World Athletics Championships 1991 / men's pole vault

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 27 (qualifying) August 29 (final)
Medalist Serhiy Bubka ( URS )   István Bagyula ( HUN )   Maxim Tarasov ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's pole vault at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 27 and 29, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

In this competition, the pole vaulters from the Soviet Union won two medals, gold and bronze. The Olympic champion in 1988 , European champion in 1986 and world record holder Serhij Bubka , who won his third World Championship title in a row, became world champion. Silver went to the Hungarian István Bagyula . The bronze place was taken by Maxim Tarasov .

Records

Existing records

World record	6.10 m	Serhiy Bubka	Malmo , Sweden	5th August 1991
World championship record	5.85 m		World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	5th September 1987

Record improvement

The Soviet world champion Serhiy Bubka improved his own world championship record in the final on August 29th by ten centimeters to 5.95 m.

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

August 27, 1991, 4:40 p.m.

31 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.60 m. Nobody had to approach this height. After thirteen athletes had crossed 5.50 m (highlighted in light green), the qualification was canceled because the effort would have been excessive to continue with thirteen pole vaulters just to eliminate one more of them.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	4.90 m	5.00 m	5.10 m	5.20 m	5.30 m	5.40 m	5.45 m	5.50 m
1	Serhiy Bubka	Soviet Union	5.50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	O
	Maxim Tarasov	Soviet Union	5.50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	O
	Peter Widén	Sweden	5.50	Expiration not listed in the sources							O
4th	Thierry Vigneron	France	5.50	-	-	-	-	O	-	-	xo
	Galin Nikov	Bulgaria	5.50	Expiration not listed in the sources							xo
6th	Tim Bright	United States	5.50	-	-	-	-	-	xo	-	xo
	Jean Galfione	France	5.50	-	-	-	-	xo	-	-	xo
8th	Mike Edwards	Great Britain	5.40	-	-	-	O	O	O	-	xxx
9	Miroslaw Chmara	Poland	5.40	Expiration not listed in the sources
10	Simon Arkell	Australia	5.40
11	Nikolay Nikolov	Bulgaria	5.30
12	Kim Chul-Kyun	South Korea	5.30
13	Sazan Fisheku	Albania	5.30
14th	Alberto Ruiz	Spain	5.20
NM	Petri Peltoniemi	Finland	ogV

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	4.90 m	5.00 m	5.10 m	5.20 m	5.30 m	5.40 m	5.45 m	5.50 m
1	Rodion Gataullin	Soviet Union	5.50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	O
2	Bernhard Zintl	Germany	5.50	-	-	-	-	O	-	x–	O
3	István Bagyula	Hungary	5.50	-	-	-	-	xo	xo	-	O
4th	Philippe Collet	France	5.50	-	-	-	-	-	xxo	-	O
5	Hermann Fehringer	Austria	5.50	Expiration not listed in the sources							xxo
	Doug Wood	Canada	5.50								xxo
7th	Hideyuki Takei	Japan	5.45	Expiration not listed in the sources
8th	Joe Dial	United States	5.40
	Jani Lehtonen	Finland	5.40
10	Paul Gibbons	New Zealand	5.40
11	Zdeněk Lubensky	Czechoslovakia	5.40	-	-	-	O	-	xo	xxx
12	Kelly Riley	United States	5.30	Expiration not listed in the sources
13	Javier García	Spain	5.30
	Delko Lesew	Bulgaria	5.30
15th	Edgar Díaz	Puerto Rico	5.20
16	Martin Voss	Denmark	5.20

final

August 29, 1991, 4:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.30 m	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.55 m	5.60 m	5.65 m	5.70 m	5.75 m	5.80 m	5.85 m	5.90 m	5.95 m
1	Serhiy Bubka	Soviet Union	5.95 CR	-	-	-	-	-	-	O	-	-	-	x–	xo
2	István Bagyula	Hungary	5.90	-	O	xo	-	O	-	O	-	xo	xo	O	xxx
3	Maxim Tarasov	Soviet Union	5.85	-	-	O	-	-	-	O	-	O	O	xxx
4th	Rodion Gataullin	Soviet Union	5.85	-	-	-	-	-	-	xo	-	x–	xo	xx–	x
5	Peter Widén	Sweden	5.75	-	O	O	-	O	-	xxo	O	xxx
6th	Tim Bright	United States	5.75	-	-	xxo	-	-	xo	-	xxo	-	xxx
7th	Hermann Fehringer	Austria	5.60	-	O	-	-	O	-	xxx
8th	Thierry Vigneron	France	5.60	-	xo	-	-	O	-	xxx
9	Bernhard Zintl	Germany	5.50	Expiration not listed in the sources
10	Jean Galfione	France	5.40
11	Doug Wood	Canada	5.40
12	Galin Nikov	Bulgaria	5.30
NM	Philippe Collet	France	ogV

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  Third World Championship title in a row for the Olympic champion from 1988 , European champion from 1986 and world record holder Serhij Bubka (here in 2013)

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  The vice world champion from 1987 and Olympic third from 1984 Thierry Vigneron (photo: 2012) came in eighth place

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  Jean Galfione (here in 2005) reached tenth place - in 1996 he became Olympic champion

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  Philippe Collet (Photo: 2012) failed to make a valid jump in the final

Video

• Sergei Bubka 1991 World Champs Tokyo , video posted on youtube.com August 24, 2010, accessed April 15, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 25, 2020
• Men Pole Vault Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed April 25, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Pole Vault, Tokyo 1991, p. 165 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 25, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 25, 2020