1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 24, 1976 (qualifying) July 26, 1976 (final)
Medalist Tadeusz Ślusarski ( POL )   Antti Kalliomäki ( FIN )   David Roberts ( USA )

The men's pole vault at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 24 and 26, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 28 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Tadeusz Ślusarski from Poland . He won ahead of Antti Kalliomäki from Finland and David Roberts from the United States .

Günther Lohre started for the Federal Republic of Germany . He qualified for the final and finished ninth.
Jumpers from the GDR, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	5.70 m	David Roberts ( USA )	Eugene , USA	June 22, 1976
Olympic record	5.50 m	Wolfgang Nordwig ( GDR )	Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	2nd September 1972

Conducting the competition

The jumpers competed in two groups for a qualifying round on July 24th. The qualifying height for the direct entry into the final on July 26th was 5.10 meters. Since more than twelve athletes conquered this height, the final field was not filled any further.

Time schedule

July 24, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification

July 26th, 12.30 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Wojciech Buciarski, Poland, finished fifth

Date: July 24, 1976, from 10 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	4.60 m	4.80 m	5.00 m	5.10 m	height	annotation
1	Earl Bell	United States	-	-	-	O	5.10 m
	Wojciech Buciarski	Poland
	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden
	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland
	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	Poland
	Günther Lohre	BR Germany
	Terry Porter	United States
	Yuri Prokhorenko	Soviet Union
	David Roberts	United States
10	Vladimir Kishkun	Soviet Union	-	-	-	x o	5.10 m
	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland
12	Donald Baird	Australia	-	-	-	xx o	5.10 m
	Jean-Michel Bellot	France
ogV	Yuri Isakov	Soviet Union	-	-	-	xxx		without height

Group B

space	Surname	nation	4.60 m	4.80 m	5.00 m	5.10 m	height	annotation
1	Patrick Abada	France	-	-	-	O	5.10 m
	François Tracanelli	France
3	Tapani Haapakoski	Finland	-	-	O	O	5.10 m
	Roberto Moré	Cuba
	Bruce Simpson	Canada
	Itsuo Takanezawa	Japan
7th	Brian Hooper	Great Britain	-	-	-	x o	5.10 m
8th	Ray Boyd	Australia	-	-	O	xxx	5.00 m
9	Ken Wenman	Canada	-	O	O	xxx	5.00 m
10	Dimitrios Kyteas	Greece	-	-	x o	xxx	5.00 m
11	Jeff Gutteridge	Great Britain	-	O	xxx		4.80 m
ogV	Yoshiomi Iwama	Japan	-	-	-	xxx		without height
	Ingemar Jernberg	Sweden	-	-	xxx
DNF	Rihan Obaid	Saudi Arabia	-	-

final

Date: July 26, 1976, 12:30 p.m.

The favorites were the two US jumpers Earl Bell and Dave Roberts, holders of the world record , as well as the two Europeans Władysław Kozakiewicz from Poland, Vice European Champion 1974 , and Wladimir Kischkun from the USSR, the reigning European Champion. However, the Pole was handicapped by an injury and stayed in eleventh place far below his possibilities in the final.

Ten jumpers were still present at the attack from a height of 5.45 m, eight of them had jumped 5.40 m: besides Bell and Roberts, the Poles Wojciech Buciarski and Tadeusz Ślusarski, the French Patrick Abada and Jean-Michel Bellot, the Finn Antti Kalliomäki and Itsuo Takanezawa from Japan. The German Günther Lohre and Kozakiewicz had missed 5.40 m, but both failed at the next height. Takanezawa also ended when he failed to cross 5.45 m three times. Kalliomäki jumped the hill on the first, Abada and Buciarski on the second, and Bell on the third. Roberts, Ślusarski and Bellot waived and got back on at 5.50 m. This altitude was mastered by Ślusarski, Kalliomäki and Roberts in the first attempt. Bellot was eliminated after three failed attempts. Buciarski had a failed attempt and saved the remaining two attempts for the next height. Abada and Bell missed 5.50 meters. All the pole vaulters tried in vain on the 5.55 m, but Roberts skipped the height and was the only one to remain in the competition. He tried now at 5.60 m. But he tore three times. Tadeusz Ślusarski was then Olympic champion, he had only needed three attempts for the 5.50 m and had not produced a failed attempt until then, Antti Kalliomäki in second place had used five jumps and had also failed to fail up to 5.50 m. David Roberts won the bronze medal, he had a failed attempt at 5.35 m. The three medalists set the existing Olympic record with their 5.50 m each .

Tadeusz Ślusarski was the first Polish medalist and Olympic champion in the pole vault .

space	Surname	nation	4.80 m	5.00 m	5.10 m	5.20 m	5.25 m	5.30 m	5.35 m	5.40 m	5.45 m	5.50 m	5.55 m	5.60 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland	-	-	-	O	-	-	-	O	-	O	xxx		5.50 m	ORe
2	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland	-	-	O	-	-	O	-	O	O	O	xxx		5.50 m	ORe
3	David Roberts	United States	-	-	-	-	-	-	xo	-	-	O	-	xxx	5.50 m	ORe
4th	Patrick Abada	France	-	-	-	-	-	xo	-	-	O	-	xxx		5.45 m
5	Wojciech Buciarski	Poland	-	-	-	O	-	-	xo	-	x o	x-	xx		5.45 m
6th	Earl Bell	United States	-	-	-	O	-	-	O	-	xx o	-	xxx		5.45 m
7th	Jean-Michel Bellot	France	-	-	-	-	O	-	-	O	-	xxx			5.40 m
8th	Itsuo Takanezawa	Japan	-	xo	-	xo	-	xo	-	xx o	xxx				5.40 m
9	Günther Lohre	BR Germany	-	-	xo	-	xo	-	xx o	-	xxx				5.35 m
10	Yuri Prokhorenko	Soviet Union	-	-	-	-	O	-	xxx						5.25 m
11	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	Poland	-	-	-	-	x o	-	-	-	xxx				5.25 m
12	Donald Baird	Australia	-	-	O	-	x o	-	xxx						5.25 m
13	Vladimir Kishkun	Soviet Union	-	-	-	O	-	-	-	xxx					5.20 m
14th	Terry Porter	United States	-	-	-	O	-	-	xxx						5.20 m
15th	Tapani Haapakoski	Finland	-	xo	-	O	-	xxx							5.20 m
16	Brian Hooper	Great Britain	-	x o	-	xxx									5.00 m
ogV	François Tracanelli	France	-	-	-	-	-	xxx								without height
	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden	-	-	-	xxx
	Roberto Moré	Cuba	-	-	xxx
	Bruce Simpson	Canada	-	xxx

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 230

Videos

• Tadeusz Ślusarski , Montreal 1976, published August 18, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed December 16, 2017
• Antti Kalliomäki 1976 Olympialaiset Seiväshyppy , published on September 3, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed on December 16, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference pole vault , accessed December 16, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 72 (photo) / 74 (result), English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 16, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 555 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 16 December 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 16, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 74, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 16, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 16, 2017