European Athletics Championships 1982 / men's pole vault

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's pole vault
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Attendees	24 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	September 7th (qualification) September 9th (final)
Medalist
gold	Alexander Krupski ( URS )
silver	Vladimir Polyakov ( URS )
bronze	Atanas Tarew ( BUL )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The men's pole vault at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 7 and 9, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

In this competition, the pole vaulters from the Soviet Union won a double victory. Alexander Krupski became European champion . Second place went to world record holder Vladimir Polyakov . Bronze went to the Bulgarian Atanas Tarew .

Records

Existing records

World record	5.81 m	Vladimir Polyakov	Tbilisi , Soviet Union (now Georgia )	June 25, 1981
European record
EM record	5.55 m	Vladimir Trofimenko	EM in Prague , Czechoslovakia	September 1, 1978

Record improvements

The three first placed athletes improved the existing EM record in the final on September 9 by five centimeters to 5.60 m:

• European champion Alexander Krupski
• Vice European Champion Vladimir Polyakov
• Bronze medalist Atanas Tarew 

qualification

September 7, 1982

24 athletes competed for the qualifying round. The qualifying height for the direct entry into the final was 5.45 m, which was skipped by seven athletes (highlighted in light blue). In addition, the final field was filled with the subsequently best placed athletes so that at least twelve of them were in the final. One pole vaulter had jumped 5.40 m, six more 5.35 m. These seven participants (highlighted in light green) had thus also qualified for the final round.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Vladimir Polyakov	Soviet Union	5.45
	Felix Böhni	Switzerland	5.45 SB
	Alexander Chernyayev	Soviet Union	5.45
	Atanas Tarew	Bulgaria	5.45
	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland	5.45 SB
	Günther Lohre	BR Germany	5.45
	Pierre Quinon	France	5.45
8th	Miro Zalar	Sweden	5.40
9	Timo Kuusisto	Finland	5.35 SB
	Zbigniew Radzikowski	Poland	5.35
	Thierry Vigneron	France	5.35
	Alexander Krupski	Soviet Union	5.35
	Jürgen Winkler	BR Germany	5.35 SB
	František Jansa	Czechoslovakia	5.35
15th	Stanimir Penchev	Bulgaria	5.25 SB
	Ferenc Salbert	France	5.25 SB
	Daniel Aebischer	Switzerland	5.25
NM	Mauro Barella	Italy	without height
	Iwo Yanchev	Bulgaria
	Jean-Michel Bellot	France
	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland
	Rauli Pudas	Finland
	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden
	Andreas Tsonis	Greece

final

At the beginning of his sports career, Thierry Vigneron finished fifth - later he set the world record twice, winning the 1984 Olympic bronze and 1987 World Cup silver 

September 9, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Alexander Krupski	Soviet Union	5.60 CR
2	Vladimir Polyakov	Soviet Union	5.60 CR
3	Atanas Tarew	Bulgaria	5.60 CR
4th	Miro Zalar	Sweden	5.55 SB
5	Alexander Chernyayev	Soviet Union	5.50
	Thierry Vigneron	France	5.50
7th	František Jansa	Czechoslovakia	5.50 SB
	Günther Lohre	BR Germany	5.50
9	Felix Böhni	Switzerland	5.45 SBe
10	Zbigniew Radzikowski	Poland	5.45
11	Jürgen Winkler	BR Germany	5.35 SBe
12	Pierre Quinon	France	5.35
	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland	5.35
NM	Timo Kuusisto	Finland	without height

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 20, 2019
• European Championship 1982 Athens, Men Pole Vault on todor66.com, accessed August 20, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 20, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Pole Vault European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 438 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, pole vault men
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men , accessed August 20, 2019