Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault
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Men's pole vault at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
Dates | 23 September 1988 (qualifying) 25 September 1988 (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 21 from 13 nations | |||||||||
Winning height | 5.90 OR | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics | ||
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The men's pole vault at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 21 competitors from 13 nations, with two qualifying groups (21 jumpers) before the final (15) took place on Wednesday September 28, 1988.[1] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.
Three Soviet, French and American athletes made the final, but it was the Soviet bloc that dominated the event, sweeping the medals, with Sergey Bubka already the dominant vaulter. His world record of 6.06 metres, set two months earlier, has only since been cleared by three other men, 2008 gold medalist Steven Hooker, 2012 gold medalist Renaud Lavillenie, and 2020 gold medalist Armand Duplantis in 2020.
But while Bubka would vault in three more Olympics and would continue to dominate the World Championships with six consecutive wins, this would be the only Olympic medal he would achieve. It was also the only victory the Soviet Union had in the men's pole vault, though the Unified Team (ex-USSR countries) would win in 1992.
Rodion Gataullin and Grigoriy Yegorov completed the medal sweep for the Soviet team; it was the fourth pole vault medal sweep (the United States had done it in 1904, 1924, and 1928). The 1988 Games were the first in which the United States competed in the pole vault, but failed to medal.
Background
[edit]This was the 21st appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1984 Games were the two bronze medalists, Earl Bell of the United States and Thierry Vigneron of France. Sergey Bubka of the Soviet Union was dominant: he had won the 1983 and 1987 world championships, the 1986 European championship, and set the world record nine times between 1984 and 1988, becoming the only man to have cleared 6 metres.[2]
South Korea made its men's pole vaulting debut. The United States made its 20th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.
Competition format
[edit]The competition used the two-round format introduced in 1912, with results cleared between rounds. Vaulters received three attempts at each height. Ties were broken by the countback rule.
In the qualifying round, the bar was set at 5.10 metres, 5.20 metres, 5.30 metres, 5.40 metres, 5.45 metres, 5.50 metres, and 5.55 metres. The first two heights were only used in the second qualifying group. All vaulters clearing 5.55 metres advanced to the final. If fewer than 12 cleared that height, the top 12 (including ties) advanced.
In the final, the bar was set at 5.10 metres, 5.25 metres, 5.40 metres, 5.50 metres, 5.60 metres, and then increased by 5 centimetres as a time.[2][3]
Records
[edit]These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics.
World record | ![]() |
6.06 | Nice, France | 10 July 1988 |
Olympic record | ![]() |
5.78 | Moscow, Soviet Union | 30 July 1980 |
When the bar was raised to 5.80 metres, giving vaulters a chance to break the Olympic record, only the three Soviets remained in the competition. Grigoriy Yegorov was the only one to jump at 5.80 metres, becoming the first to break the Olympic record. Rodion Gataullin jumped successfully at 5.85 metres, breaking Yegorov's new record while Yegorov passed. At 5.90 metres, Sergey Bubka broke Gataullin's record with a mark that stood at the end of the Games, as none of the three could clear further.
Schedule
[edit]All times are Korea Standard Time adjusted for daylight savings (UTC+10)
Date | Time | Round |
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Monday, 26 September 1988 | Qualifying | |
Wednesday, 28 September 1988 | 12:00 | Final |
Results
[edit]Key
- o = Height cleared
- x = Height failed
- – = Height passed
- r = Retired
- SB = Season's best
- PB = Personal best
- NR = National record
- AR = Area record
- OR = Olympic record
- WR = World record
- WL = World lead
- NM = No mark
- DNS = Did not start
- DQ = Disqualified
Qualifying
[edit]The qualifying round was held on Monday September 26, 1988. After a dispute regarding disparate raising increments between the groups, all 15 of the vaulters who had cleared 5.40 metres were advanced to the final.
Rank | Group | Athlete | Nation | 5.10 | 5.20 | 5.30 | 5.40 | 5.45 | 5.50 | 5.55 | Height | Notes |
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1 | A | Rodion Gataullin | ![]() |
– | – | – | – | – | o | – | 5.50 | q |
A | Sergey Bubka | ![]() |
– | – | – | – | – | o | – | 5.50 | q | |
3 | A | Grigoriy Yegorov | ![]() |
– | – | – | – | o | – | – | 5.45 | q |
4 | A | Kory Tarpenning | ![]() |
– | – | – | o | – | – | x– | 5.40 | q |
A | Earl Bell | ![]() |
– | – | – | o | – | – | x– | 5.40 | q | |
A | Mirosław Chmara | ![]() |
– | – | – | o | – | – | – | 5.40 | q | |
B | Marian Kolasa | ![]() |
– | – | – | o | – | – | – | 5.40 | q | |
8 | B | Asko Peltoniemi | ![]() |
– | – | xxo | o | – | – | – | 5.40 | q |
9 | A | Billy Olson | ![]() |
– | – | – | xo | – | – | – | 5.40 | q |
A | Philippe Collet | ![]() |
– | – | – | xo | – | – | – | 5.40 | q | |
A | Hermann Fehringer | ![]() |
– | – | o | xo | – | – | – | 5.40 | q | |
B | Zdeněk Lubenský | ![]() |
– | o | o | xo | – | – | – | 5.40 | q | |
B | Philippe d'Encausse | ![]() |
– | o | – | xo | – | – | – | 5.40 | q | |
B | István Bagyula | ![]() |
o | o | o | xo | – | – | – | 5.40 | q | |
15 | B | Thierry Vigneron | ![]() |
o | o | xo | xo | – | – | – | 5.40 | q |
16 | B | Kim Chul-Kyun | ![]() |
xo | xo | xo | xxx | — | 5.30 | |||
17 | B | Paul Just | ![]() |
xo | o | xxo | xxx | — | 5.30 | |||
— | A | Atanas Tarev | ![]() |
– | – | – | xxx | — | No mark | |||
B | Lee Jae-bok | ![]() |
xxx | — | No mark | |||||||
B | Javier García | ![]() |
xxx | — | No mark | |||||||
B | Andy Ashurst | ![]() |
xxx | — | No mark |
Final
[edit]The final was held on Wednesday September 28, 1988.
Rank | Athlete | Nation | 5.10 | 5.25 | 5.40 | 5.50 | 5.60 | 5.65 | 5.70 | 5.75 | 5.80 | 5.85 | 5.90 | 5.95 | 6.10 | Height | Notes |
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Sergey Bubka | ![]() |
– | – | – | – | – | – | xo | – | – | – | xxo | – | x | 5.90 | OR |
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Rodion Gataullin | ![]() |
– | – | – | – | – | – | o | – | – | xxo | – | xxx | — | 5.85 | |
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Grigoriy Yegorov | ![]() |
– | – | – | o | – | – | xo | – | o | – | xxx | — | 5.80 | ||
4 | Earl Bell | ![]() |
– | – | o | – | o | – | o | xxx | — | 5.70 | |||||
5 | Thierry Vigneron | ![]() |
– | xo | – | o | o | – | xo | x | — | 5.70 | |||||
Philippe Collet | ![]() |
– | – | – | xo | – | – | xo | xxx | — | 5.70 | ||||||
7 | István Bagyula | ![]() |
o | o | o | o | o | xxx | — | 5.60 | |||||||
8 | Philippe d'Encausse | ![]() |
– | – | o | x– | xo | – | xxx | — | 5.60 | ||||||
9 | Asko Peltoniemi | ![]() |
– | – | o | – | xxo | – | xxx | — | 5.60 | ||||||
10 | Kory Tarpenning | ![]() |
– | – | – | o | – | xxx | — | 5.50 | |||||||
11 | Zdeněk Lubenský | ![]() |
– | xo | – | o | – | xxx | — | 5.50 | |||||||
12 | Billy Olson | ![]() |
– | – | – | xxo | – | xxx | — | 5.50 | |||||||
13 | Hermann Fehringer | ![]() |
– | o | o | xxx | — | 5.40 | |||||||||
— | Mirosław Chmara | ![]() |
– | – | – | – | xxx | — | No mark | ||||||||
Marian Kolasa | ![]() |
– | – | – | xxx | — | No mark |
See also
[edit]- 1984 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Los Angeles)
- 1986 Men's European Championships Pole Vault (Stuttgart)
- 1987 Men's World Championships Pole Vault (Rome)
- 1990 Men's European Championships Pole Vault (Split)
- 1991 Men's World Championships Pole Vault (Tokyo)
- 1992 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Barcelona)
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletics at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Men's Pole Vault". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Pole Vault, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 242.
External links
[edit]- (in English) Official Report