Oldest/Youngest on 2009 Outdoor World List

[roger/over]

With almost no indoor results so far, my thoughts turned to Stacy's retirement and, from there, to wondering whether she was the oldest vaulter to make Mirko Jalava's world list in her final outdoor season. Mirko's lists <tilastopaja.org> are by far the most comprehensive summaries of performances by top track and field athletes. For the 2009 outdoor season, he shows marks by 655 women vaulting over 3.60 meters and 529 men vaulting over 5.00 meters. In the following summaries, I have the top ten vaulters in each category ranked by age. The first number for each vaulter is his or her rank on the 2009 outdoor list. As you can see, I found Stacy to be only the second-oldest on the women's list, but she earned, by far, the highest ranking in the top ten.



Oldest Women over 3.60m in 2009 Outdoor Season


547 3.71 Irie Hill GBR (16 January 1969) Lahti 2 Aug

19 4.55 Stacy Dragila USA (25 March 1971) Eugene 28 Jun

128 4.15 Doris Auer USA (10 May 1971) Regensburg 26 Jul

323 3.90 Petra Pechstein SUI (26 July 1971) Bern 18 Jul

298 3.90 Zsuzsanna Olgyay-Szabó HUN (6 May 1973) Sydney 15 Feb

143 4.10 Alejandra García ARG (13 June 1973) Buenos Aires 14 Mar

428 3.80 Maria Carla Bresciani ITA (16 July 1973) Arco di Trento 3 May

50 4.35 Takayo Kondo JPN (17 November 1975) Hiroshima 25 Jun

643 3.70 Ivona Jerkovic CRO (20 September 1976) Varazdin 28 Jul

36 4.40 Anastasija Reiberger GER (19 September 1977) Mannheim 13 Jun

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Youngest Women over 3.60m in 2009 Outdoor Season


142 4.10 Liz Parnov AUS (9 May 1994) Perth 13 Mar

405 3.82 Sandra Dziwiszek POL (23 March 1994) Warszawa 20 Sep

300 3.90 Kerry Charlesworth NZL (13 December 1993) Wellington 29 Mar

440 3.80 Lilli Schnitzerling GER ( 5 December 1993) Holzminden 30 May

453 3.80 Ren Mengqian CHN (4 October 1993) Jiaxing 13 Jun

322 3.90 Katie Byres GBR (11 September 1993) Birmingham 11 Jul

113 4.18 Michaela Meijer SWE (30 July 1993) Recklinghausen 22 May

107 4.20 Hanna Shelekh UKR (14 July 1993) Donetsk 24 Jun

42 4.37 Angelica Bengtsson SWE (8 Jul 1993) Växjö 16 Aug

239 4.00 Felicia Horváth HUN (7 July 1993) Bressaone 11 Jul

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Oldest Men over 5.00 in 2009 Outdoor Season


462 5.00 Grigoriy Yegorov KAZ (12 January 1967) Valencia 16 May

358 5.10 Jean Galfione FRA (9 June 1971) Mortagne 20 Sep

392 5.05 Nick Hysong USA (9 December 1971) Tempe 11 Apr

27 5.70 Tim Lobinger GER (3 September 1972) Ulm 4 Jul

21 5.70 Tim Mack USA (15 Sepember 1972) San Diego 12 Jun

8 5.75 Derek Miles USA (28 September 1972) Eugene 27 Jun

310 5.10 Okkert Brits RSA (22 August 1973) Stellenbosch 13 Mar

432 5.03 Christian North GBR (2 February 1974) London 1 Aug

192 5.27 Christian Tamminga NED (30 April 1974) Amsterdam 2 Aug

76 5.55 Jure Rovan SLO (23 January 1975) Maribor 1 Aug


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Youngest men over 5.00m in 2009 Outdoor Season


438 5.02 Ivan Horvat CRO (17 August 1993) Varazdin 9 Oct

267 5.20 Carlo Paech GER (18 November 1992) Leverkusen 31 Jul

511 5.00 Yu Kawashima JPN (23 September 1992) Bressanone 12 Jul

260 5.20 Jin Min-Sup KOR (2 September 1992) Busan 5 Jul

252 5.20 Sergey Grigoryev KAZ (24 June 1992) Almaty 13 Jun

427 5.05 Vitaliy Podgorbunskikh RUS ( 21 May 1992) Bressanone 12 Jul

351 5.10 Tymur Skorykh UKR (14 May 1992) Yalta 22 Jul

100 5.43 Daniel Clemens GER (28 April 1992) Rhede 7 Aug

468 5.00 Panayiótis Láskaris GRE (10 March 1992) Édessa 27 May

326 5.10 Vitaliy Tsepilov UKR (2 March 1992) Yalta 3 Jun

524 5.00 Nariharu Matsuzawa JPN (6 January 1992) Niigata 2 Oct

[rainbowgirl28]

And Galfione already over 5.40 for the 2010 indoor season!

Thanks for the list Roger, great stuff

[Andy_C]

Just one to add on to that list from Australia:

Paris McCathrion (turned 14 years old in 2009 - don't know exact DOB) jumped a new PR of 3.80m last week. She's training with Mark Stewart in Melbourne so this is going to be one to look out for! I'll update my post later when I have more details, though I believe she improved from 3.30m last year when she started training with Mark.

[rainbowgirl28]

Warren Hill says, "Paris McCathrion is coached by Julian Shuravetsky not Mark Stewart"

[Robert schmitt]

Mel Mueller 4.11 on 6/20/09 at queen creek AZ for some reason this mark is listed under men on the link for masters marks off the USATF website.

[Andy_C]

Warren Hill says, "Paris McCathrion is coached by Julian Shuravetsky not Mark Stewart"

Hmmm... I heard she switched over to Mark a little while ago. Never mind then, Warren is actually from Melbourne so he'd know more than me.

[roger/over]

On Dec 10, Robert Schmitt wrote that Mel Mueller had 4.11m in 2009. Since I had not recorded a height for her since her PR 4.60 in 2003, asked Mirko Jalava <tilastopaja.net> if he could find the meet in any of his many sources. Fourteen (!) minutes later, at about midnight Helsinki time, he replied with the Arizona Pole Vault Academy website, showing Mueller’s three competitions this summer. Two of these were mixed-gender and might not be acceptable for records purposes, but her 4.11 was accomplished in a women-only contest on June 20th. I’ll add this to my “oldest vaulters of 2009” list.

Having noted Mel’s PR 4.60 caused me to wonder how many American women had ever cleared this height or higher, and I had already started assembling a rank-order list of outdoor marks that met this criterion. Then, wondering whether any vaulters not on that list might have cleared 4.60 or better indoors required that I search through this data, too.

I’ll post both the outdoor and indoor lists that resulted, but since I considered only American women, I’ll move to Becca’s USA Elite forum for this posting.