European Athletics Championships 2010 / men's pole vault

20th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	29 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Barcelona
Competition location	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Competition phase	July 29th (qualification) ; July 31st (final)
	Medalist
	Renaud Lavillenie ( FRA )
	Maksym Masuryk ( UKR )
	Przemysław Czerwiński ( POL )

The Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona in 2007

The men's pole vault at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held on July 29 and 31, 2010 at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in the city of Barcelona .

The result of the 2009 World Championships was repeated exactly on the first three places . The reigning world champion Renaud Lavillenie from France became European champion . He won ahead of the Ukrainian vice world champion Maksym Masuryk . Bronze went to the Polish Przemysław Czerwiński .

Existing records

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

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

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

July 29, 2010, 10:15 am

29 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.65 m. Eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the four next placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). In the second attempt at the latest, a jump of 5.60 m had to be achieved for participation in the finals.

Group A

Eemeli Salomäki failed with 5.60 m because he needed one attempt too many for this height
Malte Mohr did not reach the final with his 5.50 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.10 m	5.30 m	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.60 m	5.65 m
1	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy Italy	5.65	-	-	-	O	O	O
2	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic Czech Republic	5.65	-	xxo	-	xo	xo	O
3	Renaud Lavillenie	France France	5.65	-	-	O	-	O	xo
3	Łukasz Michalski	Poland Poland	5.65	-	-	O	-	O	xo
5	Fabian Schulze	Germany Germany	5.65	-	-	x–	xo	xxo	xo
6th	Przemysław Czerwiński	Poland Poland	5.60	-	O	-	xo	O	xxx
7th	Dmitri Starodubtsev	Russia Russia	5.60	-	xo	-	xo	O	xxx
8th	Eemeli Salomäki	Finland Finland	5.60	-	O	xo	O	xxo	xxx
9	Jure Rovan	Slovenia Slovenia	5.50	-	xxo	-	O	xxx
10	Malte Mohr	Germany Germany	5.50	-	-	-	xo	-	xxx
11	Rasmus Wejnold Jørgensen	Denmark Denmark	5.50	O	O	O	xxo	xxx
12	Robbert-Jan Jansen	Netherlands Netherlands	5.50	-	xo	xo	xxo	xxx
13	Yevgeniy Olkhovskiy	Israel Israel	5.30	O	xo	xxx
NM	Denys Yurchenko	Ukraine Ukraine	ogV	-	-	xxx
NM	Igor Bychkov	Spain Spain	ogV	-	xxx

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.10 m	5.30 m	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.60 m	5.65 m
1	Maksym Masuryk	Ukraine Ukraine	5.65	-	-	O	O	xo	O
2	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany Germany	5.65	-	-	-	xxo	-	xo
2	Romain Mesnil	France France	5.65	-	-	-	O	xxo	xo
4th	Damiel Dossévi	France France	5.60	-	-	-	O	O	xxx
5	Mateusz Didenkow	Poland Poland	5.60	-	O	-	O	xo	xxx
6th	Michal Balner	Czech Republic Czech Republic	5.60	-	-	xo	O	xxo	xxx
7th	Giorgio Piantella	Italy Italy	5.50	-	xxo	xo	O	xxx
8th	Vesa Rantanen	Finland Finland	5.50	-	O	O	xo	xxx
9	Leonid Kivalov	Russia Russia	5.40	O	-	O	xxx
9	Konstadínos Filippídis	Greece Greece	5.40	O	O	O	xxx
11	Brian Moonlight	Israel Israel	5.30	O	O	xxx
12	Buhalov spas	Bulgaria Bulgaria	5.30	-	xxo	-	xxx
13	Edi Maia	Portugal Portugal	5.10	O	xxx
NM	Alexander Gripitsch	Russia Russia	ogV

Michal Balner reached his 5.60 m in the third attempt and thus had one failed attempt too many for the final qualification
Vesa Rantanen jumped 5.50 m, which was not enough for the final

With 5.40 m Konstadínos Filippídis failed as four years earlier in the preliminary round
With 5.10 m Edi Maia had no chance of reaching the final

final

Renaud Lavillenie - last year world champion and now European champion

July 31, 2010, 6:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.60 m	5.65 m	5.70 m	5.75 m	5.80 m	5.85 m	6.02 m
1	Renaud Lavillenie	France France	5.85	-	-	xo	-	-	xo	O	O	xxx
2	Maksym Masuryk	Ukraine Ukraine	5.80	O	xo	xo	-	O	O	xo	xxx
3	Przemysław Czerwiński	Poland Poland	5.75	O	-	O	-	xx–	O	xx–	x
4th	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy Italy	5.75	-	-	O	-	-	xo	-	xxx
5	Damiel Dossévi	France France	5.70	-	-	xxo	-	xo	x–	xx
6th	Fabian Schulze	Germany Germany	5.70	-	O	xxo	-	xxo	x–	xx
7th	Łukasz Michalski	Poland Poland	5.65	-	O	-	xo	-	x–	xx
8th	Romain Mesnil	France France	5.60	-	-	O	-	-	xx–	x
9	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany Germany	5.60	-	xxo	O	-	xxx
10	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic Czech Republic	5.60	xo	-	xo	xxx
11	Mateusz Didenkow	Poland Poland	5.50	xo	xo	x–	xx
NM	Dmitri Starodubtsev	Russia Russia	ogV

After finishing second at last year's World Championships, Maksym Masuryk came second here too
After World Cup bronze in 2009, Przemysław Czerwiński also won the bronze medal here
Giuseppe Gibilisco, 2003 World Champion and 2004 Olympic Knight, finished fourth