PoleVaultPower.com

A brief, but interesting summary of national vault numbers, recently posted by Hungarian Bojidar Spiriev on his website <all-athletics.com>.



Women’s Pole Vault

3.50 m or more: 1078 athletes

Africa: 13
Asia: 70
Europe: 389
North and Central America: 564
Oceania: 18
South America: 24



Men’s Pole Vault

4.70 m or more: 1145 athletes

Africa: 9
Asia: 114
Europe: 443
North and Central America: 548
Oceania: 12
South America: 19

I doubt that is a very accurate list at the lower heights, I am sure the numbers for North America are much higher.

In my database at athletic.net I have over 600 girls at 3.50 or better, and I know our lists are not complete for HS, and do not include unattached and post-collegiate athletes, so there are probably at least 50-100 more than that in the US.

For men I've got 483 in my database, same limitations as above, except I would guess there are another 100-150 in the US.