#3 Sergey Bubka, Pole Vault
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Freak Feat: 6 consecutive IAAF World Championship titles from 1983 to 1997, 35 World Records
If the Olympics Games ever had a cursed child, you’re looking at him right here. Sergey Bubka has only one Olympic Gold to show for a sporting event, he clearly dominated for a decade and a half.
Bubka won 6 straight Gold Medals in the Pole Vault at the IAAF Championships all the way from 1983 to 1997, but that’s not what makes his story great. Sergey Bubka has probably set the world record for breaking world records.
He has set the world record for men’s pole vault an astonishing 35 times (17 outdoor and 18 indoor records). He was the first pole-vaulter in history to clear 6 meters and 6.10 meters. His indoor record set in 1993 stood for 21 years when it was finally bettered by Frenchman Lavillenie in 2014 at the same competition and arena as the original record.
The outdoor world record he set in 1994 still belongs to him. What is also interesting is that he broke his own record 14 times. For the current generation of sports enthusiasts who would have seen a lot of Yelena Isinbayeva, we now probably understand where the inspiration was coming from all these years.
