World Athletics Championships 1997 / men's pole vault

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	38 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 8th (qualification) August 10th (final)
Medalist Serhij Bubka ( UKR )   Maxim Tarasov ( RUS )   Dean Starkey ( USA )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

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	Serhiy Bubka	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	Germany	5.70	-	O	O	O
	Maxim Tarasov	Russia	5.70	-	-	-	O
3	Serhiy Bubka	Ukraine	5.70	-	-	-	xo
	Nick Buckfield	Great Britain	5.70	O	O	O	xo
5	Trond Barthel	Norway	5.70	-	xo	xo	xo
6th	Pat Manson	United States	5.70	-	O	O	xxo
7th	Danny Krasnov	Israel	5.70	-	xo	O	xxo
8th	Juan Gabriel Concepcion Zambrano	Spain	5.60	xxo	xxo	O	xxx
9	Alain Andji	France	5.60	-	O	xxo	xxx
	Andrei Tivontschik	Germany	5.60	-	-	xxo	xxx
11	Peter Widén	Sweden	5.45	-	O	xxx
12	Ilian Efremov	Bulgaria	5.45	xxo	O	xxx
13	Vesa Rantanen	Finland	5.45	O	xo	xxx
14th	Andrea Giannini	Italy	5.45	xo	xo	xxx
15th	Edgardo Diaz	Puerto Rico	5.45	O	xxo	xxx
16	Ruhan Isim	Turkey	5.30	xxo	xxx
NM	Lawrence Johnson	United States	ogV	-	-	xxx
	Aleksandr Korchagin	Kazakhstan		xxx
	Occert Brits	South Africa		-	-	xx–	x
DNF	Montxu Miranda	Spain

Pole vaulters eliminated from group A in qualification:

• 

  Vesa Rantanen - 5.45 m

• 

  Andrea Giannini - 5.45 m

• 

  Occert Brits - without a valid attempt

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.30 m	5.45 m	5.60 m	5.70 m
1	Martin Eriksson	Sweden	5.70	-	O	xo	O
2	Yevgeny Smiryagin	Russia	5.70	xo	O	xxo	O
3	Jean Galfione	France	5.70	-	xo	-	xo
4th	Vadim Strogalev	Russia	5.70	-	xxo	O	xo
5	Riaan Botha	South Africa	5.70	-	-	O	xxo
6th	Dean Starkey	United States	5.70	-	xo	xo	xxo
7th	Igor Potapovich	Kazakhstan	5.60	-	-	O	xxx
8th	Khalid Lachheb	France	5.60	xo	O	xo	xxx
9	Michael Stolle	Germany	5.60	O	O	xxo	xxx
10	Fabio Pizzolato	Italy	5.60	xxo	O	xxo	xxx
11	Paul Gibbons	Great Britain	5.45	O	xo	xxx
12	Laurens Looije	Netherlands	5.30	O	xxx
	Vyacheslav Shuteyev	Ukraine	5.30	O	xxx
NM	Heikki Vääräniemi	Finland	ogV	-	xxx
	Javier García	Spain		-	xxx
	Martin Voss	Denmark		xxx
	Jurij Rovan	Slovenia		xxx
	Stávros Tsítouras	Greece		-	xxx
DNS	Dmitri Markov	Belarus

Pole vaulters eliminated from group B in qualification:

• 

  Michael Stolle - 5.60 m

• 

  Laurens Looije - 5.30 m

• 

  Jurij Rovan - without a valid attempt

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

Ukraine

6.01 CR

-

xo

-

-

xo

-

O

-

xr

2

Maxim Tarasov

Russia

5.96

-

xo

-

O

xxo

O

x–

xx

3

Dean Starkey

United States

5.91

xo

O

O

xxo

xxo

x–

xx

4th

Tim Lobinger

Germany

5.80

O

O

O

xxx

5

Nick Buckfield

Great Britain

5.70

O

O

xxx

6th

Pat Manson

United States

5.70

xo

O

xxx

7th

Vadim Strogalev

Russia

5.70

O

xxo

xxx

8th

Yevgeny Smiryagin

Russia

5.70

xo

xxo

xxx

9

Martin Eriksson

Sweden

5.50

O

xxx

Danny Krasnov

Israel

5.50

O

xxx

11

Trond Barthel

Norway

5.50

xo

xxx

NM

Riaan Botha

South Africa

ogV

-

xxx

Jean Galfione

France

-

xxx

• 

  The world record holder Serhij Bubka, Olympic champion in 1988 and European champion in 1986 , became world champion for the sixth and last time

• 

  Tim Lobinger finished fourth

• 

  Jean Galfione, 1996 Olympic champion, 1995  World Cup third and 1994 European Championship third remained without a valid attempt

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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 21, 2020