Record highs

The women’s outdoor pole vault world record of 5.06 metres was set in 2009 by two-time Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva from Russia. Only two other women have come near that height outdoors: Russia’s Anzhelika Sidorova, representing ANA (Authorized Neutral Athletes), recorded 5.01 metres last year, and American Sandi Morris cleared 5.0 in 2016. Eliza’s best jump is tantalizingly close to the five-metre mark. In 2018 she cleared 4.94 metres, the highest (outdoor) jump by a female pole vaulter in the world that year; the fifth highest (outdoor) jump ever. Eliza is confident she can jump 5.0 and maybe get close to or break the world record. “I think I have the components, but I haven’t been able to push to that because I’ve had years of stop-start due to injuries. In a perfect world, if I can get things right consistently, I like to think I can realize my potential.”