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INDOOR-OUTDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
It always surprises me when I see a vaulter’s indoor personal best as higher than his or her outdoor PB. Bubka is the criterion example, with his 6.15m indoor mark regarded only as a World Indoor Record, although narrowly better than his 6.14m World Record.
My surprise is because I would think each of us would establish our PB with a tail-wind to increase our runway speed and planting force.
After altius and I kicked the matter of combining indoor and outdoor marks in a single list in our comments on the International Forum on April 2/4, I asked Gerard Dumas for a few examples of vaulters with better indoor than outdoor marks. I should know better than to ask Gerard for a short list of anything. Here are some of the comparisons he sent.
INDOOR/OUTDOOR PERFORMANCES.
SOME VAULTERS WHO HAVE AN INDOOR PB EQUAL TO OR BETTER THAN THEIR OUTDOOR PB.
Metal, Bamboo era
4.81i 1959 4.80o 1960 Don Bragg USA
4.78i 1943 4.77o 1942 Cornelius Warmerdam USA
4.75i 1960 4.67o 1960 J. D. Martin USA
4.72i 1957 4.70o 1956 Bob Richards USA
4.67i 1962 4.67o 1962 Mel Schwarz USA
4.65i 1952 4.62o 1954 Don Laz USA
4.57i 1958 4.48o 1956 Jerry Welbourn USA
4.52i 1958 4.49o 1958 Edward Hoyle USA
4.50i 1949 4.47o 1948 Boo Morcom USA
4.32i 1931 4.25o 1925 Charles Hoff NOR
4.32i 1956 4.32o 1956 Jukka Piironen FIN
4.30i 1957 4.28o 1957 Paul Zimmerman USA
4.29i 1928 4.26o 1927 Sabin William Carr USA
4.21i 1929 4.15o 1929 Victor Pickard CAN
4.11i 1950 4.11o 1949 Neil King USA
4.00i 1927 4.00o 1924 Edwin Meyers USA
3.50i 1869 3.35o 1867 Robert Musgrave GBR
Fiber glass/ carbon fiber Era.
6.15i 1993 6.14o 1994 Sergey Bubka URS/UKR
6.02i 1989 6.00o 1993 Rodion Gataullin RUS
6.00i 1999 5.98o 1999 Jean Galfione FRA
6.00i 2001 5.93o 1998 Danny Ecker GER
5.94i 1990 5.85o 1986 Philippe Collet FRA
5.93i 1986 5.80o 1987 Billy Olson USA
5.93i 2001 5.80o 2000 Tye Harvey USA
5.92i 1998 5.92o 1992 Igor Potapovich KAZ
5.90i 1987 5.80o 1987 Ferenc Salbert FRA
5.90i 1990 5.90o 1993 Gregoriy Yegorov URS/KAZ
5.90i 1994 5.86o 1996 Pyotr Bochkariov RUS
5.90i 2005 5.80o 2004 Igor Pavlov RUS
5.86i? 1985 5.73o? 1984 Larry Jessee USA
5.85i 2005 5.82o 2001 Derek Miles USA
5.85i 2005 5.81o 2003 Dennis Yurchenko UKR
5.84i 2005 5.70o 2001 Rusland Yemerenko UKR
5.81i 1986 5.80o 1985 Marian Kolassa POL
5.80i 1986 5.80o 1992 Dave Volz USA
5.80i 1998 5.80o 1997 Scott Hennig USA
5.80i 2006 5.61o 2004 Alhaji Jeng SWE
5.77i 1991 5.77o 1991 Hermann Fehringer AUT
5.75i 1993 5.75o 1993 Philippe D'Encausse FRA
5.75i 1987 5.75o 1981 Sergey Kulibaba RUS
5.75i 1989 5.70o 1987 Valeriy Ishutin RUS
5.75i 1992 5.70o 1991 Delko Lessev BUL
5.72i 1985 5.71o 1984 Serge Ferreira FRA
5.72i 1999 5.65o 2000 Taoufik Lachheb FRA
5.71i 2006 5.60o 2004 Giovanni Lannaro MEX
5.70i 1982 5.65o 1982 Viktor Spassove RUS
5.70i 2006 5.61o 2005 Robby Pratt MEX
5.70i 1991 5.70o 1987 Aleksandr Zhukov RUS
5.70i 2000 5.70o 1999 Murilio Mariani ITA
5.70i 1999 5.70o 1991 Jean Marc Tailhardat FRA
5.70i 1994 5.70o 1993 Aleksandr Korchagin KAZ
5.65i 1984 5.55o 1983 Peter Volmer GER
5.65i 1987 5.55o 1990 Vasiliy Trofimenko RUS
5.65i 1992 5.61o 1991 Doug Wood CAN
5.61i 1975 5.55o 1980 Steve Smith USA
5.56i 1999 5.50o 1991 Marc Vandevoir FRA
5.56i 2001 5.50o 1997 Xu Gang CHN
5.52i 1982 5.45o 1981 Ed Langford USA
5.50i 2001 5.50o 1994 François Thenault FRA/CAN
5.40i 1976 5.29o 1974 Romulad Murawski POL
5.40i 1986 5.40o 1987 Gérard Pineau FRA
5.38i 1976 5.33o 1980 Bruce Simpson CAN
5.35i 1973 5.30o 1971 Hans Jurgen Ziegler GER
5.35i 2004 5.15o 2005 Todd Zubyck CAN
5.30i 1997 5.30o 1997 Jeff Hayhoe CAN
5.25i 1991 5.20o 1990 Stuart Love CAN
5.20i 1971 5.15o 1969 Kiyoshi Niwa JPN
5.10i 1963 5.00o 1963 Pentti Nikula FIN
5.03i 1966 5.00o 1964 Rudolf Tomasek CZE
5.00i 1968 4.90o 1967 Alain Moreau FRA
4.99i 1964 4.95o 1963 John Uelses USA
4.95i 1972 4.90o 1972 Jan Odvarka CZE
4.90i 1987 4.80o 1986 Boyd Mason CAN
Actually, there are not many more guys to add to the above lists, since most people now do their best outdoors. During the old days of cinder runways, despite the lack of tailwinds it was probably best to run indoors on a firmer surface than on the outdoor runways. Also, the USA had more indoor tracks before the sixties and more meets for non-college vaulters, so there was more opportunity to put up good indoor marks. --GD