The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Athletics - Pole Vault

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

UNITED STATES - 50 Medals
RUSSIA - 8 Medals
FRANCE - 5 Medals

Medal Table
Pole Vault 100 Meters
 200 Meters
400 Meters
 800 Meters
 1500 Meters
5000 Meters
 10000 Meters
 100 Meter Hurdles
110 Meter Hurdles 400 Meter Hurdles 3000 Meter Steeplechase
4X100 Relay 4X400 Relay Marathon
20 KM Walk 50 KM Walk High Jump
Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put
Discus Hammer Throw Javelin
Decathlon Heptathlon

Men's  Women's  Medal Total
Through 2016 Rio Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
1896
 William Hoyt - United States
 Albert Tyler - United States
 Evangelos Damaskos - Greece
Ioannis Theodoropoulos - Greece
1900
 Irving Baxter - United States
 Meredith Colket - United States
 Carl-Albert Andersen - Norway
1904
 Charles Dvorak - United States
 LeRoy Samse - United States
 Louis Wilkins - United States
1908
 Edward Cook - United States
Alfred Gilbert - United States
 NONE
 Edward Archibald - Canada
Charles Jacobs - United States
Bruno Soderstrom - Sweden
1912
 Harry Babcock - United States
 Frank Nelson - United States
Marc Wright - United States
 William Halpenny - Canada
Frank Murphy - United States
Bertil Uggla - Sweden
1920
 Frank Foss - United States
 Henry Petersen - Denmark
 Edwin Myers - United States
1924
 Lee Barnes - United States
 Glen Graham - United States
 James Brooker - United States
1928
 Sabin Carr - United States
 William Droegemuller - United States
 Charles McGinnis - United States
1932
 Bill Miller - United States
 Shuhei Nishida - Japan
 George Jefferson - United States
1936
 Earle Meadows - United States
 Shuhei Nishida - Japan
 Sueo Oe - Japan
1948
 Guinn Smith - United States
 Erkki Kataja - Finland
 Bob Richards - United States
1952
 Bob Richards - United States
 Don Laz - United States
 Ragnar Lundberg - Sweden
1956
 Bob Richards - United States
 Bob Gutowski - United States
 Georgios Roubanis - Greece
1960
 Don Bragg - United States
 Rom Morris - United States
 Eeles Landstrom - Finland
1964
 Frede Hansen - United States
 Wolfgang Reinhardt - United Team of Germany
 Klaus Lehnertz - United Team of Germany
1968
 Bob Seagren - United States
 Claus Schiprowski - West Germany
 Wolfgang Nordwig - East Germany
1972
 Wolfgang Nordwig - East Germany
 Robert Seagren - United States
 Jan Johnson - United States
1976
 Tadeusz Slusarski - Poland
 Antti Kalliomaki - Finland
 David Roberts - United States
1980
 Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz - Poland
 Konstantin Volkov - Soviet Union
Tadeusz Slusarski - Poland
 NONE
1984
 Pierre Quinon -France
 Mike Tully - United States
 Earl Bell - United States
Thierry Vigneron - France
1988
 Sergey Bubka - Soviet Union
 Rodion Gataullin - Soviet Union
 Grigoriy Yegorov - Soviet Union
1992
 Maksim Tarasov - Unified Team
 Igor Trandenkov - Unified Team
 Javier Garcia - Spain
1996
 Jean Galfione - France
 Igor Trandenkov - Russia
 Andrei Tivontchik - Germany
2000
 Nick Hysong - United States
 Lawrence Johnson - United States
 Maksim Tarasov - Russia
2004
 Timothy Mack - United States
 Toby Stevenson - United States
 Giuseppe Gibilisco - Italy
2008
 Steven Hooker - Australia
 Evgeny Lukyanenko - Russia
 Derek Miles - United States
2012
 Renaud Lavillenie - France
 Björn Otto - Germany
 Raphael Holzdeppe - Germany
2016
 Thiago Braz da Silva - Brazil
 Renaud Lavillenie - France
 Sam Kendricks - United States

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
2000
 Stacy Dragila - United States
 Tatiana Grigorieva - Australia
 Vala Flosadottir - Iceland
2004
 Yelena Isinbayeva - Russia
 Svetlana Feofanova - Russia
 Anna Rogowska - Poland
2008
 Yelena Isinbayeva - Russia
 Jennifer Stuczynski - United States
 Svetlana Feofanova - Russia
2012
 Jennifer Suhr - United States
 Yarisley Silva - Cuba
 Yelena Isinbayeva - Russia
2016
 Ekaterini Stefanidi - Greece
 Sandi Morris - United States
 Eliza McCartney - New Zealand
2020
 Katie Nageeotte - United States Anzhelika Sidorova - Russian Olympic Committee Holly Bradshaw - Great Britain

Medal Total  Women's  Men's
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 United States
 22
 16
 12
 50
2
 Russia
 2
 3
 3
 8
3
 France
 3
 1
 1
 5
4
 Poland
 2
 0
 2
 4
5
 Soviet Union
 1
 2
 1
 4
6
 Greece
 1
 0
 3
 4
7
 Japan
 0
 2
 1
 3
8
 Finland
 0
 2
 1
 3
9
 Germany
 0
 1
 2
 3
10
 Sweden
 0
 0
 3
 3
11
 Australia
 1
 1
 0
 2
12
 Unified Team
 1
 1
 0
 2
13
 East Germany
 1
 0
 1
 2
14
 United Team of Germany 0
 1
 1
 2
15
 Canada
 0
 0
 2
 2
16
 Brazil
 1
 0
 0
 1
17
 Denmark
 0
 1
 0
 1
18
 Cuba
 0
 1
 0
 1
19
 West Germany
 0
 1
 0
 1
20
 Russian Olympic Committee
 0
 1
 0
 1
21
 Norway
 0
 0
 1
 1
22
 Spain
 0
 0
 1
 1
23
 Iceland
 0
 0
 1
 1
24
 Italy
 0
 0
 1
 1
25
 New Zealand
 0
 0
 1
 1
26
 Great Britain
 0
 0
 1
 1