European Athletics Championships 2006 / Women's pole vault

19th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Women
Attendees	27 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 9 (qualification) ; August 12 (final)
	Medalists
	Jelena Isinbayeva ( RUS )
	Monika Pyrek ( POL )
	Tatjana Polnowa ( RUS )

The Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg during the 2006 European Championships

The pole vault women at the 2006 European Athletics Championships was on 9 and 12 August 2006 at the Ullevi stadium of the city of Gothenburg held.

The Russian athletes won two gold and bronze medals in this competition. With Jelena Isinbayeva, the European champion became the best pole vaulter of these years. She was the Olympic champion in 2004 , world champion in 2005 , world record owner and EM -Second of 2002 . Second place went to the 2005 vice world champion Monika Pyrek from Poland. Bronze went to Tatjana Polnowa .

Records

Existing records

World record	5.01 m	Russia Elena Isinbayeva	World Cup Helsinki Finland	August 12, 2005
European record
Championship record	4.60 m	Russia Svetlana Feofanova	EM Munich , Germany	August 9, 2002

Record improvements

European champion Jelena Issinbajewa improved the existing EM record in the final on August 12 by twenty centimeters to 4.80 m. Russia

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

August 9, 2006, 10:35 a.m.

27 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 4.40 m. Nine athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the three athletes placed next to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 4.30 m had to be achieved with at most one failed attempt for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Best height (m)	3.80 m	4.00 m	4.15 m	4.30 m	4.35 m	4.40 m
1	Róza Kasprzak	Poland Poland	4.40	-	xo	O	O	-	O
1	Krisztina Molnár	Hungary Hungary	4.40	-	O	O	xo	-	O
3	Naroa Agirre	Spain Spain	4.40	-	O	O	O	O	xo
3	Elena Isinbayeva	Russia Russia	4.40	-	-	-	-	-	xo
5	Nastya Ryjikh	Germany Germany	4.30	-	-	-	O	-	xxx
6th	Joanna Piwowarska	Poland Poland	4.30	-	O	O	xo	-	xxx
7th	Maria Rendin	Sweden Sweden	4.30	O	xxo	xxo	xo	xxx
8th	Kate Dennison	United Kingdom Great Britain	4.30	-	O	O	xxo	x–	xx
9	Vanessa Boslak	France France	4.15	-	-	O	xxx
9	Slavica Semenjuk	Serbia Serbia	4.15	O	O	O	xxx
11	Arianna Farfalletti Casali	Italy Italy	4.00	O	O	xxx
11	Elisabete Tavares	Portugal Portugal	4.00	O	O	xxx
13	Jiřina Ptáčníková	Czech Republic Czech Republic	3.80	O	xxx

4.15 m was not enough for Vanessa Boslak to take part in the final
Arianna Farfalletti Casali was eliminated with 4.15 m in the qualification
Jiřina Ptáčníková stayed with 3.80 m well below the qualification level

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Best height (m)	3.80 m	4.00 m	4.15 m	4.30 m	4.35 m	4.40 m
1	Monika Pyrek	Poland Poland	4.40	-	-	-	O	-	O
	Svetlana Feofanova	Russia Russia	4.40	-	-	-	-	-	O
	Tatiana Polnova	Russia Russia	4.40	-	-	-	O	-	O
4th	Martina Strutz	Germany Germany	4.40	-	-	O	xo	O	O
5	Silke Spiegelburg	Germany Germany	4.40	-	-	O	O	xo	xxo
6th	Pavla Hamácková	Czech Republic Czech Republic	4.35	-	-	O	O	O	xxx
7th	Hanna-Mia Persson	Sweden Sweden	4.30	-	xxo	xo	xo	xxx
8th	Kateřina Baďurová	Czech Republic Czech Republic	4.30	-	O	xo	xxo	xxx
9	Linda Persson	Sweden Sweden	4.15	O	O	O	xxx
10	Anna Giordano Bruno	Italy Italy	4.15	O	O	xo	xxx
11	Rianna Galiart	Netherlands Netherlands	4.00	xxo	O	xxx
11	Anita Tørring	Denmark Denmark	4.00	xxo	O	xxx
13	Dana Cervantes	Spain Spain	4.00	xxo	xo	xxx
14th	Ellie Spain	United Kingdom Great Britain	4.00	O	xxo	xxx

Kateřina Baďurová reached 4.30 m, but had too many failed attempts
4.15 m was not enough for Anna Giordano Bruno to be in the final
Rianna Galiart scored 4.15 m and was eliminated

final

August 12, 2006, 3:10 p.m.

The defending champion Svetlana Feofanowa had her first failed attempt at 4.60 m and then played poker. But she could no longer achieve a valid jump and remained medalless. The second from 2002 and world record holder Jelena Isinbayeva only started at 4.60 m. After she had secured gold with a jump of 4.80 m, she tried three times without a chance at the new world record height of 5.02 m. Whether she really counted on a chance to set the record in the face of the rain or whether she just wanted to do the audience a favor remained unclear.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	4.10 m	4.20 m	4.30 m	4.35 m	4.40 m	4.45 m	4.50 m	4.55 m	4.60 m	4.65 m	4.70 m	4.75 m	4.80 m	5.02 m
1	Elena Isinbayeva	Russia Russia	4.80 CR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	O	-	xo	-	xo	xxx
2	Monika Pyrek	Poland Poland	4.65	-	-	-	-	xo	-	O	-	O	O	xx–	-	x
3	Tatiana Polnova	Russia Russia	4.65	-	-	O	-	O	-	xxo	O	O	O	xxx
4th	Svetlana Feofanova	Russia Russia	4.50	-	-	-	-	O	-	O	-	x–	x–	x
5	Martina Strutz	Germany Germany	4.50	O	-	xo	-	O	xo	xxo	xxx
6th	Silke Spiegelburg	Germany Germany	4.50	-	xo	xo	-	xxo	-	xxo	xxx
7th	Naroa Agirre	Spain Spain	4.45	O	O	O	-	O	xxo	xxx
8th	Róza Kasprzak	Poland Poland	4.40	O	-	O	-	xo	-	xxx
9	Nastya Ryjikh	Germany Germany	4.35	-	O	-	O	-	xxx
10	Pavla Hamácková	Czech Republic Czech Republic	4.35	-	xo	-	xo	-	xxx
11	Krisztina Molnár	Hungary Hungary	4.30	O	O	xo	-	xxx
NM	Joanna Piwowarska	Poland Poland	ogV	xxx

European champion Yelena Isinbayeva won after the Olympic title in 2004 and the World Cup -Titel 2005 the European crown
The vice world champion from 2005 Monika Pyrek was also vice European champion
The defending champion and vice world champion from 2001 Svetlana Feofanova remained medalless this time
Martina Strutz came in fifth
Silke Spiegelburg came in sixth place
Naroa Agirre reached number seven
The tenth place Pavla Hamácková