Men Pole Vault World Championship 2003 Paris (FRA) - Thursday 28.08 - Gold Medal: Giuseppe Gibilisco, Italy
Final 18:30
Team
Height
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1. Giuseppe Gibilisco
ITA
5.90mm
-
-
O
-
XX-
O
O
O
-
2. Okkert Brits
RSA
5.85mm
-
-
XO
-
XO
-
XO
X-
XX
3. Patrik Kristiansson
SWE
5.85mm
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-
XO
-
O
O
XXO
XXX
4. Dmitri Markov
AUS
5.85mm
-
-
XO
-
XO
-
XXO
XX-
X
5. Tim Lobinger
GER
5.80mm
-
-
O
O
XO
O
XXX
6. Denys Yurchenko
UKR
5.70mm
-
XO
-
O
-
XX-
X
6. Timothy Mack
USA
5.70mm
-
XO
O
O
XXX
6. Derek Miles
USA
5.70mm
-
XO
O
O
XXX
9. Vadim Strogalev
RUS
5.70mm
-
O
O
XO
-
XXX
9. Adam Kolasa
POL
5.70mm
O
O
O
XO
XXX
11.Viktor Chistiakov
AUS
5.60mm
-
-
O
-
XXX
-. Daichi Sawano
JPN
DNS
Few would have predicted Gibilisco for victory before Paris, though they might have done so if they had realised that the Italian’s coach was Vitaliy Petrov, the Ukrainian who was once coach to Sergey Bubka. It was Petrov who advised Gibilisco to pass in the final after two failures at 5.75. He came back with a new pole to clear 5.80 and was one of five men to then try 5.85.
The Italian was first to go of those five and went into the lead by clearing on his first attempt. Brits made it on his second, Kristiansson and defending champion Markov on their third. Lobinger, who was the leader before 5.85, went out. At 5.90 Gibilisco again succeeded with his first try and added 5cm to his new Italian record. The others were left to try 5.90 and/or 5.95, but all in vain.