World Athletics Championships 2015 / men's pole vault
World Athletics Championships 2015 | |
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discipline | Men's pole vault |
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place | Beijing National Stadium |
Attendees | 34 athletes from 23 countries |
Competition phase | August 22, 2015 (qualification) August 24, 2015 (final) |
Medalist | |
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Shawnacy Barber ( CAN )
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Raphael Holzdeppe ( GER )
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Paweł Wojciechowski ( POL )
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Renaud Lavillenie ( FRA )
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Piotr Lisek ( POL )
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The men's pole vault at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place in Beijing , People's Republic of China , on August 22 and 24, 2015 .
The Canadian Shawnacy Barber won the world title ahead of the German Raphael Holzdeppe . The bronze medal was awarded three times: to the two Poles Paweł Wojciechowski and Piotr Lisek and to the French Renaud Lavillenie ,
Records
World record |
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6.16 m | Donetsk , Ukraine | 15th February 2014 |
Championship record |
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6.05 m | World Cup in Edmonton , Canada | August 9, 2001 |
qualification
August 22, 2015, 6:40 p.m. (12:40 p.m. CEST )
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height was 5.70 m. Fifteen jumpers mastered this height (highlighted in light blue) and were thus eligible to start the final.
Group A
space | athlete | country | 5.25 | 5.40 | 5.55 | 5.65 | 5.70 | Height (m) |
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1 | Sam Kendricks |
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O | O | O | O | O | 5.70 |
2 | Michal Balner |
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- | O | O | xo | O | 5.70 |
Shawnacy Barber |
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- | O | O | xo | O | 5.70 | |
Piotr Lisek |
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- | O | O | xo | O | 5.70 | |
5 | Augusto de Oliveira |
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- | O | xxo | O | O | 5.70 |
6th | Ivan Gertlein |
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xo | xo | xxo | xo | O | 5.70 PB |
7th | German Chiaraviglio |
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O | O | O | O | xo | 5.70 |
8th | Kévin Menaldo |
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- | O | xo | O | xo | 5.70 |
9 | Ivan Horvat |
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- | O | O | O | xxo | 5.70 NO |
Raphael Holzdeppe |
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- | - | - | - | xxo | 5.70 | |
11 | Brad Walker |
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- | O | O | xo | xxx | 5.65 |
12 | Seito Yamamoto |
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- | xo | xo | xxo | xxx | 5.65 SB |
13 | Mareks Ārents |
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O | O | O | xxx | 5.55 | |
14th | Zhang Wei |
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O | xxo | O | xxx | 5.55 | |
15th | Steven Lewis |
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O | O | xxx | 5.40 | ||
16 | Arnaud Art |
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- | xxo | xxx | 5.40 | ||
17th | Fábio da Silva |
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O | xxx | 5.25 | |||
NM | Natan Rivera |
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xx R | without height |
Group B
space | athlete | country | 5.25 | 5.40 | 5.55 | 5.65 | 5.70 | Height (m) |
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1 | Paweł Wojciechowski |
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- | O | O | O | O | 5.70 |
Renaud Lavillenie |
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- | - | - | - | O | 5.70 | |
Jan Kudlička |
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- | O | - | O | O | 5.70 | |
Robert Sobera |
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- | O | O | O | O | 5.70 | |
Robert Renner |
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- | O | O | O | O | 5.70 NO | |
6th | Tobias Scherbarth |
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- | O | O | x— | O | 5.70 SB |
7th | Alexander Gripitsch |
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- | O | O | O | xxx | 5.65 |
Carlo Paech |
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- | - | O | O | xxx | 5.65 | |
9 | Thiago Braz da Silva |
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- | - | xxo | O | xxx | 5.65 |
10 | Hiroki Ogita |
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- | O | O | xo | xxx | 5.65 SB |
11 | Yao Jie |
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O | O | xxo | xxo | xxx | 5.65 PB |
12 | Georgi Gorokhov |
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O | O | xxo | xxo | xxx | 5.65 PB |
13 | Konstandinos Filippidis |
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- | O | O | xxx | 5.55 | |
14th | Jacob Blankenship |
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- | xo | O | xxx | 5.55 | |
15th | Nikita Filippov |
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O | xo | xxx | 5.40 | ||
16 | Adrian Vallés |
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O | xxo | - | xx— | x | 5.40 |
17th | Wladyslaw Rewenko |
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O | xxx | 5.25 |
The US American Brad Walker, who was celebrating the 2007 world champion , was eliminated from the qualification this time with a height of 5.65 m
final
August 24, 2015, 7:05 p.m. (1:05 p.m. CEST )
The favorite for this competition was the French world record holder , Olympic champion and European champion Renaud Lavillenie. But Lavillenie had repeatedly shown weaknesses at world championships and had never won this title. Among his strongest competitors were the German world champion and Olympic third party Raphael Holzdeppe, vice European champion Paweł Wojciechowski from Poland and the Czech European championship third Jan Kudlička. The US American World Cup fourth and 2007 world champion Brad Walker, on the other hand, was eliminated in qualifying.
The first height at which preliminary decisions in the battle for the medals were made was 5.80 m. Only four athletes were eliminated, twelve were still in the competition. For another six pole vaulters, however, the 5.80 m were too high, they each failed three times and were no longer there. Six participants tackled the next height of 5.90 m. The Canadian Shawnacy Barber, Lavillenie, the two Poles Piotr Lisek and Wojciechowski had so far failed to make any attempt. Holzdeppe had a bad jump on his account, the French Kévin Menaldo had torn twice at 5.80 m.
The 5.90 m that have now been played brought the first medal decision. Only Barber - in the first attempt - and Holzdeppe - with his third jump - were successful here. All other four jumpers were eliminated with three failed attempts each. Kévin Menaldo had the worst cards from them due to the failed attempt rule and finished sixth. The other three - Renaud Lavillenie, Piotr Lisek and Paweł Wojciechowski - were tied and finished third together, each receiving a bronze medal.
Now it was all about gold and silver for Barber and Holzdeppe at the new jump height of six meters. However, both failed three times. With that, Shawnacy Barber, who was much better after unsuccessful attempts, won the world title. Raphael Holzdeppe won the silver medal.
space | athlete | country | 5.50 | 5.65 | 5.80 | 5.90 | 6.00 | Height (m) |
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Shawnacy Barber |
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O | O | O | O | xxx | 5.90 |
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Raphael Holzdeppe |
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- | O | xo | xxo | xxx | 5.90 |
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Paweł Wojciechowski |
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- | O | O | xxx | 5.80 | |
Renaud Lavillenie |
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- | - | O | xxx | 5.80 | ||
Piotr Lisek |
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O | O | O | xxx | 5.80 | ||
6th | Kévin Menaldo |
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O | O | xxo | xxx | 5.80 | |
7th | Tobias Scherbarth |
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O | O | xxx | 5.65 | ||
Michal Balner |
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O | O | xxx | 5.65 | |||
9 | Augusto de Oliveira |
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xo | xo | xxx | 5.65 | ||
Ivan Horvat |
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xo | xo | xxx | 5.65 | |||
German Chiaraviglio |
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xo | xo | xxx | 5.65 | |||
Sam Kendricks |
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xo | xo | xxx | 5.65 | |||
13 | Jan Kudlička |
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O | xxx | 5.50 | |||
Robert Renner |
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O | xxx | 5.50 | ||||
15th | Robert Sobera |
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xo | xxx | 5.50 | |||
NM | Ivan Gertlein |
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xxx | without height |
The French world record holder Renaud Lavillenie was one of the three bronze medalists
Thirteenth place for third at the European Championships Jan Kudlička from the Czech Republic
Web links and sources
- Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, men's pole vault on the IAAF website , accessed on October 30, 2018
- Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on October 30, 2018
- Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on October 30, 2018
Videos
- 2015 Beijing - World Championship - Pole Vault - Men on youtube.com, published August 25, 2015, accessed October 30, 2018
- Beijing 2015 - Pole Vault Final (German) on youtube.com, published on August 24, 2015, accessed on October 30, 2018