2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | Pole vault |
gender | Men |
place | Beijing National Stadium |
Attendees | 38 athletes from 26 countries |
Competition phase | 20./22. August 2008 |
Medalist | |
gold | Steve Hooker ( AUS ) |
silver | Yevgeny Lukyanenko ( RUS ) |
bronze | Derek Miles ( USA ) |
The pole vault at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held on August 20 and 22, 2008. 38 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Australian Steve Hooker . The Russian Yevgeny Lukyanenko won the silver medal . Bronze went to Derek Miles from the United States.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 2004 | Timothy Mack ( USA ) | 5.95 m | Athens 2004 |
World Champion 2007 | Brad Walker ( USA ) | 5.86 m | Osaka 2007 |
European champion 2006 | Alexander Awerbuch ( Israel ) | 5.70 m | Gothenburg 2006 |
Pan American Champion 2007 | Fábio da Silva ( Brazil ) | 5.40 m | Rio de Janeiro 2007 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 2008 | Lázaro Borges ( Cuba ) | 5.50 m | Cali 2008 |
South America Champion 2007 | Fábio da Silva ( Brazil ) | 5.77 m | São Paulo 2007 |
Asian champion 2007 | Mohsen Rabbani ( Iran ) | 5.35 m | Amman 2007 |
Africa Champion 2008 | Mouhsin Cheouari ( Morocco ) | 4.80 m | Addis Ababa 2008 |
Oceania Champion 2008 | Pole vault not in the championship program | Saipan 2008 |
Existing records
World record | 6.14 m | Serhij Bubka ( Ukraine ) | Sestriere , Italy | July 27, 1993 |
Olympic record | 5.95 m | Timothy Mack ( USA ) | Athens Final , Greece | July 28, 1996 |
qualification
August 20, 2008, 8:40 p.m.
The qualification was carried out in two groups. Due to the development of the heights skipped by the participants in the qualification, as in the high jump, not a single jumper even reached the required qualification height . The best twelve or initially thirteen starters from both qualification groups reached the final (highlighted in light green) because two were tied here. After all, it was 5.65 m necessary to take part in the final, regardless of the number of failed attempts.
In the end, only twelve athletes were rated, because the Ukrainian Denys Yurchenko was stripped of his placements on August 20, 2014 for doping abuse .
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 5.15 m | 5.30 m | 5.45 m | 5.55 m | 5.65 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Igor Pavlov | Russia | - | - | O | - | O | 5.65 | |
2 | Leonid Andreyev | Uzbekistan | - | O | O | O | xo | 5.65 | |
Jérôme Clavier | France | - | O | - | O | xo | |||
Raphael Holzdeppe | Germany | - | - | O | O | xo | |||
5 | Jan Kudlička | Czech Republic | O | O | - | xo | xo | 5.65 | |
6th | Dmitri Starodubtsev | Russia | - | xo | - | xxo | xo | 5.65 | |
7th | Paul Burgess | Australia | - | - | O | xo | xxx | 5.55 | |
Maksym Masuryk | Ukraine | - | - | O | xo | xxx | |||
9 | Jeff Hartwig | United States | - | - | O | xxo | xxx | 5.55 | |
Liu Feiliang | People's Republic of China | - | O | O | xxo | xxx | |||
11 | Jesper Fritz | Sweden | - | xo | O | xxx | 5.45 | ||
12 | Giovanni Lanaro | Mexico | - | - | xo | xxx | 5.45 | ||
13 | Jurij Rovan | Slovenia | xx- | O | xxx | 5.35 | |||
ogV | Germán Chiaraviglio | Argentina | - | xxx | without height | ||||
Iliyan Efremov | Bulgaria | xxx | |||||||
Kim Yoosuk | South Korea | - | xxx | ||||||
Steven Lewis | Great Britain | - | - | xxx | |||||
Brad Walker | United States | - | - | - | - | xxx | |||
DOP | Denys Yurchenko | Ukraine | - | - | - | in the final, later disqualified |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 5.15 m | 5.30 m | 5.45 m | 5.55 m | 5.65 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Yevgeny Lukyanenko | Russia | - | - | - | O | O | 5.65 | |
2 | Przemysław Czerwiński | Poland | - | - | O | xo | xo | 5.65 | PBe |
3 | Danny Ecker | Germany | - | - | xxo | - | xo | 5.65 | |
Derek Miles | United States | - | - | O | xxo | xo | |||
5 | Steve Hooker | Australia | - | - | - | - | xxo | 5.65 | |
6th | Giuseppe Gibilisco | Italy | - | - | xo | O | xxo | 5.65 | |
7th | Alhaji Jeng | Sweden | - | - | - | O | xxx | 5.55 | |
Romain Mesnil | France | - | - | - | O | xxx | |||
9 | Tim Lobinger | Germany | - | - | O | xo | xxx | 5.55 | |
Daichi Sawano | Japan | - | - | O | xo | xxx | |||
11 | Oleksandr Korchmid | Ukraine | - | - | O | xxx | 5.45 | ||
Mikko Latvala | Finland | - | - | O | - | xxx | |||
13 | Buhalov spas | Bulgaria | - | - | xo | - | xxx | 5.45 | |
Fábio da Silva | Brazil | - | - | xo | xxx | ||||
15th | Alexander Awerbuch | Israel | - | - | xxo | - | xxx | 5.45 | |
Kevin Rans | Belgium | - | O | xxo | xxx | ||||
17th | Štěpán Janáček | Czech Republic | O | O | - | xxx | 5.30 | ||
Dominic Johnson | St. Lucia | - | O | xxx | |||||
ogV | Lázaro Borges | Cuba | - | xxx | without height |
final
August 22, 2008, 7:55 pm
Thirteen athletes had initially qualified for the final, twelve of whom were ultimately included in the ranking, because Ukrainian Denys Yurchenko was stripped of his bronze medal on August 20, 2014 for proven doping abuse . His involvement is therefore excluded from the rest of the description. Since nobody had even approached the qualifying height of 5.75 m, all pole vaulters who had jumped 5.65 m reached this final battle.
Opposite each other were three Russians, two Germans and one participant each from Australia, France, Italy, Poland, the USA, the Czech Republic and Uzbekistan.
There was a slightly larger circle of favorites who were eligible for the medals. Among them were the reigning world champion and vice world champion from 2005 Brad Walker from the United States, the Israeli European champion Alexander Awerbuch, the French vice world champion and European Championship third Romain Mesnil as well as the two Germans Danny Ecker as World Championship third and Tim Lobinger as Vice European Champion. Surprisingly, World Champion Walker and Vice European Champion Lobinger were already eliminated in the qualification.
The competition soon turned into a festival of failed attempts. Time and again, even the strongest athletes in the end had to make three attempts to reach the required height. When the bar was raised to 5.70 m, there were still eight participants in the competition. They had jumped 5.60 m, only Ecker had skipped this height. Except for the Russian Igor Pavlov and the Australian Steve Hooker, all athletes tackled the new jump height. Only the Russian Yevgeny Lukyanenko was successful with his first attempt, the American Derek Miles and the Russian Dmitri Starodubzew made it with their second jumps, Danny Ecker with his third. Holzdeppe and the French Jérôme Clavier tore three times and dropped out.
Only Ecker and Pawlow tried their hand at 5.75 m. Both were eliminated here. It was therefore clear that Danny Ecker, who had conquered 5.70 m, was fifth. Jérôme Clavier was sixth, Raphael Holzdeppe seventh ahead of Igor Pawlow. These three had to stand 5.60 m each.
Now 5.80 m were laid. Lukjanenko took the altitude straight away, Hooker on the third attempt. Dmitri Starodubzew tore three times and was fourth with his 5.70 m. He had two more failed attempts than Derek Miles, who also failed at 5.80 m, but with his 5.70 m jumped the bronze medal. Both jumpers remaining in the competition needed three attempts each for 5.85 m. The decision about gold and silver had to be made between Hooker and Lukjanenko. Hooker also managed the following height of 5.90 m with his third jump, while Yevgeny Lukjanenko tore three times and thus won silver - 5.85 m was his final result. In the excitement of the certain Olympic victory, Steve Hooker now set the new Olympic record height of 5.96 m. In an almost familiar manner, he had two failed attempts before he improved the record set by the American Timothy Mack by an inch in 2004 .
Steve Hooker was the first Olympic gold medalist for Australia in the pole vault .
space | Surname | nation | 5.45 m | 5.60 m | 5.70 m | 5.75 m | 5.80 m | 5.85 m | 5.90 m | 5.96 m | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Steve Hooker | Australia | - | O | - | - | xxo | xxo | xxo | xxo | 5.96 | OR |
2 | Yevgeny Lukyanenko | Russia | - | xxo | O | - | O | xxo | xxx | 5.85 | ||
3 | Derek Miles | United States | O | xxo | xo | - | xxx | 5.70 | ||||
4th | Dmitri Starodubtsev | Russia | xxo | xxo | xo | - | xxx | 5.70 | ||||
5 | Danny Ecker | Germany | xo | - | xxo | xxx | 5.70 | |||||
6th | Jérôme Clavier | France | xo | O | xxx | 5.60 | ||||||
7th | Raphael Holzdeppe | Germany | O | xo | xxx | 5.60 | ||||||
8th | Igor Pavlov | Russia | - | xxo | - | xxx | 5.60 | |||||
9 | Jan Kudlička | Czech Republic | O | xxx | 5.45 | |||||||
10 | Przemysław Czerwiński | Poland | xo | xxx | 5.45 | |||||||
ogV | Leonid Andreyev | Uzbekistan | xxx | without height | ||||||||
Giuseppe Gibilisco | Italy | xxx | ||||||||||
DOP | Denys Yurchenko | Ukraine | - | - | - | - | - | Got off after 5.70 m due to injury |
Web links
- SportsReference Pole Vault , accessed June 8, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed June 8, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 7, 2018
Video
- Athletics - Men's Pole Vault Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 22, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 7, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 8, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 8, 2018
- ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 8, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 8, 2018
- ^ IAAF world records, men's pole vault , accessed on June 8, 2018
- ↑ a b thestar.com: Canada's Dylan Armstrong finally gets 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medal after doping DQ (English) , accessed on June 8, 2018