2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)

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Olympic rings
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sport athletics
discipline Pole vault
gender Men
Attendees 36 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location Stadium Australia
Competition phase September 27, 2000 (qualification)
September 29, 2000 (final)
Medalist
gold medal Nick Hysong ( USA ) United StatesUnited States 
Silver medal Lawrence Johnson ( USA ) United StatesUnited States 
Bronze medal Maxim Tarasov ( RUS ) RussiaRussia 

The men's pole vault at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 27 and 29, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 36 athletes took part.

The American Nick Hysong became Olympic champion . He won before his compatriot Lawrence Johnson and the Russian Maxim Tarasov .

With Danny Ecker , Tim Lobinger and Michael Stolle , three Germans took part in the competition, and they all reached the final. Stolle took fifth place, Ecker eighth and Lobinger thirteenth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1996 Jean Galfione ( France ) FranceFrance  5.92 m Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999 Maxim Tarasov ( Russia ) RussiaRussia  6.02 m Seville 1999
European champion 1998 5.81 m Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999 Pat Manson ( USA ) United StatesUnited States  5.60 m Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999 Dominic Johnson ( St. Lucia ) Saint Lucia 1979St. Lucia  5.61 m Bridgetown 1999
South American Champion 1999 Ricardo Diez ( Venezuela ) Venezuela 1954Venezuela  5.20 m Bogotá 1999
Asian champion 2000 Zhang Hongwei ( People's Republic of China ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  5.40 m Jakarta 2000
African Champion 2000 Rafik Mefti ( Algeria ) AlgeriaAlgeria  5.00 m Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000 Eric Reuillard ( New Caledonia ) New CaledoniaNew Caledonia  4.80 m Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record 6.14 m Serhij Bubka ( Ukraine ) UkraineUkraine  Sestriere , Italy July 27, 1993
Olympic record 5.92 m Igor Trandenkow ( Russia ) RussiaRussia  Atlanta Final , USA 2nd August 1996
Jean Galfione ( France ) FranceFrance 
Andrei Tivontchik ( Germany ) GermanyGermany 

Remarks:

  • All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
  • All heights are given in meters (m).

qualification

September 27, 2000, 6:30 p.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 5.75 m. Since nobody jumped this height, the final field had to be filled with the next best athletes from both groups to at least twelve participants. Here there were even thirteen athletes (highlighted in light green) due to the same height. Not a single jumper had even approached the actual qualification level, as it became clear that 5.70 m would be sufficient for participation in the finals. After all, the required height was only 5.65 m

Group A

space Surname nation 5.25 5.40 5.55 5.65 5.70 height annotation
1 Dmitri Markov AustraliaAustralia Australia - - O - O 5.70
2 Viktor Chistyakov AustraliaAustralia Australia - O xo xxo x o 5.70
3 Tim Lobinger GermanyGermany Germany - O O O x- 5.65
Yevgeny Smiryagin RussiaRussia Russia - O O O xx-
5 Lawrence Johnson United StatesUnited States United States - - xo O - 5.65
Montxu Miranda SpainSpain Spain - xo O O -
7th Štěpán Janáček Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic - xxo O O xxx 5.65
8th Ren Blom NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands - O O x o xxx 5.65
9 Jean Galfione FranceFrance France - O O xxx 5.55
10 Danny Krasnov IsraelIsrael Israel - O x o xxx 5.55
Patrik Kristiansson SwedenSweden Sweden - O x o xxx
12 Thibaut Duval BelgiumBelgium Belgium - xo xx o xxx 5.55
13 Pavel Gerasimov RussiaRussia Russia - x o - xxx 5.40
14th Nuno Fernandes PortugalPortugal Portugal xx o xxx 5.25
ogV Serhiy Bubka UkraineUkraine Ukraine - - - - xxx without height
Ruhan Işım TurkeyTurkey Turkey xxx
Igor Potapovich KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan - - xxx
Robison Pratt MexicoMexico Mexico xxx

Group B

space Surname nation 5.25 5.40 5.55 5.65 5.70 height annotation
1 Nick Hysong United StatesUnited States United States - - O O O 5.70
2 Danny Ecker GermanyGermany Germany - - xo - O 5.70
3 Michael Stolle GermanyGermany Germany - - O - xx o 5.70
4th Giuseppe Gibilisco ItalyItaly Italy - O xo O xx o 5.70
5 Alexander Awerbuch IsraelIsrael Israel - - O O - 5.65
Occert Brits South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa - - O O -
Maxim Tarasov RussiaRussia Russia - - - O -
8th Paul Burgess AustraliaAustralia Australia - O O xxx 5.55
Javier García SpainSpain Spain - O O xx- x
Kevin Hughes United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain O O O xxx
11 Ilijan Efremov BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria O xo xx o - xxx 5.55
Martin Eriksson SwedenSweden Sweden - xo xx o xxx
13 Manabu Yokoyama JapanJapan Japan - xxo xx o xxx 5.55
14th Chad Harting United StatesUnited States United States - x o x- xx 5.40
Dominic Johnson Saint Lucia 1979St. Lucia St. Lucia - x o xxx
16 João André PortugalPortugal Portugal xo x o x- xx 5.40
17th Romain Mesnil FranceFrance France - xx o x- xx 5.40
Denys Yurchenko UkraineUkraine Ukraine - x o - x-
ogV Fotis Stefani Cyprus 1960Cyprus Cyprus xxx without height

final

September 29, 2000, 6:30 p.m.

Thirteen athletes had qualified for the final: three Germans, two Australians, two Russians, two US Americans, as well as one participant each from Israel, Italy, Spain and South Africa.

Two of the favorites were not in the final. The world record holder and Olympic champion of 1988 Serhij Bubka from Ukraine as well as the Olympic champion of 1996 Jean Galfione from France failed in the qualification. The world's best of the year Jeff Hartwig from the United States had not been able to qualify in the US eliminations. The highest rated jumper was thus the Russian world and European champion Maxim Tarasov. Other promising medal candidates were the Australian vice world champion Dmitri Markov, the World Cup third Alexander Awerbuch from Israel and the two Americans Lawrence Johnson and Nick Hysong. The three German participants Tim Lobinger as Vice European Champion, Danny Ecker as fourth in the World Championship and Michael Stolle did not start without a chance.

The starting height of 5.50 m was mastered by all jumpers. Only the South African Okkert Brits and Johnson had left out. Awerbuch, the Italian Giuseppe Gibilisco, the Russian Jewgenij Smirjagin and Lobinger failed at 5.70 m.

The Spaniard Montxu Miranda was eliminated at the third height of 5.80 m. Only Hysong jumped the following 5.90 m in the first attempt. Johnson needed two jumps, Tarasow and Stolle were successful with their third attempts. Markov played poker and after two failed jumps took his last attempt to the next height. Brits, the Australian Viktor Tschistjakow and Ecker tore the bar three times.

There were still five jumpers in the competition when the bar was raised to 5.96 m. Four of them had jumped 5.90 m. The two Americans Hysong and Johnson had the best starting position with only one failed attempt each. Tarasov had three missed jumps, Stolle five. Markov had only torn twice so far, but his best mark was only 5.80 m so far. In the end, his last attempt failed. The other four athletes could not overcome the new jump height either and each tore three times. Nick Hysong became Olympic champion because he had jumped the last previously set height of 5.90 m in the first attempt, Johnson on the other hand only in his second attempt. So Lawrence Johnson won the silver medal, and Maxim Tarasov was third ahead of Michael Stolle. Fifth place was shared by the two Australians Dmitri Markov and Viktor Tschistjakow. Okkert Brits was seventh ahead of Danny Ecker

Nick Hysong won the 18th gold medal for the USA in the 24th Olympic pole vault final - in 1908 there were two gold medals.

space Surname nation 5.50 5.70 5.80 5.90 5.96 Bottom line annotation
1 Nick Hysong United StatesUnited States United States O xo O O xxx 5.90
2 Lawrence Johnson United StatesUnited States United States - O O x o xxx 5.90
3 Maxim Tarasov RussiaRussia Russia O - xo xx o xxx 5.90
4th Michael Stolle GermanyGermany Germany xxo O xo xx o xxx 5.90
5 Viktor Chistyakov AustraliaAustralia Australia O O O xxx 5.80
Dmitri Markov AustraliaAustralia Australia O - O xx- x
7th Occert Brits South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa - O x o xxx 5.80
8th Danny Ecker GermanyGermany Germany O xo x o xxx 5.80
9 Montxu Miranda SpainSpain Spain O xx o xxx 5.70
10 Alexander Awerbuch IsraelIsrael Israel O xxx 5.50
Giuseppe Gibilisco ItalyItaly Italy O xxx
Yevgeny Smiryagin RussiaRussia Russia O xxx
13 Tim Lobinger GermanyGermany Germany x o xxx 5.50

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Individual evidence

  1. IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 676 , accessed on April 1, 2018