2001 World Athletics Championships / Men's pole vault
| 8th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 25 athletes from 18 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Edmonton
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| Competition location | Commonwealth Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 7th (qualification) August 9th (final) |
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The men's pole vault at the 2001 World Athletics Championships was held on August 7 and 9, 2001 at the Commonwealth Stadium in the Canadian city of Edmonton .
The world champion was the Australian vice world champion from 1999 Dmitri Markov , who had started for Belarus until 1998 . The World Cup third in 1999 Alexander Awerbuch from Israel won the silver medal. He, too, had changed his citizenship and had mainly started as a decathlete for Russia until 1998 , bronze went to the current Olympic champion Nick Hysong from the United States .
Records
Existing records
| World record | 6.14 m |
 Serhiy Bubka
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Sestriere , Italy | July 31, 1994 |
| World championship record | 6.02 m |
 Maxim Tarasov
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1999 World Cup in Seville , Spain | August 26, 1999 |
Record improvement
The Australian world champion Dmitri Markov improved the existing World Cup record in the final on August 9th by three centimeters to 6.05 m.
Legend
Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:
| - | waived |
| O | skipped |
| x | invalid |
qualification
August 7, 2001, 9:00 a.m.
25 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, however. After thirteen jumpers had crossed 5.70 m (highlighted in light green), the qualification was canceled. All athletes who jumped 5.70 m were admitted to the final.
Group A
| space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 5.30 m | 5.50 m | 5.60 m | 5.70 m |
| 1 | Christian Tamminga |
 Netherlands
|
5.70 | xo | O | O | O |
| Timothy Mack |
 United States
|
5.70 | xo | O | O | O | |
| 3 | Richard Spiegelburg |
 Germany
|
5.70 | xo | O | xxo | O |
| Viktor Chistiakov |
 Australia
|
5.70 | O | xxo | xo | O | |
| 5 | Michael Stolle |
Germany
|
5.70 | xo | xo | xxo | O |
| 6th | Romain Mesnil |
 France
|
5.70 | - | xxo | - | xo |
| 7th | Martin Eriksson |
 Sweden
|
5.70 | - | O | xo | xxo |
| Alexander Awerbuch |
 Israel
|
5.70 | - | O | xo | xxo | |
| Adam Kolasa |
 Poland
|
5.70 | O | xo | O | xxo | |
| 10 | Dominic Johnson |
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5.60 | - | O | xo | xxx |
| 11 | Vasily Gorshkov |
Russia
|
5.50 | O | xxo | xxx | |
| NM | Manabu Yokoyama |
 Japan
|
ogV | xxx |
Group B
Vesa Rantanen failed with 5.50 m in the qualification
Giuseppe Gibilisco, the upcoming world champion , failed to make a valid attempt in qualifying
| space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 5.30 m | 5.50 m | 5.60 m | 5.70 m |
| 1 | Dmitri Markov |
Australia
|
5.70 | - | - | O | O |
| 2 | Nick Hysong |
United States
|
5.70 | - | xo | O | O |
| 3 | Danny Ecker |
Germany
|
5.70 | - | xo | xo | O |
| 4th | Ren Blom |
Netherlands
|
5.60 | O | xo | xo | xxo |
| 5 | Patrik Kristiansson |
Sweden
|
5.60 | O | O | O | xxx |
| 6th | Piotr Buciarski |
 Denmark
|
5.60 | O | O | xo | xxx |
| 7th | Montxu Miranda |
 Spain
|
5.60 | xxo | xo | xo | xxx |
| 8th | Russ Buller |
United States
|
5.60 | - | O | xxo | xxx |
| 9 | Stepan Janacek |
 Czech Republic
|
5.50 | O | O | xxx | |
| 10 | Vesa Rantanen |
 Finland
|
5.50 | xxo | O | xxx | |
| 11 | Nick Buckfield |
 Great Britain
|
5.30 | xo | xxx | ||
| Rob Pike |
Canada
|
5.30 | xo | xxx | |||
| NM | Giuseppe Gibilisco |
 Italy
|
ogV | xxx |
final
August 9, 2001, 6:10 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 5.50 m | 5.65 m | 5.75 m | 5.85 m | 5.90 m | 5.95 m | 6.05 m | 6.10 m |
| 1 | Dmitri Markov |
Australia
|
6.05 CR | - | - | xxo | - | O | O | xo | xxx |
| 2 | Alexander Awerbuch |
Israel
|
5.85 | - | xo | O | O | x– | xx | ||
| 3 | Nick Hysong |
United States
|
5.85 | - | O | O | xo | xxx | |||
| 4th | Michael Stolle |
Germany
|
5.85 | xxo | O | O | xo | xxx | |||
| 5 | Romain Mesnil |
France
|
5.85 | - | xxo | O | xxo | xxx | |||
| 6th | Christian Tamminga |
Netherlands
|
5.75 | O | O | O | xxx | ||||
| Richard Spiegelburg |
Germany
|
5.75 | O | O | O | xxx | |||||
| 8th | Adam Kolasa |
Poland
|
5.75 | xo | O | O | xxx | ||||
| 9 | Timothy Mack |
United States
|
5.75 | O | xxo | O | xxx | ||||
| 10 | Viktor Chistiakov |
Australia
|
5.75 | xxo | xo | xo | xxx | ||||
| 11 | Danny Ecker |
Germany
|
5.65 | - | O | - | xxx | ||||
| 12 | Martin Eriksson |
Sweden
|
5.50 | xo | xxx | ||||||
| NM | Ren Blom |
Netherlands
|
ogV | xxx |
Vice world champion was the World Cup third in 1999, Alexander Awerbuch
Fourth place for Michael Stolle - two failed attempts at his starting height cost him a medal
Romain Mesnil finished fifth
Christian Tamminga came in sixth place
Richard Spiegelburg - shared sixth place
Adam Kolasa reached eighth place
The eleventh placed Danny Ecker was certainly not satisfied with his result
Rens Blom remained without a valid attempt in the final
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Video
- Dmitri Markov. Edmonton 2001. 6.05m , video posted May 6, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed August 13, 2020
Web links
- 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 24, 2020
- Men Pole Vault Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 13, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Pole Vault, Edmonton 2001, p. 167 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on August 13, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 13, 2020