Best pole vault outdoors is 6.15. Yet Duplantis was trying to go 6.19 because World Athletics no longer has a distinction between outdoor and indoor record for the field events.
But they do for track events. Makes no sense. Vaulting is harder outdoors. Jumping with a tailwind is easier outdoors.
The pole vault is the only mark where the indoor best is better than the outdoor best.
There is an indoor long jump record (Carl Lewis).
Basically, there are world records and there are are indoor records.
indoor records count as overall records on the track.
but they also have a separate category for indoor records.
there are no "outdoor records"
Star wrote:
The pole vault is the only mark where the indoor best is better than the outdoor best.
There is an indoor long jump record (Carl Lewis).
Basically, there are world records and there are are indoor records.
yes.
The indoor and outdoor records would probably be the same on the track to if it wasn't a different size. The maximum legal wind is +2 and you aren't likley to get that much it probably only helps you by a few cm.
Indoor and outdoor tracks are the same distance, but not the same shape. In field events, the run-up usually are shorter indoors, and on different surfaces.
I think the mile is one event where someone could better the outdoor record while running indoors. I believe the banks compensate for doubling the laps once you go over 1000 m.
It’s too tight for sprints.
A lot of runners have better indoor mile PRs than outdoor, even comparative to their outdoor 1500 best.
The indoor mile world record was crushed by a long distance runner.
The issue is, indoors is a short season and most runners aren’t at peak form that time of year.
Another issue that comes into play is with banked turns is it possible to get the runners center of mass closer to the turn center. (Over the rail or close to the rail shortening the effective distance run. This phenomenon actually helps in cycling where they found 250m tracks were faster than 333m tracks for this very reason. Might explain fast indoor mile times as well.