1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 21 athletes from 13 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Seoul Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 26, 1988 (qualifying) September 28, 1988 (final) |
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The men's pole vault at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was held on September 26 and 28, 1988 in two rounds at the Seoul Olympic Stadium. 21 athletes took part.
There was a triple success for the Soviet Union. Serhiy Bubka won the competition ahead of Rodion Gataullin and Grigori Jegorow .
The Austrian Hermann Fehringer reached the final and was thirteenth.
Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany, the GDR, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1984 |
Pierre Quinon ( France )
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5.75 m | Los Angeles 1984 |
World Champion 1987 |
Serhiy Bubka ( Soviet Union )
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5.85 m | Rome 1987 |
European champion 1986 | 5.85 m | Stuttgart 1986 | |
Pan American champion 1987 |
Mike Tully ( USA )
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5.71 m | Indianapolis 1987 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987 | Miguel Saldarriaga ( Colombia )
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5.05 m | Caracas 1987 |
South America Champion 1987 | Oscar Veit ( Argentina )
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5.25 m | São Paulo 1987 |
Asian champion 1987 | Liang Xueren ( People's Republic of China )
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5.35 m | Singapore 1987 |
African Champion 1988 | Choukri Abahnini ( Tunisia )
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4.90 m | Annaba 1988 |
Existing records
World record | 6.06 m |
Serhiy Bubka ( Soviet Union )
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Nice , France | July 10, 1988 |
Olympic record | 5.78 m |
Władysław Kozakiewicz ( Poland )
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Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia ) | July 30, 1980 |
qualification
Date: September 26, 1988
The athletes were drawn into two groups for qualification. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.55 m. Not a single jumper had to try his hand at this height, the best value of two athletes was 5.50 m. Another participant mastered 5.45 m and so the 5.40 m jumped by twelve other starters was enough for the final. The athletes in the second group jumping later had already realized this. So the actual qualification level was no longer tackled by them after the 5.40 m had been mastered. The fifteen athletes who have qualified for the final are highlighted in light green.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 5.10 m | 5.20 m | 5.30 m | 5.40 m | 5.45 m | 5.50 m | 5.55 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Serhiy Bubka |
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- | - | - | - | - | O | - | 5.50 m | |
Rodion Gataullin |
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- | - | - | - | - | O | - | |||
3 | Grigory Yegorov |
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- | - | - | - | O | - | - | 5.45 m | |
4th | Earl Bell |
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- | - | - | O | - | - | x- | 5.40 m | |
Miroslaw Chmara |
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- | - | - | O | - | - | - | |||
Kory tarpenning |
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- | - | - | O | - | - | x- | |||
7th | Philippe Collet |
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- | - | - | x o | - | - | - | 5.40 m | |
Hermann Fehringer |
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- | - | O | x o | - | - | x- | |||
Billy Olson |
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- | - | - | x o | - | - | - | |||
ogV | Atanas Tarew |
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- | - | - | xxx | without height |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 5.10 m | 5.20 m | 5.30 m | 5.40 m | 5.45 m | 5.50 m | 5.55 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Marian Kolasa |
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- | - | - | O | - | - | - | 5.40 m | |
2 | Asko Peltoniemi |
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- | - | xxo | O | - | - | - | 5.40 m | |
3 | István Bagyula |
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O | O | O | x o | - | - | - | 5.40 m | |
Philippe d'Encausse |
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- | O | - | x o | - | - | - | |||
Zdeněk Lubenský |
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- | O | O | x o | - | - | - | |||
6th | Thierry Vigneron |
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O | O | xo | x o | - | - | - | 5.40 m | |
7th | Kim Chul-kyun |
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xo | x o | xxx | 5.20 m | |||||
ogV | Andy Ashurst |
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xxx | without height | |||||||
Javier García |
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xxx | |||||||||
Lee Jae-bok |
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xxx |
final
Date: September 28, 1988
Fifteen jumpers had qualified for the final. Three US jumpers, three French and three athletes from the Soviet Union were represented. The field was completed by two Poles and one participant each from Finland, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
The top favorite was the Soviet world record holder , world and European champion Serhij Bubka. His sharpest rivals came with Vice World Champion Thierry Vigneron and Philippe Collet from France, with World Cup fourth Marian Kolasa from Poland, World Cup fifth Earl Bell from the USA and with World Cup third Rodion Gataullin from his own country.
Up to a height of 5.70 m, nine participants were eliminated, the two Poles Chmara and Kolasa had remained without a valid attempt. Collet, Vigneron and Bell failed at 5.75 m. It was therefore clear that all three medals would go to Soviet athletes. Grigori Jegorow jumped 5.80 m in the first attempt, Gataullin and Bubka skipped the height. Gataullin crossed 5.85 on his third jump, Jegorow and Bubka left out. Bubka mastered 5.90 m in the third attempt, Grigori Jegorow was eliminated and thus had bronze. Rodion Gataullin then failed at 5.95 m and won silver. Olympic champion Serhij Bubka refrained from further attempts. With his 5.90 m, a new Olympic record , the dominant pole vaulter of his time won the gold medal.
Serhiy Bubka was the first Olympic champion of the Soviet Union in the pole vault .
space | Surname | nation | 5.10 | 5.25 | 5.40 | 5.50 | 5.60 | 5.65 | 5.70 | 5.75 | 5.80 | 5.85 | 5.90 | 5.95 | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Serhiy Bubka |
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- | - | - | - | - | - | xo | - | - | - | xx o | - | 5.90 m | OR |
2 | Rodion Gataullin |
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- | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | - | xx o | - | xxx | 5.85 m | |
3 | Grigory Yegorov |
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- | - | - | O | - | - | xo | - | O | - | xxx | 5.80 m | ||
4th | Earl Bell |
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- | - | O | - | O | - | O | xxx | 5.70 m | |||||
5 | Philippe Collet |
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- | - | - | xo | - | - | x o | xxx | 5.70 m | |||||
Thierry Vigneron |
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- | xo | - | O | O | - | x o | x-- | |||||||
7th | István Bagyula |
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O | O | O | O | O | xxx | 5.60 m | |||||||
8th | Philippe d'Encausse |
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- | - | O | x- | x o | - | xxx | 5.60 m | ||||||
9 | Asko Peltoniemi |
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- | - | O | - | xx o | - | xxx | 5.60 m | ||||||
10 | Kory tarpenning |
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- | - | - | O | - | xxx | 5.50 m | |||||||
11 | Zdeněk Lubenský |
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- | xo | - | O | - | xxx | 5.50 m | |||||||
12 | Billy Olson |
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- | - | - | xx o | - | xxx | 5.50 m | |||||||
13 | Hermann Fehringer |
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- | O | O | xxx | 5.40 m | |||||||||
ogV | Miroslaw Chmara |
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- | - | - | - | xxx | without height | ||||||||
Marian Kolasa |
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- | - | - | xxx |
Web links
- SportsReference pole vault , accessed January 27, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , athletics results: p. 242, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 27, 2018
Video
- Sergey Bubka's Gold Medal & Olympic Record - Seoul 1988 Olympics , published July 3, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed January 27, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 677 , accessed on January 27, 2018
- ↑ a b Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 242, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on January 27, 2018