaoui 1986-09-18
Damascus
Tahiti 5.13 Thibaut Cattiau 1989-03-04
Pirea
Tajikistan 4.70 Yuriy Sakulin 1982-07-16
Leningrad
Tanzania 4.06 Wong Sang
1970-11-14 Dar es Salaam
Thailand 5.10 Sompong Saombankuay 2006-12-10
Doha
Togo 4.20 Latif Adeothy 2001-05-26
Valenciennes
Tonga 4.90 Aisea Tukutau 1996-08-07
Wollongong
Trinidad 4.65 Eddison Toby 1995-08-04
Ithica
Tunisia 5.30 Béchir Zaghouani 2003-07-01
Radés
Turkey 5.70 Ruhan Isim
2000-06-06 Jonesboro
Turkmenistan 4.61 Oleg Tsirtsenis 1981-05-17
Ashkahabad
Uganda 4.57 Teddy Sondota 1997-05-15
Abilene
Ukraine 6.14 Sergey Bubka 1994-07-31
Sestriere
United Arab Em 4.65 Ibrahim Al-Matrooshi 1996-04-26 Dubai
United States 6.03 Jeff Hartwig 2000-06-14
Jonesboro
Uruguay 5.00 Fernando Ruocco 1980-06-20
Troisdorf
US Virgin Isl 5.20 Brian Morrisette 1984-08-06 Los
Angeles
Uzbekistan 6.00 Rodion Gataullin 1989-09-16
Tokyo
Vanatu 3.70 André Koulon 1975-07-28
Port Vila
Venezuela 5.35 Ricardo Diez 2000-05-06
San Felipe
Vietnam 4.30 Pham Viet Anh 2003-07-06
Ho-Chi-Minh
Wallis & Futuna 4.40 Nizié Feleu 1992-05-14
Dijon
Yemen 3.40 Mohamed Bertouche 1973-
Alger
Yugoslavia 5.25 Dragan Georgijevski 1990-05-05
Paderborn
Zaire 4.20 Abelard Ndombi 1989-05-07
Bordeaux
Zambia 3.74 Geoffrey Chongo 1960-06-08
Lusaka
Zimbabwe 4.50 Stanley Flowers 1995-09-18
Harare
In assembling this list of men's vault records, I have depended greatly
on data from the 2003 edition of National Athletics Records (Winfried
Kramer, et. al.). I've made a few recent additions, but would have
missed many of the lower, less-widely-reported marks. A new edition of
the Kramer book is expected this spring. For publication details on
what is--by far--the most complete and accurate compilation of all the
men's and women's outdoor track and field records, you can check with
Winfried at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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