European Athletics Championships 1978 / men's pole vault

12th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's pole vault
city	Prague , Czechoslovakia today Czech Republic
Stadion	Evžena Rošického Stadium
Attendees	23 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	August 30th (qualification) September 1st (final)
Medalist
gold	Vladimir Trofimenko ( URS )
silver	Antti Kalliomäki ( FIN )
bronze	Rauli Pudas ( FIN )

The stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague
in 2009

The pole vault men at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was born on 30 August and 1 September 1978 at the Stadium Evžena Rošického of Prague held.

In this competition, the Finnish athletes won two medals, silver and bronze. The European champion was the Soviet pole vaulter Vladimir Trofimenko . He won ahead of Antti Kalliomäki . Bronze went to Rauli Pudas .

Records

Existing records

World record	5.70 m	David Roberts	Eugene , USA	June 22, 1976
European record	5.66 m	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	Warsaw , Poland	17th June 1977
EM record	5.35 m	Wolfgang Nordwig	EM in Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1971
		Vladimir Kishkun	EM in Rome , Italy	September 6, 1974
		Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz

Record improvement

European champion Wladimir Trofimenko improved the existing EM record in the final on September 1st by twenty centimeters to 5.55 m.

qualification

August 30, 1978, 5:00 p.m.

23 participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.25 m. Since only three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes so that at least twelve pole vaulters were in the final. The next height below the qualification value - 5.15 m - was skipped by ten athletes (highlighted in light green). So there was a final field of thirteen participants for the following day.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	Poland	5.25
	Günther Lohre	BR Germany	5.25 SB
	Mariusz Klimczyk	Poland	5.25 SB
4th	Tapani Haapakoski	Finland	5.15
	Yevgeny Tananika	Soviet Union	5.15
	Rauli Pudas	Finland	5.15
	François Tracanelli	France	5.15
	Vladimir Trofimenko	Soviet Union	5.15
	Patrick Abada	France	5.15
	Brian Hooper	Great Britain	5.15
	Roger Oriol	Spain	5.15 SB
	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland	5.15
	Philippe Houvion	France	5.15
14th	Domenico D'Alisera	Italy	4.90 SB
	Roman Zrun	Czechoslovakia	4.90 PB
	Elias Sakellariadis	Greece	4.90
	Peter Jensen	Denmark	4.90 SB
	Reinhard Lechner	Austria	4.90 SB
NM	Keith Stock	Great Britain	without height
	Patrick Desruelles	Belgium
	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland
	Jiří Lesák	Czechoslovakia
	Antonín Hadinger	Czechoslovakia

final

European record holder Władysław Kozakiewicz came fourth here - he later went to the Federal Republic of Germany and started for the  DLV

September 1, 1978

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Vladimir Trofimenko	Soviet Union	5.55 CR
2	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland	5.50 SB
3	Rauli Pudas	Finland	5.45 SB
4th	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	Poland	5.45
5	Yevgeny Tananika	Soviet Union	5.40
6th	Philippe Houvion	France	5.40 SB
7th	François Tracanelli	France	5.30 SB
	Brian Hooper	Great Britain	5.30 SB
9	Patrick Abada	France	5.30 SB
10	Tapani Haapakoski	Finland	5.30 SB
11	Günther Lohre	BR Germany	5.20
NM	Mariusz Klimczyk	Poland	without height
DNS	Roger Oriol	Spain

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Prague 1978 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 2, 2019
• 1978 European Championship Prague, Men Pole Vault on todor66.com, accessed August 2, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1978 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 2, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Pole Vault European Championship 1978 Praha, p. 430 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 2, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1978, pole vault men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 2, 2019
• 12th European Athletics Championships 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia from ifosta.de, accessed on August 2, 2019

References and comments

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