Best Nations on All-time Lists

[roger/over]

Gerard Dumas wrote:

HERE ARE THE BEST, PER NATION, ON THE WORLD ALL-TIME LISTS (COMBINED INDOOR/OUTDOOR).
POPULATION AND ECONOMICS PLAY A BIG PART IN THESE RESULTS.

MEN:
NUMBER, PER NATION, OF THE BEST 156 VAULTERS AT 5.75m+

USA 40
FRANCE 17
RUSSIA 16
GERMANY 13
POLAND 5
UKRAINE 5
AUSTRALIA 5
ISRAEL 4
KAZAKHSTAN 3
UZBEKISTAN 3

WOMEN:
NUMBER, PER NATION, OF THE BEST 126 VAULTERS AT 4.40m+

USA 19
GERMANY 16
RUSSIA 10
AUSTRALIA 8
CHINA 7
POLAND 6
CANADA 4
FRANCE 4
SWEDEN 4
CZECH REPUBLIC 3

[timmac-pv]

Well if you were going by population and vaulters produced, those lists would be very different! eg USA population some where around 250 million and Australia 20 million

Cant really say whos best without factoring in numbers in each country i think, but thats just my opinion!

[skill of the brave]

Australia has six men at 5.75 or more, not five:
Steve Hooker 6.06 in 2009
Dimitri Markov 6.05 in 2001
Paul Burgess 6.00 in 2005
Viktor iChistiakov 5.90 in 1999
Simon Arkell 5.80 in 1996
Jimmy Miller 5.75 in 1996

[Andy_C]

Adjusted for population:

"Coefficient" = # of top vaulters / population (in millions)

Men:

Israel - 0.57
Australia - 0.28
France - 0.27
Kazakhstan - 0.20
Germany - 0.16
USA - 0.13
Poland - 0.13
Russia - 0.11
Ukraine - 0.11
Uzbekistan - 0.11


Women:

Sweden - 0.44
Australia - 0.40
Czech Republic - 0.28
Germany - 0.19
Poland - 0.15
Canada - 0.12
Russia - 0.07
USA - 0.06
France - 0.06
China - 0.005


Some pretty impressive stats for Israel and Sweden there!


Just for fun - "6 meter coefficient" = # of 6m vaulters / population:

Australia - 0.143 (Hooker + Markov + Burgess / 21 mil)
France - 0.032 (Lavillenie + Galfione / 62 mil)
Germany - 0.024 (Lobinger + Ecker / 82 mil)
Ukraine - 0.022 (Bubka / 46 mil)
Russia - 0.021 (Gataullin + Tarasov + Trandenkov / 141 mil)
South Africa - 0.020 (Brits / 49 mil)
USA - 0.013 (Hartwig + Mack + Stevenson + Walker / 307 mil)

-Andrew

Edit. corrected for Australia - 6 over 5.75

[EuroPV]

Italy has three women at 4.4 or more, is not on the list:
Anna Giordano Bruno 4.6 (2009)
Arianna Farfaletti Casali 4.42 (2008)
Scarpellini Elena 4.4 (2010 indoor)

[rainbowgirl28]

It would be interesting to see the lists adjusted for how much support athletes get from their NGBs.