World Athletics Championships 1999 / women's pole vault
| 7th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 18 athletes from 11 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Seville
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| Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 21 | ||||||||
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The women's pole vault at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 21, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city of Seville .
This competition was on the program for women for the first time at a world championship.
World champion was the American Stacy Dragila , who equaled the existing world record with her victory jump. She won ahead of the Ukrainian Anshela Balachonowa , who set the existing European record. Bronze went to the Australian Tatiana Grigorieva .
Records
Existing records
| World record | 4.60 m |
 Emma George
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Sydney , Australia | February 20, 1999 |
| World championship record | No World Cup records yet, competition is new to the program. | |||
The US world champion Stacy Dragila set the first world championship record in the competition on August 21 with a height of 4.60 m . In doing so, it also equalized the existing world record.
In addition, there was an equalized continental record and a national record.
- Continental record : 4.55 m ( ERe ) - Anshela Balachonowa , Ukraine
- National record: 4.40 m - Zsuzsanna Szabó , Hungary
execution
Only eighteen participants did not qualify. All pole vaulters went to the final together.
Legend
Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:
| - | waived |
| O | skipped |
| x | invalid |
final
August 21, 1999, 7:05 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 4.00 m | 4.15 m | 4.25 m | 4.35 m | 4.40 m | 4.45 m | 4.50 m | 4.55 m | 4.60 m | 4.65 m |
| 1 | Stacy Dragila |
 United States
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4.60 WRe | - | O | xo | O | xo | xo | xxo | xo | xo | xxx |
| 2 | Anshela Balachonova |
 Ukraine
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4.55 ERe | - | - | O | O | - | O | O | O | xx– | x |
| 3 | Tatiana Grigorieva |
Australia
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4.45 | - | O | - | O | - | O | xxx | |||
| 4th | Zsuzsanna Szabó |
 Hungary
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4.40 NO | - | - | O | O | O | xx- | x | |||
| 5 | Nicole Humbert |
 Germany
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4.40 | - | O | O | xo | O | xxx | ||||
| 6th | Pavla Hamáčková |
 Czech Republic
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4.40 | xo | O | O | xo | xo | xxx | ||||
| Daniela Bártová |
Czech Republic
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4.40 | xo | O | O | xo | xo | - | xxx | ||||
| 8th | Elena Belyakova |
 Russia
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4.35 | xo | - | O | O | xxx | |||||
| 9 | Kellie Suttle |
United States
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4.35 | xo | O | xo | xxo | xxx | |||||
| 10 | Elmarie Gerryts |
 South Africa
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4.25 | O | O | O | xxx | ||||||
| 11 | Alejandra García |
 Argentina
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4.25 | O | xxo | O | xxx | ||||||
| 12 | Vala Flosadóttir |
 Iceland
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4.25 | xxo | xxo | xxo | xxx | ||||||
| 13 | Thórey Edda Elisdóttir |
Iceland
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4.15 | O | O | xxx | |||||||
| 14th | Emma George |
Australia
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4.15 | - | xxo | - | xxx | ||||||
| Yvonne Buschbaum |
Germany
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4.15 | - | xxo | xxx | ||||||||
| Dana Cervantes |
Spain
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4.15 | O | xxo | xxx | ||||||||
| NM | Nastja Ryshich |
Germany
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ogV | - | xxx | ||||||||
| Melissa Price |
United States
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xxx |
Stacy Dragila
first female pole vault world champion in track and field history
Zsuzsanna Szabó finished fourth with a new Hungarian record
Pavla Hamáčková, later Pavla Rybová, reached the shared sixth place
The eleventh placed Alejandra García
Yvonne Buschbaum - after a sex change, today Balian Buschbaum - came in divided fourteenth place
Video
- Women's Pole Vault Final - 1999 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed July 29, 2020
Web links
- 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
- Women Pole Vault Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 29, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Pole Vault, Seville 1999, p. 316f (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 29, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 29, 2020