PoleVaultPower.com

"I don't know how many of our members subscribe to Mirko Jalava's world deep lists site at <tilastopaja.com>. Those who do will know that his is the most complete track stats site on the web. From the standpoint of vaulting, for example, he currently lists marks, placings, venue and date for 662 men (4.90m and over) and 761 women (3.60 and over) in the 2007 outdoor season, as well as providing a file of bios and yearly result summaries for each vaulter who has appeared on the lists since 1996, when he began these studies. I have been careful not to copy any information about individual vaulters from Mirko's lists because these are available only to subscribers, but I have asked his permission to forward to PVP his current summaries of the number of top-100 vaulters from each country and the rankings and marks of the best for each country. With many thanks to Mirko, here are what his summaries show:

Countries in the World Top 100: (100th mark 5.42m, total 100)--Men's Pole Vault

United States 25 Highest: Brad Walker 5.95 Rank: 1
Russia 15 Highest: Igor Pavlov 5.80 Rank: 12
Germany 12 Highest: Tim Lobinger 5.83 Rank: 6
France 8 Highest: Romain Mesnil 5.75 Rank: 15
Ukraine 5 Highest: Maksym Mazuryk 5.65 Rank: 30
Czech Republic 4 Highest: Adam Ptácek 5.82 sq Rank: 9
Poland 3 Highest: Przemyslaw Czerwinski 5.70 Rank: 25
Australia 3 Highest: Paul Burgess 5.91 Rank: 2
Sweden 2 Highest: Jesper Fritz 5.70 Rank: 29
Mexico 2 Highest: Giovanni Lanaro 5.82 Rank: 7
Israel 2 Highest: Alex Averbukh 5.70 Rank: 28
Netherlands 2 Highest: Rens Blom 5.60 Rank: 42
China 2 Highest: Liu Feiliang 5.71 Rank: 21
Finland 2 Highest: Mikko Latvala 5.50 Rank: 84
Belgium 1 Highest: Kevin Rans 5.50 Rank: 77
Belarus 1 Highest: Igor Alekseev 5.50 Rank: 73
Slovenia 1 Highest: Andrej Poljanec 5.60 Rank: 47
Brazil 1 Highest: Fábio da Silva 5.77 Rank: 13
Bulgaria 1 Highest: Spas Bukhalov 5.82 Rank: 8
Great Britain 1 Highest: Steven Lewis 5.55 Rank: 57
Spain 1 Highest: Javier Sebastian Gazol 5.42 Rank: 99
Saint Lucia 1 Highest: Dominic Johnson 5.50 Rank: 64
South Korea 1 Highest: Kim Yoo-Suk 5.60 Rank: 46
Japan 1 Highest: Daichi Sawano 5.75 Rank: 14
Italy 1 Highest: Giuseppe Gibilisco 5.70 Rank: 27
Argentina 1 Highest: Germán Chiaraviglio 5.60 Rank: 52


Countries in the World Top 100: (100th mark 4.20m, total 106)--Women's Pole Vault

United States 21 Highest: Jenn Stuczynski 4.88 Rank: 2
Germany 15 Highest: Carolin Hingst 4.61 Rank: 11
Poland 7 Highest: Monika Pyrek 4.71 Rank: 4
France 6 Highest: Vanessa Boslak 4.52 Rank: 19
Russia 6 Highest: Yelena Isinbayeva 4.91 Rank: 1
Australia 6 Highest: Kym Howe 4.65 Rank: 9
Canada 5 Highest: Dana Ellis 4.46 Rank: 29
Brazil 4 Highest: Fabiana Murer 4.60 Rank: 12
China 4 Highest: Gao Shuying 4.64 Rank: 10
Greece 3 Highest: Afrodíti Skafída 4.38 Rank: 44
Czech Republic 3 Highest: Katerina Badurová 4.66 Rank: 7
Spain 2 Highest: Naroa Agirre 4.50 Rank: 28
Japan 2 Highest: Takayo Kondo 4.30 Rank: 63
Sweden 2 Highest: Hanna-Mia Persson 4.40 Rank: 43
Switzerland 2 Highest: Anna Katharina Schmid 4.30 Rank: 67
Italy 2 Highest: Anna Giordano Bruno 4.35 Rank: 51
Portugal 1 Highest: Elisabete Tavares 4.32 Rank: 55
Austria 1 Highest: Doris Auer 4.20 Rank: 91
Serbia 1 Highest: Slavica Semenjuk 4.20 Rank: 101
Tunisia 1 Highest: Leila Ben-Youssef 4.21 Rank: 80
Ukraine 1 Highest: Nataliya Kushch 4.40 Rank: 38
Belarus 1 Highest: Yulia Taratynava 4.20 Rank: 98
Netherlands 1 Highest: Rianna Galiart 4.20 Rank: 97
Malaysia 1 Highest: Roslinda Samsu 4.30 Rank: 58
Iceland 1 Highest: Thórey Edda Elísdóttir 4.40 Rank: 36
Hungary 1 Highest: Krisztina Molnár 4.35 Rank: 47
Cuba 1 Highest: Yarisley Silva 4.30 Rank: 69
Cyprus 1 Highest: Anna Fitidou 4.20 Rank: 93
Great Britain 1 Highest: Kate Dennison 4.31 Rank: 56
Finland 1 Highest: Minna Nikkanen 4.35 Rank: 52
Argentina 1 Highest: Alejandra García 4.20 Rank: 86

looks like it needs to be updated a bit though, but very cool

Danny Ecker now leads germany and 5.87!!

VA Tech Vaulter wrote:

"looks like it needs to be updated a bit though, but very cool

Danny Ecker now leads germany and 5.87!!"


Mea culpa. When I wrote to Mirko on the 25th to ask permission to post to PVP, I sent him the message exactly as I intended to post it--including his top-100 summaries as I had them as of that morning. I even remarked that the most-alert readers would be pleased to see that the men's list included Liu Feilang's 5.71 NR for China of 20 July.

Then, when I received his permission for copying, I sent the message to PVP as I had sent it to him, and failed to update the data for July 28. When I checked the July 27 version of his summaries after receiving the above reply on PVP, Ecker's 5.87 of July 25th had been added, ranking him #4 on the current list.

Today’s list of countries with two or more vaulters in the top 100:

Countries in the World Top 100: (100th mark 5.41, total 101)

United States 26 Highest: Brad Walker 5.95 Rank: 1
Russia 15 Highest: Igor Pavlov 5.80 Rank: 13
Germany 13 Highest: Danny Ecker 5.87 Rank: 4
France 8 Highest: Romain Mesnil 5.82 Rank: 11
Ukraine 5 Highest: Maksym Mazuryk 5.65 Rank: 31
Czech Republic 4 Highest: Adam Ptácek 5.82 sq Rank: 10
Poland 3 Highest: Przemyslaw Czerwinski 5.70 Rank: 25
Australia 3 Highest: Paul Burgess 5.91 Rank: 2
Sweden 2 Highest: Jesper Fritz 5.70 Rank: 29
Mexico 2 Highest: Giovanni Lanaro 5.82 Rank: 8
Israel 2 Highest: Alex Averbukh 5.70 Rank: 28
Netherlands 2 Highest: Rens Blom 5.60 Rank: 45
China 2 Highest: Liu Feiliang 5.71 Rank: 21