As always, additions and corrections for my records file are much
appreciated. This year, I owe special thanks to Carles Baronet, Gérard
Dumas, Carole Fuchs, Heinrich Hubbeling, Mirko Jalava, Børre Lilloe,
and Michel Saint-Raymond for bringing to my attention marks that I
otherwise might have missed. After I sent the men's records yesterday,
Børre reminded me that I need to keep track of changes in country names
as well as of changes in pole vault records; e.g., Yugoslavia to
Serbia, Zaire to Democratic Republic of the Congo.
NATIONAL OUTDOOR POLE VAULT RECORDS—WOMEN a/o 2006-12-12
Åland 2.01 Zaida Wiss
2001-07-22 Mariehamn
Algeria 3.70 Linda Méziani 2000-05-07
Franconville
Andorra 2.80 Maria Martinez 2005-04-30 1
Andorra
Argentina 4.43 Alejandra Garcia 2004-04-03 1
Santa Fe
Australia 4.62 Kym Howe
2006-03-25 1 Melbourne
Austria 4.40 Doris Auer
2000-09-17 2 Gold Coast
Belarus 4.20 Svetlana Makarevich 2005-07-23 2
Kaunas
Belgium 4.20 Irena Dufour 2004-08-03 1
Naimette-Xhovémont
Belize 2.60 Clarencia Jones 2003-09-04
San Jose CRC
Bolivia 2.55 Maria Carmen Paredes 2006-05-14 1
Cochabamba
Bosnia-Herz 2.40 Mehdija Suljic 2005-06-18 7
Istanbul
Brazil 4.66 Fabiana Almeida Murer 2006-08-20 1 Monaco
Bulgaria 4.45 Tanya Stefanova 2003-06-21 2
Velenje
Burundi 3.50 Laetitia Berthier 2006-06-17 2
Venissieux
Cambodia 2.61 Helene Kong
2006-06-28 4 Forbach, FRA
Canada 4.51 Dana Ellis
2005-07-15 1 Winnipeg
Cape Verde Is 2.20 Vera Tavares 2004-03-13 Almada
Central Africa 2.00 Chancela Moundo 2006-06-25 1
Marseilles
Chad 1.80 Amina Mahamat 2003-05-01
Saint-Jean-de-Luz
Chile 4.30 Carolina Maurer-Torres 2003-08-09 2 Santo
Domingo
China 4.53 Gao Shuying
2005-09-02 1 Incheon
Colombia 4.21 Milena Agudelo 2005-08-19 1
Armenia
Congo 2.40 Carine Golom Mbeh 2004-07-15
Brazzaville
Costa Rica 2.70 Maureen Calvo 2001-03-04
Desampa
Croatia 4.05 Ivona Jerkovic 2005-07-29 1
Zagreb
Cuba 4.25 Katiuska Pérez 2005-07-09 1
La Nassau
Cyprus 4.30 Anna Fitidou 2003-06-15 1
Trikala
Czech Republic 4.60 Pavla Hamácková 2003-06-21 1 Velenje
Denmark 4.35 Marie Bagger Rasmussen 2000-09-25 8 Sydney
Dominican Rep 3.35 Leidy Araujo 2003-07-27 1 Santo
Domingo
Ecuador 3.35 Lorena Ortiz 2005-07-09 1
Quito
Egypt 3.60 Nesrine Iman 2006-08-10 4
Bambous, MRI
El Salvador 3.73 Michelle Rivera 2002-05-10
Van Nuys, CA
Estonia 3.90 Merle Kivimets 2000-07-08 2
Kaunas
Fiji 2.90 Ioawana Vakaloloma 2003-07-08
Suva
Finland 4.17 Minna Nikkanen 2006-07-16 1
Lapinlahti
France 4.70 Vanessa Boslak 2006-06-28 2
Málaga
Georgia 2.70 Ina Narujniak 1996-05-22 1
Tbilisi
Germany 4.77 Annika Becker 2002-07-07 1
Bochum
Ghana 3.25 Enoch Alarbi Mensa 2006-02-25 1
Cape Coast
Great Britain 4.47 Janine Whitlock 2005-07-22 3= London
Greece 4.48 Afrodíti Skafída 2005-06-11 1
Athína
Guatemala 3.50 Peggy Ovalle 2005-05-15 1
St. Charles, MO
Guernsey 2.25 Fiona Ferbrache 1998-08-01
St Peter Port
Guinea-Bissau 2.55 Placida Mirolho 2003-06-15
Almada, POR
Honduras 2.60 Glenda Aguilar 1998-07-05
Mexico City
Hong Kong 3.10 Lin Wan Nei
2006-07-02 5 Hong Kong
Hungary 4.55 Krisztina Molnár 2006-08-22 1
Beckum
Iceland 4.60 Thórey Elisdóttir 2004-07-17 2
Madrid
India 4.08 V. Suresh Surekha 2006-10-23 1
Patalia
Indonesia 4.10 Desi Margawati 2002-08-10 3
Colombo
Ireland 3.93 Erin Kinnear 2004-04-24 1
Mobile
Isle of Man 1.90 Voirrey Callow 1995-
Douglas
Israel 4.02 Olga Dogadko 2006-07-12 2
Tel Aviv
Italy 4.32 Anna Bruno
2006-09-24 1 Busta Arsizio
Ivory Coast 3.20 Dapéa Zaourou 1996-06-02
Annecy
Jamaica 3.30 Maria Newton 2000-04-23
Bromley
Japan 4.36 Ikuko Nishikori 2006-04-29 1
Hiroshima
Jersey 2.50 Heather Le Cocq 1989-08-27 1
Stoke
2.50 Alison Youd
1999-05-23 1 St Clement
Jordan 3.20 Fatima Al Zahraa 2004-09-12
Damascus
Kazakhstan 4.01 Yelena Reznik 2000-09-15 1
Almaty
Kenya 2.50 Pauline Wambui 2005-06-10 1
Nairobi
Korea 4.10 Choi Yun-Hee 2006-10-22 1
Kimchun
Latvia 3.95 Rita Obizajeva 2005-07-06 1
Lignano
Lithuania 3.85 Edita Grigelionyte 2005-06-15 1
Kaunas
Luxembourg 3.60 Stéphanie Vellevoye 2006-06-17 5
Novi Sad
Madagascar 2.45 Anje Rajanoah 1998-07-25 1
Antananarivo
Malaysia 4.40 Roslinda Samsu 2006-07-10 1
Mataró
Mauritius 3.71 Nancy Cheekoussen 2004-07-25 1
Réduit
Mexico 4.12 Alejandra Meza 2005-04-09 1
Mexico City
Moldova 3.20 Lina Maftei
2006-06-17 1 Banska Bystrica
Morocco 4.05 Nisrine Dinar 2006-07-16 1
Rabat
Myanmar 3.11 Ne Ne Win
2005-02-11 1 Yangon
Namibia 2.10 Fienie Theron 1998-06-06
Windhoek
Netherlands 4.40 Monique de Wilt 2002-08-09 6
Munich
New Caledonia 3.00 Marion Becker 2003-05-10 Dijon
New Zealand 4.40 Melina Hamilton 2003-04-12 1
Runaway Bay
Nicaragua 2.40 Maria Inaly Morazán 2005-06-03 4
San Jose CRC
Nigeria 3.00 Victoria Itodo 2002-04-09 1
Benin City
Norway 4.04 Cathrine Larsåsen 2006-08-15 1
Oslo
Pakistan 2.40 Humaira Akmal 2006-02-27 1
Karachi
Papua N Guinea 1.85 Mathilda Leeong 1998-09-09 Madang
Paraguay 2.90 Maria Victoria Palau 1997-08-30
Asuncion
Peru 3.55 Karol Borja
1999-06-12 Lima
Philippines 4.10 Deborah Samson 2006-04-29 3
Irvine
Poland 4.83 Anna Rogowska 2005-08-26 1
Bruxelles
Portugal 4.25 Elisabete Tavares 2003-08-27 4
Daeju
Puerto Rico 4.16 Denisse Orengo 2004-04-03 1
San German
Reunion 4.10 Béatrice Denis 2005-05-28 1
St. Denis, REU
Romania 4.22 Gabriella Mihalcea 1999-06-11 1
Dreux
Russia 5.01 Yelena Isinbayeva 2005-08-12 1
Helsinki
San Marino 3.10 Eleonora Rossi 2006-06-18
Ferrara
São Tome 2.80 Nair Varela
2005-06-18 1 Seixal, POR
Serbia 4.23 Slavica Semenjuk 2006-07-28 1
Beograd
Singapore 3.10 Christina Loh 1999-07-16
Kuantan
Slovakia 4.10 Slavomira Sluková 2006-07-12 2
Novo Mesto
Slovenia 4.30 Teja Melink
2004-07-24 1 Trieste
South Africa 4.42 Elmarie Gerryts 2000-06-12 1 Wesel
Spain 4.50 Naroa Agirre 2006-05-28 1
Ponce
Sri Lanka 2.15 N. V. Hettiarachchi 2005-07-15 1
Colombo
Sweden 4.51 Kirsten Belin 2002-08-27 1
Göteborg
Switzerland 4.30 Nadine Rohr
2004-06-12 1 Geneva
Syria 2.70 Noura Dallaty 2005-09-28
Irbed, JOR
Tahiti 3.00 Lucie Tepea
2001-10-17 Pirae
Taiwan 4.10 Chang Ko-Hsin 2003-04-12 1
Kaohsiung
Thailand 3.70 Nampetch Pinthong 2001-09-15 3
Kuala Lumpur
Tonga 2.50 Melesia Mafile'o 2003-02-22
Auckland
Trinidad 2.20 Ayana Riviere 2002-06-09 1
Port-of-Spain
Tunisia 4.21 Syrine Balti 2006-08-10 1
Bambous, MRI
Turkey 4.20 Tatiana Tuna Köstem 2000-05-13 1
Krasnodar
Uganda 2.10 Mary Happy
1998-07-18 Kampala
Ukraine 4.57 Anzhela Balakhonova 2004-07-04 1
Yalta
United States 4.83 Stacy Dragila 2004-06-08 1 Ostrava
Uruguay 4.23 Déborah Gyurcsek 2000-07-23 1
Cochabamba
Uzbekistan 2.80 Victoriya Okhilova 2005-09-29 1
Tashkent
Venezuela 4.30 Keisa Monterola 2005-07-16 2
Marrakech
Vietnam 4.10 Le Thi Phuong 2005-10-17 1
Hanoi
W. Samoa 1.50 Hi Fesili
1998-11-30 Apia
Zimbabwe 2.60 Margaret Odendaal 2000-
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