World Athletics Championships 1999 / men's pole vault

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 24th (qualification) August 26th (final)
Medalist Maxim Tarasov ( RUS )   Dmitri Markov ( AUS )   Alexander Awerbuch ( ISR )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The men's pole vault at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 24th and 26th, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

The Ukrainian world record holder Serhij Bubka had won all six previous pole vault competitions at world championships . He was absent this year because of an Achilles tendon injury , so there had to be a new world champion. The title was won one of the biggest rivals Bubkas, the Russian Olympic champion of 1992 Maxim Tarasov , who at the world championships two silver medals ( 1995 / 1997 ) and two bronze ( 1991 / 1993 had won). In addition, Maxim Tarasov was the reigning European champion . Dmitri Markov , who started for Belarus until April 1990 and now for Australia , came in second . Bronze went to Alexander Awerbuch from Israel , who had only had Israeli citizenship since August 1, 1999. Before that he was mainly active as a decathlete and started for Russia.

Records

Existing records

World record	6.14 m	Serhiy Bubka	Sestriere , Italy	July 31, 1994
World championship record	6.01 m		1997 World Cup in Athens , Greece	August 10, 1997

Record improvement

The Russian world champion Maxim Tarasov improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 26th by one centimeter to 6.02 m. At the same time, he set a new world record for the year.

There were also two other records.

• Oceania record: 5.90 m - Dmitri Markov ( Australia ), final on August 26th
• National record: 5.80 m - Alexander Awerbuch ( Israel ), final on August 26th

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

August 24, 1999, 7:30 p.m.

32 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.75 m. Nobody had to approach this height in the first place. After nine athletes had jumped 5.70 m and four more 5.65 m, there were only a total of thirteen jumpers in the competition, all of whom were qualified for the final (highlighted in light green).

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.40 m	5.55 m	5.65 m	5.70 m	5.75 m
1	Maxim Tarasov	Russia	5.70	-	-	-	O	-
	Dmitri Markov	Australia	5.70	-	O	-	O	-
	Danny Ecker	Germany	5.70	O	O	O	O	-
4th	Nick Hysong	United States	5.70	-	-	xxo	xo	-
5	Romain Mesnil	France	5.70	-	O	-	xxo	-
6th	Tim Lobinger	Germany	5.70	O	xxo	xo	xxo	-
7th	Montxu Miranda	Spain	5.65	O	xxo	xo	xx–	-
8th	Occert Brits	South Africa	5.65	O	O	xxo	xxx
9	Pat Manson	United States	5.55	-	O	xxx
	Martin Eriksson	Sweden	5.55	-	O	xxx
11	Heikki Vääräniemi	Finland	5.55	O	xxo	xxx
	Petr Špacek	Czech Republic	5.55	O	xxo	xxx
13	Thibaut Duval	Belgium	5.40	O	xxx
	Martin Kysela	Czech Republic	5.40	O	xxx
15th	Maurilio Mariani	Italy	5.40	xo	xxx
NM	Fumiaki Kobayashi	Japan	ogV	xxx
DNS	Grigory Yegorov	Kazakhstan

Group B

Jeff Hartwig could not convince and retired with his 5.65 m in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.40 m	5.55 m	5.65 m	5.70 m	5.75 m
1	Michael Stolle	Germany	5.70	-	O	-	O	x–
	Igor Potapovich	Kazakhstan	5.70	-	O	-	O	-
3	Jean Galfione	France	5.70	-	xo	-	O	x–
4th	Alexander Awerbuch	Israel	5.65	-	O	O	-	x–
5	Danny Krasnov	Israel	5.65	-	O	xxo	-	x–
6th	Jeff Hartwig	United States	5.55	-	O	-	xxx
7th	José Manuel Arcos	Spain	5.55	xo	O	xxx
8th	Dominic Johnson	St. Lucia	5.55	O	xo	xxx
9	Vadim Strogalev	Russia	5.55	-	xxol	xxx
	Jussi Autio	Finland	5.55	O	xxo	xxx
11	Javier García	Spain	5.40	O	xxx
	Martin Voss	Denmark	5.40	O	xxx
13	Kevin Hughes	Great Britain	5.40	xo	xxx
14th	Štepán Janacek	Czech Republic	5.40	xxo	xxx
	Patrik Klüft	Sweden	5.40	xxo	xxx
NM	Trond Barthel	Norway	ogV	xxx
DNS	Viktor Chistiakov	Australia

final

August 26, 1999, 7:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	5.50 m	5.70 m	5.80 m	5.90 m	5.96 m	6.02 m	6.07 m
1	Maxim Tarasov	Russia	6.02 CR	-	O	-	O	xxo	O	-
2	Dmitri Markov	Australia	5.90 OZ	-	O	-	O	-	x–	xx
3	Alexander Awerbuch	Israel	5.80 NO	-	xo	xo	xxx
4th	Danny Ecker	Germany	5.70	O	O	xxx
	Nick Hysong	United States	5.70	O	O	xxx
6th	Tim Lobinger	Germany	5.70	O	xo	xxx
7th	Michael Stolle	Germany	5.70	O	xxo	-	xxx
	Igor Potapovich	Kazakhstan	5.70	O	xxo	-	x–	xx
9	Danny Krasnov	Israel	5.50	O	xxx
10	Occert Brits	South Africa	5.50	xo	-	xxx
NM	Romain Mesnil	France	ogV	xxx
	Jean Galfione	France		-	xxx
DNS	Montxu Miranda	Spain

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  Bronze medalist Alexander Awerbuch

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  Danny Ecker came in fourth place

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  Tim Lobinger finished sixth

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  Michael Stolle finished in seventh place

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  The tenth place Okkert Brits

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  Romain Mesnil failed to make a valid jump in the final

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  Jean galfione, 1996 Olympic champion, 1995 World Cup -Dritter and two-time EM -Dritter ( 1994 / 1998 ), remained in the finals without a valid test

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
• Men Pole Vault Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Pole Vault, Seville 1999, p. 166f (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 18, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 18, 2020