Men's Top Five All-Time?

[roger/over]

For my own devious purposes, I'll wait until tomorrow to post the top five (and ten) vaulters with the highest personal best marks. For now, though, I'd like to ask you to search your memory and write down who you think the top five would be. Of course, you could look it up (I did, eventually), but it might be fun to guess, first. Just to show my good intentions and generosity, I'll give you Bubka as number one. Now wasn't that nice of me?

Cheers,
Roger

[vaultin chris]

hmmm lets see how close i can get

bubka 6.14
tarasov 6.05
markov 6.05
hartwig 6.03
britz 6.03

[VTechVaulter]

well lets see

1. bubka - 6.15
2. tarosov - 6.05
markov - 6.05
galfione - 6.05
and i wanna say gatauline (spell check) was 6.03, i believe he set a world record in there somewhere. but then jeff is also 6.03. so that would make it a top 6 list. hmmmm

[LHSpolevault]

1. Ross Dominique - 6.60m
2. Bubka - 6.15m
3. Tarasov - 6.05m
4. Markov - 6.05m
5. Hartwig - 6.03m

thats off the top of my head right thurr

[SlickVT]

Obviously the only person on that list using the 6.40 model was Ross.

The others are just slackers...

[MightyMouse]

Bubka
Tarasov
Markov
Hartwig
Brits

Was I close?

[achtungpv]

Bubka 6.15i (6.14 out)
Tarasov 6.05
Markov 6.05
Brits 6.03
Hartwig 6.03

[Scott Go Pre]

For outdoor, I would say:
Bubka - 6.14m
Tarasov - 6.05m
Markov - 6.05m
Brits - 6.03m
Hartwig - 6.03m

For Indoor, I would guess:
Bubka - 6.15m
Tarasov - 6.03m
Hartwig - 6.02m
Gataulin - 6.01m
Galfione - 6.00m

[roger/over]

You guys are just too good. Those who responded to the forum, which I didn't expect, were mainly so accurate as to raise doubts that they didn't cheat a peek at some list, somewhere. Four of the six respondents had the top five right, and three of the four had all the heights. I'm amazed. I know that I don't follow the men's event as closely as I do the women's, but I'm not sure I could pick the women's top five off the top of my head, and the only personal bests I'd be sure of would be those of Isinbayeva and Dragila.

My original "devious purpose" was to raise the question of whether Okkert Brits was seriously neglected in our considerations of the very top vaulters. Obviously not, for this group of fans of the event. I'll save my reasons for this interest as a separate post, when I include it in a listing of the Top Ten. However, for now, I'll close with the promised listing of Top Five All-time Vaulters: just as Chris, Mighty Mouse, achtung and Scott had them:

Top Five All-Time Outdoors

6.14 Sergey Bubka (UKR) Sestriere 1994-07-31
6.05 Maksim Tarasov (RUS) Athína 1999-06-16
6.05 Dmitriy Markov (AUS) Edmonton 2001-08-09
6.03 Okkert Brits (RSA) Köln 1995-08-18
6.03 Jeff Hartwig (USA) Uniondale 1998-07-21

[LHSpolevault]

Slick VT:
Obviously the only person on that list using the 6.40 model was Ross.

The others are just slackers...

haha... did i mention it was at the first ever "Keep Dreaming" meet lol.
It only happens once and its in my mind

[Mecham]

Of the jumps i have seen of Okkert Brits jump, i wouldnt really expect him to go 6.03 meters. I havent seen many jumps of his, but the ones i have, it really doesnt look like he could of jumped that high. Was he just lucky on the 6.03 jump? or has he had more jumps in the 5.90+ range.

[VaultnGus]

Saw one jump of his on TV where he cleared 5.95 by a country mile with the pole never even getting CLOSE to vertical...wild stuff!