![[OC] From 1984 to 1994, Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka set the world record 17 times, achieving a mark that stood unmatched for nearly two decades. Then Armand Duplantis came along.](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ac6felsy4ipf1-1024x550.png "[OC] From 1984 to 1994, Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka set the world record 17 times, achieving a mark that stood unmatched for nearly two decades. Then Armand Duplantis came along.")
25-year-old American-born Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis broke broke the world record for the 14th time yesterday at the World Athletic Championships in Tokyo.
From the curve of that chart, looks like he's still got a ways to go before he's done.
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**Data:** raw: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_pole_vault_world_record_progression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_pole_vault_world_record_progression); cleaned: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WBzOEhgbQ7IWaw4x8xmK6sh33IyIwp7OHlmgRw3HzZE/edit?gid=808155325#gid=808155325](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WBzOEhgbQ7IWaw4x8xmK6sh33IyIwp7OHlmgRw3HzZE/edit?gid=808155325#gid=808155325)
**Analysis:** [https://gist.github.com/pearsonhenri/dfd1b2e569b8e9ba24df75850f1970e6](https://gist.github.com/pearsonhenri/dfd1b2e569b8e9ba24df75850f1970e6)
Poor guy, holds world record … relegated to … Other.
Edit: Renaud Lavillenie (France) is in between those two – February 15, 2014 – Donetsk, Ukraine
would be nice to draw the linear correlation curve with the two last digit of the years against the two last digit of the height in centimeter x)
Pole vaulters often get a lot of huge streaks of records because they can just raise the bar by the smallest amount and the bar height, not the actual jump height, so it’s a bit easier than other sports. Isinbayeva also got some crazy number of WRs in female pole vaulting