European Athletics Championships 1986 / men's pole vault

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's pole vault
city	Stuttgart
Stadion	Neckar Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	August 27 (qualifying) August 29 (final)
Medalist
gold	Serhiy Bubka ( URS )
silver	Wassyl Bubka ( URS )
bronze	Philippe Collet ( FRA )

The Stuttgart stadium - today the Mercedes-Benz Arena in 2011

The men's pole vault at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 was held on August 27 and 29, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition there was an extraordinary specialty with a double victory by a brother couple. The two athletes competed for the Soviet Union. The reigning world champion and world record holder Serhij Bubka became European champion . Wassyl Bubka came in second . Bronze went to the French Philippe Collet .

Records

Existing records

World record	6.01 m	Serhiy Bubka	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	July 8, 1986
European record
EM record	5.60 m	Alexander Krupski	EM in Athens , Greece	September 9, 1982
		Vladimir Polyakov
		Atanas Tarew

Record improvement

European champion Serhij Bubka improved the existing EM record in the final on August 26th by fifteen centimeters to 5.85 m.  

qualification

August 26, 1986, 6:15 p.m.

Twenty participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.50 m. Ten athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the three tied next-placed athletes who had crossed 5.40 m (highlighted in light green). Two days later, a total of thirteen pole vaulters went into the final.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Wassyl Bubka	Soviet Union	5.50
	Serhiy Bubka	Soviet Union	5.50
	Zdeněk Lubenský	Czechoslovakia	5.50
	František Jansa	Czechoslovakia	5.50
	Thierry Vigneron	France	5.50
	Philippe Collet	France	5.50
	Kimmo Kuusela	Finland	5.50
	Atanas Tarew	Bulgaria	5.50
	Stanimir Penchev	Bulgaria	5.50
	Nikolay Nikolov	Bulgaria	5.50
11	Christiaan Leeuwenburgh	Netherlands	5.40
	Serge Ferreira	France	5.40
	Asko Peltoniemi	Finland	5.40
14th	Jürgen Winkler	BR Germany	5.30
	Hermann Fehringer	Austria	5.30
16	Bernhard Zintl	BR Germany	5.20
NM	Rodion Gataullin	Soviet Union	without height
	Alberto Ruiz	Spain
	Javier García	Spain
	Andy Ashurst	Great Britain

final

The reigning world champion and world record holder Serhij Bubka (here in 2013) won his first and only European Championship title - he was five more times world champion and in 1988 Olympic champion

August 29, 1986, 4:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Serhiy Bubka	Soviet Union	5.85 CR
2	Wassyl Bubka	Soviet Union	5.75
3	Philippe Collet	France	5.75
4th	Atanas Tarew	Bulgaria	5.70
5	Kimmo Kuusela	Finland	5.55
6th	Zdeněk Lubenský	Czechoslovakia	5.55
7th	Stanimir Penchev	Bulgaria	5.55
8th	Serge Ferreira	France	5.35
9	František Jansa	Czechoslovakia	5.35
	Nikolay Nikolov	Bulgaria	5.35
11	Christiaan Leeuwenburgh	Netherlands	5.25
12	Asko Peltoniemi	Finland	5.25
NM	Thierry Vigneron	France

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  Bronze medalist Philippe Collet (here in 2012)

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  Thierry Vigneron remained without a valid attempt in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, Men Pole Vault on todor66.com, accessed August 31, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 31, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Pole Vault European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 446 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 31, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, pole vault men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 31, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on August 31, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men , accessed August 30, 2019