European Athletics Championships 2002 / women's pole vault

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Women
Attendees	33 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (qualification) August 9th (final)
Medalists Svetlana Feofanowa ( RUS )   Jelena Isinbayeva ( RUS )   Yvonne Buschbaum ( GER )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The women's pole vault at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 7th and 9th, 2002 in the Munich Olympic Stadium.

In this competition there was a double victory for the Russian pole vaulters. European champion became the vice world champion from 2001 and European record holder Svetlana Feofanova . Behind them, Jelena Isinbayeva won her first silver medal at a major international championship. As four years ago, the bronze medal went to the German Yvonne Buschbaum , who now lives as a man with the name Balian Buschbaum after a sex change.

Records

Existing records

World record	4.81 m	Stacy Dragila	Palo Alto , USA	June 9, 2001
European record	4.78 m	Svetlana Feofanova	Stockholm , Sweden	July 16, 2002
Championship record	4.31 m	Anshela Balachonova	EM Budapest , Hungary	August 21, 1998
		Nicole Humbert
		Yvonne Buschbaum

Record improvements

The existing EM record in this still young discipline was improved or evened out several times in the qualification and later in the final.

EM records qualification August 7th 4.40 m  Annika Becker Group A Elena Belyakova  Anna Rogowska Krisztina Molnar Svetlana Feofanova Group B Yvonne Buschbaum Elena Isinbayeva

European Championship records final August 9th 4.40 m Svetlana Feofanova Elena Isinbayeva Elena Belyakova  Annika Becker Monique de Wilt 4.50 m Svetlana Feofanova Elena Isinbayeva Yvonne Buschbaum Elena Belyakova  Annika Becker 4.55 m Elena Isinbayeva 4.60 m Svetlana Feofanova

qualification

August 7, 2002

33 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 4.40 m. Eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the four next-placed athletes who had achieved 4.30 m to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). Among the participants who did not qualify for the final there were also three athletes who had crossed 4.30 m, but were placed behind the top twelve jumpers after applying the failed attempt rule.

Group A

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  Carolin Hingst jumped 4.30 m, but had too many failed attempts to be in the final

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  Kateřina Baďurová retired with 3.80 m in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Annika Becker	Germany	4.40 CR
2	Elena Belyakova	Russia	4.40 CR
3	Anna Rogowska	Poland	4.40 CR
4th	Krisztina Molnar	Hungary	4.40 CR
5	Kirsten Belin	Sweden	4.40 CR
6th	Monique de Wilt	Netherlands	4.30
7th	Naroa Agirre	Spain	4.30
8th	Thórey Edda Elísdóttir	Iceland	4.30
9	Carolin Hingst	Germany	4.30
10	Marie Poissonnier	France	4.15
11	Paulina Sigg	Finland	4.15 NO
12	Anita Tørring	Denmark	4.00
13	Kateřina Baďurová	Czech Republic	3.80
14th	Nadine Rohr	Switzerland	3.80
NM	Annalisa Meacci	Italy	ogV
	Olga Dogadko	Israel

Group B

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  Monika Pyrek failed here with 4.30 m in the qualification, but won several medals at European and World Championships in the following years

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  Zsuzsanna Szabós 4.15 m was not enough for the final

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  Arianna Farfalletti Casali remained in qualification without a valid attempt

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Svetlana Feofanova	Russia	4.40 CR
2	Yvonne Buschbaum	Germany	4.40 CR
3	Elena Isinbayeva	Russia	4.30
4th	Vanessa Boslak	France	4.30
5	Monika Pyrek	Poland	4.30
6th	Tanya Koleva	Bulgaria	4.30
7th	Francesca Dolcini	Italy	4.15
8th	Zsuzsanna Szabó	Hungary	4.15
9	Dana Cervantes	Spain	4.15
10	Hanna-Mia Persson	Sweden	4.15
11	Vala Flosadóttir	Iceland	4.00
	Agnes Livebardon	France	4.00
13	Yeoryía Tsiliggíri	Greece	4.00
	Marie Bagger Bohn	Denmark	4.00
	Anne Latvala	Finland	4.00
NM	Michaela Boulová	Czech Republic	ogV
	Arianna Farfalletti Casali	Italy

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

final

August 9, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	4.20 m	4.30 m	4.40 m	4.50 m	4.55 m	4.60 m	4.65 m
1	Svetlana Feofanova	Russia	4.60 CR	-	-	o CR	o CR	-	o CR	-
2	Elena Isinbayeva	Russia	4.55	O	O	o CR	o CR	o CR	xxx
3	Yvonne Buschbaum	Germany	4.55	xo	-	o CR	o CR	xxx
4th	Elena Belyakova	Russia	4.50	O	O	o CR	xxo CR	xxx
5	Annika Becker	Germany	4.50	O	-	xo CR	xxo CR	-	xxx
6th	Monique de Wilt	Netherlands	4.40 NO	O	xxo	xo CR / NO	xxx
7th	Krisztina Molnar	Hungary	4.30	O	O	xxx
	Anna Rogowska	Poland	4.30	O	O	xxx
9	Kirsten Belin	Sweden	4.30	xxo	O	xxx
10	Naroa Agirre	Spain	4.30	xo	xo	xxx
11	Vanessa Boslak	France	4.20	O	-	xxx
	Thórey Edda Elísdóttir	Iceland	4.20	O	-	xxx

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  The 2001 vice world champion and European record holder Svetlana Feofanova became European champion - and in the following years she had further great successes

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  Vice European Champion Jelena Issinbayeva was at the beginning of an extremely successful career

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  Like four years ago, there was bronze for Yvonne Buschbaum - who has since become a man named Balian Buschbaum through a sex change

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  Anna Rogowska reached the shared seventh place - later, among other things, Olympic third in 2004 and world champion in  2001

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  Eleventh place for Vanessa Boslak

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 5, 2019
• European Championship 2002 Munich, Women Pole Vault on todor66.com, accessed on November 5, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 5, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Pole Vault European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 487 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, pole vault women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 5, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on November 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole Vault Women , accessed November 4, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Pole Vault Women , p. 59 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on November 4, 2019