European Athletics Championships 2002 / men's pole vault

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	23 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 8th (qualification) August 10th (final)
Medalist Alexander Awerbuch ( ISR )   Lars Börgeling ( GER )   Tim Lobinger ( GER )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The men's pole vault at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 8 and 10, 2002 in the Munich Olympic Stadium.

In this competition, the German pole vaulters won two medals, silver and bronze. The European champion was the Israeli World Cup third in 1999 and vice world champion in 2001 Alexander Awerbuch . Lars Börgeling took second place . The 1998 vice European champion Tim Lobinger came third.

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 and not improved at these European championships.

qualification

August 8, 2002

23 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.65 m. No jumper had to approach this height, as the twelve finalists had already emerged beforehand. The twelve athletes reached the final, who had skipped 5.60 m or 5.45 m with not too many unsuccessful attempts (highlighted in light green).

Group A

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  Richard Spiegelburg dropped out with too many unsuccessful attempts with skipped 5.45 m

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  With his 5.25 m, Vesa Rantanen had no chance of participating in the final

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Lars Börgeling	Germany	5.60
2	Patrik Kristiansson	Sweden	5.60
3	Pavel Gerasimov	Russia	5.60
4th	Adam Ptáček	Czech Republic	5.60
5	Piotr Buciarski	Poland	5.45
6th	Richard Spiegelburg	Germany	5.45
7th	Tom Erik Olsen	Norway	5.25
	Vesa Rantanen	Finland	5.25
9	Fabio Pizzolato	Italy	5.25
	Jure Rovan	Slovenia	5.25
11	Dennis Kholev	Israel	5.25
DNS	Thibaut Duval	Belgium

Group B

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  Rens Blom did not reach the final with his 5.25 m

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  Romain Mesnil remained in qualification without a valid attempt

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Štěpán Janáček	Czech Republic	5.60
2	Denys Yurchenko	Ukraine	5.60
3	Tim Lobinger	Germany	5.60
4th	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy	5.60
5	Alexander Awerbuch	Israel	5.45
	Vasily Gorshkov	Russia	5.45
7th	Oscar Janson	Sweden	5.45
8th	João André Silva	Portugal	5.45
9	Ilian Efremov	Bulgaria	5.25
	Mikko Latvala	Finland	5.25
11	Ren Blom	Netherlands	5.25
NM	Romain Mesnil	France	ogV

Legend

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

-	left out
O	skipped
x	cracked

final

August 10, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.60 m	5.70 m	5.75 m	5.80 m	5.85 m
1	Alexander Awerbuch	Israel	5.85	-	-	xo	-	O	xo	O
2	Lars Börgeling	Germany	5.80	-	-	xo	-	x–	O	xx–
3	Tim Lobinger	Germany	5.80	-	O	-	xx–	O	xo	xxx
4th	Patrik Kristiansson	Sweden	5.80	xo	-	xo	xo	O	xo	xxx
5	Štěpán Janáček	Czech Republic	5.75	xo	O	xo	-	O	xx–	x
6th	Denys Yurchenko	Ukraine	5.70	-	xo	-	O	x–	xx
	Adam Ptáček	Czech Republic	5.70	O	O	xo	O	xxx
8th	Vasily Gorshkov	Russia	5.70	O	-	xxo	O	x–	xx
9	Oscar Janson	Sweden	5.60	O	O	O	xxx
10	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy	5.60	O	-	xxo	-	xxx
11	Piotr Buciarski	Poland	5.50	-	xo	xxx
12	Pavel Gerasimov	Russia	5.40	O	-	xxx

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  Alexander Awerbuch - after two world championship medals in 1999 and 2001 now European champion

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  Vice European Champion Lars Börgeling

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  After silver in 1998 , there was now bronze for Tim Lobinger

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  Denys Yurchenko came in sixth place

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  Giuseppe Gibilisco came in tenth - a year later he became world champion and 2004 Olympic knight

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• European Championship 2002 Munich, Men Pole Vault on todor66.com, accessed October 29, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 29, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Pole Vault European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 482 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 29, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, pole vault men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 29, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on October 29, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men , accessed October 29, 2019