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 | |
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gold | Armand Duplantis ( SWE ) |
silver | Timur Morgunow ( ANA ) |
bronze | Renaud Lavillenie ( FRA ) |
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
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) |
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1 | Axel Chapelle | France | - | O | O | O | 5.61 |
Sondre Guttormsen | Norway | - | O | O | O | 5.61 PB | |
3 | Armand Duplantis | Sweden | - | - | xo | O | 5.61 |
Konstandinos Filippidis | Greece | - | xo | O | O | 5.61 | |
5 | Timur Morgunov | Authorized Neutral Athletes | - | O | xo | xxo | 5.61 |
6th | Alioune Sene | France | O | O | O | xxx | 5.51 |
7th | Tommi Holttinen | Finland | xo | x– | O | xxx | 5.51 PB |
8th | Bo Kanda Lita Baehre | Germany | O | xo | xxo | xxx | 5.51 |
9 | 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) |
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1 | Renaud Lavillenie | France | - | - | O | O | 5.61 |
Piotr Lisek | Poland | - | O | O | O | 5.61 | |
Paweł Wojciechowski | Poland | - | O | O | O | 5.61 | |
4th | Adam Hague | Great Britain | O | xo | O | O | 5.61 PB |
5 | Arnaud Art | Belgium | xo | O | O | xxo | 5.61 |
6th | Claudio Stecchi | Italy | - | O | O | xxx | 5.51 |
7th | Torben Laidig | Germany | xxo | O | O | xxx | 5.51 |
8th | 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) |
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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 |
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