World Records
Pole Vault
5.20 meters John Pennel (USA) 08/24/1963
Gold Coast AAU, University of Miami Stadium, Coral Gables, Florida, August 24, 1963 - 1. Pennel 5.20 (17'0 3/4" = 5.2018, first jump over 17 feet = 5.1816, 3 jumps: 4.59/1 - 4.90/1 - 5.28: xxx), 2. Henry Wadsworth (USA) 4.59, 3. Channing Rudd 3.96, 4. Richard Klehm 3.81.
Source: IAAF PROGRESSION OF WORLD BEST PERFORMANCES AND OFFICIAL World Records, 1999 Edition, p. 158.
Keith Conning: I was a student at the University of California in Berkeley at the time working in the Student Cafeteria as a hot food server. That fall I became a cashier working with my future wife Marian Barr.
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