Men's pole vault world record progression

Template:Short description Template:Distinguish The first world record in the men's pole vault was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912.<ref name=iaaf> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref>

As of April 20, 2024, 80 world records have been ratified by the IAAF (now World Athletics) in the event. Since 2000, World Athletics makes no distinction between indoor and outdoor settings when establishing pole vault world records. This new rule was not applied retroactively. The introduction in the early 1950s of flexible vaulting poles made from composites such as fiberglass or carbon fiber allowed vaulters to achieve greater height.<ref name=iaaf/><ref name="first">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=wrprgr>Template:Cite news</ref> The present record of Template:T&Fcalc was set by Armand Duplantis, competing for Sweden at the All Star Perche.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Record progression

	Ratified
	Not ratified
	Ratified but later rescinded
	Pending ratification

Mark	Athlete	Nation	Venue	Date	#Template:Efn
Template:T&Fcalc	Francis Temple	Template:Flagg	Woolwich	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Robert Mitchell		London	June 19, 1868<ref name=brinkster />	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Edwin Woodburn		Newton	August 31, 1872<ref name=brinkster />	1
			Lancaster	June 2, 1873<ref name=brinkster />	2
	William Kelsey		Sheffield	July 7, 1873<ref name=brinkster />	1
	John Wigfull				1
	Edwin Woodburn		London	March 30, 1874<ref name=brinkster />	3
	John Wigfull		Sheffield	July 5, 1875<ref name=brinkster />	2
Template:T&Fcalc	A. Hammond		Bury St.Edmunds	March 30, 1876<ref name=brinkster />	1
	Edwin Woodburn		Ulverston	July 21, 1876<ref name=brinkster />	4
Template:T&Fcalc	Thomas Ray			September 19, 1879<ref name=brinkster />	1
Template:T&Fcalc			Birmingham	July 16, 1881<ref name=brinkster />	2
Template:T&Fcalc			Bradford	August 12, 1882<ref name=brinkster />	3
			Nottingham	June 16, 1883<ref name=brinkster />	4
Template:T&Fcalc			Preston	August 18, 1883<ref name=brinkster />	5
Template:T&Fcalc			Grasmere	August 20, 1885<ref name=brinkster />	6
Template:T&Fcalc			Whitehaven	August 13, 1886<ref name=brinkster />	7
Template:T&Fcalc			Grasmere	August 18, 1887<ref name=brinkster />	8
Template:T&Fcalc			Whitehaven	August 19, 1887<ref name=brinkster />	9
Template:T&Fcalc	Ernest Stones		Southport	June 2, 1888<ref name=brinkster />	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Thomas Ray		Barrow	September 22, 1888<ref name=brinkster />	10
Template:T&Fcalc	Ernest Stones		Grasmere	August 23, 1889<ref name=brinkster />	2
Template:T&Fcalc	Richard Dickenson		Kidderminster	July 4, 1891<ref name=brinkster />	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Raymond Clapp	Template:Flagg	Chicago	June 16, 1898<ref name=brinkster />	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Norman Dole		Berkeley	April 23, 1904<ref name=brinkster />	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Fernand Gonder	Template:Flagg	Paris	June 26, 1904<ref name=brinkster />	1
Template:T&Fcalc			Gradignan	June 4, 1905<ref name=brinkster />	2
Template:T&Fcalc	Leroy Samse	Template:Flagg	Chicago	June 2, 1906<ref name=brinkster />	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Walter Dray		New Haven	May 18, 1907<ref name=brinkster />	1
Template:T&Fcalc			Philadelphia	April 25, 1908<ref name=brinkster />	2
Template:T&Fcalc	Alfred Gilbert			June 6, 1908<ref name=brinkster />	1
Template:T&Fcalc			New Haven	June 12, 1908<ref name=brinkster />	2
Template:T&Fcalc	Walter Dray		Danbury	June 13, 1908<ref name=brinkster />	3
Template:T&Fcalc	Leland Scott		Berkeley	April 30, 1910<ref name=brinkster />	1
Template:T&Fcalc			Boulder	May 27, 1910<ref name=brinkster />	2
Template:T&Fcalc	Robert Gardner		Philadelphia	June 1, 1912<ref name=brinkster />	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Marc Wright		Cambridge, U.S.	June 8, 1912<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Frank Foss		Antwerp, Belgium	August 20, 1920<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Charles Hoff	{{#invoke:flag	Norway}}	Copenhagen, Denmark	September 22, 1922<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc			July 22, 1923<ref name=iaaf/>		2
Template:T&Fcalc			Oslo, Norway	August 13, 1925<ref name=iaaf/>	3
Template:T&Fcalc			Turku, Finland	September 27, 1925<ref name=iaaf/>	4
Template:T&Fcalc	Sabin Carr	Template:Flag	Philadelphia, U.S.	May 28, 1927<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Lee Barnes		Fresno, U.S.	April 28, 1928<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	William Graber		Palo Alto, U.S.	July 16, 1932<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Keith Brown		Boston, U.S.	June 1, 1935<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	George Varoff		Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.	July 4, 1936<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Bill Sefton		Los Angeles, U.S.	May 29, 1937<ref name=iaaf/>	1
	Earle Meadows				1
Template:T&Fcalc	Cornelius Warmerdam		Fresno, U.S.	June 29, 1940<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc			Compton, U.S.	June 26, 1941<ref name=iaaf/>	2
Template:T&Fcalc			Modesto, U.S.	May 23, 1942<ref name=iaaf/>	3
Template:T&Fcalc	Robert Gutowski		Palo Alto, U.S.	April 27, 1957<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Don Bragg			July 2, 1960<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	George Davies		Boulder, U.S.	May 20, 1961<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	John Uelses		Santa Barbara, U.S.	March 31, 1962<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Dave Tork		Walnut, U.S.	April 28, 1962<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Pentti Nikula	{{#invoke:flag	Finland}}	Kauhava, Finland	June 22, 1962<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Brian Sternberg	Template:USA	Philadelphia, U.S.	April 27, 1963<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc			Compton, U.S.	June 7, 1963<ref name=iaaf/>	2
Template:T&Fcalc	John Pennel		London, England	August 5, 1963<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc			Coral Gables, U.S.	August 24, 1963<ref name=iaaf/>	2
Template:T&Fcalc	Fred Hansen		San Diego, U.S.	June 13, 1964<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc			Los Angeles, U.S.	July 25, 1964<ref name=iaaf/>	2
Template:T&Fcalc	Bob Seagren		Fresno, U.S.	May 14, 1966<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	John Pennel		Los Angeles, U.S.	July 23, 1966<ref name=iaaf/>	3
Template:T&Fcalc	Bob Seagren		San Diego, U.S.	June 10, 1967<ref name=iaaf/>	2
Template:T&Fcalc	Paul Wilson		Bakersfield, U.S.	June 23, 1967<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc Template:AthAbbr	Bob Seagren		Echo Summit, U.S.	September 12, 1968<ref name=iaaf/>	3
Template:T&Fcalc	John Pennel		Sacramento, U.S.	June 21, 1969<ref name=iaaf/>	4
Template:T&Fcalc	Wolfgang Nordwig	Template:GDR	Berlin, Germany	June 17, 1970<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc			Turin, Italy	September 3, 1970<ref name=iaaf/>	2
Template:T&Fcalc	Christos Papanikolaou	Template:Flag	Athens, Greece	October 24, 1970<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Kjell Isaksson	{{#invoke:flag	Sweden}}	Austin, U.S.	April 8, 1972<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc			Los Angeles, U.S.	April 15, 1972<ref name=iaaf/>	2
Template:T&Fcalc			Helsingborg, Sweden	June 12, 1972<ref name=iaaf/>	3
Template:T&Fcalc	Bob Seagren	Template:USA	Eugene, U.S.	July 2, 1972<ref name=iaaf/>	4
Template:T&Fcalc	David Roberts		Gainesville, U.S.	March 28, 1975<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Earl Bell		Wichita, U.S.	May 29, 1976<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	David Roberts		Eugene, U.S.	June 22, 1976<ref name=iaaf/>	2
Template:T&Fcalc	Władysław Kozakiewicz	{{#invoke:flag	Poland}}	Milan, Italy	May 11, 1980<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Thierry Vigneron	{{#invoke:flag	France}}	Paris, France	June 1, 1980<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc			Lille, France	June 29, 1980<ref name=iaaf/>	2
Template:T&Fcalc	Philippe Houvion		Paris, France	July 17, 1980<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Władysław Kozakiewicz	{{#invoke:flag	Poland}}	Moscow, Soviet Union	July 30, 1980<ref name=iaaf/>	2
Template:T&Fcalc	Thierry Vigneron	{{#invoke:flag	France}}	Mâcon, France	June 20, 1981<ref name=iaaf/>	3
Template:T&Fcalc	Vladimir Polyakov	Template:URS	Tbilisi, Soviet Union	June 26, 1981<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Pierre Quinon	{{#invoke:flag	France}}	Cologne, Germany	August 28, 1983<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc	Thierry Vigneron		Rome, Italy	September 1, 1983<ref name=iaaf/>	4
Template:T&Fcalc	Sergey Bubka	Template:URS	Bratislava, Czechoslovakia	May 26, 1984<ref name=iaaf/>	1
Template:T&Fcalc			Paris, France	June 2, 1984<ref name=iaaf/>	2
Template:T&Fcalc			London, England	July 13, 1984<ref name=iaaf/>	3
Template:T&Fcalc	Thierry Vigneron	{{#invoke:flag	France}}	Rome, Italy	August 31, 1984<ref name=iaaf/>	5
Template:T&Fcalc	Sergey Bubka	Template:URS	4
Template:T&Fcalc			Paris, France	July 13, 1985<ref name=iaaf/>	5
Template:T&Fcalc			Moscow, Soviet Union	July 8, 1986<ref name=iaaf/>	6
Template:T&Fcalc			Prague, Czechoslovakia	June 23, 1987<ref name=iaaf/>	7
Template:T&Fcalc			Bratislava, Czechoslovakia	June 9, 1988<ref name=iaaf/>	8
Template:T&Fcalc			Nice, France	July 10, 1988<ref name=iaaf/>	9
Template:T&Fcalc			Shizuoka, Japan	May 6, 1991<ref name=iaaf/>	10
Template:T&Fcalc			Moscow, Soviet Union	June 9, 1991<ref name=iaaf/>	11
Template:T&Fcalc			Formia, Italy	July 8, 1991<ref name=iaaf/>	12
Template:T&Fcalc			Malmö, Sweden	August 5, 1991<ref name=iaaf/>	13
Template:T&Fcalc		{{#invoke:flag	Ukraine}}	Dijon, France	June 13, 1992<ref name=iaaf/>	14
Template:T&Fcalc			Padua, Italy	August 30, 1992<ref name=iaaf/>	15
Template:T&Fcalc			Tokyo, Japan	September 19, 1992<ref name=iaaf/>	16
Template:T&Fcalc Template:AthAbbrTemplate:Efn			Sestriere, Italy	July 31, 1994<ref name=iaaf/>	17
Template:T&Fcalc Template:AthAbbr<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Renaud Lavillenie	{{#invoke:flag	France}}	Donetsk, Ukraine	February 15, 2014	1
Template:T&Fcalc Template:AthAbbr	Armand Duplantis	{{#invoke:flag	Sweden}}	Toruń, Poland	February 8, 2020	1
Template:T&Fcalc Template:AthAbbr			Glasgow, UK	February 15, 2020	2
Template:T&Fcalc Template:AthAbbr			Belgrade, Serbia	March 7, 2022	3
Template:T&Fcalc Template:AthAbbr				March 20, 2022	4
Template:T&Fcalc			Eugene, U.S.	July 24, 2022	5
Template:T&Fcalc Template:AthAbbr			Clermont-Ferrand, France	February 25, 2023	6
Template:T&Fcalc			Eugene, U.S.	September 17, 2023	7
Template:T&Fcalc			Xiamen, China	April 20, 2024	8
Template:T&Fcalc			Paris, France	August 5, 2024	9
Template:T&Fcalc			Chorzów, Poland	August 25, 2024	10
Template:T&Fcalc Template:AthAbbr			Clermont-Ferrand, France	February 28, 2025	11
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See also

• Men's pole vault indoor world record progression
• Women's pole vault world record progression
• List of pole vaulters who reached 6 metres

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