The outdoor records were posted at the end of last season, but there have
been a few late arrivals and already some 2002 improvements. Thanks to
Carole Fuchs, Heinrich Hubbeling and Mirko Jalava for recent contributions.
--RR
NATIONAL POLE VAULT RECORDS--WOMEN a/o 1 April 2002
Algeria 3.70 Linda Meziani 2000-05-07 Franconville
Andorra 2.40 Laura Rossell 2001-05-05 Andorra
Argentina 4.42 Alejandra Garcia 2000-02-20 Sydney
Australia 4.60 Emma George 1999-02-20 Sydney
Austria 4.40 Doris Auer 2000-09-17 Gold Coast
Belarus 3.70 Yuliya Taratynova 2000-08-23 Brest
Belgium 4.01 Irene Dufour 2001-08-15 Brasschaat
Bolivia 2.20 Soledad Urrena 2001-05-05 Sucre
2.20 Emili Oliva 2001-08-25 Cochabamba
Brazil 3.91 Fabiana Almeida Murer 2001-06-16 Săo Paulo
Bulgaria 4.43 Tanya Koleva 2001-05-30 Athína
Canada 4.25 Stephanie McCann 2001-08-04 Edmonton
Chile 3.90 Carolina Maurer-Torres 2001-06-03 Cochabamba
China 4.52 Gao Shuying 2001-08-29 Beijing
Colombia 3.65 Milena Agudelo 2002-03-03 Medellin
Costa Rica 2.65 Maureen Calvo 2000-06-17 San Jose
Croatia 3.50 Ivona Jerkovic 1998-07-22 Trieste
Cuba 4.05 Katiuska Pérez 2001-05-31 La Habana
Cyprus 4.02 Anna Fitidou 1999-06-25 Larnaca
Czech Republic 4.51 Daniela Bártová 1998-06-09 Bratislava
Denmark 4.35 Marie Bagger Rasmussen 2000-09-25 Sydney
Dominican Rep 2.81 Leydy Araujo 2000-07-23 Santiago, DR
Ecuador 2.92 Erika Lemari 2000-11-30 Machala
Egypt * 3.45 Rasha Abdelkhalek 2001-05-02 El Maadi
El Salvador 3.30 Michelle Rivera 2001-07-22 Cd Guatemala
Estonia 3.90 Merle Kivimets 2000-07-08 Kaunas
Fiji 2.60 Ioawana Vakaloloma 1998-05-28 Suva
Finland 4.12 Annu Mäkelä 2000-08-06 Tampere
France 4.35 Marie Poissonnier 2000-05-07 Bron
Germany 4.55 Annika Becker 2001-07-01 Stuttgart
Great Britain 4.40 Janine Whitlock 2001-07-14 Birmingham
Greece 4.36 Yeorgyia Tsiliggiri 2001-06-17 Athína
Guatemala 3.20 Denise Jerez Agueda 2000-08-25 Cd Guatemala
Honduras 2.60 Glenda Aguilar 1998-07-05 Mexico City
Hong Kong 2.86 Sharon Kong Yuen Fan 2001-06-03 Hong Kong
Hungary 4.41 Krisztina Molnar 2001-06-13 Budapest
Iceland 4.50 Vala Flosadóttir 2000-09-25 Sydney
India 3.25 Karamjit Kaur 2001-11-23 Ludhiana
Indonesia 4.00 Desi Margawati 2001-06-20 Jakarta
Ireland 3.72 Bridget Pearson 1999-05-15 Long Beach
Israel 3.75 Zhanna Barrar 2002-03-03 Tel Aviv
Italy 4.28 Arianna Farfaletti 2000-09-23 Rovellasca
Ivory Coast 3.20 Dapéa Zaourou 1996-06-02 Annecy
Jamaica 3.30 Maria Newton 2000-04-23 Bromley
Japan 4.20 Masumi Ono 1999-05-22 Hamamatsu
Jordan 2.30 Basma Achouch 1999-08-13 Irbid
Kazakhstan 4.01 Yelena Reznik 2000-09-15 Almaty
Kenya 2.40 Grace Chelegat 2001-06-21 Nairobi
Korea 3.50 Choi Yun-Hee 2001-02-04 Tsaotun
Latvia 3.72 Elina Ringa 2000-06-30 Valmiera
Lithuania 3.40 Edita Grigelionyte 2001-05-12 Valmiera
Luxembourg 3.20 Joelle Scheer 2000-05-27 Dudelange
Madagascar 2.45 Ange Rajaonah 1998-08-27 Antananarivo
Malaysia 3.90 Roslinda Samsu 2001-03-18 Kuala Lumpur
Mauritius 3.20 Nancy Cheekoussen 2002-03-16 Réduit
Mexico 3.86 Alejandra Meza 1999-06-17 Mexico City
Morocco 3.30 Zakia El Hassouni 1997-06-08 Chalon-sur-Saone
Namibia 2.10 Fienie Theron 1998-06-06 Windhoek
Netherlands 4.35 Monique de Wilt 2001-06-13 Kassel
New Zealand 4.35 Jenni Dryburgh 2001-03-25 Brisbane
Norway 3.80 Anita Tomulevski 1996-06-11 Gjovik
Pakistan 2.15 Rabi Malik 2001-03-13 Lahore
Papua Guinea 1.85 Mathilda Leeong 1998-09-09 Madang
Paraguay 2.90 Maria Victoria Palau 1997-08-30 Asuncion
Peru 3.55 Karol Borja 1999-06-12 Lima
Philippines 2.90 Ana Natad 1999-02-27 Manila
Poland 4.61 Monika Pyrek 2001-07-01 Bydgoszcz
Portugal 4.03 Marisa Vieira 2000-08-06 Maia
Puerto Rico 3.68 Andrea Zambrana 2002-03-16 Ponce
Romania 4.22 Gabriella Mihalcea 1999-06-11 Dreux
Russia 4.75 Svetlana Feofanova 2001-08-06 Edmonton
San Marino 2.10 Manuela Albani 2000-06-25 Ravenna
Singapore 3.10 Christina Loh 1999-07-16 Kuantan
Slovakia 3.75 Slavomira Sluková 2001-07-07 Nitra
Slovenia 4.05 Teja Melink 2001-06-10 Celje
South Africa 4.42 Elmarie Gerryts 2000-06-12 Wesel
Spain 4.31 Maria Mar Sánchez 2001-07-22 Valencia
Sweden 4.22 Kirsten Belin 2001-08-25 Växjö
Switzerland 4.10 Petra Pechstein 2000-07-09 Freistett
Tahiti 2.80 Lucie Tepea 2001-05-27 Pirae
Taiwan 4.05 Chang Ko-Hsin 2001-10-21 Kaohsiung
Thailand 3.70 Nampetch Pinthong 2001-09-15 Kuala Lumpur
Tonga 2.10 Tesea Tongiamu 1998-12-12 Papakura
Trinidad 2.10 Falon Gray 2000-03-15 Port-of-Spain
Tunisia 4.01 Syrine Balti 2001-06-02 Tunis
Turkey 4.20 Tatiana Köstem 2000-05-13 Krasnodar
Uganda 2.10 Mary Happy 1998-07-18 Kampala
Ukraine 4.56 Anzhela Balakhonova 2000-08-08 Linz
United States 4.81 Stacy Dragila 2001-06-09 Palo Alto
Uruguay 4.23 Déborah Gyurcsek 2000-07-23 Cochabamba
Venezuela 3.60 Yoisemil Fuentes 2000-05-21 Rio de Janeiro
Vietnam 3.30 Tong My Kien Loan 2001-07-02 Ho Chi Minh
Western Samoa 1.50 Hi Fesili 1998-11-30 Apia
Yugoslavia 3.80 Slavica Semenjuk 2001-07-02 Kavála
Zimbabwe ** 2.60 Margaret Odendaal 2000-
* - A better mark, 3.50m by Sonya Ahmed at Fayetteville on 22 April 2000,
is not accepted by the Egyptian federation.
** - In the interest of having authenticated national records "from A to
Z," it would be appreciated if someone could provide an exact date and
venue for Odendaal's Zimbabwe mark.
