European Athletics Championships 1990 / men's pole vault

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15th European Athletics Championships
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discipline Pole vault
gender Men
Attendees 19 athletes from 13 countries
venue Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Split
Competition location Poljud Stadium
Competition phase August 28th (qualification)
August 30th (final)
Medalist
gold medal Rodion Gataullin ( URS ) Soviet UnionSoviet Union 
Silver medal Grigory Yegorov ( URS ) Soviet UnionSoviet Union 
Bronze medal Hermann Fehringer ( AUT ) AustriaAustria 
The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The men's pole vault at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 28 and 30, 1990 at the Poljud Stadium in Split .

In this competition there was a double victory for the pole vaulters from the Soviet Union. European champion was the World Cup third in 1987 and Olympic second in 1988 Rodion Gataullin . He won before the 1988 Olympic third-placed Grigori Jegorow . The Austrian Hermann Fehringer won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record 6.06 m Soviet UnionSoviet Union Serhiy Bubka Nice , France July 10, 1988
European record
EM record 5.85 m EM in Stuttgart , BR Germany August 26, 1986

Record setting

European champion Rodion Gataullin equalized the existing EM record of 5.85 m in the final on August 30th. Soviet UnionSoviet Union

qualification

August 28, 1990, 6:15 p.m.

Nineteen participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.50 m. A single pole vaulter approached this height and jumped it (highlighted in light blue). The other eleven finalists qualified via the ranking of the next best athletes (highlighted in light green). In the end, 5.30 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space Surname nation Height (m)
1 Serhiy Bubka Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 5.50
2 Hermann Fehringer AustriaAustria Austria 5.40
3 Philippe Collet FranceFrance France 5.30
Ferenc Salbert FranceFrance France 5.30
Petri Peltoniemi FinlandFinland Finland 5.30
6th Marco Andreini ItalyItaly Italy 5.10
7th Ruhan Isim TurkeyTurkey Turkey 4.90
NM Nikolay Nikolov Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Bulgaria without height
Peter Widén SwedenSweden Sweden
Sazan Fisheku Albania 1946People's Socialist Republic of Albania Albania

Group B

space Surname nation Height (m)
1 Grigory Yegorov Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 5.40
Rodion Gataullin Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 5.50
3 Galen Nikov Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Bulgaria 5.30
Thierry Vigneron FranceFrance France 5.30
Javier García SpainSpain Spain 5.30
Jani Lehtonen FinlandFinland Finland 5.30
István Bagyula HungaryHungary Hungary 5.30
8th Michael Edwards United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 5.10
NM Bernhard Zintl Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany without height

final

Philippe Collet (here in 2012) , European Championship third from 1986 , came fourth

August 30, 1990

space Surname nation Height (m)
1 Rodion Gataullin Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 5.85 CRe
2 Grigory Yegorov Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 5.75
3 Hermann Fehringer AustriaAustria Austria 5.75
4th Philippe Collet FranceFrance France 5.70
5 Javier García SpainSpain Spain 5.70
6th Serhiy Bubka Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 5.70
7th Ferenc Salbert FranceFrance France 5.60
8th Petri Peltoniemi FinlandFinland Finland 5.40
9 Galen Nikov Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Bulgaria 5.40
10 István Bagyula HungaryHungary Hungary 5.20
NM Thierry Vigneron FranceFrance France without height
Jani Lehtonen FinlandFinland Finland

  • The two-time world champion ( 1983 / 1987 ), Olympic champion in 1988 , world record holder and defending champion Sergey Bubka (in the photo in 2013) had to settle for sixth place

  • The Olympic third from 1984 and reigning vice world champion Thierry Vigneron (here in 2012) remained in the final as in 1986 without a valid attempt

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References and comments

  1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men , accessed September 13, 2019