1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	34 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 5, 1992 (qualification) August 7, 1992 (final)
Medalist Maxim Tarasov ( EUN )   Igor Trandenkow ( EUN )   Javier García ( ESP )

The men's pole vault at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on August 5th and 7th, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 34 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Russian Maxim Tarasov from the united team. He won ahead of his Russian teammate Igor Trandenkow . Bronze went to the Spaniard Javier García .

Athletes from Germany weren't there. Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein also did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion in 1988	Serhiy Bubka ( Soviet Union )	5.90 m	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991		5.95 m	Tokyo 1991
European champion 1990	Rodion Gataullin ( Soviet Union )	5.85 m	Split 1990
Pan American champion 1991	Pat Manson ( USA )	5.50 m	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991	Edgar Díaz ( Puerto Rico )	5.39 m	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Cristián Aspillaga ( Chile )	5.00 m	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Hideyuki Takei ( Japan )	5.25 m	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African Champion 1992	Okkert Brits ( South Africa )	5.35 m	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Marcus Pointon ( New Zealand )	4.40 m	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	6.11 m	Serhij Bubka ( EUN )	Dijon , France	June 13, 1992
Olympic record	5.90 m	Serhiy Bubka ( Soviet Union )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 28, 1988

qualification

Date: August 5, 1992

For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The height required for direct entry into the final was 5.60 m. Since only six jumpers mastered this height (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 5.50 m was enough for the final.

Group A

The Frenchman Jean Galfione - here in a photo from 2013 - failed as fifth in his qualification group with a jump of 5.50 m

space	Surname	nation	4.80 m	5.00 m	5.20 m	5.30 m	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.55 m	5.60 m	height	annotation
1	Serhiy Bubka	EUN	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	O	5.60 m
2	Kory tarpenning	United States	-	-	-	-	xo	xo	-	x o	5.60 m
3	Alberto Ruiz	Spain	-	-	O	-	O	xo	x o	xxx	5.55 m
4th	David Volz	United States	-	-	-	-	O	xo	xx o	xxx	5.55 m
5	Jean Galfione	France	-	-	-	-	O	O	-	xxx	5.50 m
6th	Philippe d'Encausse	France	-	-	-	-	xo	O	-	xxx	5.50 m
	Jani Lehtonen	Finland	-	-	-	-	xo	O	-	xxx
8th	Galin Nikov	Bulgaria	-	-	-	O	-	x o	-	xxx	5.50 m
9	Valeri Bukrejev	Estonia	-	-	-	-	O	xx o	xxx		5.50 m
10	Daniel Martí	Spain	-	-	O	-	x o	xxx			5.40 m
11	Peter Widén	Sweden	-	-	-	xxo	xx o	xxx			5.40 m
12	Douglas Wood	Canada	-	-	O	-	xxx				5.20 m
13	Kersley Gardenne	Mauritius	-	O	O	xxx					5.20 m
14th	Michael Edwards	Great Britain	-	-	x o	xxx					5.20 m
ogV	Paul Gibbons	New Zealand	-	xxx								without height
	Kim Chul-kyun	South Korea	-	-	xxx
DNS	Hermann Fehringer	Austria

Group B

space	Surname	nation	4.80 m	5.00 m	5.20 m	5.30 m	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.55 m	5.60 m	height	annotation
1	Maxim Tarasov	EUN	-	-	-	-	-	-	O	O	5.60 m
2	Danny Krasnov	Israel	-	-	-	-	xo	O	xo	O	5.60 m
3	Tim Bright	United States	-	-	-	-	O	O	-	x o	5.60 m
4th	Igor Trandenkov	EUN	-	-	-	-	-	xo	-	xx o	5.60 m
5	Javier García	Spain	-	-	-	-	O	xo	x o	x-	5.55 m
6th	Asko Peltoniemi	Finland	-	-	-	-	xo	xo	x o	x--	5.55 m
7th	István Bagyula	Hungary	-	-	O	O	xo	xo	x o	xxx	5.55 m
8th	Philippe Collet	France	-	-	-	-	-	xo	xx o	x--	5.55 m
9	Edgar Díaz	Puerto Rico	-	-	xxo	-	-	xx o	xxx		5.50 m
10	Andrea Pegoraro	Italy	-	-	-	-	xx o	xxx			5.40 m
11	Simon Arkell	Australia	-	-	-	O	-	xxx			5.30 m
12	Christos Pallakis	Greece	-	xo	O	xx o	xxx				5.30 m
13	Photis Stephani	Cyprus	-	O	x o	xxx					5.20 m
14th	Edward Lasquete	Philippines	xxo	O	xxx						5.00 m
15th	Nuno Fernandes	Portugal	xxo	x o	xxx						5.00 m
ogV	Aleksandrs Obižajevs	Latvia	-	-	-	-	-	xxx				without height
	Tomas Riether	Chile	-	xxx
	Hiroyuki Sano	Japan	-	-	xxx

final

Date: August 7, 1992

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, six of them above the required height, the others via their placements. Three jumpers from the united team met three Americans and two Spaniards. The final field was completed by one jumper each from Finland, France, Israel and Hungary.

The top favorite was the Ukrainian world record holder , world champion and Olympic champion from 1988 Serhij Bubka, who started for the united team. The Hungarian Vice World Champion István Bagyula, the Russian World Cup third Maxim Tarassow, also competed for the united team, the French European Championship fourth Philippe Collet and the Spanish European Championship fifth Javier García with a medal chance.

As usual, Bubka decided to intervene late in the competition. Its starting height was 5.70 m. Seven other jumpers were here. Surprisingly, Bubka had two missed jumps. He took the last attempt with him to the new height of 5.75 m. Collet failed three times at 5.70 m. Bubka also could not cross 5.75 m and was eliminated without jumping over the height. At these 5.75 m, the Finn Asko Petoniemi and the US-American David Volz also finished. Tarasov, the US jumper Kory Tarpenning, García and the Russian Igor Trandenkow, who, like Tarasov, competed for the united team, fought for the medals. Tarpenning and García failed because of the 5.80 m that had now been laid. Since Kory Tarpenning had only crossed 5.75 m in the last attempt, he was fourth. Javier García had taken 5.75 m in the second attempt and won the bronze medal. Tarassow and Trandenkow mastered this 5.80 m, Tarassow in the first and Trandenkow in the third attempt. Both missed 5.85 m and then failed at 5.90 m. Maxim Tarasov was Olympic champion ahead of Igor Trandenkow.

Javier García was the first Spanish medalist in the pole vault .

space	Surname	nation	5.20 m	5.30 m	5.40 m	5.50 m	5.55 m	5.60 m	5.65 m	5.70 m	5.75 m	5.80 m	5.85 m	5.90 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Maxim Tarasov	EUN	-	-	-	-	-	O	-	-	-	O	-	xxx	5.80 m
2	Igor Trandenkov	EUN	-	-	-	O	-	-	-	O	-	xx o	-	xxx	5.80 m
3	Javier García	Spain	-	-	O	-	-	O	-	O	x o	xxx			5.75 m
4th	Kory tarpenning	United States	-	-	-	-	-	O	-	-	xx o	xxx			5.75 m
5	David Volz	United States	-	-	-	xo	-	-	O	-	xxx				5.65 m
6th	Asko Peltoniemi	Finland	-	-	xxo	-	-	x o	-	x-	xx				5.60 m
7th	Philippe Collet	France	-	-	-	-	O	-	-	xxx					5.55 m
8th	Danny Krasnov	Israel	-	-	x o	xxx									5.40 m
9	István Bagyula	Hungary	xxo	O	xx										5.30 m
10	Alberto Ruiz	Spain	-	xx o	-	xxx									5.30 m
ogV	Tim Bright	United States	-	-	-	-	xxx									without height
	Serhiy Bubka	EUN	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	xx-	x

Web links

• SportsReference pole vault , accessed February 11, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 48f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 11, 2018

Video

• 1992 Olympics ~ Men's Pole Vault , published August 5, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 11, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 677 , accessed on February 11, 2018
2. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 48, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 11, 2018
3. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 49, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 11, 2018