1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 21 athletes from 12 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Munich | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 1, 1972 (qualification) September 2, 1972 (final) |
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The men's pole vault at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 1 and 2, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 21 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Wolfgang Nordwig from the GDR. The silver medal went to the American Olympic champion from 1968 Bob Seagren , bronze went to his compatriot Jan Johnson .
Reinhard Kuretzky and Volker Ohl started for the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - and both reached the final. Kuretzky was fourth, Ohl sixth.
Apart from Olympic champion Wolfgang Nordwig, no other pole vaulters took part for the GDR.
Jumpers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 5.63 m | Bob Seagren ( USA ) | Eugene , USA | 2nd July 1972 |
Olympic record | 5.40 m | Bob Seagren ( USA ) | Mexico City Final , Mexico | October 16, 1968 |
Claus Schiprowski ( FR Germany ) | ||||
Wolfgang Nordwig ( GDR ) |
Conducting the competition
The jumpers competed in two groups for a qualifying round on September 1st. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.10 m. Since fewer than twelve athletes jumped this height, the final field was filled to at least twelve participants according to the next best heights. The final was held on September 2nd.
Time schedule
September 1st, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
September 2nd, 1:00 p.m .: Final
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the following athletes in light green.
Material controversy
Before the competition in Munich, several European associations tried to ensure that the light new sticks from the United States, so-called catapult sticks , should not be approved for the Olympic Games because they had not been on the market long enough for all Olympic participants to use them could have trained. On July 25, 1972, the IAAF declared these wands to be inadmissible. The carbon rods were only used by American athletes or athletes who trained in the USA - here the Swede Kjell Isaksson was particularly affected. The European athletes, especially the athletes from Eastern Europe, had no experience with the new bars. The main reason for the ban on the new wands was not the material used, but the fact that these wands were not available to all participants in the past twelve months.
The ban was lifted by the IAAF on August 27. However, the repeal was reversed on August 30th. All carbon rods that the athletes brought to Munich were withdrawn.
qualification
Date: September 1, 1972, from 10 a.m.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 4.80 m | 5.00 m | 5.10 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Antti Kalliomäki | Finland | - | - | O | 5.10 m | |
Wolfgang Nordwig | GDR | ||||||
3 | Hervé d'Encausse | France | - | O | O | 5.10 m | |
4th | Bob Seagren | United States | - | - | x o | 5.10 m | |
5 | Hans Lagerqvist | Sweden | - | O | x o | 5.10 m | |
6th | Volker Ohl | BR Germany | O | O | x o | 5.10 m | |
7th | Jan Johnson | United States | - | xo | x o | 5.10 m | |
8th | Christos Papanikolaou | Greece | xxo | x o | xxx | 5.00 m | |
9 | Steve Smith | United States | xx o | xxx | 4.80 m | ||
ogV | Renato Dionisi | Italy | xxx | without height | |||
Kjell Isaksson | Sweden | - | xxx |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 4.80 m | 5.00 m | 5.10 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Bruce Simpson | Canada | - | O | O | 5.10 m | |
2 | Reinhard Kuretzky | BR Germany | O | O | O | 5.10 m | |
3 | François Tracanelli | France | - | - | x o | 5.10 m | |
4th | Tadeusz Ślusarski | Poland | - | O | xxx | 5.00 m | |
5 | Wojciech Buciarski | Poland | - | x o | xxx | 5.00 m | |
6th | Ingemar Jernberg | Sweden | xo | xx o | xxx | 5.00 m | |
7th | Silvio Fraquelli | Italy | O | xxx | 4.80 m | ||
8th | Ray Boyd | Australia | x o | xxx | 4.80 m | ||
Mike Bull | United Kingdom | ||||||
ogV | Kirk Bryde | Canada | xxx | without height | |||
DNS | Abass Goudiaby | Senegal |
final
Date: September 2, 1972, 1 p.m.
The Staff Controversy - p. o. - and the related ban on the new baton from the USA had an impact on the competition. Ex- world record holder Kjell Isaksson from Sweden, who trained in the USA, failed to make a valid attempt in qualifying.
The fight for the medals started in the final at 5.35 m. Four jumpers were still in the race: the 1968 Olympic champion Bob Seagren, USA, the 1968 bronze medalist Wolfgang Nordwig from the GDR, Jan Johnson, USA, and Reinhard Kuretzky, Germany. Nordwig and Seagren climbed the top on the first attempt, Johnson on the second. Kuretzky failed and was eliminated. This time Jan Johnson was 5.40 m tall, only Nordwig and Seagren remained in the competition. The height of 5.40 m was taken by Nordwig in the second and by Seagren in the third attempt. Nordwig conquered the next height - 5.45 m - with his first jump, while Bob Seagren failed three times. Wolfgang Nordwig then set a new Olympic record with 5.50 m . He then had 5.56 m hung up, but could no longer cope with this height.
In the 17th Olympic final, a non-US athlete won the pole vault for the first time .
space | Surname | nation | 4.80 m | 5.00 m | 5.10 m | 5.20 m | 5.30 m | 5.35 m | 5.40 m | 5.45 m | 5.50 m | 5.56 m | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Wolfgang Nordwig | GDR | - | - | O | - | xo | O | xo | O | xx o | xxx | 5.50 m | OR |
2 | Bob Seagren | United States | - | - | - | O | - | O | xx o | xxx | 5.40 m | |||
3 | Jan Johnson | United States | - | - | - | O | - | x o | xxx | 5.35 m | ||||
4th | Reinhard Kuretzky | BR Germany | O | xo | xxo | O | O | xxx | 5.30 m | |||||
5 | Bruce Simpson | Canada | - | O | xxo | O | xxx | 5.20 m | ||||||
6th | Volker Ohl | BR Germany | - | - | xo | O | xxx | 5.20 m | ||||||
7th | Hans Lagerqvist | Sweden | - | xo | O | O | xxx | 5.20 m | ||||||
8th | François Tracanelli | France | - | - | O | xxx | 5.10 m | |||||||
9 | Ingemar Jernberg | Sweden | - | xxo | x o | xxx | 5.10 m | |||||||
10 | Wojciech Buciarski | Poland | - | O | xxx | 5.00 m | ||||||||
11 | Christos Papanikolaou | Greece | O | O | xxx | 5.00 m | ||||||||
ogV | Hervé d'Encausse | France | - | - | xxx | without height | ||||||||
Antti Kalliomäki | Finland | - | - | - | xxx | |||||||||
Tadeusz Ślusarski | Poland | - | xxx |
literature
- Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 42f
Video
- The Highest - Arthur Penn , pole vault impressions from the 1972 Olympic final in Munich, published on October 4, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed on November 29, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference pole vault , accessed November 29, 2017
- Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 60, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 29, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 555 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 29, 2017
- ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 29, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 29, 2017
- ↑ a b Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 60, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 29, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 29, 2017