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Who wins Men's Pole Vault at World Championships in Athletics 2023?

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Men’s Pole Vault

How it works

Competitors vault over a 4.5m long horizontal bar by sprinting along a runway and jamming a pole against a ‘stop board’ at the back of a recessed metal ‘box’ sited centrally at the base of the uprights. Without knocking the bar to the ground, they seek to clear the greatest height.

All competitors have 3 attempts per height, although they can advance to a greater height despite not having cleared the current one. 3 consecutive failures at the same height, or combination of heights, cause a competitor’s elimination.

If competitors are tied on the same height, the winner will have had the fewest failures at that height. If competitors are still tied, the winner will have had the fewest failures across the entire competition. Thereafter, a jump-off will decide the winner.

History

Pole vaulting (originally for distance), dates back to at least the 16th century and there is also evidence it was even practiced in Ancient Greece. The origins of modern vaulting can be traced back to Germany in the 1850s, when the sport was adopted by a gymnastic association, and in the Lake District region of England, where contests were held with hickory or ash poles with iron spikes in the end.

The first recorded use of bamboo poles was in 1857. The top vaulters started using steel poles in the 1940s, and later in the late 1950s carbon fibre poles started to be widely used.

Did you know?

Tom Ray (a Cumbrian vaulter), who was the 'world champion' in 1887, used to gain several feet by climbing the pole when it was upright. This method has now been outlawed; if an athlete’s grip moves above the top hand after take-off, the vault is declared foul.

Gold Standard

USA racked up an incredible sequence by winning every men’s Olympic title from 1896 to 1968 (if the 1906 Intercalated Games are discounted), a sequence that was broken by East Germany's Wolfgang Nordwig in 1972. Ukraine's Sergey Bubka won six consecutive gold medals at the IAAF World Championships from 1983 to 1997.

The women’s pole vault came on to the IAAF World Championships programme in 1999 and first appeared at the Olympic Games in 2000. Both contests were won by the Stacy Dragila (US vaulter).

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Sergey Bubka

The Ukrainian not only won six consecutive world titles between 1983 and 1997 but also set 35 world records, outdoors and indoors. However, he won only one Olympic gold medal, in 1988. In 2012, he became one of the 24 inaugural members of the IAAF Hall of Fame.

Yelena Isinbayeva

Isinbayeva won the 2004 and 2008 Olympic titles and gold medals at 2005 and 2007 IAAF World Championships. She has also won at the IAAF World Indoor Championships on four occasions and was the female Athlete of the Year in 2004, 2005 and 2008.

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