I have filed 106 ties or improvements in women's pole vault national
records of 42 countries during the 2002 outdoor season. This probably
underestimates the total number of improvements, since these may go
unposted during the course of the season, especially those below 3.60m.
Individually, the most interesting assaults on the records were by Kirsten
Belin of Sweden, Krisztina Molnár of Hungary, and Olga Dogadko of Israel.
Belin equalled or bettered the Swedish record ten times (Hanna-Mia Persson
twice more). Molnár and Dogadko each bettered or tied their national
records five times.
I would very much appreciate learning of any other 2002 improvements in
these or other national records, so they can be included in a posting of
all of the current records, hopefully next week. --RR
National Records Improved or Tied in the 2002 Outdoor Season
Belarus 3.80 Svetlana Makarevich 2002-05-23 Kiev
3.80 Yuliya Taratynova 2002-06-06 Brest
Belize 2.40 Clarencia Jones 2002-05-24 Cd Guatemala
2.40 Kay de Vaughan 2002-05-24 Cd Guatemala
Belgium 4.03 Irene Dufour 2002-07-13 Oordegem
Bolivia 2.30 Emily Ochoa 2002-03-13 Capiapo
Brazil 4.00 Karla Rosa da Silva 2002-05-12 Cd Guatemala
Canada 4.35 Stephanie McCann 2002-06-21 Edmonton
Chile 4.00 Carolina Maurer-Torres 2002-07-22 Bern
Colombia 3.68 Milena Agudelo 2002-04-27 Cali
Croatia 3.55 Ivona Jerkovic 2002-06-08 Zagreb
Cyprus 4.05 Anna Fitidou 2002-06-16 Trikala
Egypt 3.51 Sonya Ahmed 2002-03-30 Kansas City
El Salvador 3.73 Michelle Rivera 2002-05-10 Van Nuys, CA
Finland 4.15 Paulina Sigg 2002-08-07 Munich
4.15 Paulina Sigg 2002-08-24 Helsinki
France 4.46 Marie Poissonier 2002-07-13 Saint-Etienne
4.46 Vanessa Boslak 2002-07-13 Saint-Etienne
Germany 4.77 Annika Becker 2002-07-07 Bochum
Great Britain 4.41* Janine Whitlock 2002-06-16 Manchester
Greece 4.38 Yeorgyia Tsiliggiri 2002-06-08 Mytilene
Hong Kong 2.87 Sharon Kong Yuen Fan 2002-04-07 Hong Kong
Hungary 4.53 Krisztina Molnár 2002-09-08 Rieti
India 3.45 Karamjit Kaur 2002-09-07 New Delhi
Indonesia 4.10 Desy Margawati 2002-08-10 Colombo
Israel 4.00 Olga Dogadko 2002-06-08 Tel Aviv
Italy 4.30 Francesca Dolcini 2002-07-21 Viareggio
Japan 4.20 Takayo Kondo 2002-06-07 Kanazawa
4.20 Masumi Ono 2002-08-10 Colombo
Lithuania 3.41 Rita Snarskaite 2002-07-13 Kaunas
Luxembourg 3.50 Joelle Scheer 2002-07-14 Dudelange
Mauritius 3.35 Nancy Cheekoussen 2002-07-13 Réduit
Netherlands 4.40 Monique de Wilt 2002-08-09 Munich
Nigeria 2.65 Victoria Itado 2002-06-19 Lagos
2.65 Esther Duso 2002-06-19 Lagos
Philippines 3.00 Maristela Torres 2002-05-04 Manila
Poland 4.62 Monika Pyrek 2002-08-23 London
Portugal 4.10 Elisabete Tavares 2002-07-13 Saint-Etienne
Puerto Rico 3.90 Michelle Velez 2002-05-12 Cd Guatemala
Russia 4.78 Svetlana Feofanova 2002-07-16 Stockholm
Slovakia 3.81 Slavomira Sluková 2002-07-14 Dubnica
Slovenia 4.10 Teja Melink 2002-06-01 Ljubljana
Spain 4.40 Naroa Agirre 2002-07-27 Valencia
Sweden 4.51 Kirsten Belin 2002-08-27 Göteborg
Switzerland 4.21 Nadine Rohr 2002-08-21 Fribourg
Taiwan 4.06 Chang Ko-Hsin 2002-09-07 Singapore
Tunisia 4.10 Syrine Balti 2002-09-20 Madrid
Yugoslavia 3.75 Slavica Semenjuk 2002-06-22 Beograd
* - Whitlock was denied a further record improvement when she failed a drug
test at a later meet. I do not yet know of any formal action to
retroactively dismiss the 4.41m cleared at the Commonwealth Games trials
meet.
