- Yelena Isinbayeva
Yelena Gadschiyevna Isinbayeva is a Russian pole vaulter. She won the 2004 Olympic Gold Medal with a new World Record (then 4.91 m), was elected Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF twice (2004 and 2005), and Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus, and has set 20 world records. On July 22, 2005, she became the first female pole vaulter to clear 5.00 metres. At the age of 25 she is seen as the best female pole vaulter in history.
- Brad Walker
Brad Walker (born June 21, 1981 in Aberdeen, South Dakota) is an American pole vaulter.
- Stacy Dragila
Stacy Dragila (born Stacy Mikaelson on March 25, 1971) is an American pole vaulter. Dragila was born in Auburn, California. She was a standout pole vaulter for the Idaho State University women's track and field team in the mid-1990s. She won the first gold medal in women's pole vaulting at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Her accomplishments also include being a two-time world champion (1999, 2001), a 1997 world indoor champion, …
- Jeff Hartwig
Jeff Hartwig (born 25 September 1967 in St. Louis) is an American pole vaulter. In 1998 he set two North American records with 6.00 and 6.01 metres. The latter was an improvement of 16 centimetres from his personal best of 5.85 m from 1997. In 1999 he won US national championships by improving his own record to 6.02 metres, and his current North American record of 6.03 metres followed in 2000. His personal best indoor is 6.02 metres, also an area record.
- Derek Miles
Derek Miles (born 28 September 1972) is an American pole vaulter. His personal best vault is 5.85 metres, achieved in February 2005 in Donetsk, Ukraine. Miles trains with Earl Bell in Jonesboro, Arkansas at Bell Athletics.
- Svetlana Feofanova
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Feofanova (Russian: Светлана Евгеньевна Феофанова; born 16 July, 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian pole vaulter. She won the silver medal in women's pole vaulting at the 2004 Summer Olympics behind compatriot Yelena Isinbayeva. Feofanova also was a Russian gymnast and was included to Russian national team on 1996 Summer Olympics but didn't became a good athlete in this sport. On July 4 2004 she jumped 4,88 m in Heraklion, Greece, …
- Toby Stevenson
Toby Stevenson (born November 19, 1976 in Odessa, Texas) is an Olympic class pole vaulter from the United States. He's known for being the only pole vaulter in the international elite to wear a helmet during jumps. While attending Permian High School, Stevenson set 24 high school records, taking three district championships, and winning the state title in 1995, when he was also the top-ranked 18-year-old pole vaulter in the world.
- Tim Mack
Timothy ("Tim") Mack (born September 15, 1972 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American pole vaulter who became Olympic champion in 2004. The same year he won the 2nd IAAF World Athletics Final with the result 6.01 m, thereby joining the exclusive "6 meters club" of pole vaulters who reached 6 meters. He is a graduate of St. Ignaitus High School, in downtown Cleveland. He also appeared as Captain Planet at a banquet in May of 2007.
- Lawrence Johnson
Lawrence Johnson (born May 7, 1974) is a retired pole vaulter, born in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Best known for winning the Olympic silver medal in 2000, he also won a gold medal at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships. His personal best jump is 5.98 m, which he achieved in 1996.
- Tim Lobinger
Tim Lobinger (born September 3, 1972 in Rheinbach, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German track and field athlete. His discipline is pole vault and he has been an elite competitor since the 1990s. His best results came in 1997 and 1999 when he jumped over 6.00 meters. His best medals so far have been silver at the 1998 European Athletics Championships and the 2006 European Athletics Championships.
- Jennifer Stuczynski
Jennifer Stuczynski (born 6 February 1982) is an American pole vaulter, originally from Fredonia (village), New York. She finished third at the 2006 World Athletics Final. On June 2nd at the Reebok Grand Prix, Jenn cleared 4.88 m/16 feet, becoming only the second woman in the world to do so. After clearing 14-7 and 15-3 on her first attempts to seal the victory, Stuczynski took three stabs at 16 feet, …
- Nick Hysong
Nick Hysong (born December 9, 1971 in Winslow, Arizona) is an American athlete competing in the pole vault. Best known for winning the Olympic gold medal in 2000 with a personal best jump of 5.90 metres, he also won a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. Has excellent speed. He has run 10.27 for 100 meters. In his final year at Arizona State University in 1994, he won both the Pac 10 and the NCAA championships.
- Russ Buller
Russ Buller (born 10 September 1978 in Westlake, Louisiana) is an American pole vaulter. Buller won the silver medal at the 2003 Pan American Games, finished fourth at the 2001 Summer Universiade and fifth at the 2006 IAAF World Cup. His personal best is 5.81 metres, achieved in April 2001 in Walnut. Buller has a degree in kinesiology from the Louisiana State University.
- Monika Pyrek
Monika Pyrek (born August 11, 1980 in Gdynia) is a Polish athlete competing in pole vault. In the 2004 Olympics, she placed fourth with 4.55 metres. She won a silver medal in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics with the result 4.60 m. She also won the silver medal at the 2006 European Athletics Championships. Her personal best is 4.76 metres, achieved in Doniesk in February 2006
- Tori Anthony
Tori Anthony is an American pole vaulter from Palo Alto, California and the holder of the national indoor and outdoor records for high school women at 14' 2-1/2" (4.33 meters) and 14' 1" (4.29 meters) respectively. She was originally a gymnast, but burned out on the sport and switched to track and water polo. Competing in her first track events as a sophomore, she placed fourth in the 2005 state championships for pole vault within four months of taking up the sport.
- Steven Hooker
Steven Hooker (born 16 July 1982) is an Australian pole vaulter. His personal best is 5.96 metres, achieved in September 2006 in Berlin. This ranks him third among Australian pole vaulters, behind Dmitri Markov and Paul Burgess (athlete).
- Danny Ecker
Danny Ecker (born July 21, 1977 in Leverkusen) is a German athlete competing in the pole vault. His current personal best is 5.93 metres, but through his indoor best performance of 6.00 metres he has a place in the so-called 6 metres club. 5.93 ranks him fourth among German pole vaulters, behind Tim Lobinger, Andrei Tivontchik and Michael Stolle. He won a bronze medal at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships and placed fourth at the 1999 World Championships.
- Anna Rogowska
Anna Rogowska (born May 21, 1981 in Gdynia) is a Polish athlete competing in pole vault. She won the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics. Rogowska narrowly beat Monika Pyrek, another pole vaulter from Gdynia. Early 2005 brought success as she won the silver medal in the European Indoor Championships. On July 22 2005 in London, she achieved a personal best with 4.80 m, which was also the Polish record.
- Dana Ellis
Dana Ellis (born on January 1, 1980 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian pole vaulter. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Ellis finished in a 4-way tie for sixth place in the women's pole vault event.
- Mary Sauer
Mary Sauer (born 31 October 1975 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is an American pole vaulter. She finished twelfth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, seventh at the 2002 IAAF World Cup in Madrid and tenth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris. Her personal best jump is 4.65 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Madrid.
- Giuseppe Gibilisco
Giuseppe Gibilisco (born January 5, 1979 in Siracusa) is an Italian pole vaulter who won the 2003 World Championships with a personal best of 5.90m. The 2004 Olympic bronze is another of his greatest accomplishments.
- Rens Blom
Rens Blom (born March 1, 1977 in Munstergeleen) is a Dutch athlete competing in pole vault. He achieved the result of 5.75 as early as in 2000, but five years passed without much progression. However, on June 8, 2004 in Zaragoza he set the current Dutch record with 5.81. In 2005, he showed stability as he cleared 5.80 early in May. At the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, he once again achieved 5.80 and won a surprising gold medal.
- Dmitri Markov
Dmitri Markov (born March 14, 1975 in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR) is a retired Australian pole vaulter. He is a former world champion and current Oceanian record holder. He originally competed for his birth country Belarus, but fell out with the Belarusian athletics association and refused to compete for the country at the 1998 European Championships. He moved to Australia and was granted citizenship in 1999. He soon set a new Oceanian record in pole vault with 5.95 metres, …
- Romain Mesnil
Romain Mesnil (born 13 July 1977 in Plessis-Bouchard) is a French pole vaulter. His personal best is 5.95 metres, achieved in August 2003 in Castres. His coach is Georges Martin.
- Tye Harvey
Tye Harvey (born 25 September 1974) is an American pole vaulter. Harvey won the silver medal at the 2001 World Indoor Championships in Lisbon with a vault of 5.90 metres. In March 2001 in Atlanta Harvey established a career best of 5.93 metres, on an indoor track. His personal best outdoor vault was 5.81 metres, achieved in July 2000 in San Marcos, TX.
- Rick Suhr
Rick Suhr (pronounced "shur") is a pole vaulting coach in Rochester, New York. A number of his students have won national titles for pole vaulting, including Dan Tierney, Tiffany Maskulinski and American high school record holder Mary Saxer. Jennifer Stuczynski, who had trained with Suhr for two years, became the third woman ever to win a U.S. Indoor national title in the pole vault (behind Stacy Dragila and Mary Sauer) in 2005.
- Kym Howe
Kym Howe-Nadin (born June 12, 1980) is an Australian athlete competing in the pole vault. She has an indoor personal best of 4.72 metres, achieved in February 2007 in Donetsk.
- Pat Manson
Pat Manson (born 29 November 1967 in West Point) is a retired American pole vaulter, best known for winning three gold medals at the Pan American Games in 1991, 1995 and 1999. He also finished sixth at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens. His personal best was 5.85 meters, achieved in September 1994 in Tokyo.
- Igor Pavlov
Igor Pavlov is a Russian pole vaulter. He won the silver medal at the 2003 World University Games, and in the following years he became indoor champion on national, European and World level. He finished fourth both at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2005 World Championships.
- Earl Bell
Earl Holmes Bell is a former pole vaulter from the United States, who won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Four years later, at his last Olympic appearance, he ended up in fourth place at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He's a former world record holder, and a 2002 inductee into the "USATF Hall of Fame".
- Bob Richards
The Rev. Robert "Bob" Eugene Richards (born February 20 1926 in Champaign, Illinois), known as the "Vaulting Vicar" in his competitive days, was a versatile athlete who made three Olympic teams in two events. He competed in the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter, and also was a decathlete in 1956. The second man to pole vault 15 feet, he was the Olympic pole vault gold medalist in 1952 and 1956 after winning the bronze medal in 1948.
- Okkert Brits
Okkert Brits (born August 22, 1973 in Uitenhage) is a South African athlete competing in the pole vault. His current personal best of 6.03m, set in 1995, is also the African record. He has won numerous medals at international events. He has competed in the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games finishing 7th in 2000. Married to Jane Gillespie in 2003 and father of Sarah Jane Brits, born in 2005 and David Okkert Brits born in 2006.
- Maksim Tarasov
Maksim Tarasov (born 2 December 1970 in Yaroslavl) is a retired pole vaulter who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. His personal best jump is 6.05 metres, which puts him second in the all-time performers list
- Emma George
Emma George (born November 1, 1974 in Beechworth, Victoria) is an Australian pole vaulter. She set twelve world records in a row in the late nineties, but she lost it on May 26 2000 to Stacy Dragila and was unable to recapture it.
- Fabiana Murer
Fabiana Murer (born 16 March 1981) is a Brazilian pole vaulter. Her personal best is 4.66 metres, achieved in August 2006 in Monaco. This is the current South American record.
- Jean Galfione
Jean Galfione (born 9 June 1971 in Paris) is a French athlete. In 1995 he won the bronze medal pole vault at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. In 1996 he won the gold medal in the pole vault at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1999, he won the IAAF Indoor World Championships clearing 6.00m.
- Tatyana Polnova
Tatyana Polnova, née Zaykova (born 20 April 1979) is a Russian pole vaulter. Between 1998 and 2002 she competed for Turkey under the Turkish name Tuna Köstem. She won the bronze medal at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. Her personal best is 4.78 metres, achieved in Malaga in June 2006.
- Janine Whitlock
Janine Whitlock (born 11 August 1973) is an English pole vaulter. Her personal best is 4.47 metres, achieved in July 2005 at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, in the same meet that Yelena Isinbayeva became the first woman to clear 5 metres. In 2002 Whitlock was found guilty of methandienone doping. The sample was delivered on 16 June 2002 during the English Commonwealth Games trials. She received a suspension from July 2002 to July 2004.
- Bob Seagren
Robert ("Bob") Seagren (born October 17, 1946) was an American pole vaulter, the 1968 Olympic champion. A native of Pomona, California, Bob Seagren was one of the world's top pole vaulters in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won six National AAU and four NCAA titles indoors and outdoors. Indoors he posted eight world bests between 1966 and 1969. He was also the Pan American Games champion in 1967. He jumped his first world record (5.32 m) in Fresno on May 14, 1966, …
- Giovanni Lanaro
Giovanni Lanaro (born 27 September 1981) is a Mexican pole vaulter. He finished in joint fourth place at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow. He also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, but failed to clear his opening height. He also competed in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, but arrived eighth in the Group A with 5,45 metres. His personal best jump is 5.81 metres, achieved in April 2007 in Walnut.