2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 23 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 8, 2012 (qualification) ; August 10, 2012 (final)
	Medalist
	Renaud Lavillenie ( FRA )
	Björn Otto ( GER )
	Raphael Holzdeppe ( GER )

The Pole Vault Men at the 2012 Olympic Games in London , on 8 and 10 August 2012 at the Olympic Stadium London discharged. 32 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the French Renaud Lavillenie . He won ahead of the two Germans Björn Otto and Raphael Holzdeppe .

In addition to the two medal winners, Malte Mohr also competed for Germany. He qualified for the final, in which he finished ninth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Steven Hooker ( Australia ) Australia	5.96 m	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Paweł Wojciechowski ( Poland ) Poland	5.90 m	Daegu 2011
European champion	Renaud Lavillenie ( France ) France	5.97 m	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions	Cristián Sánchez ( Mexico ) Mexico	5.00 m	Mayagüez 2011
South America champion	Fábio da Silva ( Brazil ) Brazil	5.35 m	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Daichi Sawano ( Japan ) Japan	5.50 m	Kobe 2011
African champions	Mouhcine Cheaouri ( Morocco ) Morocco	5.10 m	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion	Competition not in the championship program		Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record	Serhij Bubka ( Ukraine ) Ukraine	6.14 m	Sestriere , Italy	July 31, 1994
Olympic record	Steve Hooker ( Australia ) Australia	5.96 m	Beijing Final , People's Republic of China	August 22, 2008

Remarks:

All times in this article are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
All heights are given in meters (m).

doping

The Ukrainian Maksym Masuryk was subsequently disqualified in 2016 after dehydrochloromethyltestosterone was found during the examination of his doping sample .

qualification

August 8, 2012, 10:00 am
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height was 5.70 m. Since no jumper even attempted this height because it became clear that a maximum of 5.65 m would be sufficient, the twelve best athletes from both groups qualified for the final (highlighted in light green). Eventually fourteen athletes reached the final battle. In the first jump without any previous unsuccessful attempts, 5.50 m qualified for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	5.20	5.35	5.50	5.60	5.65	height	annotation
1	Konstandinos Filippidis	Greece Greece	-	O	O	O	-	5.60
2	Yevgeny Lukyanenko	Russia Russia	-	-	xxo	O	-	5.60
3	Romain Mesnil	France France	-	xo	O	x o	-	5.60
4th	Łukasz Michalski	Poland Poland	-	xo	xxo	x o	-	5.60
5	Steve Hooker	Australia Australia	-	-	O	-	-	5.50
	Steven Lewis	United Kingdom Great Britain	-	-	O	-	-
	Malte Mohr	Germany Germany	-	-	O	-	-
	Bjorn Otto	Germany Germany	-	-	O	-	-
9	Jeremy Scott	United States United States	-	O	x o	xxx	-	5.50
10	Ivan Horvat	Croatia Croatia	O	x o	xxx	-	-	5.35
11	Edi Maia	Portugal Portugal	xx o	xxx	-	-	-	5.20
ogV	Fábio da Silva	Brazil Brazil	-	-	xxx	-	-	-	without height
	Kim Yoo-suk	Korea South South Korea	xxx	-	-	-	-
	Seito Yamamoto	Japan Japan	-	xxx	-	-	-
DOP	Maksym Masuryk	Ukraine Ukraine	-	O	xxx	-	-	-

Group B

space	Surname	nation	5.20	5.35	5.50	5.60	5.65	height	annotation
1	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany Germany	-	-	-	xo	O	5.65
1	Renaud Lavillenie	France France	-	-	xo	-	O	5.65
3	Brad Walker	United States United States	-	-	xxo	O	-	5.60
4th	Dmitri Starodubtsev	Russia Russia	-	xo	xo	x o	-	5.60
5	Igor Bychkov	Spain Spain	O	-	O	xx-	x	5.50
5	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic Czech Republic	-	O	O	-	-	5.50
7th	Lázaro Borges	Cuba Cuba	-	xxo	x o	xxx	-	5.50
7th	Sergei Kucherianu	Russia Russia	-	xxo	x o	xxx	-	5.50
9	Nikita Filippov	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan	O	O	xxx	-	-	5.35
10	Yang Yansheng	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	-	x o	xxx	-	-	5.35
11	Mareks Ārents	Latvia Latvia	xo	x o	xxx	-	-	5.35
12	Stanislau Ziwontschik	Belarus Belarus	x o	xxx	-	-	-	5.20
ogV	Jere Bergius	Finland Finland	-	xxx	-	-	-	-	without height
	Alhaji Jeng	Sweden Sweden	-	xxx	-	-	-
	Derek Miles	United States United States	xxx	-	-	-	-
	Paweł Wojciechowski	Poland Poland	-	xxx	-	-	-
	Denys Yurchenko	Ukraine Ukraine	-	xxx	-	-	-

Doping offender Maksym Masuryk from Ukraine
The Brazilian Fábio da Silva was eliminated without a valid attempt in the qualification
The South Korean Kim Yoo-suk remained in the qualification without a valid attempt
The Pole Paweł Wojciechowski failed in qualifying at his entry level and retired
Even for the Ukrainian Denys Yurchenko there was no way to the final without a jumped height

final

August 10, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

Fourteen athletes had qualified for the final. None of them had even approached the required level of qualification because in the course of the qualification it became clear that a jumped 5.65 m would be sufficient for the final. In addition to three Germans, two French and two Russians, one athlete each from Australia, Greece, Great Britain, Poland, Spain, the Czech Republic and the USA took part.

The favorites were primarily the French European champion Renaud Lavillenie and the Australian 2008 Olympic champion Steve Hooker. The two Germans Björn Otto and Raphael Holzdeppe were also given a chance for a medal after a strong performance at the European Championships.

Two athletes, including Hooker, failed at the starting height of 5.50 m. After 5.75 m, the third height, there were only five jumpers in the competition, besides Lavillenie, Otto and Holzdeppe, the Russians Dmitri Starodubzew and Evgeni Lukjanenko as well as the Briton Steven Lewis.

The bar has now been set at 5.85 m. Lewis, Lukyanenko and Starodubzew tore three times. Lavillenie mastered the height in the first attempt, Otto in the second and Holzdeppe in the third attempt. This meant that only these three were in the fight for the medals. Otto and Holzdeppe each jumped 5.91 m in their first attempt. Lavillenie had a failed attempt and took the remaining two jumps to the next height of 5.97 m. Here Holzdeppe failed three times, while Otto saved his last chance for the next height after two failed attempts. Lavillenie overcame 5.97 m in his second attempt, his last attempt. Björn Otto was not successful with his last jump over 6.02 m, so he won the silver medal in front of his team-mate Raphael Holzdeppe. The now established Olympic champion, Renaud Lavillenie, tore the height in the first attempt and then let hang up 6.07 m. But here too he failed twice.

With his best jump, Renaud Lavillenie improved Steve Hooker's 2008 Olympic record by an inch.

space	Surname	nation	5.50	5.65	5.75	5.85	5.91	5.97	6.02	6.07	height	annotation
1	Renaud Lavillenie	France France	-	O	O	O	x-	x o	x-	xx	5.97	OR
2	Bjorn Otto	Germany Germany	O	O	xo	xo	O	xx-	x		5.91
3	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany Germany	-	xo	xo	xxo	O	xxx			5.91	PB
4th	Dmitri Starodubtsev	Russia Russia	O	xo	O	xxx					5.75
5	Steven Lewis	United Kingdom Great Britain	xo	-	x o	xxx					5.75
5	Yevgeny Lukyanenko	Russia Russia	xo	-	x o	xxx					5.75
7th	Konstandinos Filippidis	Greece Greece	O	x o	xxx						5.65
8th	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic Czech Republic	O	xx o	xxx						5.65
9	Malte Mohr	Germany Germany	O	-	xxx						5.50
10	Romain Mesnil	France France	O	xxx							5.50
11	Łukasz Michalski	Poland Poland	x o	xxx							5.50
12	Igor Bychkov	Spain Spain	xx o	xxx							5.50
ogV	Brad Walker	United States United States		xxx							-	without height
ogV	Steve Hooker	Australia Australia		xxx							-	without height

Olympic champion:
Renaud Lavillenie, France
Silver medal:
Björn Otto, Germany
Bronze medal:
Raphael Holzdeppe from Germany
British Olympic Fifth Steven Lewis
The Russian Evgeni Lukyanenko also finished fifth in the final
Seventh place for the Greek Konstandinos Filippidis
Malte Mohr from Germany was an Olympic competitor
The Frenchman Romain Mesnil came in tenth
The Pole Łukasz Michalski finished eleventh
The Spanish Olympic twelfth Igor Bychkov
The American Brad Walker remained in the final without a valid attempt
The Australian Olympic Champion of 2008 Steve Hooker failed in the final at the starting height