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From the non-subscription area of Mirko Jalava's <tilastopaja.net>. Some factors of special interest in these data:

--The number of personal bests recorded; especially in the Albuquerque meet!
--April Steiner's 4.40m at Fayetteville moves her into a tie with Jillian Schwartz for second on the 2006 indoor list, behind Jen Stuzynski's 4.68m.

Razorback Fayetteville AR USA 20 - 21 January Indoor

Pole vault 20 January
1 Kyle Rutledge USA 5.10 PB
2 Eric DiSilvestro USA 4.95

Pole vault 21 January
1 April Steiner USA 4.40 PB
2 Stephanie Irwin USA 4.00 PB
2 Jodi Unger USA 4.00 PB
4 Danielle O'Reilly USA 3.70


Gator Inv Gainesville FL USA 21 January Indoor

Pole vault
1 Andy Lane USA 5.05
2 Chris Steddum USA 5.05
3 Garrett Penton USA 4.90
4 Dan McKenzie USA 4.90
5 Kurt Lee USA 4.90

Pole vault
1 Cheryl Terrio USA 3.97 PB
2 Natalie Moser USA 3.87 PB
3 Jessica Reust USA 3.87
4 Lori Bowen USA 3.66 PB
5 Dara Altman USA 3.66
6 Alex Black USA 3.66 PB
7 Amy Hart USA 3.66 PB

Sperling Albuquerque NM USA 21 January Indoor

Pole vault
1 Robbie Pratt MEX 5.46 PB
2 Derek Mackel USA 5.46 PB
3 Robert Caldwell USA 5.25 PB
4 Matt Weirich USA 5.05 PB
5 Bob Low USA 5.05 PB
6 Jake Arnold USA 5.05 PB
7 Donny Appanaitis USA 4.90 PB
8 Sam Jacobson USA 4.90 PB
9 Brad Ellertson USA 4.90 PB
10 Matt Hurley USA 4.90
11 Scott Sobieralski USA 4.90 PB
12 Whitney Neves USA 4.90 PB

Pole vault
1 Lacy Janson USA 4.05
2 Gabrielle Duclos-Lasnier CAN 3.95 PB
3 Ashley McCallister USA 3.80 PB
3 Mandy Lonsway USA 3.80 PB
3 Whitney Johnson USA 3.80
6 Kelly Furr USA 3.80 PB
7 Bryson Stately USA 3.65 PB
7 Tori Allen USA 3.65 PB

Roger Ruth wrote:--The number of personal bests recorded; especially in the Albuquerque meet!

Those weren't all PRs... well maybe they were all at least indoor PRs.

Some great meets

Becca's apparently right, in pinning some of those PBs as indoor only. April Steiner has an outdoor PB of 4.50m and Cheryl Terrio an outdoor PB of 4.06m. As far as I can tell with a quick check, all the other women's marks shown as PB are bests indoor or outdoor.

The only men's marks interesting enough to motivate me to check were Pratt, Mackel and Caldwell. I found Robbie Pratt with a better outdoor mark of 5.61m. Those shown for Mackel and Caldwell are better than their outdoor best.

Lori Bowen, Brysun Stately, Tori Allen, and Matt Weirich also have higher outdoor PRs.

On the other side of the equation, 4.90 was a 15cm PR for Florida decathlete Kurt Lee.

a lot of those are just straight wrong

pratt went 5.50 indoors last week

Yeah he did go 5.50 last week, but he went 5.46 on the 21st.

yeah.. so 5.46 was not a personal or season best cuz he jumped higher the week b4.

oh my bad I see what you meant now. Yea his personal best is like 5.60 isn't it?