Men Pole Vault Athletics II World Championship Rome, Italy 1987 - Saturday, 5th September - Gold Medal: Sergey Bubka, Soviet Union 2nd
Final
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1. Sergey Bubka
URS Soviet Union
5.85m
CR
-
-
-
-
O
-
-
O
XXX
2. Thierry Vigneron
FRA France
5.80m
-
-
O
-
O
-
XO
XXX
3. Radion Gataullin
URS Soviet Union
5.80m
-
-
-
O
XO
-
XO
XXX
4. Marian Kolasa
POL Poland
5.80m
-
-
O
XO
XXO
-
XXO
XXX
5. Earl Bell
USA United States
5.70m
-
O
-
O
O
XXX
5. Nikolay Nikolov
BUL Bulgaria
5.70m
-
O
-
O
O
XX-
X
7. Delko Lesev
BUL Bulgaria
5.60m
-
O
-
O
XXX
8. Atanas Tarev
BUL Bulgaria
5.60m
-
O
-
XO
X-
XX
9. Aleksandrs Obizajevs
URS Soviet Union
5.50m
-
-
O
-
XXX
10.Ferenc Salbert
FRA France
5.50m
-
-
XO
-
-
XXX
11.Gianni Stecchi
ITA Italy
5.40m
O
XO
XX-
X
12.Miro Zalar
SWE Sweden
5.30m
XO
-
XXX
-. Hermann Fehringer
AUT Austria
NM
-
XXX
-. Zdenek Lubensky
TCH Czechoslovakia
NM
XXX
World Record: Sergey Bubka, Soviet Union 6.03m Praga, Czechoslovakia 23rd July 1987
Championship Record: Sergey Bubka, Soviet Union 5.70m Helsinki, Finland 14th August 1983
Bubka, now firmly established as one of the world’s greatest athletes, took just two jumps to retain his title. He came in at 5.70 (same as his 1983 winning height) and returned at 5.85, at which point all but three of the finalists had been elim
inated. These three (Gataullin, Vigneron and Kolasa) all went out at 5.85 whereas Bubka cleared easily. The Soviet vaulter then had the bar raised to 6.05.
Just as he was preparing for his first attempt, a fanfare began for the women’s shot put medal ceremony, causing an angry Bubka to abort his effort. He returned with two poor tries before retiring.