2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 30 athletes from 20 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadium Australia | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 23, 2000 (qualification) September 25, 2000 (final) |
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The women's pole vault at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 23-25, 2000 at Stadium Australia . Thirty athletes took part in the Olympic premiere of this discipline of women's athletics.
The first Olympic champion was the American Stacy Dragila . She won ahead of the Australian Tatiana Grigorieva and the Icelandic Vala Flosadóttir .
With Yvonne Buschbaum and Nicole Humbert , two Germans took part in the competition, both of whom reached the final. Humbert came in fifth, Buschbaum in sixth.
The Austrian Doris Auer also qualified for the final. She finished ninth.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Title holder
Olympic champion 1996 | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held | ||
World Champion 1999 | Stacy Dragila ( USA ) | 4.60 m | Seville 1999 |
European Champion 1998 | Anshela Balachonova ( Ukraine ) | 4.31 m | Budapest 1998 |
Pan American Champion 1999 | Alejandra García ( Argentina ) | 4.30 m | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999 | Alejandra Meza ( Mexico ) | 3.75 m | Bridgetown 1999 |
South America Champion 1999 | Alejandra García ( Argentina ) | 4.30 m | Bogotá 1999 |
Asian Champion 2000 | Takayo Kondo ( Japan ) | 4.00 m | Jakarta 2000 |
African champion 2000 | Syrine Balti ( Tunisia ) | 3.85 m | Algiers 2000 |
Oceania Champion 2000 | Nikki Beckett ( New Zealand ) | 3.20 m | Adelaide 2000 |
Existing records
World record | 4.63 m | Stacy Dragila ( USA ) | Sacramento , USA | July 23, 2000 |
Olympic record | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held |
Remarks:
- All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
- All heights are given in meters (m).
qualification
September 23, 2000, 6:00 p.m.
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for direct entry into the final was 4.40 m. None of the participating jumpers even approached this height, as it became clear that a jumped 4.40 m was enough to qualify for the final. Thirteen athletes (highlighted in light green) reached the final.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 4.00 | 4.15 | 4.25 | 4.30 | height | annotation |
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1 | Anshela Balachonova | Ukraine | - | - | - | O | 4.30 | OR |
Daniela Bártová | Czech Republic | O | - | O | O | |||
Tatiana Grigorieva | Australia | - | O | O | O | |||
Nicole Humbert | Germany | - | O | - | O | |||
5 | Marie Rasmussen | Denmark | O | xo | O | O | 4.30 | OR / NO |
6th | Stacy Dragila | United States | - | O | O | x o | 4.30 | OR |
7th | Monika Pyrek | Poland | O | O | xxo | x o | 4.30 | OR |
8th | Caroline Ammel | France | O | O | xxx | 4.15 | ||
9 | Alejandra García | Argentina | xo | O | xxx | 4.15 | ||
10 | Janine Whitlock | Great Britain | xxo | O | xxx | 4.15 | ||
11 | Þórey Edda Elísdóttir | Iceland | O | xxx | 4.15 | |||
ogV | Svetlana Feofanova | Russia | - | xxx | without height | |||
Elena Isinbayeva | Russia | xxx | ||||||
Tania Kolewa | Bulgaria | xxx | ||||||
Zsuzsanna Szabó | Hungary | - | xxx |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 4.00 | 4.15 | 4.25 | 4.30 | height | annotation |
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1 | Vala Flosadóttir | Iceland | O | O | O | O | 4.30 | OR |
Kellie Suttle | United States | O | O | O | O | |||
3 | Yvonne Buschbaum | Germany | - | xo | O | O | 4.30 | OR |
Gao Shuying | People's Republic of China | O | O | xo | O | |||
Elmarie Gerryts | South Africa | O | O | xo | O | |||
6th | Doris Auer | Austria | - | O | xxo | xx o | 4.30 | OR |
7th | Melissa Mueller | United States | O | O | O | xxx | 4.25 | |
8th | Emma George | Australia | - | O | xx o | xxx | 4.25 | |
María del Mar Sánchez | Spain | O | O | xx o | xxx | |||
10 | Marie Poissonier | France | xo | O | xxx | 4.15 | ||
11 | Deborah Gyurcsek | Uruguay | O | xx o | xxx | 4.15 | ||
12 | Pavla Hamáčková | Czech Republic | O | - | xxx | 4.00 | ||
ogV | Elena Belyakova | Russia | - | xxx | without height | |||
Katalin Donath | Hungary | xxx | ||||||
Thaleia Iakovidou | Greece | xxx |
final
September 25, 2000, 6:00 p.m.
Thirteen athletes had qualified for the final: two German and two US-Americans as well as one participant each from Australia, China, Denmark, Iceland, Austria, Poland, South Africa, the Czech Republic and the Ukraine.
After the former Australian world record holder Emma George was unable to qualify for the final due to an injury, the US world champion and world record holder Stacy Dragila was the clear favorite. Her strongest competitors were vice world champion Anzhel Balachonova from Ukraine and the Australian World Cup third Tatiana Grigorieva. But other finalists were also to be expected. Especially in this new discipline, which was also held for women for the first time at the Olympic Games, surprises were certainly possible.
The sixth raised in the final was 4.45 m. Up to this point six athletes had dropped out. The Polish Monika Pyrek and the German Yvonne Buschbaum tore the bar three times, so that there were now five jumpers in the competition: the Icelandic Vala Flosadóttir without fail, Grigorieva and Dragila with one failed jump each, the Czech Daniela Bártová with four and the German Nicole Humbert with them eight failed attempts. The next height of 4.50 m was taken by Bártová and Flosadóttir in the first jump, while Humbert skipped this height. Grigorieva needed two, Dragila three attempts for 4.50 m. At 4.55 m, Humbert, Bártová and Flosadóttir were eliminated. This was the first medal decision: Vala Flosadóttir won bronze due to the lowest number of unsuccessful attempts, Daniela Bártová came fourth and Nicole Humbert fifth.
Grigorieva and Dragila made the fight for the first gold pole vault medal between themselves. Grigorieva jumped 4.55m on the first attempt, Dragila on the second. The US athlete crossed the next height of 4.60 m with her first jump, Grigorieva had a failed attempt and took her two remaining jumps with her to the next height of 4.65 m. Both athletes failed here. Thus Stacy Dragila was the first female Olympic champion in the women's pole vault, Tatiana Grigorieva won the silver medal.
Vala Flosadóttir was the first woman in Iceland to win an Olympic medal.
Daniela Bártová from the Czech Republic was one of the few Olympians who competed in various sports. Bártová started gymnastics in 1992 in Barcelona for what was then Czechoslovakia.
space | Surname | nation | 4.00 | 4.15 | 4.25 | 4.35 | 4.40 | 4.45 | 4.50 | 4.55 | 4.60 | 4.65 | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Stacy Dragila | United States | - | - | O | O | xo | O | xxo | xo | O | xxx | 4.60 | OR |
2 | Tatiana Grigorieva | Australia | - | xo | O | O | O | O | xo | O | x- | xx | 4.55 | |
3 | Vala Flosadóttir | Iceland | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | xxx | 4.50 | NO | ||
4th | Daniela Bártová | Czech Republic | O | - | O | xxo | - | xxo | O | xxx | 4.50 | |||
5 | Nicole Humbert | Germany | - | xxo | xxo | xxo | - | xx o | - | xxx | 4.45 | |||
6th | Yvonne Buschbaum | Germany | - | - | xo | O | x o | xxx | 4.40 | |||||
7th | Monika Pyrek | Poland | xo | xxo | O | O | x o | xxx | 4.40 | NO | ||||
8th | Marie Rasmussen | Denmark | O | O | O | O | xxx | 4.35 | NO | |||||
9 | Doris Auer | Austria | - | - | O | xxx | 4.25 | |||||||
10 | Gao Shuying | People's Republic of China | O | O | xxx | 4.15 | ||||||||
11 | Kellie Suttle | United States | O | xxx | 4.00 | |||||||||
ogV | Anshela Balachonova | Ukraine | - | - | xxx | without height | ||||||||
Elmarie Gerryts | South Africa | xx- |
Web links
- SportsReference Pole Vault , accessed April 14, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 14, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 14, 2018
Video
- 2000 Womens Pole Vault , published July 11, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed April 14, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 798 , accessed on April 14, 2018