World Athletics Championships 1983 / men's pole vault

World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	27 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (qualification) August 14th (final)
Medalist Serhiy Bubka ( URS )   Konstantin Volkov ( URS )   Atanas Tarew ( BUL )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The winner Serhiy Bubka (1984)

The men's pole vault at the 1983 World Athletics Championships took place on August 12-14, 1983 in Helsinki , Finland .

27 athletes from 16 countries took part in the competition. The gold medal was won by Serhiy Bubka from the Soviet Union with 5.70 m, silver with 5.60 m went to Bubka's compatriot Konstantin Wolkow , who had won Olympic silver in 1980. The bronze medal the Bulgarian Championship -Third of 1982 Atanas Tarev with 5.60 m.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Vladimir Polyakov	5.81 m	Tbilisi , Soviet Union	June 26, 1981
World championship record	There were still no World Cup records, the event was held for the first time.

The World Cup record was gradually increased to 5.70 m ( Serhij Bubka , Soviet Union in the final on August 14, 1983).

qualification

August 12, 1983

Due to bad weather the qualification was not finished. All 27 athletes were allowed to compete in a mammoth final two days later.

Group A

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Konstantin Volkov	Soviet Union	5.40+ CR
2	Atanas Tarew	Bulgaria	5.30+
	Pierre Quinon	France	5.30+
	Patrick Abada	France	5.30+
5	Jürgen Winkler	BR Germany	5.20+
	František Jansa	Czechoslovakia	5.20+
	Tom Hintnaus	Brazil	5.20+
	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland	5.20+
	Vladimir Polyakov	Soviet Union	5.20+
10	Veijo Vannesluoma	Finland	5.20+
	Billy Olsen	United States	yte
	George Barber	Canada	NM
	Tapani Haapakoski	Finland	NM

Group B

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	Poland	5.30+
2	Serhiy Bubka	Soviet Union	5.20+
	Miro Zalar	Sweden	5.20+
	Mike Tully	United States	5.20+
	Timo Kuusisto	Finland	5.20+
	Liang Weiqiang	People's Republic of China	5.20+
	Alberto Ruiz	Spain	yte
	Jeff Buckingham	United States	yte
	Thierry Vigneron	France	yte
	Felix Bohni	Switzerland	yte
	Tomomi Takahashi	Japan	NM
	Hermann Fehringer	Austria	NM
	Ivo Yanchev	Bulgaria	NM
	Günther Lohre	BR Germany	NM

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols:

+	still in competition	Reference: qualification
yte	Competition not yet started (yet to enter)
-	Omitted height	Reference: Finale
x	Failed attempt
O	Skipped height

final

August 14, 1983

Due to the bad weather conditions, the qualifying competitions had to be canceled. So it came to a unique pole vault final with 27 participants.

space	athlete	country	5.10 m	5.25 m	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.55 m	5.60 m	5.65 m	5.70 m	5.82 m	Height (m)
	Serhiy Bubka	Soviet Union	-	-	O	O	-	xxo	-	xx o	xxx	5.70 CR
	Konstantin Volkov	Soviet Union	-	-	O	-	-	O	-	xxx		5.60
	Atanas Tarew	Bulgaria	-	-	xxo	O	-	O	xxx			5.60
4th	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland	-	-	xo	-	O	-	xxx			5.55
5	Tom Hintnaus	Brazil	-	-	xo	O	-	xx–	x			5.50
6th	Patrick Abada	France	-	-	-	x o	-	xxx				5.50
7th	Miro Zalar	Sweden	-	-	xo	x o	-	xxx				5.50
8th	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	Poland	-	-	O	x–	xx					5.40
	Thierry Vigneron	France	-	O	O	xxx						5.40
10	Felix Bahni	Switzerland										5.40
	František Jansa	Czechoslovakia										5.40
	Vladimir Polyakov	Soviet Union										5.40
13	Jeff Buckingham	United States										5.40
14th	Veijo Vannesluoma	Finland										5.40
15th	Günther Lohre	BR Germany										5.25
	Liang Weiqiang	People's Republic of China										5.25
17th	Jürgen Winkler	BR Germany										5.25
18th	Timo Kuusisto	Finland										5.25
19th	Tomomi Takahashi	Finland										5.25
20th	Alberto Ruiz	Spain										5.10
	Hermann Fehringer	Austria										NM
	Tapani Haapakoski	Finland
	Billy Olsen	United States
	Pierre Quinon	France	-	-	xxx
	Mike Tully	United States
	Ivo Yanchev	Bulgaria
	George Barber	Canada

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  The 1980 Olympic champion and former world record holder Władysław Kozakiewicz (on the photo in 1980) finished in tied eighth place

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  Thierry Vigneron (here in 2012) , also ex-world record holder, came in eighth place

Videos

• The first world Championships in athletics. Finland. Helsinki 1983. Pole vaulting. Men.Bubka S on youtube.com, accessed April 3, 2020
• The first world Championships in athletics. Finland. Helsinki 1983. Pole vaulting. Men.Zalar M. SWE on youtube.com, accessed April 3, 2020
• HELSINKI 1983 - POLE VAULT BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS on youtube.com, accessed April 3, 2020

Web links and sources

• Results on the IAAF website , accessed on April 3, 2020
• Results on todor66.com, accessed April 3, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 164, English), accessed on April 3, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 3, 2020