Men · Jumps · All-Time
Pole Vault
6.30
Best mark
Best on this list
6.00
Top 25 cutoff
26 rows: tie at the cutoff
6.01
Median
Of the 26 best-by-athlete marks
14
Countries
USA 7 · AUS 4 · 12 others
Performance distribution
26 athletes from 6.30 to 6.00 · median 6.01
Top 25 cutoff through history
How fast an athlete needed to be to make the list each year
Season lists are not yet published for this event. This chart fills in as they are imported from a permitted source.
World all-time top 25
Best by athlete · updated 1 Sep 2026 · Wikipedia (English) revision of 28 Aug 2026 · methodology
26 rows · tie at the cutoff
| # | Athlete | Country | Mark | Date | Venue | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armand Duplantis | SWE | 6.30 | 15 Sep 2025 | Tokyo | 25 |
| 2 | Emmanouil Karalis | GRE | 6.20 | 27 Aug 2026 | Zurich | 26 |
| 3 | Sergey Bubka | UKR | 6.14 | 31 Jul 1994 | Sestriere | 30 |
| 4 | KC Lightfoot | USA | 6.07 | 2 Jun 2023 | Nashville | 23 |
| 5 | Sam Kendricks | USA | 6.06 | 27 Jul 2019 | Des Moines | 26 |
| 6 | Maksim Tarasov | RUS | 6.05 | 16 Jun 1999 | Athens | 28 |
| 6 | Dmitri Markov | AUS | 6.05 | 9 Aug 2001 | Edmonton | 26 |
| 6 | Renaud Lavillenie | FRA | 6.05 | 30 May 2015 | Eugene | 28 |
| 9 | Brad Walker | USA | 6.04 | 8 Jun 2008 | Eugene | 26 |
| 10 | Okkert Brits | RSA | 6.03 | 18 Aug 1995 | Cologne | 21 |
| 10 | Jeff Hartwig | USA | 6.03 | 14 Jun 2000 | Jonesboro | 32 |
| 10 | Thiago Braz | BRA | 6.03 | 15 Aug 2016 | Rio de Janeiro | 22 |
| 13 | Piotr Lisek | POL | 6.02 | 12 Jul 2019 | Monaco | 26 |
| 14 | Igor Trandenkov | RUS | 6.01 | 3 Jul 1996 | St. Petersburg | 29 |
| 14 | Timothy Mack | USA | 6.01 | 18 Sep 2004 | Monaco | 32 |
| 14 | Yevgeny Lukyanenko | RUS | 6.01 | 1 Jul 2008 | Bydgoszcz | 23 |
| 14 | Björn Otto | GER | 6.01 | 5 Sep 2012 | Aachen | 34 |
| 18 | Radion Gataullin | URS | 6.00 | 16 Sep 1989 | Tokyo | 23 |
| 18 | Tim Lobinger | GER | 6.00 | 24 Aug 1997 | Cologne | 24 |
| 18 | Toby Stevenson | USA | 6.00 | 8 May 2004 | Modesto | 27 |
| 18 | Paul Burgess | AUS | 6.00 | 26 Feb 2005 | Perth | 25 |
| 18 | Steve Hooker | AUS | 6.00 | 27 Jan 2008 | Perth | 25 |
| 18 | Timur Morgunov | ANA | 6.00 | 12 Aug 2018 | Berlin | 21 |
| 18 | Chris Nilsen | USA | 6.00 | 6 May 2022 | Sioux Falls | 24 |
| 18 | Ernest John Obiena | PHI | 6.00 | 10 Jun 2023 | Bergen | 27 |
| 18 | Kurtis Marschall | AUS | 6.00 | 14 Jul 2026 | Budapest | 29 |