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After I posted the all-time top 10, Scott Go Pre asked, "who are the top fifteen?" achtungpv's response was, as usual, right on. I'll extend it to the top twenty and then back off. I'm beginning to be uncomfortable about taking more than my share of forum time, but I'll send the women's top twenty, just to be fair to the fairer. If you'd like to go beyond twenty, a source I find to be most useful is Peter Larsson's Track and Field All-time Performances Homepage <www.algonet.se/~pela 2/>.

6.14 Sergey Bubka UKR 04.12.63 1 Sestriere 31.07.1994
6.05 Maksim Tarasov RUS 02.12.70 1 Athínai 16.06.1999
6.05 Dmitriy Markov AUS 14.03.75 1 Edmonton
6.03 Okkert Brits RSA 22.08.73 1 Köln 18.08.1995
6.03 Jeff Hartwig USA 25.09.67 1 Jonesboro 14.06.2000
6.01 Igor Trandenkov RUS 17.08.66 1 Sankt Peterburg 04.07.1996
6.01 Tim Mack USA 15.09.72 1 Monaco 18.09.2004
6.00 Rodion Gataullin RUS 23.11.65 1 Tokyo 16.09.1989
6.00 Tim Lobinger GER 03.09.72 1 Köln 24.08.1997
6.00 Paul Burgess AUS 14.08.79 1 Perth 25.02.2005
5.98 Lawrence Johnson USA 07.05.74 1 Knoxville 25.05.1996
5.98 Jean Galfione FRA 09.06.71 1 Amiens 23.07.1999
5.97 Scott Huffman USA 30.11.64 1 Knoxville 18.06.1994
5.96 Joe Dial USA 26.10.62 1 Norman 18.06.1987
5.95 Andrei Tivontschik GER 13.07.70 1 Köln 16.08.1996
5.95 Michael Stolle GER 17.12.74 1 Monaco 18.08.2000
5.95 Romain Mesnil FRA 13.07.77 1 Castres 06.08.2003
5.93 Danny Ecker GER 21.07.77 1 Ingolstadt 26.07.1998
5.93 Aleksandr Averbukh ISR 01.10.74 1 Madrid 19.07.2003
5.92 István Bagyula HUN 02.01.69 1 Linz 05.07.1991
5.92 Igor Potapovich KAZ 06.09.67 2 Dijon 13.06.1992
5.92 Dean Starkey USA 27.03.67 1 São Paulo 21.05.1994

I feel bad for Johnson and Huffman....so close to 6.00m I think i would be pretty dissapointed to come so close and not get it. But then again, Huffman had a cool top, and Johnson had cool glasses.

Mecham wrote:I feel bad for Johnson and Huffman....so close to 6.00m I think i would be pretty dissapointed to come so close and not get it. But then again, Huffman had a cool top, and Johnson had cool glasses.

dont feel bad. they both did get american records, and lojo ended up with an indoor world championship and oly silver.

oh, and does anyone know if lojo is still jumping.

I remember someone posting about him. I think it was agapit. But how he was injured a lot or something like that. So im not sure, you might want to ask him.

did you forget toby or am i missing something here

crpat2 asked, "did you forget toby or am i missing something here?"

Sorry. Don't know how Toby, with 6.00 at Modesto last year, got lost between the Top 10 and Top 20 lists. He should have been listed just after Lobinger in the latter, as he was in the former.

There just has to be something wrong with my latest bottling of Cabernet Sauvignon . . .

crpat2 asked, "did you forget toby or am i missing something here?"

Sorry. Don't know how Toby, with 6.00 at Modesto last year, got lost between the Top 10 and Top 20 lists. He should have been listed just after Lobinger in the latter, as he was in the former.

There just has to be something wrong with my latest bottling of Cabernet Sauvignon . . .

Didn't Galfione jump 6.00 in Japan in 1999 and Ecker go 6.00 in 2001?

Or is this just an outdoor list?

Galfione jumped 6.00 at the indoor world championships back in whatever year, but I don't know if this is just an outdoor list we are looking at.
Also, I think Eckar jumped 6.00 also. LON

SlickVT wrote:Didn't Galfione jump 6.00 in Japan in 1999 and Ecker go 6.00 in 2001?

Or is this just an outdoor list?

Ecker jumped 6.00m indoors. Galfione jumped that indoors too and also at an exhibition.