European Athletics Championships 2012 / men's pole vault

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 30th (qualification) July 1st (final)
Medalist Renaud Lavillenie ( FRA )   Björn Otto ( GER )   Raphael Holzdeppe ( GER )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's pole vault at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held on June 30 and July 1, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

In this competition, the German pole vaulters won two medals, silver and bronze. European champion was the French defending champion, world champion in 2009 and World Cup third in 2011, Renaud Lavillenie . Björn Otto took second place . Third was Raphael Holzdeppe .

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.

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

June 30, 2012, 1:15 p.m.

28 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.60 m. Nobody went to this height after it was clear that 5.55 m would be enough for the final. In order to be in the final, 5.30 m had to be taken in the first jump without a previous failure. Thirteen pole vaulters qualified for the final (highlighted in light green).

Group A

• 

  Romain Mesnil failed to make a valid jump in qualifying

• 

  Denys Yurchenko was eliminated from the qualification without jumping over the height

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.15 m	5.30 m	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.55 m
1	Renaud Lavillenie	France	5.55	-	-	-	-	O
2	Claudio Stecchi	Italy	5.55	-	xo	-	xo	xo
3	Bjorn Otto	Germany	5.50	-	-	-	O	-
4th	Konstandinos Filippidis	Greece	5.50	-	xxo	-	O	-
5	Stanislau Tsivonchyk	Belarus	5.30	-	O	xxx
6th	Max Eaves	Great Britain	5.30	xo	O	-	xxx
	Didac Salas	Spain	5.30	xo	O	xxx
8th	Andrew Sutcliffe	Great Britain	5.30	O	xo	xxx
9	Jere Bergius	Finland	5.30	-	xxo	-	-	xxx
	Robbert Jansen	Netherlands	5.30	-	xxo	xxx
NM	Alhaji Jeng	Sweden	ogV	-	-	-	xx–	x
	Romain Mesnil	France		-	-	-	-	xxx
	Paul's Pujāts	Latvia		xxx
	Denys Yurchenko	Ukraine		-	-	xxx

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.15 m	5.30 m	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.55 m
1	Maksym Masuryk	Ukraine	5.55	-	-	xxo	-	O
2	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany	5.50	-	-	-	O	-
	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic	5.50	-	O	-	O	-
4th	Rasmus Wejnold Jørgensen	Denmark	5.50	O	O	O	xo	x–
	Sergei Kucheryanu	Russia	5.50	-	O	-	O	-
6th	Igor Bychkov	Spain	5.50	O	xo	-	xo	xx–
7th	Malte Mohr	Germany	5.50	-	-	-	xxo	-
8th	Jérôme Clavier	France	5.30	-	O	-	xxx
9	Eemeli Salomäki	Finland	5.30	-	xo	-	xxx
10	Luke Cutts	Great Britain	5.10	O	xxx
NM	Marco bonuses	Italy	ogV	xxx
	Przemysław Czerwiński	Poland		-	xxx
	Edi Maia	Portugal		xxx
	Nikandros Stylianou	Cyprus		xxx

• 

  Eemeli Salomäki had a failed attempt at 5.30 m, which cost him the final

• 

  Przemysław Czerwiński did not make a valid jump in qualification

• 

  Edi Maia - he was eliminated without a valid attempt

final

July 1, 2012, 4:15 p.m.

space

Surname

nation

Result (noun)

5.40 m

5.50 m

5.60 m

5.66 m

5.72 m

5.77 m

5.82 m

5.87 m

5.92 m

5.97 m

6.02 m

1

Renaud Lavillenie

France

5.97

-

-

xo

-

-

O

xxo

O

O

O

xxx

2

Bjorn Otto

Germany

5.92

-

O

-

O

-

xxo

xxo

-

xo

-

xxx

3

Raphael Holzdeppe

Germany

5.77

-

O

-

-

O

O

xxx

4th

Malte Mohr

Germany

5.77

-

-

O

-

-

xo

xxx

5

Konstandinos Filippidis

Greece

5.72

-

O

-

O

xo

xxx

6th

Jan Kudlička

Czech Republic

5.60

O

-

O

-

xx–

x

7th

Rasmus Wejnold Jørgensen

Denmark

5.50

xxo

xxo

xxx

8th

Maksym Masuryk

Ukraine

5.40

xo

-

xxx

Claudio Stecchi

Italy

5.40

xo

xxx

10

Jérôme Clavier

France

5.40

xxo

-

xxx

NM

Igor Bychkov

Spain

ogV

xxx

Sergei Kucheryanu

Russia

xxx

Stanislau Tsivonchyk

Belarus

xxx

• 

  Defending champion Renaud Lavillenie, 2009 world champion and 2011 World Cup -Dritter, won his second European Championship -Titel

• 

  Björn Otto won his first medal with silver at a major international championship

• 

  Bronze medalist Raphael Holzdeppe

• 

  At the same height as the third, Malte Mohr took fourth place

• 

  Konstandinos Filippidis finished fifth

• 

  Jan Kudlička reached sixth place

• 

  Maksym Masuryk came in eighth place

• 

  Tenth place Jérôme Clavier

• 

  Igor Bychkov remained without a valid attempt in the final

Video

• Helsinki 2012 Pole Vault Final Full Contest on youtube.com (French), accessed on January 15, 2020

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed January 15, 2020
• European Championship 2012 Helsinki, Men Pole Vault on todor66.com, accessed January 15, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 15, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Pole Vault European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 512 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 15, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, men's pole vault on sportschau.de, accessed on January 15, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 15, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men , accessed January 15, 2020