European Athletics Championships 1994 / men's pole vault

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	27 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 9 (qualification) August 12 (final)
Medalist Rodion Gataullin ( RUS )   Igor Trandenkow ( RUS )   Jean Galfione ( FRA )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's pole vault at the 1994 European Athletics Championships was held on August 9 and 12, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

In this competition there was a double victory for the pole vaulter from Russia. European champion was defending champion Rodion Gataullin . He won Igor Trandenkow before the 1992 Olympic runner-up . Bronze went to the French Jean Galfione .

Records

Existing records

World record	6.14 m	Serhiy Bubka	Sestriere , Italy	July 31, 1994
European record
EM record	5.85 m	Serhiy Bubka	EM in Stuttgart , BR Germany	August 26, 1986
		Rodion Gataullin	EM in Split , Yugoslavia	August 30, 1990

Record improvement

European champion Rodion Gataullin improved the existing European championship record, which he himself held , by fifteen centimeters to 6.00 m in the final on August 12, making him the first six-meter jumper at European championships.

qualification

August 9, 1994

27 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualifying height for the direct entry into the final was 5.65 m, which was, however, not approached by anyone when it was clear that the 5.60 m skipped by eleven athletes would be sufficient for participation in the finals. The final field was filled with two other equally ranked athletes who had a score of 5.5 m and, according to the failed attempt rule, ranked ahead of the other participants with the same height. Thirteen pole vaulters (highlighted in light green) contested the final, which took place three days later.

Group A

The young Tim Lobinger left here at the beginning of his successful career as twelfth in his qualification group

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Petri Peltoniemi	Finland	5.60
	Denis Petouchinski	Russia
	Danny Krasnov	Israel
	Gérald Baudouin	France
5	Rodion Gataullin	Russia	5.60
6th	Gianni Iapichino	Italy	5.60
7th	Valeri Bukrejev	Estonia	5.60
8th	Peter Widén	Sweden	5.50
9	Trond Barthel	Norway	5.50
10	Daniel Marti	Spain	5.40
	Heikki Vääräniemi	Finland
12	Tim Lobinger	Germany	5.40
NM	Martin Amann	Germany	without height

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Igor Trandenkov	Russia	5.60
2	István Bagyula	Hungary	5.60
	Jean Galfione	France
4th	Philippe Collet	France	5.60
5	Andrei Tivontschik	Germany	5.50
6th	Jani Lehtonen	Finland	5.50
7th	Gennadiy Sidorov	Belarus	5.40
	Nuno Fernandes	Portugal
	Martin Voss	Denmark
10	Javier García	Spain	5.40
11	Patrik Stenlund	Sweden	5.20
12	Michael Edwards	Great Britain	5.20
	Aleksanders Matusevics	Latvia
NM	Photis Stephani	Cyprus	without height

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	left out
O	skipped
x	cracked

final

August 12, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)	Trial series of medalists
				5.40 m	5.60 m	5.70 m	5.80 m	5.85 m	5.90 m	5.95 m	6.00 m
1	Rodion Gataullin	Russia	6.00 CR	-	-	xo	-	xo	xo	-	xo
2	Igor Trandenkov	Russia	5.90	-	-	-	xo	-	O	-	xxx
3	Jean Galfione	France	5.85	-	O	-	O	O	x–	xx
4th	Philippe Collet	France	5.80
5	Denis Petouchinski	Russia	5.80
6th	Andrei Tivontschik	Germany	5.70
7th	Danny Krasnov	Israel	5.70
8th	Gianni Iapichino	Italy	5.70
	Valeri Bukrejev	Estonia	5.70
10	Gérald Baudouin	France	5.60
	István Bagyula	Hungary	5.60
12	Petri Peltoniemi	Finland	5.60
13	Peter Widén	Sweden	5.40

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  Bronze medalist Jean Galfione - in 1995 he won the World Championship bronze, in 1996 he became an Olympic champion

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  Like four years before, Philippe Collet finished fourth after winning the 1986 EM bronze

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 at european-athletics.org, accessed September 25, 2019
• European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Men Pole Vault on todor66.com, accessed September 25, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Pole Vault European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 463 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, pole vault men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 25, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on September 25, 2019

Video

• 4962 European Track & Field Pole Vault Rodion Gataullin on youtube.com (English), accessed September 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men , accessed September 25, 2019