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On December 17, I posted indoor and outdoor lists of USA women who had vaulted 4.60m or better. When I thought a bit about what minimum mark would be equivalent for men's lists, I realized that a better format for both the men's and women's elite lists would be the all-time top ten, regardless of what the resulting minimum might be. I'll post those lists now. Any corrections would be appreciated.

USA Men's All-Time Outdoor Top Ten

6.04 Brad Walker 1 Eugene 8 June 2008
6.03 Jeff Hartwig 1 Jonesboro 15 June 2000
6.01 Tim Mack 1 Monaco 18 September 2004
6.00 Toby Stevenson 1 Modesto 8 May 2004
5.98 Lawrence Johnson 1 Knoxville 25 May 1996
5.97 Scott Huffman 1 Knoxville 18 June 1994
5.91 Dean Starkey 3 Athens 10 August 1997
5.90 Jacob Davis 1 Austin 4 April 1998
5.90 Nick Hysong 1 Sydney 29 September 2000
5.85 Pat Manson 4 Fukuoka 13 September 1997
5.85 Deryk Miles 1 Berlin 7 September 2008


USA Men's All-Time Indoor Top Ten

6.02 Jeff Hartwig 1 Sindelfingen 10 March 2002
5.96 Lawrence Johnson 1 Atlanta 3 March 2001
5.93 Billy Olsen 1 East Rutherford 8 February 1986
5.93 Tye Harvey 2 Atlanta 3 March 2001
5.91 Joe Dial 1 Columbia 1 February 1986
5.85 Nick Hysong 2 Atlanta 27 February 1999
5.85 Jacob Davis 1 Indianapolis 6 March 1999
5.85 Tim Mack 2 Donetsk 24 February 2002
5.85 Derek Miles 1 Donetsk 15 February 2005
5.85 Brad Walker 2 Valencia 9 March 2008



USA Women's All-Time Outdoor Top Ten

4.92 Jenn Stuczynski 1 Eugene 1 July 2008
4.83 Stacy Dragila 1 Ostrava 8 June 2004
4.73 Chelsea Johnson 1 Los Gatos 26 June 2008
4.72 Jillian Schwartz 1 Jonesboro 15 June 2008
4.67 Kellie Suttle 1 Jonesboro 21 July 2004
4.65 Mary Sauer 2 Madrid 3 July 2002
4.63 April Steiner Bennett 1 Norman 12 April 2008
4.60 Mel Mueller 1 Atascadero 9 July 2003
4.60 Andrea Dutoit 1 Albuquerque 1 May 2004
4.60 Tracy O'Hara 1 Stanford 30 May 2005
4.60 Erin Asay 1 La Jolla 25 April 2008


USA Women's All-Time Indoor Top Ten

4.83 Jenn Stuczynski 1 Boston 1 March 2009
4.81 Stacy Dragila 2 Budapest 6 March 2004
4.64 Jillian Schwartz 2= Fayetteville 15 February 2008
4.64 Lacy Janson 2= Fayetteville 15 February 2008
4.61 Mary Sauer 1 Flagstaff 17 February 2002
4.60 Mel Mueller 1 Flagstaff 9 February 2002
4.60 April Steiner 2 Reno 19 January 2007
4.56 Kellie Suttle 2 Atlanta 2 March 2001
4.53 Amy Linnen 1 Fayetteville 8 March 2002
4.53 Andrea Dutoit 1 Des Moines 24 April 2004
4.53 Becky Holliday 1 Jonesboro 14 February 2007

Joe Dial outdoor 19.06 1/2 5.96 meters American record I think for 9 years.

daniel ryland had an indoor 5.85 also i believe

Corrections to top ten lists:

kev44000 wrote that Joe Dial’s 5.69 national record should have been on the outdoor list. True, and I can’t offer any excuse for my sloppy work, since the beginning point for these lists was the USA progression and Dial’s 5.96 of 1987 was there, along with his 5.91 and 5.94 of that year and his first NR of 5.90 in 1986. His 5.96 remained the record until Scott Huffman’s 5.97, seven years later. A scramble through my waste-basket revealed that Dial’s 5.96 was included in my first two summaries, then unaccountably missing from the third and fourth. I guess that’s what can happen when the process consists of manually adding new, better marks to the top ten and scratching out the lesser ones. Somehow, Joe’s 5.96 was deleted when it shouldn’t have been. Next time, I’ll have to devise some computer-sorting strategy.

VTechVaulter wrote that Daniel Ryland should have been included in the indoor list, since he had had a 5.85 that equaled the 10th place in that list. I don’t feel quite so foolish about this error, since I depended for recent marks on the tilastopaja.com lists and Ryland’s vault was not included in the 2005 world list, where it would have been equal-second with Derek Miles and Denys Yurchenko that year. After VTV raised the question, I checked the Ryland bio on that site and surprisingly found his 5.85 there, recorded at Jonesboro on 24 July 2005.

Thanks, people, for your corrections!

U 'D Man Roger. Thanks for all you do!! Bubba

Ryland 5.85 was included on outdoor list. Though, I wonder if it was actually achieved outdoors?

VaultLove wrote:Ryland 5.85 was included on outdoor list. Though, I wonder if it was actually achieved outdoors?

It was an indoor mark set during the outdoor season, that is probably why you missed it Roger When the results were submitted to Tilastopaja, they were probably not listed as indoors (when they should have been).

oh yeah your right becca. good catch.

and yeah Roger.. your lists are awesome! thanks for all the work

good morning

didn't Tully and Bell have marks right at 5.85??

dj

Tully's PR was 5.84m at UC Irvine and is still the stadium record. As you know DJ, we saw him jump many times there. Bubba

i thought EBs pr was 5.87? not sure if it was indoors or out

Seems like Kory Tarpening jumped something around 19' 3" or 5.87m sometime in the late 80's or early 90's at the National championships in Indianapolis? And also didn't Billy Payne jump around 19'2" at some point?
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