1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 37 athletes from 24 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Centennial Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 31, 1996 (qualifying) August 2, 1996 (final) |
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The men's pole vault at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 31 and August 2, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 37 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the French Jean Galfione . He won ahead of the Russian Igor Trandenkow and the German Andrei Tivontschik .
In addition to medalists Tivontschik, Tim Lobinger and Michael Stolle , both of whom qualified for the final, started for Germany . Lobinger was seventh, Stolle ninth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1992 | Maxim Tarasov ( EUN ) | 5.80 m | Barcelona 1992 |
World Champion 1995 | Serhij Bubka ( Ukraine ) | 5.92 m | Gothenburg 1995 |
European Champion 1994 | Radion Gataullin ( Russia ) | 6.00 m | Helsinki 1994 |
Pan American champion 1995 | Pat Manson ( USA ) | 5.75 m | Mar del Plata 1995 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995 | Ángel García ( Cuba ) | 5.40 m | Guatemala City 1995 |
South American Champion 1995 | Cristián Aspillaga ( Chile ) | 4.70 m | Manaus 1995 |
Asian champion 1995 | Hideyuki Takei ( Japan ) | 5.30 m | Jakarta 1995 |
African champion 1996 | Anise Riahi ( Tunisia ) | 4.60 m | Yaoundé 1996 |
Oceania Champion 1994 | Thibaut Cattiau ( Tahiti ) | 4.55 m | Auckland 1994 |
Existing records
World record | 6.14 m | Serhij Bubka ( Ukraine ) | Sestriere , Italy | July 27, 1993 |
Olympic record | 5.90 m | Serhiy Bubka ( Soviet Union ) | Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 28, 1988 |
Note: All times are Atlanta local time ( UTC − 5 ).
qualification
July 31, 1996, from 9:30 a.m.
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.70 m. Since only eleven jumpers jumped this height (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best jumpers from both groups to fourteen participants. These were the three athletes who had mastered 5.60 m without any unsuccessful attempt (highlighted in light green).
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 5.20 m | 5.40 m | 5.60 m | 5.70 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Alain Andji | France | - | O | O | O | 5.70 m | |
Tim Lobinger | Germany | - | O | O | O | |||
3 | Jeff Hartwig | United States | - | O | xo | O | 5.70 m | |
4th | Igor Trandenkov | Russia | - | - | xxo | O | 5.70 m | |
5 | Igor Potapovich | Kazakhstan | - | - | O | x o | 5.70 m | |
6th | Michael Stolle | Germany | xo | xo | O | xx o | 5.70 m | |
7th | Dmitri Markov | Belarus | - | O | O | xxx | 5.60 m | |
8th | James Miller | Australia | - | xo | x o | xxx | 5.60 m | |
9 | Viktor Chistyakov | Russia | - | xxo | x o | xxx | 5.60 m | |
10 | Nuno Fernandes | Portugal | xo | O | xx o | xxx | 5.60 m | |
11 | Konstantin Semyonov | Israel | - | O | x-- | xx | 5.40 m | |
12 | Laurens Looije | Netherlands | xxo | O | xxx | 5.40 m | ||
13 | Neil Winter | Great Britain | O | x o | xxx | 5.40 m | ||
14th | Edgardo Díaz | Puerto Rico | xo | xx o | xxx | 5.40 m | ||
15th | Teruyasu Yonekura | Japan | xx o | xxx | 5.20 m | |||
ogV | Occert Brits | South Africa | - | - | xxx | without height | ||
Wassyl Bubka | Ukraine | - | xxx | |||||
Juan Gabriel Concepción | Spain | - | xxx | |||||
Jean-Kersley Gardenne | Mauritius | xxx |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 5.20 m | 5.40 m | 5.60 m | 5.70 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Pyotr Bochkarev | Russia | - | - | O | O | 5.70 m | |
Riaan Botha | South Africa | - | O | O | O | |||
3 | Jean Galfione | France | - | xo | O | O | 5.70 m | |
4th | Andrei Tivontschik | Germany | - | - | O | xx o | 5.70 m | |
5 | Lawrence Johnson | United States | - | xo | xxo | xx o | 5.70 m | |
6th | Scott Huffman | United States | - | O | O | xxx | 5.60 m | |
Yevgeny Krasnov | Israel | - | O | O | xxx | |||
8th | José Manuel Arcos | Spain | - | xxo | O | xxx | 5.60 m | |
9 | Heikki Vääräniemi | Finland | - | xo | xx o | xxx | 5.60 m | |
10 | Nicholas Buckfield | Great Britain | - | O | xxx | 5.40 m | ||
Javier García | Spain | - | O | xxx | ||||
12 | Kim Chul-kyun | South Korea | O | x o | xxx | 5.40 m | ||
13 | Martin Voss | Denmark | xo | x o | x-- | xx | 5.40 m | |
14th | Aleksandrs Obižajevs | Latvia | - | xx o | xxx | 5.40 m | ||
15th | Alexandru Jucov | Moldova | O | xxx | 5.20 m | |||
ogV | Simon Arkell | Australia | - | xxx | without height | |||
Valery Burkeev | Estonia | - | xxx | |||||
Dominic Johnson | St. Lucia | xxx | ||||||
DNS | Serhiy Bubka | Ukraine | injured when warming up |
final
2nd August 1996
Fourteen athletes were able to qualify for the final, eleven over the required qualification height and three others as lucky losers with 5.60 m, who had been skipped without unsuccessful attempts. Three Americans, three Germans, two French and two Russians met one participant each from Israel, Kazakhstan, South Africa and Belarus
Top favorite Serhij Bubka from Ukraine was unable to start the competition because of an injury. The Russian vice world champion from 1995 and European Championship third from 1994 Maxim Tarasov was not there. So there was a circle of favorites with v. a. three jumpers: the silver medalist from 1992 and vice European champion from 1994 Igor Trandenkow from Russia, the World Cup and European Championship third Jean Galfione from France and the South African World Cup fourth Okkert Brits. However, the South African failed in qualifying.
Seven jumpers were still in competition after the fourth height - 5.80 m - including the Germans Andrei Tivontschik and Tim Lobinger. For Lobinger this remained his end result, he had a failed attempt over 5.86 m and then tore 5.92 m twice. That got him seventh. Five of the remaining participants jumped 5.86 m. Trandenkow had two failed attempts here, but mastered 5.92 m with his last attempt. Galfione mastered this 5.92 m with his first, Tivontschik with the second jump. The Belarusian Dmitri Markow tore three times and was eliminated like Lobinger. The Kazakh Igor Potapowitsch had one, the Russian Pyotr Botschkarev two failed attempts, they took the remaining ones with them to the next height of 5.97 m. Here, however, both failed and were eliminated. Andrei Tivontschik also had three failed attempts, which earned him the bronze medal. Galfione had a miss jump, he played poker and saved the two remaining jumps for the coming height. Trandenkow had missed 5.97 m completely. Both then failed at 6.02 m. Jean Galfione was thus Olympic champion due to the lower number of unsuccessful attempts. Igor Trandenkow won silver. All medal winners achieved an Olympic record , Trandenkow first - in the order determined in advance, he jumped ahead of Galfione, the French in second and Tivontschik in third.
space | Surname | nation | 5.40 m | 5.60 m | 5.70 m | 5.80 m | 5.86 m | 5.92 m | 5.97 m | 6.02 m | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Jean Galfione | France | - | O | - | xo | O | O | x-- | xx | 5.92 m | ORe |
2 | Igor Trandenkov | Russia | - | - | O | - | xx | O | - | xxx | 5.92 m | OR |
3 | Andrei Tivontschik | Germany | - | xo | - | xo | xo | x o | xxx | 5.92 m | ORe | |
4th | Igor Potapovich | Kazakhstan | - | - | O | - | O | x-- | xx | 5.86 m | ||
5 | Pyotr Bochkarev | Russia | - | xo | - | xo | O | xx- | x | 5.86 m | ||
6th | Dmitri Markov | Belarus | O | O | xo | xxo | x o | xxx | 5.86 m | |||
7th | Tim Lobinger | Germany | - | O | O | O | x | xx | 5.80 m | |||
8th | Lawrence Johnson | United States | O | O | O | xxx | 5.70 m | |||||
9 | Alain Andji | France | O | O | xx o | xxx | 5.70 m | |||||
Michael Stolle | Germany | O | O | xx o | xxx | |||||||
11 | Jeff Hartwig | United States | O | O | xxx | 5.60 m | ||||||
Yevgeny Krasnov | Israel | O | O | xxx | ||||||||
13 | Scott Huffman | United States | xo | O | xxx | 5.60 m | ||||||
14th | Riaan Botha | South Africa | O | x o | - | xxx | 5.60 m |
literature
- Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 37
Web links
- SportsReference Pole Vault , accessed March 3, 2018
- Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 89f, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 3, 2018
Video
- Men's Pole Vault Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 22, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 3, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 676 , accessed on March 3, 2018
- ↑ Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 89, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 3, 2018
- ↑ Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 90, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 3, 2018