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) |
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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
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 677 , accessed on February 11, 2018
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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