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All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated Chart Bamboo pole   3.15 Francis Temple GBR Woolwich Oct 06, 1849   3.21 Robert Mitchell GBR London Jun 19, 1868   3.225 Edwin Woodburn GBR Newton Aug 31, 1872   3.225 Edwin Woodburn GBR Lancaster Jun 02, 1873   3.225 William Kelsey GBR Sheffield Jul 07, 1873   3.225 John Wigfull GBR Sheffield Jul 07, 1873   3.225 Edwin Woodburn GBR London Mar 30, 1874   3.225 John Wigfull GBR Sheffield Jul 05, 1875   3.38 A. Hammond GBR Bury St.Edmunds Mar 30, 1876   3.38* Edwin Woodburn GBR Ulverston Jul 21, 1876   3.42 Thomas Ray GBR Ulverston Sep 19, 1879   3.43 Thomas Ray GBR Birmingham Jul 16, 1881   3.455 Thomas Ray GBR Bradford Aug 12, 1882   3.455* Thomas Ray GBR Nottingham Jun 16, 1883   3.465 Thomas Ray GBR Preston Aug 18, 1883   3.48 Thomas Ray GBR Grasmere Aug 20, 1885   3.485 Thomas Ray GBR Whitehaven Aug 13, 1886   3.505 Thomas Ray GBR Grasmere Aug 18, 1887   3.52 Thomas Ray GBR Whitehaven Aug 19, 1887   3.53 Ernest Stones GBR Southport Jun 02, 1888   3.555 Thomas Ray GBR Barrow Sep 22, 1888   3.57 Ernest Stones GBR Grasmere Aug 23, 1889   3.58 Richard Dickenson GBR Kidderminster Jul 04, 1891   3.62 Raymond Clapp USA Chicago Jun 16, 1898   3.69 Norman Dole USA Berkeley Apr 23, 1904   3.69* Fernand Gonder FRA Paris Jun 26, 1904   3.74 Fernand Gonder FRA Gradignan Jun 04, 1905   3.78 Leroy Samse USA Chicago Jun 02, 1906   3.79 Walter Dray USA New Haven May 18, 1907   3.82 Walter Dray USA Philadelphia Apr 25, 1908   3.855 Alfred Gilbert USA Philadelphia Jun 06, 1908   3.86 Alfred Gilbert USA New Haven Jun 12, 1908   3.90 Walter Dray USA Danbury Jun 13, 1908   3.91 Leland Scott USA Berkeley Apr 30, 1910   3.93 Leland Scott USA Boulder May 27, 1910   3.985 Robert Gardner USA Philadelphia Jun 01, 1912 • 4.02 Marc Wright USA Cambridge Jun 08, 1912   4.05 Frank Foss USA Chicago Aug 23, 1919 • 4.09 Frank Foss USA Antwerpen Aug 20, 1920 • 4.12 Charles Hoff NOR Copenhagen Sep 03, 1922   4.15 Charles Hoff NOR Copenhagen Jul 22, 1923 • 4.21 Charles Hoff NOR Copenhagen Jul 22, 1923   4.22 Ralph Spearow USA Tokyo Nov 05, 1924 • 4.23 Charles Hoff NOR Oslo Aug 13, 1925 • 4.25 Charles Hoff NOR Turku Sep 27, 1925 • 4.27 Sabin Carr USA Philadelphia May 27, 1927 • 4.30 Lee Barnes USA Fresno Apr 28, 1928 • 4.37 William Graber USA Palo Alto Jul 16, 1932 • 4.39 Keith Brown USA Cambridge Jun 01, 1935 • 4.43 George Varoff USA Princeton Jul 04, 1936   4.45 William Sefton USA Los Angeles Apr 10, 1937   4.48 Earle Meadows USA Stanford May 08, 1937 • 4.54 William Sefton USA Los Angeles May 29, 1937 • 4.54* Earle Meadows USA Los Angeles May 29, 1937   4.57 Cornelius Warmerdam USA Berkeley Apr 13, 1940 • 4.60 Cornelius Warmerdam USA Fresno Jun 29, 1940   4.64 Cornelius Warmerdam USA Stanford Apr 12, 1941   4.68 Cornelius Warmerdam USA Compton Jun 06, 1941 • 4.72 Cornelius Warmerdam USA Compton Jun 06, 1941   4.74 Cornelius Warmerdam USA Berkeley May 02, 1942 • 4.77 Cornelius Warmerdam USA Modesto May 23, 1942 Aluminum pole • 4.78 Robert Gutowski USA Palo Alto Apr 27, 1957   4.82 Robert Gutowski USA Austin Jun 15, 1957 Steel pole • 4.80 Donald Bragg USA Palo Alto Jul 02, 1960 Synthetic pole • 4.83 George Davies USA Boulder May 20, 1961 • 4.89 John Uelses USA Santa Barbara Mar 31, 1962 • 4.93 Dave Tork USA Walnut Apr 28, 1962 • 4.94 Pentti Nikula FIN Kauhava Jun 22, 1962   4.95 John Pennel USA Memphis Mar 23, 1963   4.98 John Pennel USA Natchitoches Apr 10, 1963 • 5.00 Brian Sternberg USA Philadelphia Apr 27, 1963   5.05 John Pennel USA Monroe Apr 30, 1963   5.05 Brian Sternberg USA Modesto May 25, 1963 • 5.08 Brian Sternberg USA Compton Jun 07, 1963   5.10 John Pennel USA London Jul 14, 1963   5.10* John Pennel USA Warsaw Jul 26, 1963 • 5.13 John Pennel USA London Aug 05, 1963 • 5.20 John Pennel USA Coral Gables Aug 24, 1963   5.20* Fred Hansen USA Houston Jun 05, 1964   5.23 Fred Hansen USA San Diego Jun 13, 1964 • 5.28 Fred Hansen USA Los Angeles Jul 25, 1964 • 5.32 Robert Seagren USA Fresno May 14, 1966 • 5.34 John Pennel USA Los Angeles Jul 23, 1966 • 5.36 Robert Seagren USA San Diego Jun 10, 1967 • 5.38 Paul Wilson USA Bakersfield Jun 23, 1967 • 5.41 Robert Seagren USA South Lake Tahoe Sep 12, 1968 • 5.44 John Pennel USA Sacramento Jun 21, 1969 • 5.45 Wolfgang Nordwig GDR Berlin Jun 17, 1970 • 5.46 Wolfgang Nordwig GDR Turin Sep 03, 1970 • 5.49 Christos Papanicolau GRE Athens Oct 24, 1970 • 5.51 Kjell Isaksson SWE Austin Apr 08, 1972 • 5.54 Kjell Isaksson SWE Los Angeles Apr 15, 1972   5.59 Kjell Isaksson SWE El Paso May 23, 1972   5.59* Robert Seagren USA El Paso May 23, 1972 • 5.63 Robert Seagren USA Eugene Jul 02, 1972 • 5.65 Dave Roberts USA Gainesville Mar 28, 1975 • 5.67 Earl Bell USA Wichita May 29, 1976 • 5.70 Dave Roberts USA Eugene Jun 22, 1976 • 5.72 Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz POL Milan May 11, 1980 • 5.75 Thierry Vigneron FRA Colombes Jun 01, 1980 • 5.75* Thierry Vigneron FRA Lille Jun 29, 1980 • 5.77 Philippe Houvion FRA Paris Jul 17, 1980 • 5.78 Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz POL Moscow Aug 01, 1980 • 5.80 Thierry Vigneron FRA Macon Jun 20, 1981 • 5.81 Vladimir Polyakov URS Tbilisi Jun 27, 1981 • 5.82 Pierre Quinon FRA Köln Aug 28, 1983 • 5.83 Thierry Vigneron FRA Rome Sep 01, 1983 • 5.85 Sergey Bubka URS Bratislava May 26, 1984 • 5.88 Sergey Bubka URS Saint Denis Jun 02, 1984 • 5.90 Sergey Bubka URS London Jun 13, 1984 • 5.91 Thierry Vigneron FRA Rome Aug 31, 1984 • 5.94 Sergey Bubka URS Rome Aug 31, 1984 • 6.00 Sergey Bubka URS Paris Jul 13, 1985 • 6.01 Sergey Bubka URS Moscow Jul 08, 1986 • 6.03 Sergey Bubka URS Prague Jun 23, 1987 • 6.05 Sergey Bubka URS Bratislava Jun 09, 1988 • 6.06 Sergey Bubka URS Nizza Jul 10, 1988 • 6.07 Sergey Bubka URS Shizuoka May 06, 1991 • 6.08 Sergey Bubka URS Moscow Jun 09, 1991 • 6.09 Sergey Bubka URS Formia Jul 08, 1991 • 6.10 Sergey Bubka URS Malmö Aug 05, 1991 • 6.11 Sergey Bubka UKR Dijon Jun 13, 1992 • 6.12 Sergey Bubka UKR Padova Aug 30, 1992 • 6.13 Sergey Bubka UKR Tokyo Sep 19, 1992 • 6.14 Sergey Bubka UKR Sestriere Jul 31, 1994 • 6.16 Renaud Lavillenie FRA Donetsk Feb 15, 2014 • 6.17 Armand Duplantis SWE Torun (POL) Feb 08, 2020 • 6.18 Armand Duplantis SWE Glasgow Feb 15, 2020 • 6.19 Armand Duplantis SWE Beograd Mar 07, 2022 • 6.20 Armand Duplantis SWE Beograd Mar 20, 2022 • 6.21 Armand Duplantis SWE Eugene, OR Jul 24, 2022 • 6.22 Armand Duplantis SWE Clermont-Ferrand Feb 25, 2023 • 6.23 Armand Duplantis SWE Eugene, OR Sep 17, 2023   6.24 Armand Duplantis SWE 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