This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers visit http://www.djreprints.com.
Bubka To Duplantis: How The Pole Vault World Record Has Progressed
By AFP - Agence France Presse
Order Reprints
Print Article
Text size
Since Sergey Bubka became the first man to reach the six-metre mark in pole vault in July 1985 in Paris, the record has been broken 19 times with Armand Duplantis taking it to 6.22m on Saturday.
Bubka went on to improve his record 12 times while Duplantis has bettered it on six occasions.
AFP looks at the evolution of the world record in the six-metre era:
6.00m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), July 13, 1985 at Paris
6.01m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), July 8, 1986 at Moscow
6.03m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), June 23, 1987 at Prague
6.05m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), June 9, 1988 at Bratislava
6.06m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), July 10, 1988 at Nice
6.07m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), May 6, 1991 at Shizuoka
6.08m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), June 9, 1988 at Moscow
6.09m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), July 8, 1991 at Formia
6.10m: Sergey Bubka (USSR), August 5, 1991 at Malmo
6.11m: Sergey Bubka (UKR), June 13, 1992 at Dijon
6.12m: Sergey Bubka (UKR), August 30, 1992 at Padova
6.13m: Sergey Bubka (UKR), September 19, 1992 at Tokyo
6.14m: Sergey Bubka (UKR), July 31, 1994 at Sestrieres
6.16m: Renaud Lavillenie (FRA), February 15, 2014 at Donetsk - indoors
6.17m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), February 8, 2020 at Torun - indoors
6.18m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), February 15, 2020 at Glasgow - indoors
6.19m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), March 7, 2022 at Belgrade - indoors
6.20m: Armand Duplantis (SWE) March 20, 2022 at Belgrade - indoors
6.21m: Armand Duplantis (SWE) July 24, 2022 at Eugene - outdoors
6.22m: Armand Duplantis (SWE), February 25, 2023 at Clermont-Ferrand - indoors
Note: Since 2000, the distinction between a world record set outdoors and set indoors was removed.
Bubka To Duplantis: How The Pole Vault World Record Has Progressed
Since Sergey Bubka became the first man to reach the six-metre mark in pole vault in July 1985 in Paris, the record has been broken 19 times with Armand Duplantis taking it to 6.
