World Athletics Championships 1993 / men's pole vault

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	45 athletes from 28 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 17th (qualification) August 19th (final)
Medalist Serhij Bubka ( UKR )   Grigory Yegorov ( KAZ )   Maxim Tarasov ( RUS ) Igor Trandenkow ( RUS )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's pole vault at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held on August 17 and 19, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition the bronze medal was awarded twice, in both cases to pole vaulters from Russia . It was won by the Olympic champion in 1988 , European champion in 1986 and world record holder Serhij Bubka from Ukraine , who was world champion for the fourth time in a row and thus had won all previous World Cup pole vault competitions. Until 1991 he started for the Soviet Union . Second place went to the Olympic third party from 1988 and Vice European Champion from 1990, Grigori Jegorow from Kazakhstan . Like Bubka, he was a citizen of the Soviet Union until 1991. The two bronze medals went to the 1992 Olympic champion Maxim Tarasov and the 1992 Olympic third-party Igor Trandenkow . During their successes in the previous year with the beginning of the decline of the Soviet Union, both were at the start for the so-called United Team .

Records

Existing records

World record	6.13 m	Serhiy Bubka	Tokyo , Japan	19th September 1992
World championship record	5.95 m	Serhiy Bubka	1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan	August 29, 1991

Record improvement

World champion Serhij Bubka , now starting for the Ukraine , improved his own world championship record in the final on August 19 by five centimeters to 6.00 m and was the first to surpass the six meters mark.

In addition, the second placed Kazakh Grigori Jegorow set a new Asian record with 5.90 m.

qualification

August 17, 1993, 4:40 pm

45 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.75 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next placed athletes to the minimum number of twelve finalists. However, some of them were able to forego their attempts over 5.75 m from the start after it was clear that their eligibility to participate in the final was already secured. Since there were four equally ranked jumpers in tenth place, ten athletes qualified via their placement (light green background) and thus a total of thirteen participants for the final that takes place on the day after next.

Group A

• 

  Okkert Brits did not have enough 5.65 m to take part in the final

• 

  Tim Lobinger failed at the beginning of his later successful career with 5.35 m in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Grigory Yegorov	Kazakhstan	5.75
2	Denis Petouchinski	Russia	5.75
3	Mårten Ulvsbäck	Sweden	5.65
	Serhiy Bubka	Ukraine	5.65
	Igor Trandenkov	Russia	5.65
6th	Mike Holloway	United States	5.65
7th	Occert Brits	South Africa	5.65
	Andrea Pegoraro	Italy	5.65
9	Dean Starkey	United States	5.55
10	Jani Lehtonen	Finland	5.55
11	Patrik Stenlund	Sweden	5.55
12	Javier García	Spain	5.45
13	Paul Benavides	Mexico	5.45
	Aleksandr Zhukov	Moldova	5.45
15th	Philippe d'Encausse	France	5.45
16	Tim Lobinger	Germany	5.35
17th	Gennadiy Sukharev	Belarus	5.35
18th	Werner Holl	Germany	5.25
19th	Toshiyuki Hashioka	Japan	5.25
20th	Doug Wood	Canada	5.15
21st	Raynald Mury	Switzerland	5.15
22nd	Demingo Kapal	Brunei	4.45
NM	Aleksandr Korchagin	Kazakhstan	ogV

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Jean Galfione	France	5.75
2	Scott Huffman	United States	5.65
	Valeri Bukrejev	Estonia	5.65
	István Bagyula	Hungary	5.65
	Wassyl Bubka	Ukraine	5.65
	Daniel Martí	Spain	5.65
7th	Maxim Tarasov	Russia	5.65
8th	Peter Widén	Sweden	5.65
9	Igor Potapovich	Kazakhstan	5.65
10	Martin Amann	Germany	5.55
	Danny Krasnov	Israel	5.55
12	Gérald Baudouin	France	5.45
13	Simon Arkell	Australia	5.45
	Heikki Vääräniemi	Finland	5.45
15th	Martin Voss	Denmark	5.45
16	Mike Edwards	Great Britain	5.45
17th	Delko Lesov	Bulgaria	5.25
18th	Stávros Tsítouras	Greece	5.25
19th	Nuno Fernandes	Portugal	5.25
	Zdeněk Lubenský	Czech Republic	5.25
NM	José Manuel Arcos	Spain	ogV
	Petri Peltoniemi	Finland

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

final

August 19, 1993, 5:00 p.m.

space

Surname

nation

Result (noun)

5.50 m

5.60 m

5.70 m

5.75 m

5.80 m

5.85 m

5.90 m

5.95 m

6.00 m

6.14 m

1

Serhiy Bubka

Ukraine

6.00 CR

-

-

O

-

-

-

O

-

O

xxx

2

Grigory Yegorov

Kazakhstan

5.90 AS

-

O

-

O

-

O

O

-

xxx

3

Maxim Tarasov

Russia

5.80

-

O

-

-

O

-

xxx

Igor Trandenkov

Russia

5.80

-

O

-

-

O

-

xx–

x

5

Scott Huffman

United States

5.80

O

-

xo

-

O

xxx

6th

Denis Petouchinski

Russia

5.80

-

O

xxo

-

xo

xxx

7th

Valeri Bukrejev

Estonia

5.75

-

O

-

xo

-

xxx

8th

Jean Galfione

France

5.70

-

O

xo

-

xxx

9

Wassyl Bubka

Ukraine

5.70

Expiration not listed in the sources

10

István Bagyula

Hungary

5.70

11

Peter Widén

Sweden

5.60

NM

Mårten Ulvsbäck

Sweden

ogV

DNS

Daniel Martí

Spain

• 

  Serhij Bubka, Olympic champion in 1988 , European champion and world record holder in 1986 , became world champion for the fourth time in a row

• 

  Jean Galfione achieved eighth place here - in the following years he won bronze twice at World and European Championships, in 1996 he became Olympic champion

Video

• World's Highest Pole Vault! Sergey Bubka wins gold at the 1993 World Champs , video posted November 19, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed May 13, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 13, 2020
• Men Pole Vault Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 13, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Pole Vault, Stuttgart 1993, p. 165f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 13, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 13, 2020