Vaulter Magazine pole vault video – The World Pole Vault Record Holding Woman Yelena Isinbayeva and why she’s the QUEEN of pole vault. She became the first woman to clear the five-meter barrier in 2005. Her current world record is 5.06 m outdoors, set in Zurich in August 2009. Her 5.01 m indoors was the world record for just over a year. The latter was Isinbayeva's twenty-eighth pole vault world record. On 2 March 2013, Jenn Suhr joined Isinbayeva as the only women who have cleared 5 meters. In