European Athletics Championships 1974 / men's pole vault

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's pole vault
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	15 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	September 6th
Medalist
gold	Vladimir Kischkun ( URS )
silver	Władysław Kozakiewicz ( POL )
bronze	Yuri Isakov ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The men's pole vault at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 6, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

With gold and bronze there were two medals for the USSR in the pole vault. Wladimir Kischkun became European champion . He won ahead of Poland's Władysław Kozakiewicz . Bronze went to Yuri Isakov.

Records

Existing records

World record	5.63 m	Bob Seagren	Eugene , USA	2nd July 1972
European record	5.55 m	Kjell Isaksson	Helsingborg , Sweden	June 12, 1972
EM record	5.35 m	Wolfgang Nordwig	EM in Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1971

Record settings

European Champion Wladimir Kischkun and Vice European Champion Władysław Kozakiewicz equalized the existing EM record of 5.35 m in the final on September 6th.   

qualification

Since there were only fifteen participants, the qualification scheduled for September 3rd at 3 p.m. was canceled, and all pole vaulters competed together for the final on September 6th.

final

September 6, 1974

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Vladimir Kishkun	Soviet Union	5.35 CRe
2	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	Poland	5.35 CRe
3	Yuri Isakov	Soviet Union	5.30 SB
4th	Wojciech Buciarski	Poland	5.30 SB
	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland	5.30 SB
6th	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden	5.30 SB
7th	Jānis Lauris	Soviet Union	5.20 SBe
	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland	5.20 SB
9	Patrick Abada	France	5.10 SB
10	Brian Hooper	Great Britain	5.10 SB
11	François Tracanelli	France	5.00 SB
12	Heinz Busche	BR Germany	5.00 PB
13	Theodoros Tongas	Greece	4.80 PB
14th	Silvio Fraquelli	Italy	4.80 SB
NM	Mike Bull	Great Britain	without height

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  Vice European champion Władysław Kozakiewicz - he became Olympic champion in 1980 and emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1985

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  Wojciech Buciarski reached fourth place - at the European Championships in 1971 he was eliminated in qualification

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 13, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Men Pole Vault on todor66.com, accessed July 13, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 13, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Pole Vault European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 422 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 13, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, pole vault men on sportschau.de, accessed on July 13, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 13, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole Vault Men , accessed July 13, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Pole Vault Men , p. 23 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on July 13, 2019