In five days time, the indoor pole vault world record of 6.15m would have marked its 21st anniversary but the celebrations have started early.
Records are there to be broken, yet sometimes you do wonder if they ever will be when they enter their third decade.
A new era has begun now with the brilliant performance of Renaud Lavillenie in Donetsk on Saturday evening as he cleared 6.16m to achieve the highest mark ever by a pole-vaulter.
The man whose record he broke was not only there watching in the Ukraine. He was the organiser of this Pole Vault Stars meeting which has been written into history.
One small centimetre for this Frenchman, one giant leap for an event which has seen the word 'legend' solely associated with Bubka.
Now there is a rival for that title after Lavillenie took what has been a glorious indoor season for him into one that will be remembered for years.
Bubka’s record was set at this same meeting in Donetsk on 21 February 1993 and while others have tried to break it - Lavillenie himself included - no one had succeeded until now.
What Lavillenie has achieved goes way beyond clearing the bar at 6.16m.
Let us turn the clock back to last summer when the French star was determined to complete the full set of major titles at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow. He was the Olympic champion and the European Champion but it was not be.
In Russia he was beaten to gold on countback by the outstanding German Raphael Holzdeppe, both men clearing 5.89m.
Psychologically, what effect would that have on Lavillenie? Would he be the same competitor again? Would he be making headlines anymore?
If anyone thought his best days were behind him, how wrong they were. Lavillenie has returned to the sport in 2014 with greater determination than ever with the heights he has been achieving in the build up to his spectacular moment in Donetsk.
As he said: 'It was absolutely crazy. I changed the pole and I decided the best way to break it was to go for that height. (It was) 6.16m on the first try! It's amazing, I'm still in the air.'
He then tried to go even higher with 6.21m, and who's to say that will not be cleared in the weeks ahead? Such is the form he is in.
Unfortunately he landed poorly at this new height, seemingly sustaining a small foot injury in the process. He then took the wise decision to put an end to his contest.
Lavillenie stood with Bubka in the middle of the arena as the crowd acclaimed the glory. And in this day and age of news spreading faster than a blink of an eyelid, within seconds of his achievement the story was being talked about across the world.
Norway's double Olympic javelin champion Andreas Thorkildsen wrote on twitter: 'Wow. Congrats!!!!' while Great Britain's European Athletics Indoor pole vault champion Holly Bleasdale said: 'You are the man!!!!! Amazing.'
From the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, where he is working for the BBC, Britain's triple world record-holder Jonathan Edwards wrote: 'World record Lavillenie!!!! 6.16.'
And America's Olympic 110m hurdles champion and world record-holder Aries Merritt said: 'Congrats on the World Record. Amazing accomplishment!!'
Lavillenie will be chasing a hat-trick of European Athletics titles in Zurich in August and next month he will go to Sopot where any result other than gold will come as a disappointment.
He was always going to be the favourite in Poland, and now he will be there with a new title to his name: Renaud Lavillenie, world record-holder.