1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 11 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 28, 1980 (qualifying) July 30, 1980 (final)
Medalist Władysław Kozakiewicz ( POL )   Konstantin Wolkow ( URS ) Tadeusz Ślusarski ( POL )     -

The men's pole vault at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on July 28th and 30th, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. Nineteen athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Władysław Kozakiewicz from Poland , who set a new world record. He won ahead of Konstantin Volkov from the Soviet Union and the Polish 1976 Olympic champion , Tadeusz Ślusarski , who both received silver medals. A bronze medal was therefore not awarded.

Axel Weber took part for the GDR . He failed in the qualification, as did the Swiss Felix Böhni .
Jumpers from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Existing records

Olympic champion Władysław Kozakiewicz from Poland

World record	5.77 m	Philippe Houvion ( France )	Paris , France	17th July 1980
Olympic record	5.50 m	Wolfgang Nordwig ( GDR )	Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	2nd September 1972
		Tadeusz Ślusarski ( Poland )	Final of Montreal , Canada	July 26, 1976
		Antti Kalliomäki ( Finland )
		David Roberts ( USA )

Conducting the competition

The jumpers competed in two groups for a qualifying round on July 28th. The qualifying height for directly reaching the final on July 30th was 5.40 m. Since fewer than twelve participants managed this height with seven athletes, the final field was filled up to twelve jumpers according to the next best heights, so that ultimately 5.35 m was sufficient for participation in the finals.

Time schedule

July 28, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
July 30, 4:30 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local time Moscow ( UTC + 3 )

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 28, 1980, from 10 a.m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	5.15 m	5.25 m	5.35 m	5.40 m	height	annotation
1	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland	-	xo	-	O	5.40 m
2	Jean-Michel Bellot	France	-	O	xo	O	5.40 m
3	Thierry Vigneron	France	xo	xo	xo	O	5.40 m
4th	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	Poland	-	O	-	x o	5.40 m
5	Konstantin Volkov	Soviet Union	-	O	O	-	5.35 m
6th	Sergei Kulibaba	Soviet Union	-	xo	x o	-	5.35 m
7th	Philippe Houvion	France	O	xxo	x o	x	5.35 m
8th	Felix Böhni	Switzerland	O	xxx			5.15 m
ogV	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland	-	-	xxx			without height
	Yuri Prokhorenko	Soviet Union

Group B

space	Surname	nation	5.15 m	5.25 m	5.35 m	5.40 m	height	annotation
1	Mariusz Klimczyk	Poland	-	xo	-	O	5.40 m
2	Miro Zalar	Sweden	O	O	O	x o	5.40 m
3	Tapani Haapakoski	Finland	-	O	xo	x o	5.40 m
4th	Rauli Pudas	Finland	-	O	O	xxx	5.35 m
5	Brian Hooper	Great Britain	O	O	x o	xxx	5.35 m
6th	Atanas Tarew	Bulgaria	-	x o	xxx		5.25 m
7th	Axel Weber	GDR	x o	xxx			5.15 m
ogV	Patrick Desruelles	Belgium	xxx					without height
	Iwo Yanchev	Bulgaria

final

Date: July 30, 1980, 4:30 p.m.

The favorites field was wide spread. The French Thierry Vigneron and Philippe Houvion and the Pole Władysław Kozakiewicz had improved the world record four times in the three months before the games in Moscow from 5.70 m to 5.77 m. The current record holder was Houvion. Then there was the Polish Olympic champion from 1976 , Tadeusz Ślusarski, and the Soviet jumper Konstantin Wolkow. Due to the boycott, the Americans were missing, of whom Mike Tully and Tom Hintnaus were particularly strong.

Six jumpers improved the previous Olympic record of 5.50 m in the final . Now the usual tactical decisions began as to which height to jump and which to skip. Wolkow, Ślusarski, Houvion and the Pole Mariusz Klimczyk jumped 5.55 m and missed 5.60 m. Kozakiewicz and the Frenchman Jean-Michel Bellot missed 5.55 m and then mastered 5.60 m. Vigneron had already retired at the time. Bellot and Klimczyk failed at 5.65 m, Houvion and Ślusarski at 5.70 m. Volkov tore the bar twice at this height and saved the last attempt for 5.75 m. Kozakiewicz crossed the 5.75 m with his first jump, Wolkow failed. Konstantin Wolkow and Tadeusz Ślusarski were together on the silver spot, they had exactly the same number of attempts and failed attempts. Philippe Houvion stayed in fourth place, he had more failed attempts with the same jumped height. In the second attempt, Władysław Kozakiewicz, who was established as the Olympic champion, finally overcame the new world record height of 5.78 m. At 5.82 m he too failed. Despite the absence of the Americans, this competition had a level never before reached.

Konstantin Volkov was the first Soviet medalist in the pole vault .

space	Surname	nation	5.15 m	5.25 m	5.35 m	5.45 m	5.50 m	5.55 m	5.60 m	5.65 m	5.70 m	5.75 m	5.78 m	5.82 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz	Poland	-	-	O	-	O	-	O	O	O	O	x o	xxx	5.78 m	WR
2	Konstantin Volkov	Soviet Union	-	-	O	-	-	O	-	xx o	xx-	x			5.65 m
	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland	-	-	O	-	-	O	-	xx o	xxx				5.65 m
4th	Philippe Houvion	France	-	xo	-	xo	-	O	-	xx o	xxx				5.65 m
5	Jean-Michel Bellot	France	-	-	O	-	O	-	O	xxx					5.60 m
6th	Mariusz Klimczyk	Poland	-	O	-	xo	-	O	-	xxx					5.55 m
7th	Thierry Vigneron	France	-	O	-	O	-	xxx							5.45 m
8th	Sergei Kulibaba	Soviet Union	-	xo	-	O	-	xxx							5.45 m
9	Tapani Haapakoski	Finland	-	xo	-	x o	-	xxx							5.45 m
10	Miro Zalar	Sweden	-	O	O	xx-	x								5.35 m
11	Brian Hooper	Great Britain	O	O	xx o	xxx									5.35 m
12	Rauli Pudas	Finland	-	O	-	xxx									5.25 m

Video

• 1980 Moscow Olympics, Mens Pole Vault , published March 7, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed December 30, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference pole vault , accessed December 30, 2017
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 58f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 30, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 555 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 30 December 2017
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 30, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 59, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 30, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 30, 2017