World Athletics Championships 1997 / men's pole vault
6th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 38 athletes from 22 countries | ||||||||
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Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 8th (qualification) August 10th (final) |
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The men's pole vault at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 85 and 10, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .
For the sixth time in a row and now for the last time, the Ukrainian world record holder Serhij Bubka was world champion, in 1988 he was also an Olympic champion and in 1986 European champion. Until 1991 he started for the Soviet Union . Second place went to the 1992 Olympic champion - then starting for the so-called United Team - and two-time World Cup medalist ( 1993 : bronze / 1995 silver) Maxim Tarasov from Russia . Bronze went to the American Dean Starkey .
Records
Existing records
World record | 6.14 m |
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Sestriere , Italy | July 31, 1994 |
World championship record | 6.00 m | World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany | 19th August 1993 |
Record improvement
The Ukrainian world champion Serhij Bubka improved his own world championship record in the final on August 10th by one centimeter to 6.01 m.
Legend
Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:
- | waived |
O | skipped |
x | invalid |
r | Competition not continued (retired) |
qualification
August 8, 1997, 5:30 p.m.
38 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.75 m. After completing all attempts over 5.70 m, only thirteen jumpers were left in the competition. The jury decided to allow these thirteen athletes (highlighted in light green) to the final, so the jump height of 5.75 m no longer had to be tackled.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 5.30 m | 5.45 m | 5.60 m | 5.70 m |
1 | Tim Lobinger |
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5.70 | - | O | O | O |
Maxim Tarasov |
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5.70 | - | - | - | O | |
3 | Serhiy Bubka |
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5.70 | - | - | - | xo |
Nick Buckfield |
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5.70 | O | O | O | xo | |
5 | Trond Barthel |
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5.70 | - | xo | xo | xo |
6th | Pat Manson |
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5.70 | - | O | O | xxo |
7th | Danny Krasnov |
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5.70 | - | xo | O | xxo |
8th | Juan Gabriel Concepcion Zambrano |
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5.60 | xxo | xxo | O | xxx |
9 | Alain Andji |
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5.60 | - | O | xxo | xxx |
Andrei Tivontschik |
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5.60 | - | - | xxo | xxx | |
11 | Peter Widén |
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5.45 | - | O | xxx | |
12 | Ilian Efremov |
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5.45 | xxo | O | xxx | |
13 | Vesa Rantanen |
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5.45 | O | xo | xxx | |
14th | Andrea Giannini |
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5.45 | xo | xo | xxx | |
15th | Edgardo Diaz |
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5.45 | O | xxo | xxx | |
16 | Ruhan Isim |
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5.30 | xxo | xxx | ||
NM | Lawrence Johnson |
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ogV | - | - | xxx | |
Aleksandr Korchagin |
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xxx | |||||
Occert Brits |
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- | - | xx– | x | ||
DNF | Montxu Miranda |
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Pole vaulters eliminated from group A in qualification:
Group B
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 5.30 m | 5.45 m | 5.60 m | 5.70 m |
1 | Martin Eriksson |
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5.70 | - | O | xo | O |
2 | Yevgeny Smiryagin |
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5.70 | xo | O | xxo | O |
3 | Jean Galfione |
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5.70 | - | xo | - | xo |
4th | Vadim Strogalev |
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5.70 | - | xxo | O | xo |
5 | Riaan Botha |
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5.70 | - | - | O | xxo |
6th | Dean Starkey |
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5.70 | - | xo | xo | xxo |
7th | Igor Potapovich |
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5.60 | - | - | O | xxx |
8th | Khalid Lachheb |
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5.60 | xo | O | xo | xxx |
9 | Michael Stolle |
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5.60 | O | O | xxo | xxx |
10 | Fabio Pizzolato |
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5.60 | xxo | O | xxo | xxx |
11 | Paul Gibbons |
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5.45 | O | xo | xxx | |
12 | Laurens Looije |
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5.30 | O | xxx | ||
Vyacheslav Shuteyev |
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5.30 | O | xxx | |||
NM | Heikki Vääräniemi |
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ogV | - | xxx | ||
Javier García |
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- | xxx | ||||
Martin Voss |
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xxx | |||||
Jurij Rovan |
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xxx | |||||
Stávros Tsítouras |
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- | xxx | ||||
DNS | Dmitri Markov |
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Pole vaulters eliminated from group B in qualification:
final
August 10, 1997, 5:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 5.50 m | 5.70 m | 5.80 m | 5.86 m | 5.91 m | 5.96 m | 6.01 m | 6.06 m | 6.15 m |
1 | Serhiy Bubka |
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6.01 CR | - | xo | - | - | xo | - | O | - | xr |
2 | Maxim Tarasov |
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5.96 | - | xo | - | O | xxo | O | x– | xx | |
3 | Dean Starkey |
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5.91 | xo | O | O | xxo | xxo | x– | xx | ||
4th | Tim Lobinger |
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5.80 | O | O | O | xxx | |||||
5 | Nick Buckfield |
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5.70 | O | O | xxx | ||||||
6th | Pat Manson |
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5.70 | xo | O | xxx | ||||||
7th | Vadim Strogalev |
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5.70 | O | xxo | xxx | ||||||
8th | Yevgeny Smiryagin |
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5.70 | xo | xxo | xxx | ||||||
9 | Martin Eriksson |
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5.50 | O | xxx | |||||||
Danny Krasnov |
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5.50 | O | xxx | ||||||||
11 | Trond Barthel |
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5.50 | xo | xxx | |||||||
NM | Riaan Botha |
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ogV | - | xxx | |||||||
Jean Galfione |
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- | xxx |
Video
- Men's Pole Vault World Athletics Championships Athens 1997 on youtube.com, accessed June 13, 2020
Web links
- 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 9, 2020
- Men Pole VaultAthletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed June 21, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Pole Vault, Athens 1997, p. 166 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 21, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 21, 2020