European Athletics Championships 2018 / men's pole vault

discipline	Men's pole vault
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Attendees	36 athletes from 21 countries
Competition phase	August 10, 2018 (qualification) August 12, 2018 (final)
Medalist
gold	Armand Duplantis ( SWE )
silver	Timur Morgunow ( ANA )
bronze	Renaud Lavillenie ( FRA )

At the time of the European Championships, the European champion Armand Duplantis, who was only 18 years old

The men's pole vault at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 10th and 12th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

The Swede Armand Duplantis became European champion. Second place went to the Russian Timur Morgunow , who started under a neutral flag . The Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	Renaud Lavillenie	6.16 m	Donetsk , Ukraine	15th February 2014
European record
Championship record	Rodion Gataullin	6.00 m	EM in Helsinki , Finland	August 11, 1994

Record improvements

Armand Duplantis improved the existing EM record in the final to 6.05 m.

qualification

The Finn Tommi Holttinen jumped 5.51 m, but made two failed attempts, which led to his retirement

Urho Kujanpää, a second Finn, was eliminated in tenth in his qualifying group

The Polish defending champion Robert Sobera had no chance of making it to the final when he jumped 5.36 m

The German Torben Laidig failed after 5.51 m in two failed attempts in the qualification

August 10, 2018, 10:30 a.m. CEST

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height was 5.66 m. Since no jumper even approached this height when it was clear that 5.61 m would be sufficient, the twelve best athletes from both groups qualified for the final (highlighted in light green). Finally, twelve athletes who had jumped 5.51 m without any previous unsuccessful attempt reached the final fight.

Group A

space	athlete	country	5.16	5.36	5.51	5.61	Height (m)
01	Axel Chapelle	France	-	O	O	O	5.61
	Sondre Guttormsen	Norway	-	O	O	O	5.61 PB
03	Armand Duplantis	Sweden	-	-	xo	O	5.61
	Konstandinos Filippidis	Greece	-	xo	O	O	5.61
05	Timur Morgunov	Authorized Neutral Athletes	-	O	xo	xxo	5.61
06th	Alioune Sene	France	O	O	O	xxx	5.51
07th	Tommi Holttinen	Finland	xo	x–	O	xxx	5.51 PB
08th	Bo Kanda Lita Baehre	Germany	O	xo	xxo	xxx	5.51
09	Wladyslaw Malychin	Ukraine	xxo	O	xxo	xxx	5.51
10	Urho Kujanpää	Finland	O	O	xxx		5.36
	Charlie Myers	Great Britain	O	O	xxx		5.36
12	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic	-	xo	xxx		5.36
	Robert Sobera	Poland	-	xo	xxx		5.36
14th	Dominik Alberto	Switzerland	xo	xxx			5.16
15th	Rutger Koppelaar	Netherlands	xxo	xxx			5.16
NM	Ben Broeders	Belgium	xxx				without height
	Ilya Mudrow	Authorized Neutral Athletes	-	xxx
	Adrian Vallés	Spain	xxx

Group B

space	athlete	country	5.16	5.36	5.51	5.61	Height (m)
01	Renaud Lavillenie	France	-	-	O	O	5.61
	Piotr Lisek	Poland	-	O	O	O	5.61
	Paweł Wojciechowski	Poland	-	O	O	O	5.61
04th	Adam Hague	Great Britain	O	xo	O	O	5.61 PB
05	Arnaud Art	Belgium	xo	O	O	xxo	5.61
06th	Claudio Stecchi	Italy	-	O	O	xxx	5.51
07th	Torben Laidig	Germany	xxo	O	O	xxx	5.51
08th	Eirik Greibrokk Dolve	Norway	O	O	xxx		5.36
	Georgi Gorokhov	Authorized Neutral Athletes	-	O	xxx		5.36
	Tomas Wecksten	Finland	O	O	xxx		5.36
11	Mareks Ārents	Latvia	xo	O	xxx		5.36
	Ivan Horvat	Croatia	xo	O	xxx		5.36
	Nikandros Stylianou	Cyprus	xo	O	xxx		5.36
14th	Uladsislau Tschamarmasowitsch	Belarus	O	xo	xxx		5.36
	Diogo Ferreira	Portugal	O	xo	xxx		5.36
16	Didac Salas	Spain	xxo	xo	xxx		5.36
NM	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany	-	-	xxx		without height
	Milker Svärd Jacobsson	Sweden	-	xxx	xxx

final

August 12, 2018, 7:10 p.m. CEST

As is so often the case, the French world record holder Renaud Lavillenie was the favorite. He was also the Olympic champion in 2012 and European champion in 2012 / 2014 , but had in the past, especially at world championships sometimes have to plug defeats over again. All top European athletes in this discipline were also there, the competition was tough. The other favorites were primarily the two Poles Piotr Lisek and Paweł Wojciechowski. Lisek was Vice World Champion in 2017 , World Cup -Dritter of 2015 . Wojciechowski also took third place at the 2015 World Championships and was vice European champion in 2014. The Polish European champion from 2016 Robert Sobera was also among the participants, but this time he did not reach the final. The same happened to the German world champion from 2013 and vice world champion from 2015 Raphael Holzdeppe.

The competition took a high-class and surprising course. Seven pole vaulters were still in the competition when the jump height of 5.80 m was set. Four athletes were left without a failed attempt: Lisek, Lavillenie, who had missed 5.75 m, Timur Morgunow, who started under a neutral flag, who skipped the now 5.80 m, and the 18-year-old Swede Armand Duplantis. The Greek Konstandinos Filippidis had a failed attempt, but tore the new height three times and ended up sixth. The Norwegian Sondre Guttormsen, who had previously jumped the new Norwegian national record with 5.75 m, had only one failed attempt. He failed twice at 5.80 m and saved the last jump for the height that followed. Wojciechowski already had two failed attempts, but like Lisek, he took 5.80 m with the first jump. Only Duplantis was also successful at this height, but only with his second jump. Apart from Guttormsen, it was also tricky for Lavillenie, who took his last jump up into the next altitude after two failed attempts. It continued at 5.85 m. Duplantis, Morgunow and Lavillenie were each successful on their first attempts. With that Morgunov, who was the only one who hadn't missed a jump, was now at the front. Guttormsen failed with his last remaining jump and finished seventh. Lisek and Wojciechowski each tore once and saved up their further jumps for the next heights.

Now 5.90 m were laid. With Morgunow, Duplantis, Lavillenie, Lisek and Wojciechowski there were still five athletes in the race. But the jump performance wasn't over yet. Duplantis, Morgunow and Lisek all took the new altitude on the first attempt. Lavillenie and Wojciechowski played poker, they skipped, so that all five competitors were still there even at 5.90 m. Wojciechowski only had two jumps left. He failed with both and was fifth with a jump of 5.80 m. On the other hand, Lavillenie and Duplantis were successful with their first jumps. Morgunow and Lisek each tore once and canceled the remaining attempts. Duplantis was now ahead with only one failed jump, Lavillenie had three failed attempts on his account.

It continued at 6.00 m, this is how high Rodion Gataullin jumped in his championship record in Helsinki in 1994 . Lisek failed with both of his remaining attempts and finished fourth with a new personal best of 5.90 m. Duplantis and Morgunow mastered the height with their first jumps each - a new personal best for both. Lavillenie played poker again after a failed attempt and saved the remaining jumps.

The decision was made for the 6.05 m that were now laid out. Renaud Lavillenie tore with both of his remaining jumps and had won bronze. The Frenchman had to jump 5.95 m for this. For Timur Morgunow, too, the competition was now over after three failed attempts. He was the silver medalist with exactly 6.00 m. But Armand Duplantis was also successful at the new jump height. With his first jump he mastered the height, thus setting a new championship record and a new U20 world record. He was also the new European champion,

space	athlete	country	5.30	5.50	5.65	5.75	5.80	5.85	5.90	5.95	6.00	6.05	Height (m)
	Armand Duplantis	Sweden	-	O	O	-	xo	O	O	O	O	O	6.05 CR / WU20R
	Timur Morgunov	Authorized Neutral Athletes	-	O	O	O	-	O	O	x-	O	xxx	6.00 PB
	Renaud Lavillenie	France	-	-	O	-	xx–	O	-	O	x–	xx	5.95 SBe
4th	Piotr Lisek	Poland	-	O	-	O	O	x–	O	x–	xx		5.90 PB
5	Paweł Wojciechowski	Poland	O	O	xo	x–	O	x–	-	xx			5.80
6th	Konstandinos Filippidis	Greece	-	O	xo	O	xxx						5.75 SB
7th	Sondre Guttormsen	Norway	O	O	xo	O	xx–	x					5.75 NO
8th	Axel Chapelle	France	-	O	O	xxx							5.65
9	Arnaud Art	Belgium	O	xo	O	xxx							5.65
10	Adam Hague	Great Britain	O	O	xxo	xxx							5.65 PB
11	Claudio Stecchi	Italy	O	O	xxx								5.50
12	Alioune Sene	France	xo	xxx									5.30

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  Surprise European Champion Armand Duplantis, Sweden

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  Satisfied with bronze: favorite Renaud Lavillenie, France

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  Despite an excellent 5.90 m, Pole Piotr Lisek had to be content with fourth place

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  Fifth place for the Pole Paweł Wojciechowski with 5.80 m

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  The Greek Konstandinos Filippidis took sixth place

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  The Frenchman Axel Chapelle came in eighth

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  The Belgian Arnaud Art reached ninth place

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  Alioune Sene, third French in this final, was twelfth

Web links

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , p. 104 ff, English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 7, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 7, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 7, 2019

Video

• Duplantis wins pole vault madness, European Championships 2018, sports show on youtube.com, published on August 12, 2018, accessed on January 7, 2019