1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault

Medalists
Gold Sergey Bubka
Ukraine (UKR)
Silver Maksim Tarasov
Russia (RUS)
Bronze Dean Starkey
United States (USA)

Schedule
Qualification Round
Group A Group B
08.08.1997 – 17:30h 08.08.1997 – 17:30h
Final Round
10.08.1997 – 17:30h

Abbreviations
  • All results shown are in metres
Qautomatic qualification
qqualification by rank
DNSdid not start
NMno mark
WRworld record
ARarea record
NRnational record
PBpersonal best
SBseason best

Records
Standing records prior to the 1997 World Athletics Championships
World Record Sergey Bubka (UKR)6.14 m July 31, 1994 Sestriere, Italy
Event Record Sergey Bubka (UKR)6.00 m August 19, 1993 Stuttgart, Germany
Broken records during the 1997 World Athletics Championships
Event Record Sergey Bubka (UKR)6.01 m August 10, 1997 Athens, Greece

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 5.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Group A
RankName5.305.455.605.70ResultNotes
1  Tim Lobinger (GER) -ooo 5.70 q
1  Maksim Tarasov (RUS) ---o 5.70 q
3  Sergey Bubka (UKR) ---xo 5.70 q
3  Nick Buckfield (GBR) oooxo 5.70 q
5  Trond Barthel (NOR) -xoxoxo 5.70 q
6  Pat Manson (USA) -ooxxo 5.70 q
7  Danny Krasnov (ISR) -xooxxo 5.70 q
8  Juan Gabriel Concepción (ESP) xxoxxooxxx 5.60
9  Alain Andji (FRA) -oxxoxxx 5.60
9  Andrei Tivontschik (GER) --xxoxxx 5.60
11  Peter Widen (SWE) -oxxx 5.45
12  Ilian Efremov (BUL) xxooxxx 5.45
13  Vesa Rantanen (FIN) oxoxxx 5.45
14  Andrea Giannini (ITA) xoxoxxx 5.45
15  Edgardo Díaz (PUR) oxxoxxx 5.45
16  Ruhan Işim (TUR) xxoxxx 5.30
–  Okkert Brits (RSA) --xx-x NM
–  Lawrence Johnson (USA) --xxx NM
–  Aleksandr Korchagin (KAZ) xxx NM
–  Montxu Miranda (ESP) - DNF

Group B
RankName5.305.455.605.70ResultNotes
1  Martin Eriksson (SWE) -oxoo 5.70 q
2  Yevgeniy Smiryagin (RUS) xooxxoo 5.70 q
3  Jean Galfione (FRA) -xo-xo 5.70 q
4  Vadim Strogalyov (RUS) -xxo-xo 5.70 q
5  Riaan Botha (RSA) --oxxo 5.70 q
6  Dean Starkey (USA) -xoxoxxo 5.70 q
7  Igor Potapovich (KAZ) --oxxx 5.60
8  Khalid Lachheb (FRA) xooxoxxx 5.60
9  Michael Stolle (GER) ooxxoxxx 5.60
10  Fabio Pizzolato (ITA) xxooxxoxxx 5.60
11  Paul Gibbons (NZL) oxoxxx 5.45
12  Laurens Looije (NED) oxxx 5.30
12  Vyacheslav Shuteyev (UKR) oxxx 5.30
–  Heikki Vaaraniemi (FIN) -xxx NM
–  Javier García (ESP) -xxx NM
–  Stavros Tsitouras (GRE) -xxx NM
–  Martin Voss (DEN) xxx NM
–  Jurij Rovan (SLO) xxx NM
–  Dmitriy Markov (BLR) DNS

Final
RankName5.505.705.805.865.915.966.016.066.15ResultNotes
 Sergey Bubka (UKR) -xo--xo-o-DNF 6.01 CR
 Maksim Tarasov (RUS) -xo-oxxoox-xx 5.96
 Dean Starkey (USA) xoooxxoxxox-xx 5.91 SB
4  Tim Lobinger (GER) oooxxx 5.80
5  Nick Buckfield (GBR) ooxxx 5.70
6  Pat Manson (USA) xooxxx 5.70
7  Vadim Strogalyov (RUS) oxxoxxx 5.70
8  Yevgeniy Smiryagin (RUS) xoxxoxxx 5.70
9  Martin Eriksson (SWE) oxxx 5.50
9  Danny Krasnov (ISR) oxxx 5.50
11  Trond Barthel (NOR) xoxxx 5.50
—  Riaan Botha (RSA) -xxx NM
—  Jean Galfione (FRA) -xxx NM
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