European Athletics Championships 1998 / men's pole vault

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	25 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 19 (qualification) August 22 (final)
Medalist Maxim Tarasov ( RUS )   Tim Lobinger ( GER )   Jean Galfione ( FRA )

Népstadion in Budapest

The men's pole vault at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 19 and 22, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

It won the 1995 and 1997 vice world champion Maxim Tarasov from Russia. Vice European champion was the German Tim Lobinger . Bronze went to the French Olympic champion from 1996 , World Cup third from 1995 and European Championship third from 1994 Jean Galfione .

Existing records

World record	6.14 m	Serhiy Bubka	Sestriere , Italy	July 31, 1994
European record
EM record	6.00 m	Rodion Gataullin	EM in Helsinki , Finland	August 12, 1994

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

August 19, 1998

25 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.70 m. After five pole vaulters jumped 5.45 m and another eight jumped 5.45 m, it would have made no sense to continue this qualification. That would not have led to the finding of one of these thirteen athletes who should not have been allowed to take part in the final - twelve athletes are actually intended to participate in the final. All thirteen pole vaulters who had mastered at least 5.45 m (highlighted in light green) contested the final three days later.

Group A

With his 5.30 m Vesa Rantanen retired in the qualification

Romain Mesnil's time came in later years - here he had no valid attempt

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Jean Galfione	France	5.60
2	Tim Lobinger	Germany	5.60
3	Vyacheslav Shuteyev	Ukraine	5.60
4th	Christian Tamminga	Netherlands	5.45
5	Krzysztof Kusiak	Poland	5.30
6th	Trond Barthel	Norway	5.30
	Patrik Stenlund	Sweden	5.30
8th	Vesa Rantanen	Finland	5.30
9	Yevgeny Smiryagin	Russia	5.30
	Martin Voss	Denmark	5.30
11	Piotr Buciarski	Denmark	5.30
NM	Romain Mesnil	France	ogV
	Nuno Fernandes	Portugal

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Maxim Tarasov	Russia	5.60
	Danny Ecker	Germany	5.60
3	Laurens Looije	Netherlands	5.60
4th	Andrei Tivontschik	Germany	5.60
5	Khalid Lachheb	France	5.60
6th	Patrik Kristiansson	Sweden	5.45
7th	Heikki Vääräniemi	Finland	5.45
8th	Pavel Burlachenko	Russia	5.45
	Jure Rovan	Slovenia	5.45
10	Nick Buckfield	Great Britain	5.30
	Martin Eriksson	Sweden	5.30
NM	Danny Krasnov	Israel	ogV

Legend

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

-	left out
O	skipped
x	cracked

final

Vice European Champion Tim Lobinger

August 22, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.60 m	5.70 m	5.76 m	5.81 m	5.86 m	6.01 m
1	Maxim Tarasov	Russia	5.81	-	-	-	O	-	O	-	xxx
2	Tim Lobinger	Germany	5.81	-	O	xo	O	xx–	O	xxx
3	Jean Galfione	France	5.76	-	-	O	-	O	-	xxx
4th	Danny Ecker	Germany	5.76	-	xo	-	O	xo	x–	xx
5	Khalid Lachheb	France	5.60	xxo	-	O	xxx
6th	Andrei Tivontschik	Germany	5.50	-	O	-	xxx
7th	Pavel Burlachenko	Russia	5.50	xxo	O	xxx
8th	Heikki Vääräniemi	Finland	5.50	xo	xo	xxx
9	Jure Rovan	Slovenia	5.50	xo	xxo	xxx
10	Laurens Looije	Netherlands	5.40	O	-	xxx
11	Christian Tamminga	Netherlands	5.40	xo	-	xxx
NM	Patrik Kristiansson	Sweden	ogV	xxx
	Vyacheslav Shuteyev	Ukraine		xxx

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  The 1996 Olympic champion and third place in the 1995 World Cup, Jean Galfione, won  bronze like in 1994

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  Danny Ecker came in fourth

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  Laurens Looije was tenth in this final

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  Christian Tamminga reached eleventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 10, 2019
• European Championship 1998 Budapest, Men Pole Vault on todor66.com, accessed October 10, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 10, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Pole Vault European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 472 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 10, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, men's pole vault on sportschau.de, accessed on October 10, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 10, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men , accessed October 10, 2019