2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Pole Vault (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 36 athletes from 23 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estádio Nilton Santos | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 16, 2016 (qualification) August 19, 2016 (final) |
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The women's pole vault at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 16-19, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 36 athletes took part.
The Greek Ekaterini Stefanidi became Olympic champion . The American Sandi Morris won the silver medal. Bronze went to Eliza McCartney from New Zealand .
Annika Roloff , Lisa Ryzih and Martina Strutz started for Germany . Roloff failed to qualify. Ryzih and Strutz qualified for the final. Strutz finished ninth, Ryzih tenth.
Switzerland was represented by Nicole Büchler and Angelica Moser . While Moser was eliminated in the qualification, Büchler reached the final and was sixth there.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic Champion | Jennifer Suhr ( USA ) | 4.75 m | London 2012 |
world champion | Yarisley Silva ( Cuba ) | 4.90 m | Beijing 2015 |
European champion | Ekaterini Stefanidi ( Greece ) | 4.81 m | Amsterdam 2016 |
North / Central America / Caribbean Champion | Kristen Hixson ( USA ) | 4.50 m | San José 2015 |
South America Champion | Robeilys Peinado ( Venezuela ) | 4.35 m | Lima 2015 |
Asian champion | Li Ling ( People's Republic of China ) | 4.66 m | Wuhan 2015 |
African champion | Syrine Balti ( Tunisia ) | 4.00 m | Durban 2016 |
Oceania champion | Competition not held | Cairns 2015 |
Existing records
World record | Jelena Isinbayeva ( Russia ) | 5.06 m | Zurich , Switzerland | August 28, 2009 |
Olympic record | 5.05 m | Beijing Final , People's Republic of China | August 18, 2008 |
Note: All times are based on Rio local time ( UTC-3 ).
qualification
The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. Since fewer than twelve athletes jumped the required qualifying height of 4.60 m - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best jumpers from both groups to a total of twelve participants - highlighted in light green. In the end, a jumped 4.55 m was necessary for participation in the final without any further failure.
Group A
August 16, 2016, 9:45 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 4.15 m | 4.30 m | 4.45 m | 4.55 m | 4.60 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Ekaterini Stefanidi | Greece | - | - | - | - | O | 4.60 m | |
2 | Holly Bradshaw | Great Britain | - | - | O | xo | O | 4.60 m | |
Lisa Ryzih | Germany | - | - | - | xo | O | |||
4th | Eliza McCartney | New Zealand | - | - | xxo | xo | O | 4.60 m | |
5 | Kelsie Ahbe | Canada | - | O | O | O | - | 4.55 m | |
Alana Boyd | Australia | - | - | O | O | - | |||
Sandi Morris | United States | - | - | O | O | - | |||
8th | Maryna Kylypko | Ukraine | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 4.55 m | |
9 | Michaela Meijer | Sweden | - | O | O | xxx | 4.45 m | ||
10 | Jiřina Ptáčníková | Czech Republic | - | O | x o | xxx | 4.45 m | ||
Alexis Weeks | United States | - | O | x o | xxx | ||||
12 | Angelica Moser | Switzerland | xo | xxo | xx o | xxx | 4.45 m | ||
13 | Wilma Murto | Finland | - | O | xxx | 4.30 m | |||
14th | Vanessa Boslak | France | O | xx o | xxx | 4.30 m | |||
15th | Joana Costa | Brazil | O | xxx | 4.15 m | ||||
Femke Pluim | Netherlands | O | xxx | ||||||
Maria Leonor Tavares | Portugal | O | xxx | ||||||
ogV | Ren Mengqian | People's Republic of China | xxx | without height | |||||
DNS | Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou | Greece |
Group B
August 16, 2016, 9:45 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 4.15 m | 4.30 m | 4.45 m | 4.55 m | 4.60 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Jennifer Suhr | United States | - | - | - | xo | O | 4.60 m | |
2 | Yarisley Silva | Cuba | - | - | xo | xxo | O | 4.60 m | |
3 | Martina Strutz | Germany | - | O | xo | O | x o | 4.60 m | |
4th | Nicole Büchler | Switzerland | - | - | O | O | - | 4.55 m | |
Tina Šutej | Slovenia | O | O | O | O | - | |||
6th | Minna Nikkanen | Finland | - | O | xo | O | xxx | 4.55 m | |
7th | Angelica Bengtsson | Sweden | O | O | O | x o | xxx | 4.55 m | |
8th | Li Ling | People's Republic of China | - | O | xo | x o | xxx | 4.55 m | |
9 | Alysha Newman | Canada | - | O | O | xxx | 4.45 m | ||
10 | Sonia Malavisi | Italy | O | O | xx o | xxx | 4.45 m | ||
Annika Roloff | Germany | - | O | xx o | xxx | ||||
12 | Romana Maláčová | Czech Republic | O | O | xxx | 4.60 m | |||
Marta Onofre | Portugal | O | O | xxx | |||||
14th | Tori Pena | Ireland | O | x o | xxx | 4.60 m | |||
15th | Anicka Newell | Canada | O | xxx | 4.15 m | ||||
Diamara Planell | Puerto Rico | O | xxx | ||||||
17th | Iryna Jakalzewitsch | Belarus | xx o | xxx | 4.15 m | ||||
ogV | Fabiana Murer | Brazil | - | - | - | xxx | without height | ||
DNS | Robeily's Peinado | Venezuela |
final
August 19, 2016, 8:30 p.m.
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, seven of them above the qualification level, five more via their placements. Two US-Americans and two Germans each and one participant from Australia, Greece, Great Britain, Canada, Cuba, New Zealand, Russia, Switzerland, Slovenia and the USA battled for the medals.
Due to the doping-related starting ban for Russian athletes by the IAAF , the 2004 and 2008 Olympic champion Jelena Isinbayeva could not take part. The favorites were now primarily the US Olympic champion from 2012 Jennifer Suhr, the reigning world champion Yarisley Silva from Cuba and the Greek European champion Ekaterini Stefanidi. Another candidate with good prospects of a top placement, the Brazilian vice world champion Fabiana Murer, had overestimated herself in the qualification with her entry height of 4.55 m and was eliminated.
The fourth final height of 4.70 m meant the end for six participants, including Suhr and Silva. Four participants had mastered the height in the first attempt: Stefanidi, the New Zealander Eliza McCartney, the Briton Holly Bradshaw and the Swiss Nicole Büchler. The US jumper Sandy Morris needed two attempts, the Australian Alana Boyd three attempts.
Bradshaw failed three times at the next height of 4.80 m, while Büchler took her two remaining jumps to the next height after a failed attempt. McCartney was the only athlete to climb 4.80 meters on the first attempt. Without a failure, she was now in the lead. Morris, Boyd, and Stefanidi each took two attempts at this altitude.
The crossbar was now 4.85 m. Stefanidi and Morris were both successful on the second attempt. Büchler failed with her two remaining jumps. Boyd and McCartney both had three failed attempts. McCartney had made the previous height without fail, while Boyd had pulled the bar once. Eliza McCartney was bronze, Alana Boyd was fourth.
Both Morris and Stefanidi failed three times at 4.90 m. Both athletes had one failed attempt at 4.85 m, Stefanidi one less than Morris at the heights. Ekaterini Stefanidi won the gold medal, Sandi Morris took second place.
Ekaterini Stefanidi was the first Greek woman to win gold in the pole vault .
Eliza McCartney won the first New Zealand medal in this discipline.
space | Surname | nation | 4.35 m | 4.50 m | 4.60 m | 4.70 m | 4.80 m | 4.85 m | 4.90 m | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Ekaterini Stefanidi | Greece | - | - | O | O | xo | x o | xxx | 4.85 m | |
2 | Sandi Morris | United States | - | O | O | xo | xo | x o | xxx | 4.85 m | |
3 | Eliza McCartney | New Zealand | - | O | O | O | O | xxx | 4.80 m | NO | |
4th | Alana Boyd | Australia | - | O | O | xxo | x o | xxx | 4.80 m | ||
5 | Holly Bradshaw | Great Britain | - | O | xo | O | xxx | 4.70 m | |||
6th | Nicole Büchler | Switzerland | - | O | xxo | O | x- | xx | 4.70 m | ||
7th | Yarisley Silva | Cuba | - | O | x o | xxx | 4.60 m | ||||
Jennifer Suhr | United States | - | - | x o | xxx | ||||||
9 | Martina Strutz | Germany | O | O | xx o | xxx | 4.60 m | ||||
10 | Lisa Ryzih | Germany | - | O | - | xxx | 4.50 m | ||||
11 | Tina Šutej | Slovenia | O | x o | xxx | 4.50 m | |||||
12 | Kelsie Ahbe | Canada | xxo | xx o | xxx | 4.50 m |
Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, Official Report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 13, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF Women's Pole Vault Association (English), accessed on October 13, 2018
- Sports-Reference, Result of the women's pole vault , accessed on October 13, 2018
Video
- Gold for Greece's Stefanidi in Women's Pole Vault on youtube.com, published August 24, 2016, accessed October 13, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 798 , accessed on October 15, 2018