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With the outdoor season just underway, this is probably a good time to update the women's records:

Argentina 4.43 Alejandra Garcia 2004-04-03 Santa Fe
Australia 4.65 Kym Howe 2007-06-30 Saulheim
Austria 4.40 Doris Auer* 2000-09-17 Gold Coast
Belgium 4.20 Irena Dufour 2004-08-03 Naimette-Xhovemo
Canada 4.55 Kelsie Hendry 2008-06-14 Prince Albert
China 4.64 Gao Shuying 2007-06-02 New York
Czech Republic 4.75 Katerina Badurova 2007-08-28 Osaka
Denmark 4.35 Marie Rasmussen 2000-09-25 Sydney
Finland 4.45 Minna Nikkanen 2009-07-08 Lapua
France 4.70 Vanessa Boslak 2006-06-28 Malaga
Germany 4.77 Annika Becker 2002-07-07 Bochum
Hungary 4.55 Krisztia Molnar 2006-08-22 Beckum
Iceland 4.60 Thorey Elisdottir 2004-07-17 Madrid
Israel 4.50 Jillian Schwartz 2010-04-10 Tel-Aviv
Italy 4.46 Anna Giordano Bruno 2009-07-12 Lignano
Japan 4.36 Ikuko Nishikori 2006-04-29 Hiroshima
Netherlands 4.40 Monique de Wilt 2002-08-09 Munich
New Zealand 4.40 Melina Hamilton 2003-04-12 Runaway Bay
Norway 4.30 Cathrine Larsasen 2008-07-19 Trondheim
Paraguay 3.15 Catalina Amarilla 2010-04-10 Asuncion
Poland* 4.83 Anna Rogowska 2005-08-26 Bruxelles
Portugal 4.35 Sandra-Helene Tavares 2008-06-21 Leiria
Romania 4.22 Gabriella Mihalcea 1999-06-11 Dreux
Russia 5.05 Yelena Isinbayeva 2008-08-18 Beijing
Slovenia 4.30 Teja Melink 2004-07-24 Trieste
Slovenia 4.30 Tina Sutej 2010-04-10 Fayetteville
South Africa 4.45 Elmarie Gerryts 2000-06-12 Wesel
Spain 4.50 Naroa Agirre 2006-05-28 Saulheim
Sweden 4.51 Kirsten Belin 2002-08-27 Göteborg
Ukraine 4.57 Anzhela Balakhonova 2004-07-04 Yalta
United States 4.92 Jennifer Stuczynski 2008-07-06 Eugene
Uruguay 4.23 Deborah Gyurcsek 2000-07-23 Mar del Plata

average 4.50m = 14'9"

Special thanks to Winfried Kramer, Heinrich Hubbeling, Gérard Dumas, Mirko Jalava, György Csiki and Michel Saint-Raymond for their many contributions to this list.

Italy: Anna Giordano Bruno 4.60m Milano 02/08/2009
Finland: Minna Nikkanen 4.46m Lapinlahti 25/07/2009

Tunisia: Leila Ben Youssef 4.30 Los Gatos, CA 19/06/2008

I don't know if this was ratified.

I know Latvia's is 4.05 but ill have to dig up the name.

Here is a link to a more expanded list that Roger posted last year: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=17510

And here are a few updates I found... the first three countries are from 2010


ANGOLA
Pole vault F: 2.50 Lidia Alberto - Guimaraes (June 20)

CAMEROON
Pole vault F: 2.20 Marcelle Ngono - Vineuil (April 24)

KENYA
Pole vault F: 2.65 Winnie Langat and Caroline Cherotich - Nairobi (June 24)


This is from late 2009:

Arab senior championships, Damascus (Syria) / Championnats arabes, Damas (Syrie) Oct 6 - 9
Pole vault: (8) 1. Nesrine Ahmed Eman EGY 3.80m NR, 2. Nisrine Dinar MAR 3.80m, 3= Rihane Shiha SYR 2.90m NR, 3= Rouba Al-Faseeh SYR 2.90m NR

Other updates from 2010:

Tori Pena, Ireland, 4.15 (not her best of the year, but she can only start setting Irish records after she declared herself Irish, I guess).

From Facebook:

Pole Vault Singapore ‎Rachel Isabel 冰洁 Yang broke her National Record with 3.81m in this morning's SAA Pole Vault Series 2. This height also qualifies her for the Asian Games held in Guangzhou, China end of the year.