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With a first national record already accomplished in the new indoor season, I'll take advantage of that opportunity to list the records female vaulters will be targeting in 2005-2006. Thanks to Becca Gillespy, for drawing my attention to that latest record, and to Heinrich Hubbeling, who discovered a mark for Jersey that becomes the oldest of current indoor national records. Corrections and additions to this list will be greatly appreciated.

WOMEN'S NATIONAL INDOOR POLE VAULT RECORDS, a/o NOVEMBER 14, 2005

Algeria 2.50i Linda Chellakh 1995-01-22 Grenoble
Andorra 2.65i Sara Guerra Vilana 2005-02-27 1 Vilafranca
Argentina 4.25i Alejandra Garcia 2004-10-06 1 Burzaco
Australia 4.55i Emma George 1998-03-26 1 Adelaide
Austria 4.44i Doris Auer 2001-03-18 2 Glasgow
Belarus 4.00i Yuliya Taratynova 2003-02-15 4 Donetsk
Belarus 4.00i Svetlana Makarevich 2004-02-07 2 Moskva
Belgium 4.10i Irena Dufour 2003-02-16 1 Gent
Brazil 4.02i Joana Ribeiro Costa 2005-08-15 1 Columbia, SC
Bulgaria 4.50i Tania Stefanova 2005-02-16 1 Athína
Canada 4.38i Kelsie Hendry 2005-03-18 1 Hamilton
Chile 4.10i Carolina Torres 2003-03-02 2 Magglingen
China 4.45i Shuying Gao 2002-03-10 2 Sindelfingen
China 4.45i Zhao Yingying 2005-02-24 3 Madrid
Colombia 3.91i Milena Agudelo 2004-10-06 3 Santa Fe, ARG
Croatia 4.00i Ivona Jerkovic 2005-02-19 1 Zagreb
Cyprus 4.40i Anna Fitadou 2005-01-29 1 Peania
Czech Republic 4.57i Pavla Hamácková 2003-02-08 1 Potsdam
Denmark 4.23i Marie Rasmussen 2002-02-17 1 Malmö
Egypt 3.64i Sonya Ahmed 2001-02-24 2 Tulsa
El Salvador 3.66i Michelle Rivera 2002-02-23 3h Los Angeles
Estonia 3.91i Merle Kivimetts 2001-02-11 1 Tallinn
Finland 4.11i Hanna Palamaa 2002-02-22 1 Bowling Green
France 4.50i Vanessa Boslak 2004-02-22 1 Aubieres
Georgia 2.70i Ina Narijniak 1993-02-22 Tsilibisi
Germany 4.68i Annika Becker 2004-02-04 2 Dortmund
Great Britain 4.44i Janine Whitlock 2002-02-17 4 Birmingham
Greece 4.37i Georgia Tsiliggiri 2001-02-23 1 Pireaus
Greece 4.37i Katerina Stefanídi 2005-02-20 1 Athíni
Guam 2.90i Juliana Jensen 2001-02-03 Pocatello
Guatemala 3.20i Peggy Ovalle 2005-01-28 10 Lawrence
Guinea-Bissau 2.28i Placida Mirolho 2003-02-15 Espinho
Hungary 4.51i Zsuzsanna Szabó 1999-02-04 1 Budapest
Egypt 3.64i Sonya Ahmed 2001-02-24 2 Tulsa
Iceland 4.51i Thórey Elisdóttir 2001-03-10 1 Fayetteville
Indonesia 3.82i Desy Margawati 2001-02-03 Tsaotun
Ireland 3.82i Bridget Pearson 2000-02-19 5 Los Angeles
Israel 3.80i Olga Dogadko 2003-02-12 1 Moskva
Israel 3.80i Zhanna Barrer 2005-02-04 1 New York
Italy 4.30i Francesca Dolcini 2002-02-01 2 Zweibrücken
Jamaica 3.36i Sandé Swaby 2001-02-23 Lincoln
Japan 4.30i Masumi Ono 2002-03-03 1 Tianjin
Jersey 2.50i Heather Le Cocq 1990-01-27 1 Stoke
Kazakhstan 3.90i Yelena Reznik 2001-02-18 4 Tianjin
Korea 3.22i Choi Yun-Hee 2001-03-20 Toyota
Latvia 3.92i Rita Obizajeva 2004-02-22 1 Kaunas
Lithuania 3.70i Edita Grigelionyte 2004-02-14 1 Panavezys
Luxembourg 3.50i Joelle Scheer 2004-01-31 Luxembourg
Malaysia 4.00i Roslinda Samsu 2004-02-07 2 Tehran
Mali 2.82i Aminata Sanako 1996-01-13 Cergy-la-Tour
Mexico 3.90i Alejandra Meza 2003-01-18 1 Houston
Morocco 3.17i Zakia El Hassouni 1996-01-13 Cergy-la-Tour
Netherlands 4.45i Monique de Wilt 2003-02-15 1 Gent
New Zealand 4.30i Jenni Dryburgh 2002-06-29 1 Auckland
Norway 3.85i Anita Tomulevski 1996-03-08 Stockholm
Peru 2.90i Maria Ferrand 2004-02-14 Houston
Poland 4.75i Anna Rogowska 2005-02-12 2 Donetsk
Portugal 4.30i Elisabete Tavares 2005-03-04 15 Madrid
Puerto Rico 4.16i Denisse Orengo 2004-04-03 1 San German
Romania 4.25i Gabriella Mihalcea 1999-02-13 1 Pireaus
Russia 4.90i Yelena Isinbayeva 2005-03-06 1 Madrid
Serbia/CG 4.05i Slavica Semenjuk 2005-02-16 5 Athína
Slovakia 4.05i Slavomira Slúková 2005-02-19 1 Bratislava
Slovenia 4.20i Teja Melink 2005-01-28 1 Budapest
South Africa 4.41i Elmarie Gerryts 2000-02-20 1 Birmingham
Spain 4.46i Dana Cervantes 2004-01-31 1 Zaragoza
Sweden 4.37i Kirsten Belin 2003-03-02 1 Sätra
Switzerland 4.20i Nadine Rohr 2004-02-22 1 Magglingen
Taiwan 3.96i Chang Ko-Hsin 2004-02-20 1 Tsaotun
Thailand 3.40i Pasuta Wongwieng 2005-11-14 3 Bangkok
Tunisia 4.20i Syrine Balti 2003-02-22 4 Bordeaux
Turkey 2.85i Gülten Yürük 2001-02-04 Izmir
Ukraine 4.47i Anzhela Balakhonova 2000-02-04 1 Budapest
United States 4.81i Stacy Dragila 2004-03-06 2 Budapest
Uruguay 3.95i Deborah Gyurcsek 2004-02-08 1 Valencia
Venezuela 3.76i Keisa Monerola 2004-10-06 4 Santa Fe, ARG

What are the mens indoor national records?

I don't know of an internet source for men's national indoor vault records, but the IAAF publishes a list of these in each edition of their World Indoor Championships Statistics Handbook. The most recent of these was for the Budapest WIC in 2004 and still is available, for $16, from the IAAF Home Page <IAAF.org>. Use the Publications link.

The best source for outdoor records has always been Winfried Kramer's National Athletics Records. Since the Kramer group did the IAAF Stat Handbook for the Helsinki World Championships, that should be just as good and more recent than the latest publication of National Athletics Records.