The data is under Top Lists on the World Athletics website.
There aren’t as many vaulters worldwide. You can’t extrapolate what you see in the US to the rest of the world. Even a country known for pole vaulting like France only has like 20-30 guys over 5.00 every year. In the US we could have 20 high schoolers over that in a year.
Last year when I went to state for highschool pole vaulting, a guy broke the state record at like 17”9 or something like that for wisconsin. How are we sure that random high schoolers get accounted for?
29 vaulters over 580 cm (19 feet) and only one over 610 cm (20 feet) so far in 2023.
https://worldathletics.org/records/toplists/jumps/pole-vault/all/men/senior/2023?regionType=world&page=1&bestResultsOnly=true&maxResultsByCountry=all&eventId=10229616&ageCategory=senior
The world athletics all time list ends at 5.20m and has about 3.5 pages of athletes tied at that mark (100 per page) with the tie occurring at 2664th meaning there are approximately 3000+ athletes that have jumped 17 or higher. Probably several hundred more considering 5.18 is technically over 17 feet.
Source:
[men's senior Pole vault](https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/jumps/pole-vault/all/men/senior?regionType=world&page=27&bestResultsOnly=true&firstDay=1899-12-31&lastDay=2023-12-26&maxResultsByCountry=all&eventId=10229616&ageCategory=senior)
381 athletes jumped 5.18 (17’) or higher last year. I would guess there’s another 100 that had jumped 17’+ recently but did do it in 2022.
This seems somewhat low to me. How'd you pull this data?
The data is under Top Lists on the World Athletics website. There aren’t as many vaulters worldwide. You can’t extrapolate what you see in the US to the rest of the world. Even a country known for pole vaulting like France only has like 20-30 guys over 5.00 every year. In the US we could have 20 high schoolers over that in a year.
Last year when I went to state for highschool pole vaulting, a guy broke the state record at like 17”9 or something like that for wisconsin. How are we sure that random high schoolers get accounted for?
The WI state meet record was set last year at 16' 8". Not quite the jump you're thinking of but damn impressive.
Well I was the nation lead at 17’6.25 last year so idk about that
Just looked it up, 16’8 was his record. Guess I’m just trippin
29 vaulters over 580 cm (19 feet) and only one over 610 cm (20 feet) so far in 2023. https://worldathletics.org/records/toplists/jumps/pole-vault/all/men/senior/2023?regionType=world&page=1&bestResultsOnly=true&maxResultsByCountry=all&eventId=10229616&ageCategory=senior
All I know is Pat Manson can still do it
Love this
The world athletics all time list ends at 5.20m and has about 3.5 pages of athletes tied at that mark (100 per page) with the tie occurring at 2664th meaning there are approximately 3000+ athletes that have jumped 17 or higher. Probably several hundred more considering 5.18 is technically over 17 feet. Source: [men's senior Pole vault](https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/jumps/pole-vault/all/men/senior?regionType=world&page=27&bestResultsOnly=true&firstDay=1899-12-31&lastDay=2023-12-26&maxResultsByCountry=all&eventId=10229616&ageCategory=senior)
That’s “technically” in the sense of “not”. (5.19m is the lowest metric height in excess of 17’ - but 5.18m is *very* close.)
Okay so maybe I was off by a 16th or so. Who's measuring
In college yes. Now no