Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault

Men's pole vault at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	25–27 August
Competitors	39 from 25 nations
Winning height	5.95 OR
Medalists
Timothy Mack  United States Toby Stevenson  United States Giuseppe Gibilisco  Italy
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Athletics at the 2004 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
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The men's pole vault competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 25–27 August.^[1]

Contents

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  1 Competition format
  


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  2 Schedule
  


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  3 Records
  


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  4 Summary
  


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  5 Results
  
  
  
  • 
    5.1 Qualifying round
    
  
  
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    5.2 Final
    
  
  
  
  


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  6 References
  


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  7 External links
  

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. Athletes start with a qualifying round. Jumping in turn, each athlete attempts to achieve the qualifying height. If they fail at three jumps in a row, they are eliminated. After a successful jump, they receive three more attempts to achieve the next height. Once all jumps have been completed, all athletes who have achieved the qualifying height go through to the final. If fewer than 12 athletes achieve the qualifying standard, the best 12 athletes go through. Cleared heights reset for the final, which followed the same format until all athletes fail three consecutive jumps.^[2]

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
Wednesday, 25 August 2004	19:15	Qualification
Friday, 27 August 2004	20:00	Final

Records

Prior to the competition^[update], the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Sergey Bubka (UKR)	6.14 m	Sestrière, Italy	31 July 1994
Olympic record	Jean Galfione (FRA)	5.92 m	Atlanta, United States	2 August 1996

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Result	Record
27 August	Final	Timothy Mack	United States	5.95 m	OR

Summary

With a first attempt clearance at 5.85m, Giuseppe Gibilisco went into 5.90m with the lead. Tim Mack and Toby Stevenson were the only others to clear 5.85m, both on their second attempt, but Stevenson had the advantage because Mack had an earlier miss. But the medals were not settled because Igor Pavlov saved one attempt for 5.90m. Stevenson and Mack both made it on their first attempt, while Pavlov missed to be eliminated and Gibilisco missed his first. With nothing to be gained, Gibilisco passed to 5.95 m (19 ft 6 ¹⁄₄ in). The only way to unseat Stevenson was a clearance, but nobody could negotiate 5.95 in their first two attempts, leaving Gibilisco with bronze. On his final attempt, Mack slithered over a personal best for the second time in the competition. It was also a new Olympic record. Stevenson put on his helmet to take one last attempt but the bar dragged off, giving Mack the gold.

Results

Qualifying round

Rule: Qualifying standard 5.70 (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	5.30	5.50	5.60	5.65	5.70	Result	Notes
1	B	Aleksandr Averbukh	Israel	-	o	-	o	o	5.70	Q
1	A	Lars Börgeling	Germany	-	o	-	o	o	5.70	Q, =SB
1	B	Paul Burgess	Australia	-	o	-	o	o	5.70	Q
1	A	Pavel Gerasimov	Russia	-	o	o	-	o	5.70	Q
1	A	Ruslan Yeremenko	Ukraine	-	o	-	o	o	5.70	Q, =SB
6	B	Igor Pavlov	Russia	-	o	xo	-	o	5.70	Q
7	A	Toby Stevenson	United States	-	xo	xo	-	o	5.70	Q
7	B	Danny Ecker	Germany	-	xxo	-	-	o	5.70	Q
7	A	Rens Blom	Netherlands	-	xo	xo	-	o	5.70	Q
10	B	Denys Yurchenko	Ukraine	-	xo	-	xxo	o	5.70	Q
11	B	Timothy Mack	United States	-	o	o	-	xo	5.70	Q
12	A	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy	-	o	-	x-	xo	5.70	Q
12	B	Tim Lobinger	Germany	-	o	xo	-	xo	5.70	Q
14	B	Oleksandr Korchmid	Ukraine	-	xo	o	xxo	xo	5.70	Q, =SB
15	A	Daichi Sawano	Japan	o	xo	xo	xxo	xo	5.70	Q
16	A	Derek Miles	United States	-	o	o	-	xxo	5.70	Q
17	B	Matti Mononen	Finland	o	o	-	o	xxx	5.65	PB
18	A	Romain Mesnil	France	-	o	-	xxo	xxx	5.65
19	A	Okkert Brits	South Africa	xo	-	o	-	xxx	5.60
20	B	Patrik Kristiansson	Sweden	-	-	xo	-	xxx	5.60
21	B	Nick Buckfield	Great Britain	xo	o	xxo	-	xxx	5.60
22	B	Dmitri Markov	Australia	-	o	-	xxx		5.50
22	A	Vesa Rantanen	Finland	o	o	xx-	x		5.50
22	A	Adam Ptáček	Czech Republic	o	o	x-	x		5.50
25	A	Jurij Rovan	Slovenia	xxo	xo	xxx			5.50
26	B	Piotr Buciarski	Denmark	o	xxo	xxx			5.50
27	A	Spas Bukhalov	Bulgaria	xo	xxo	xxx			5.50
28	A	Steven Hooker	Australia	o	xxx				5.30
28	B	Štěpán Janáček	Czech Republic	o	xx-	x			5.30
28	B	Javier Gazol	Spain	o	xxx				5.30
31	B	Nicolas Guigon	France	xo	xxx				5.30
31	B	Adam Kolasa	Poland	xo	xxx				5.30
33	A	Kim Yoo-suk	South Korea	xxo	xxx				5.30
33	A	Marios Evangelou	Greece	xxo	xxx				5.30
	A	Vadim Strogalev	Russia	-	xxx				NM
	A	Liu Feiliang	China	xxx					NM
	B	Iliyan Efremov	Bulgaria	xxx					NM
	B	Giovanni Lanaro	Mexico	x					NM
	A	Grigoriy Yegorov	Kazakhstan	xxx					NM
	B	Leonid Andreev	Uzbekistan						DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	5.40	5.55	5.65	5.75	5.80	5.85	5.90	5.95	6.00	Result	Notes
	Timothy Mack (USA)	-	o	xo	o	-	xo	o	xxo	xxx	5.95	OR
	Toby Stevenson (USA)	-	o	o	o	-	xo	o	xxx		5.90
	Giuseppe Gibilisco (ITA)	-	xo	-	o	-	o	x-	xx		5.85	SB
4	Igor Pavlov (RUS)	-	o	o	xo	xo	xx-	x			5.80	PB
5	Danny Ecker (GER)	-	xxo	-	o	xxx					5.75	SB
6	Lars Börgeling (GER)	-	o	-	xxo	xx-	x				5.75	SB
7	Derek Miles (USA)	-	o	xo	xxo	x-	xx				5.75
8	Aleksandr Averbukh (ISR)	-	-	o	xxx						5.65	SB
9	Denys Yurchenko (UKR)	-	xo	o	xxx						5.65
9	Rens Blom (NED)	-	xo	o	xxx						5.65
11	Paul Burgess (AUS)	-	o	-	xxx						5.55
11	Tim Lobinger (GER)	-	o	xxx							5.55
13	Pavel Gerasimov (RUS)	-	xo	x-	x						5.55
13	Daichi Sawano (JPN)	o	xo	xxx							5.55
13	Ruslan Yeremenko (UKR)	-	xxo	-	xxx						5.55
16	Oleksandr Korchmid (UKR)	-	xxo	xxx							5.55

References

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External links

• Official Olympic Report

v t e Pole vault at the Olympic Games
Summary
Men	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

v t e Olympic champions in men's pole vault

1896:  William Hoyt (USA) 1900:  Irving Baxter (USA) 1904:  Charles Dvorak (USA) 1908:  Edward Cook (USA) 1908:  Alfred Gilbert (USA) 1912:  Harry Babcock (USA) 1920:  Frank Foss (USA) 1924:  Lee Barnes (USA) 1928:  Sabin Carr (USA) 1932:  Bill Miller (USA) 1936:  Earle Meadows (USA) 1948:  Guinn Smith (USA) 1952:  Bob Richards (USA) 1956:  Bob Richards (USA) 1960:  Don Bragg (USA) 1964:  Fred Hansen (USA) 1968:  Bob Seagren (USA) 1972:  Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) 1976:  Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL) 1980:  Władysław Kozakiewicz (POL) 1984:  Pierre Quinon (FRA) 1988:  Sergey Bubka (URS) 1992:  Maksim Tarasov (EUN) 1996:  Jean Galfione (FRA) 2000:  Nick Hysong (USA) 2004:  Timothy Mack (USA) 2008:  Steve Hooker (AUS) 2012:  Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) 2016:  Thiago Braz da Silva (BRA)

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