Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault

Men's pole vault at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Stadium Australia
Date	27 September 2000 (qualifications) 29 September 2000 (finals)
Competitors	36 from 25 nations
Winning height	5.90
Medalists
Nick Hysong  United States Lawrence Johnson  United States Maksim Tarasov  Russia

Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races

The Men's Pole Vault event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Olympic Stadium on Wednesday, 27 September and Friday, 29 September.^[1]

The pole vault has been ever present since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896.

Medalists

Gold	Nick Hysong  United States
Silver	Lawrence Johnson  United States
Bronze	Maksim Tarasov  Russia

Schedule

• All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in meters) prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Summary

The Bubka curse continued into a third Olympics as the dominant world record holder for this fifth Olympiad again failed to clear a height. Eight men managed to get to 5.90 m (19 ft 4​¹⁄₄ in), the winning height. Australia's two Soviet born vaulters Viktor Chistiakov and Dmitriy Markov were perfect before their adopted home crowd to that point, along with American Lawrence Johnson. With an earlier miss at 5.50m, Nick Hysong was in fourth place, but his first attempt clearance leapfrogged him into the lead, when the rest of the field failed to match him. Johnson was the only one to make it on his second attempt, putting him in silver position. 1992 champion Maksim Tarasov entered the height tied for fifth with Okkert Brits with three earlier misses, while Michael Stolle had already taken seven attempts to get over his first three bars. Both Tarasov and Stolle made 5.90m on their last attempt, but Tarasov had the tiebreaker to take the bronze. Markov saved one heroic attempt to snatch victory, but nobody could clear 5.96m.

Results

All distances shown are in meters.

• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• DQ denotes disqualification.
• NR denotes national record.
• AR denotes area/continental record.
• OR denotes Olympic record.
• WR denotes world record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season best

Qualification

Held on Wednesday, 27 September 2000.

The qualifying height was 5.75 m. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the highest jumps until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	5.25	5.40	5.55	5.65	5.70	Result	Notes
1	B	Nick Hysong	United States	–	–	o	o	o	5.70	q
2	B	Danny Ecker	Germany	–	–	xo	–	o	5.70	q
3	A	Dmitriy Markov	Australia	–	–	o	–	xo	5.70	q
4	A	Viktor Chistiakov	Australia	–	o	xo	xxo	xo	5.70	q
5	B	Michael Stolle	Germany	–	–	o	–	xxo	5.70	q
6	B	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy	–	o	xo	o	xxo	5.70	q
7	A	Yevgeniy Smiryagin	Russia	–	o	o	o	xx–	5.65	q
7	A	Tim Lobinger	Germany	–	o	o	o	x–	5.65	q
7	B	Okkert Brits	South Africa	–	–	o	o	–	5.65	q
7	B	Alexander Averbukh	Israel	–	–	o	o	–	5.65	q
7	B	Maksim Tarasov	Russia	–	–	–	o	–	5.65	q
12	A	Lawrence Johnson	United States	–	–	xo	o	–	5.65	q
12	A	Montxu Miranda	Spain	–	xo	o	o	xxx	5.65	q
14	A	Štěpán Janáček	Czech Republic	–	xxo	o	o	xxx	5.65
15	A	Rens Blom	Netherlands	–	o	o	xo	xxx	5.65
16	A	Jean Galfione	France	–	o	o	xxx		5.55
16	B	Paul Burgess	Australia	–	o	o	xxx		5.55
16	B	Kevin Hughes	Great Britain	o	o	o	xxx		5.55	SB
16	B	Javier García	Spain	–	o	o	xx–	x	5.55
20	A	Patrik Kristiansson	Sweden	–	o	xo	xxx		5.55
20	A	Danny Krasnov	Israel	–	o	xo	xxx		5.55	SB
22	A	Thibaut Duval	Belgium	–	xo	xxo	xxx		5.55
22	B	Ilian Efremov	Bulgaria	o	xo	xxo	–	xxx	5.55
22	B	Martin Eriksson	Sweden	–	xo	xxo	xxx		5.55
25	B	Manabu Yokoyama	Japan	–	xxo	xxo	xxx		5.55
26	A	Pavel Gerasimov	Russia	–	xo	–	xxx		5.40
26	B	Chad Harting	United States	–	xo	x–	xx		5.40
26	B	Dominic Johnson	Saint Lucia	–	xo	xxx			5.40
29	B	João André	Portugal	xo	xo	xxx			5.40
30	B	Denys Yurchenko	Ukraine	–	xxo	–	x–		5.40
30	B	Romain Mesnil	France	–	xxo	x–	xx		5.40
32	A	Nuno Fernandes	Portugal	xxo	xxx				5.25
	A	Sergey Bubka	Ukraine	–	–	–	–	xxx	NM
	A	Igor Potapovich	Kazakhstan	–	–	xxx			NM
	A	Robison Pratt	Mexico	xxx					NM
	B	Photis Stefani	Cyprus	xxx					NM
	A	Ruhan Işım	Turkey						DNS

Final

• Held on Friday September 29, 2000

Rank	Name	Nationality	5.50	5.70	5.80	5.90	5.96	Result	Notes
	Nick Hysong	United States	o	xo	o	o	xxx	5.90	PB
	Lawrence Johnson	United States	–	o	o	xo	xxx	5.90
	Maksim Tarasov	Russia	o	–	xo	xxo	xxx	5.90	SB
4	Michael Stolle	Germany	xxo	o	xo	xxo	xxx	5.90
5	Viktor Chistiakov	Australia	o	o	o	xxx		5.80	SB
5	Dmitriy Markov	Australia	o	–	o	xx–	x	5.80
7	Okkert Brits	South Africa	–	o	xo	xxx		5.80
8	Danny Ecker	Germany	o	xo	xo	xxx		5.80
9	Montxu Miranda	Spain	o	xxo	xxx			5.70
10	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy	o	xxx				5.50
10	Aleksandr Averbukh	Israel	o	xxx				5.50
10	Yevgeniy Smiryagin	Russia	o	xxx				5.50
13	Tim Lobinger	Germany	xo	xxx				5.50

References

External links

• Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics