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OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION pole vault men
ATHLETE
NAME
SCORE
OLYMPIC GAME
DATE
COUNTRY
DISTANCE
[meters]
1896
Hoyt William
3.3
Athens 1896
10 APRIL
1904
Charles DVORAK
3.5
St Louis 1904
03 SEPTEMBER
USA
1908
Cook Edward
3.71
London 1908
24 JULY
1912
Babcock Harry
3.95
Stockholm 1912
11 JULY
1920
Frank FOSS
4.09
Antwerp 1920
20 AUGUST
USA
1928
Carr Sabin
4.2
Amsterdam 1928
01 AUGUST
1932
Miller Bill
4.31
Los Angeles 1932
03 AUGUST
1936
Meadows Earle
4.35
Berlin 1936
05 AUGUST
1952
Robert RICHARDS
4.55
Helsinki 1952
22 JULY
USA
1956
Robert RICHARDS
4.56
Melbourne / Stockholm 1956
26 NOVEMBER
USA
1960
Bragg Don
4.7
Rome 1960
07 SEPTEMBER
1964
Hansen Fred
5.1
Tokyo 1964
17 OCTOBER
1968
Wolfgang NORDWIG
5.4
Mexico 1968
16 OCTOBER
GDR
Claus SCHIPROWSKI
5.4
Mexico 1968
16 OCTOBER
FRG
Seagren Bob
5.4
Mexico 1968
16 OCTOBER
1972
Wolfgang NORDWIG
5.5
Munich 1972
02 SEPTEMBER
GDR
1980
Wladyslaw KOZAKIEWICZ
5.78
Moscow 1980
30 JULY
POL
1988
Sergey BUBKA
5.9
Seoul 1988
28 SEPTEMBER
UKR
1996
Andrei TIVONTCHIK
5.92
Atlanta 1996
02 AUGUST
GER
Jean GALFIONE
5.92
Atlanta 1996
02 AUGUST
FRA
Igor TRANDENKOV
5.92
Atlanta 1996
02 AUGUST
RUS
2004
Mack Tim
5.95
Athens 2004
27 AUGUST
2008
Steven HOOKER
5.96
Beijing 2008
22 AUGUST
AUS
All records in this event
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decathlon men
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WOMEN'S EVENTS
10000m women
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1500m women
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triple jump women
New Olympic Record
5.96m
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Renaud LAVILLENIE
Didac SALAS
Steve HOOKER
Timothy MACK
Nick HYSONG
Jean GALFIONE
Maksim TARASOV
Sergey BUBKA
Pierre QUINON
Wladyslaw KOZAKIEWICZ
Tadeusz SLUSARSKI
Wolfgang NORDWIG
Robert Lloyd SEAGREN
Frederick Morgan HANSEN
Donald George BRAGG
Robert RICHARDS
Owen Guinn SMITH
Earle Elmer MEADOWS
William Waring MILLER
Sabin William CARR
Lee BARNES
Frank FOSS
Harry Stoddard BABCOCK
Alfred Carleten GILBERT
Edward Tiffin COOKE
Charles DVORAK
Irving BAXTER
William Welles HOYT
Silver medals
Bjorn OTTO
Thiago Da SILVA
Evgeny LUKYANENKO
Toby STEVENSON
Lawrence JOHNSON
Igor TRANDENKOV
Rodion GATAULLIN
Michael Scott TULLY
Konstantin VOLKOV
Tadeusz SLUSARSKI
Antti Tapani KALLIOMÄKI
Robert Lloyd SEAGREN
Claus SCHIPROWSKI
Wolfgang REINHARDT
Ronald Hugh MORRIS
Robert Allen GUTOWSKI
Donald Robert LAZ
Erkki Olavi KATAJA
Shuhei NISHIDA
William Herbert DROEGEMUELLER
Glenn GRAHAM
Henry PETERSEN
Frank Thayer NELSON
Marc Snowell WRIGHT
Leroy SAMSE
Meredith Bright COLKETT
Albert TYLER
Bronze medals
Raphael HOLZDEPPE
Theodoros CHRYSANTHOPOULOS
Denys YURCHENKO
Giuseppe GIBILISCO
Maksim TARASOV
Andrei TIVONTCHIK
Javier GARCIA CHICO
Grigori EGOROV
Earl Holmes BELL
Thierry VIGNERON
David Luther ROBERTS
Jan Eric JOHNSON
Wolfgang NORDWIG
Klaus LEHNERTZ
Eeles Enok LANDSTRÖM
Georgios ROUBANIS
Ragnar LUNDBERG
Robert RICHARDS
Sueo OE
George G. JEFFERSON
Charles English MCGINNIS
James K. BROOKER
Edwin MYERS
Bertil UGGLA
Frank Dwyer MURPHY
William HAPPENNY
Bruno SÖDERSTRÖM
Charles Sherman JACOBS
Edward Blake ARCHIBALD
Louis WILKINS
Carl Albert ANDERSEN
Evangelos DAMASKOS
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