Pole+Vault

**The Pole Vault**
The pole vault is a track and field event known to be one of the most dangerous sports in athletics. The objective is to clear a bar with a long carbon fiber pole without hitting it off.

There is no set number of rounds and you can choose to enter the competition at any height setting that you would like. At each height, a jumper is given 3 attempts to clear the height, if he/she fails to do so they are out of the competition.

The person who is left standing, clearing the highest height on the day is declared the winner of the competition. In the event of 2 or more people clearing the same height, the winner is decided on who cleared the heights in the least attempts.

The World Record in this amazing sport is currently 6m14 (outdoors) set by the inredible Sergey Bubka of Ukraine.

The mark of 6 m is still a very tough feat to do today and thus only a handful of men have ever produced a 6m clearance.

They are as follows:


 * ~ Name of athlete ||~ Nation ||~ Outdoors ||~ Indoors ||
 * Sergey Bubka || Soviet Union / Ukraine || 6.14 m || 6.15 m ||
 * Steven Hooker || Australia || 6.00 m || 6.06 m ||
 * Maksim Tarasov || Russia || 6.05 m || 6.00 m ||
 * Dmitri Markov || Australia || 6.05 m || N/A ||
 * Brad Walker || United States || 6.04 m || N/A ||
 * Okkert Brits || South Africa || 6.03 m || N/A ||
 * Jeff Hartwig || United States || 6.03 m || 6.02 m ||
 * Igor Trandenkov || Russia || 6.01 m || N/A ||
 * Yevgeniy Lukyanenko || Russia || 6.01 m || N/A ||
 * Renaud Lavillenie || France || 6.01 m || N/A ||
 * Rodion Gataullin || Soviet Union / Russia || 6.00 m || 6.02 m ||
 * Tim Lobinger || Germany || 6.00 m || N/A ||
 * Toby Stevenson || United States || 6.00 m || N/A ||
 * Paul Burgess || Australia || 6.00 m || N/A ||
 * Jean Galfione || France || N/A || 6.00 m ||
 * Danny Ecker || Germany || N/A || 6.00 m ||