World Athletics Championships 1987 / men's pole vault
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| discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 24 athletes from 14 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Rome
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| Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 6th (qualification) August 7th (final) |
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The men's pole vault at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held from August 5 to 7, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .
In this competition, the pole vaulters from the Soviet Union won two medals, gold and bronze. World champion became the defending champion and world record holder Serhij Bubka . He won Thierry Vigneron ahead of the 1984 French Olympic third party . Bronze went to Rodion Gataullin .
Records
Existing records
| World record | 6.03 m |
 Serhiy Bubka
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Prague , Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic ) | July 23, 1987 |
| World championship record | 5.70 m | 1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland | August 14, 1983 |
Record improvement
World champion Serhij Bubka from the Soviet Union improved his own world championship record in the final on September 5 by fifteen centimeters to 5.85 m.
Legend
Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:
| - | waived |
| O | skipped |
| x | invalid |
qualification
3rd September 1987
24 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.55 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next placed athletes (highlighted in light green) to a minimum of twelve jumpers. Four jumpers had mastered 5.5 m in places six to nine. Ranks ten to fourteen were occupied by five other athletes with skipped 5.40 m, who were also admitted to the final - with at least twelve athletes.
Group A
| space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) |
| 1 | Marian Kolasa |
 Poland
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5.55 |
| Serhiy Bubka |
Soviet Union
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| 3 | Atanas Tarew |
.svg){kind=small} Bulgaria
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5.50 |
| 4th | Hermann Fehringer |
 Austria
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5.40 |
| Zdeněk Lubenský |
 Czechoslovakia
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| Rodion Gataullin |
Soviet Union
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| 7th | Bernhard Zintl |
 BR Germany
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5.30 |
| 8th | Timo Kuusisto |
 Finland
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5.20 |
| 9 | Liang Xuereng |
 People's Republic of China
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5.10 |
| 10 | István Bagyula |
 Hungary
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5.00 |
| NM | Philippe Collet |
 France
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ogV |
| Billy Olson |
 United States
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Group B
| space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) |
| 1 | Earl Bell |
United States
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5.55 |
| Ferenc Salbert |
France
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| Aleksandrs Obizajevs |
Soviet Union
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| 4th | Nikolay Nikolov |
Bulgaria
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5.50 |
| Delko Lessew |
Bulgaria
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| Thierry Vigneron |
France
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| 7th | Gianni Stecchi |
Italy
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5.40 |
| Miro Zalar |
 Sweden
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| 9 | Mirosaw Chmara |
Poland
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5.30 |
| NM | Joe Dial |
United States
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ogV |
| Bob Ferguson |
 Canada
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| Kimmo Kuusela |
Finland
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final
5th September 1987
| space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 5.30 m | 5.40 m | 5.50 m | 5.60 m | 5.70 m | 5.75 m | 5.80 m | 5.85 m | 6.05 m |
| 1 | Serhiy Bubka |
Soviet Union
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5.85 CR | - | - | - | - | O | - | - | O | xxx |
| 2 | Thierry Vigneron |
France
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5.80 | - | - | O | - | O | - | xo | xxx | |
| 3 | Rodion Gataullin |
Soviet Union
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5.80 | - | - | - | O | xo | - | xo | xxx | |
| 4th | Marian Kolasa |
Poland
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5.80 | - | - | O | xo | xxo | - | xxo | xxx | |
| 5 | Earl Bell |
United States
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5.70 | - | O | - | O | O | xxx | |||
| Nikolay Nikolov |
Bulgaria
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5.70 | - | O | - | O | O | xx | x | |||
| 7th | Delko Lessew |
Bulgaria
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5.60 | - | O | - | O | xxx | ||||
| 8th | Atanas Tarew |
Bulgaria
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5.60 | - | O | - | xo | x | xx | |||
| 9 | Aleksandrs Obizajevs |
Soviet Union
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5.50 | |||||||||
| 10 | Ferenc Salbert |
France
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5.50 | |||||||||
| 11 | Gianni Stecchi |
Italy
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5.40 | |||||||||
| 12 | Miro Zalar |
Sweden
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5.30 | |||||||||
| NM | Hermann Fehringer |
Austria
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ogV | |||||||||
| Zdeněk Lubensky |
Czechoslovakia
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The world record holder Serhij Bubka (here in 2007) became world champion again after his victory four years ago
Thierry Vigneron, Olympic Knight in 1984 , became vice world champion
Web links
- IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 26, 2020
- Men Pole Vault Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 26, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Pole Vault, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 165), English, accessed on March 26, 2020
Video
- 1987 Bubka Biomechanics World Championship on youtube.com, accessed March 26, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 26, 2020