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)
Medalist Jean Galfione ( FRA )   Igor Trandenkow ( RUS )   Andrei Tivontschik ( GER )

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

The American Jeff Hartwig finished eleventh in the final

The Dutchman Laurens Looije dropped out of the qualification as twelfth in his group

The South African Okkert Brits failed to qualify without a valid attempt

space	Surname	nation	5.20 m	5.40 m	5.60 m	5.70 m	height	annotation
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
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

Surprise Olympic champion Jean Galfione from France

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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 676 , accessed on March 3, 2018
2. ↑ 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 
3. ↑ 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