American vaulters over 5.50m

[kat_vaulter]

How many Americans have jumped over 5.50m?

[Lax PV]

The quick answer is "a lot."

In 2010, so far 15 have, in 2009 14 did indoors and 18 did outdoors (mostly the same people), in 2008-an Olympic year, USA had 25 outdoors...

[chasing6]

If you want to get a better idea of just how many "a lot" is, head over to USATF.org and check out the "Top Lists" under the stats link. There are lists all the way back to 2000.

[kev44000]

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/lists/ ... &year=2010

[achtungpv]

There's a Swedish site that has deep all-time lists...down to 5.55m for the men. I lost that bookmark a few PC's ago but I think it's still there. From memory, there was only about 300-350 men worldwide that had jumped 5.55 or better.

[KirkB]

There's a Swedish site that has deep all-time lists...down to 5.55m for the men. I lost that bookmark a few PC's ago but I think it's still there. From memory, there was only about 300-350 men worldwide that had jumped 5.55 or better.

This is it ... Mirko Jalava's website. http://www.tilastopaja.org/ The "deep world all-time lists" are for members only, but the "World all-time top 30" lists are free.

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Pole vault

 1 6.14A WR Sergey Bubka UKR 4 Dec 63 184/80 1  Sestriere 31 Jul 1994
2 6.05 NR Maksim Tarasov RUS 2 Dec 70 194/80 1 Tsiklitiria Athína 16 Jun 1999
3 6.05 AR Dmitri Markov AUS 14 Mar 75 182/80 1 WC Edmonton 9 Aug 2001
4 6.04 AR Brad Walker USA 21 Jun 81 188/86 1 Pre Eugene OR 8 Jun 2008
5 6.03 AR Okkert Brits RSA 22 Aug 73 198/84 1 Weltk Köln 18 Aug 1995
6 6.03  Jeff Hartwig USA 25 Sep 67 190/82 1 Dia De Salto Jonesboro AR 15 Jun 2000
7 6.01  Igor Trandenkov RUS 17 Aug 66 191/80 1 NC Sankt Peterburg 4 Jul 1996
8 6.01  Tim Mack USA 15 Sep 72 188/78 1 WAF Monaco 18 Sep 2004
9 6.01  Yevgeniy Lukyanenko RUS 23 Jan 85 190/79 1 Tamex Cup Bydgoszcz 1 Jul 2008
10 6.01 NR Renaud Lavillenie FRA 18 Sep 86 176/69 1 ETC Leiria 21 Jun 2009
11 6.00  Radion Gataullin URS/UZB 23 Nov 65 189/78 1 Toto Tokyo 16 Sep 1989
12 6.00 NR Tim Lobinger GER 3 Sep 72 193/86 1 ASV Köln 24 Aug 1997
13 6.00  Toby Stevenson USA 19 Nov 76 186/79 1c2 ModR Modesto CA 8 May 2004
14 6.00  Paul Burgess AUS 14 Aug 79 183/78 1  Perth 26 Feb 2005
15 6.00  Steve Hooker AUS 16 Jul 82 187/75 1  Perth 27 Jan 2008
16 5.98  Lawrence Johnson USA 7 May 74 183/83 1  Knoxville TN 25 May 1996
17 5.98  Jean Galfione FRA 9 Jun 71 184/82 1  Amiens 23 Jul 1999
18 5.97  Scott Huffman USA 30 Nov 64 175/75 1 NC Knoxville TN 18 Jun 1994
19 5.96  Joe Dial USA 26 Oct 62 174/59 1  Norman OK 18 Jun 1987
20 5.95  Andrei Tivontschik GER 13 Jul 70 184/77 1  Köln 16 Aug 1996
21 5.95  Michael Stolle GER 17 Dec 74 192/78 1 Herc Monaco 18 Aug 2000
22 5.95  Romain Mesnil FRA 13 Jun 77 188/82 1  Castres 6 Aug 2003
23 5.93 NUR Danny Ecker GER 21 Jul 77 192/80 1  Ingolstadt 26 Jul 1998
24 5.93 NR Alex Averbukh ISR 1 Oct 74 178/76 1 Madrid 2012 Madrid 19 Jul 2003
25 5.92 NR István Bagyula HUN 2 Jan 69  1 Gugl Linz 5 Jul 1991
26 5.92 NR Igor Potapovich KAZ 6 Sep 67 185/75 2  Dijón 13 Jun 1992
27 5.92  Dean Starkey USA 27 Mar 67 188/84 1 GP São Paulo 21 May 1994
28 5.91  Thierry Vigneron FRA 9 Mar 60  2  Roma 31 Aug 1984
29 5.91A  Riaan Botha RSA 8 Nov 70 186/82 1 All Africa Pretoria 2 Apr 1997
 
Exhibition
 6.02  Ferenc Salbert FRA 5 Aug 60 1  Grenoble 14 Apr 1987
 6.00 ex  Jean Galfione FRA 9 Jun 71 184/82 1  Besançon 23 May 1997
 5.95  Viktor Chistyakov AUS 9 Feb 75 203/90 1  Chari 8 Sep 1999


Sorry for the lack of column alignment.

Kirk

[joebro391]

Ferenc Salbert? I've never even heard of him. He jumped 6.02? I hate that "exhibition" junk. Like Jeff Hartwig and his 6.02 indoor jump (i think it was 6.02). They don't count it as the official american indoor record because it was done at a mall I'm pretty sure it was USATF certified and that should count, regardless. Any other secret 6m vaulters?? -6P

[KirkB]

... Any other secret 6m vaulters??

6P, I don't think you were born in 1987 when Salbert jumped 6.02. Don't feel bad ... I never heard of him either. And I think this was an outdoors-only list, which is why you see Bubka at 6.14, and why you don't see Hartwig's 6.02.

This list has Lavillenie's 6.01 from 2009, so I think it covers the Top 29 OUTDOOR Men's vaults ... no more "secret" 6m vaulters! Mirko probably didn't list 30th place becuz of too many ties at 5.90.

But we're getting off topic ... my post was mainly intended to provide a link to Mirko's website. The topic is "American vaulters over 5.50m". If you have a membership to Mirko's deep world list, then you can count the Americans over 5.50 ... or at least over 5.55.

Kirk

[achtungpv]

Salbert was a legit 5.90 vaulter back in the 80s. His 6.02 was either at a beach vault or the Eiffel Tower vault and was downhill.

Kirk, thanks for playing but Tilastopaja is Finnish. I haven't been a subscriber in over 5 years but at that time his lists didn't go that deep.

I found it...http://www.alltime-athletics.com/men.htm.

He's changed the format so the lists only go to 5.70 now but includes every vault that high that has ever occurred.

It includes: outdoor, indoor, ancillary jumps - en route to final marks, ancillary jumps indoors- en route to final marks, jump offs, jump off - indoors, jump off - ancillary jumps - en route to final marks

Feel free to email him. He may have lists that go to 5.50 but just doesn't publish them.

[joebro391]

According to that site, Bubka cleared 6 meters or better in competition, 46 times; two of which were en route to what i'm sure were WR's...ming. -6P

[kev44000]

i asked jeff about his indoor american record and he said that not all the official paper work was turned in but they are working on it so his record will be counted