1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	19 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 6, 1984 (qualifying) August 8, 1984 (final)
Medalist Pierre Quinon ( FRA )   Mike Tully ( USA )   Thierry Vigneron ( FRA ) Earl Bell ( USA )

The men's pole vault at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 6th and 8th, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Nineteen athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Frenchman Pierre Quinon , who won ahead of the American Mike Tully . Bronze was awarded twice: to Earl Bell from the USA and Thierry Vigneron from France.

The Swiss Felix Böhni reached the final and was seventh there.

Jumpers from the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1980	Władysław Kozakiewicz ( Poland )	5.78 m	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Serhiy Bubka ( Soviet Union )	5.70 m	Helsinki 1983
European Champion 1982	Alexander Krupski ( Soviet Union )	5.60 m	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	Mike Tully ( USA )	5.45 m	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983	Edgardo Rivera ( Puerto Rico )	5.20 m	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Fernando Hoces ( Chile )	4.70 m	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Zhang Chen ( People's Republic of China )	5.00 m	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Loué Legbo ( Ivory Coast )	4.00 m	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	5.90 m	Serhiy Bubka ( Soviet Union )	London , UK	July 13, 1984
Olympic record	5.78 min	Władysław Kozakiewicz ( Poland )	Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	July 30, 1980

qualification

Date: August 6, 1984

For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.45 m. However, only three jumpers mastered this mark. Therefore the final field was filled with the next best jumpers of both groups, the so-called lucky losers , so that a total of fourteen athletes made it to the final. Ultimately, the jump height was 5.30 m for the final. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	5.10 m	5.20 m	5.30 m	5.35 m	5.40 m	5.45 m	height	annotation
1	Earl Bell	United States	-	-	-	O	-	O	5.45 m
	Mike Tully	United States
	Thierry Vigneron	France
4th	Alberto Ruiz	Spain	xo	-	xo	-	xo	xx o	5.45 m
5	Pierre Quinon	France	-	-	xo	-	O	-	5.40 m
6th	Felix Böhni	Switzerland	-	-	O	-	xx o	xxx	5.40 m
7th	Tomás Hintnaus	Brazil	-	-	-	O	-	xxx	5.35 m
8th	Serge Ferreira	France	-	-	O	-	xxx		5.30 m
	Douglas Lytle	United States	-	-	O	xxx			5.30 m
ogV	Kazimir Zalar	Sweden	-	-	xxx					without height

Group B

space	Surname	nation	5.10 m	5.20 m	5.30 m	5.35 m	5.40 m	5.45 m	height	annotation
1	Kimmo Pallonen	Finland	-	O	O	xo	x o	-	5.40 m
2	Mauro Barella	Italy	O	O	xo	xx o	-	-	5.35 m
3	Jeffrey Gutteridge	Great Britain	O	-	O	xxx			5.30 m
4th	Weimin Yang	People's Republic of China	O	O	O	-	xxx		5.30 m
5	Tomomi Takahashi	Japan	O	-	xx o	-	xxx		5.30 m
6th	John Morrisette	American Virgin Islands	O	O	x-	xx			5.20 m
7th	Keith Stock	Great Britain	xo	x o	xxx				5.20 m
8th	Zebiao Ji	People's Republic of China	x o	xxx					5.10 m
9	Edgardo Rivera	Puerto Rico	xx o	-	x-	xx			5.10 m

final

Date: August 8, 1984

Fourteen jumpers had qualified for the final, of which only four had reached the required level of qualification. All three Americans and French who competed had progressed. There was also one jumper each from Finland, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, China, Brazil, Japan and Great Britain.

Due to the Olympic boycott, the reigning world record holder and world champion Serhij Bubka, who would have been clearly the favorite here, could not compete. Two US jumpers and two French jumpers in particular had the best prospects for the Olympic medals: Mike Tully and Earl Bell from the USA and Pierre Quinon and Thierry Vigneron from France.

At 5.50 m there were still seven jumpers in competition. In addition to the four favorites, these were the Swiss Felix Böhni, the Finn Kimmo Pallonen and the US jumper Douglas Lytle. Both Böhni and Lytle failed here. Quinon, Tully, Vigneron and Pallonen skipped the height, Bell crossed the bar on the first attempt. The next height of 5.55 m was skipped by Quinon, Bell and Vigneron. Tully only needed one try, Pallonen failed and was eliminated.

Bell and Vigneron managed 5.60 m in their first attempt, Tully and Quinon skipped the height. Bell and Vigneron again skipped 5.65 m. Quinon had a failed attempt and took the two remaining attempts up to the next level. Tully crossed the bar on the third attempt. Quinon managed 5.70 m in the first attempt, Tully skipped the height, Earl Bell and Thierry Vigneron failed. They shared the bronze medal due to the failed attempt rule, even though Bell had one more try than Vigneron - he had jumped 5.50m in the first jump while Vigneron had left out here. The rule of multiple attempts did not apply here.

The next height of 5.75 m was skipped by Tully. Quinon crossed the bar on the first try. At 5.80 m both failed three times. Pierre Quinon became Olympic champion, Mike Tully won silver with 5.65 m.

Pierre Quinon won the first Olympic victory for France in the pole vault .

space	Surname	nation	5.10 m	5.20 m	5.30 m	5.40 m	5.45 m	5.50 m	5.55 m	5.60 m	5.65 m	5.70 m	5.75 m	5.80 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Pierre Quinon	France	-	-	-	-	xo	-	-	-	x-	O	O	xxx	5.75 m
2	Mike Tully	United States	-	-	-	-	O	-	O	-	xx o	-	-	xxx	5.65 m
3	Earl Bell	United States	-	-	-	O	-	O	-	O	-	xxx			5.60 m
	Thierry Vigneron	France	-	-	-	O	-	-	-	O	-	xxx			5.60 m
5	Kimmo Pallonen	Finland	-	-	xo	-	x o	-	xxx						5.45 m
6th	Douglas Lytle	United States	-	-	-	O	-	xxx							5.40 m
7th	Felix Böhni	Switzerland	-	-	O	-	-	xxx							5.30 m
8th	Mauro Barella	Italy	xxo	-	xx o	xxx									5.30 m
9	Alberto Ruiz	Spain	-	O	-	xxx									5.20 m
10	Weimin Yang	People's Republic of China	x o	xxx											5.10 m
11	Jeffrey Gutteridge	Great Britain	xx o	xxx											5.10 m
ogV	Serge Ferreira	France	-	-	xxx											without height
	Tomás Hintnaus	Brazil	-	-	-	xxx
	Tomomi Takahashi	Japan	xxx

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 33

Web links

• SportsReference Pole Vault , accessed January 12, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 286, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 12, 2018

Video

• Olympics - 1984 Los Angeles - Track & Field - Mens Pole Vault - USA Earl Bell & FRA Thierry Vigneron , published April 21, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed January 12, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 677 , accessed on January 12, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 286, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 12, 2018
3. ↑ SportsReference Pole Vault , accessed January 12, 2018