From Bubka to Duplantis, the chronology of the pole vaulting record

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Between Sergei Bubka, the first man to overcome 6 metres on July 13, 1985 in Paris and Swedish Armand Duplantis, who broke his own record on Sunday by crossing the 6.20 meter bar in Belgrade, this is the chronology of the world record over the last nearly three decades:

. Evolution of the world record since it reached 6 meters:

- 6.00 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), July 13, 1985 in Paris

- 6.01 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), July 8, 1986 in Moscow

- 6.03 metres: Sergei Bubka (USSR), 21 June 1987 in Prague (Czechoslovakia)

- 6.05 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), on 9 June 1988 in Bratislava (Czechoslovakia)

- 6.06 metres: Sergei Bubka (USSR), 10 July 1988 in Nice (France)

- 6.07 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), 6 May 1991 in Shizuoka (Japan)

- 6.08 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), on 9 June 1991 in Moscow

- 6.09 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), on 8 July 1991 in Fromia (Italy)

- 6.10 meters: Sergei Bubka (USSR), 5 August 1991 in Malmö (Sweden)

- 6.11 metres: Sergei Bubka (UKR), 13 June 1992 in Dijon (France)

- 6.12 metres: Sergei Bubka (UKR), 30 August 1992 in Padua (Italy)

- 6.13 meters: Sergei Bubka (UKR), on 19 September 1992 in Tokyo

- 6.14 metres: Sergei Bubka (UKR), 31 July 1994 in Sestriere (Italy)

- 6.16 metres: Renaud Lavillenie (FRA), on 15 February 2014 in Donesk (Ukraine) on indoor track

- 6.17 metres: Armand Duplantis (SWE), on 8 February 2020 in Torun (Poland) on the indoor track

- 6.18 metres: Armand Duplantis (SWE), on 15 February 2020 in Glasgow (UK) on indoor court

- 6.19 meters: Armand Duplantis (SWE), on March 7, 2022 in Belgrade (Serbia) on indoor court

- 6.20 meters: Armand Duplantis (SWE), on March 20, 2022 in Belgrade (Serbia) on indoor court

NOTE: The International Athletics Federation amended its regulations in 2000 by allowing indoor jumps to be standardized as world records.

Sergei Bubka passed the 6.15 meters on 21 February 1993 in Donetsk but his jump was approved as a world record in the indoor track. His approved outdoor world records of 6.08 m, 6.09 m, 6.10 m, 6.11 m, 6.11 m, 6.12 m, 6.13 m and 6.14 m had all been preceded by such high jumps achieved on the indoor track.

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