2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault

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The Men's Pole Vault event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 30, 2007 (qualification) and 1 September 2007 (final) at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.

Medallists

Gold
Brad Walker
 United States
 (USA)
Silver Romain Mesnil
 France (FRA)
Bronze
Germany
 (GER)

Records

World Record  Sergey Bubka (UKR) 6.14 Sestriere, Italy 31 July 1994
Championship Record  Dmitri Markov (AUS) 6.05
Edmonton, Canada
9 August 2001

Results

Qualification

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

Rank Group Name Nationality 5.40 5.55 5.65 5.70 Result Notes
1 A Danny Ecker  Germany o o 5.70 q
1 A
Steven Hooker
 Australia o o 5.70 q
1 A Igor Pavlov  Russia o o o 5.70 q
4 A
Yevgeniy Lukyanenko
 Russia o o xo o 5.70 q, PB
4 B Denys Yurchenko  Ukraine xo o 5.70 q
6 B Tim Lobinger  Germany xxo o 5.70 q
7 A
Brad Walker
 United States o xo 5.70 q
7 A Romain Mesnil  France o xo 5.70 q
9 A Maksym Mazuryk  Ukraine xo o o xo 5.70 q, SB
9 B Björn Otto  Germany xo xo 5.70 q
11 B Aleksandr Averbukh  Israel o o 5.65 q
12 A
Fábio Gomes da Silva
 Brazil xo xxo o xxx 5.65 q
13 A Liu Feiliang  China o xxo xo xxx 5.65
14 A Spas Bukhalov  Bulgaria o xxo xxx 5.65
15 A Alhaji Jeng  Sweden o xxx 5.55
15 B Jeff Hartwig  United States o o xxx 5.55
15 B Jacob Pauli  United States o xxx 5.55
18 A Germán Chiaraviglio  Argentina xxo o xxx 5.55
19 B Michal Balner  Czech Republic xo xo xxx 5.55
20 B Jérôme Clavier  France xo xxo xxx 5.55
21 A Andrej Poljanec  Slovenia o x 5.40
21 A Kevin Rans  Belgium o xxx 5.40
21 B Paul Burgess  Australia o xxx 5.40
21 B Oleksandr Korchmid  Ukraine o xxx 5.40
25 B
Damiel Dossévi
 France xo xxx 5.40
A
Robinson Pratt
 Mexico xxx NM
B Giovanni Lanaro  Mexico xxx NM
B Pavel Prokopenko  Russia xxx NM
B Steven Lewis  Great Britain xxx NM
B Leonid Andreev  Uzbekistan xxx NM
B Daichi Sawano  Japan xx– x NM

Final

Rank Name Nationality 5.51 5.66 5.76 5.81 5.86 5.91 Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)
Brad Walker
 United States o o x– o o xxx 5.86
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Romain Mesnil  France xo o xo xxx 5.86
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Danny Ecker  Germany o o o x– xx 5.81
4 Igor Pavlov  Russia xo o x– o xxx 5.81 PB
5 Björn Otto  Germany o o xo xxx 5.81
6
Yevgeniy Lukyanenko
 Russia xo o o xo xxx 5.81 PB
7 Aleksandr Averbukh  Israel o xxo xxx 5.81 SB
8 Tim Lobinger  Germany o o xo xxo xxx 5.81
9
Steven Hooker
 Australia o o xx– x 5.76
10
Fábio Gomes da Silva
 Brazil o xo o xxx 5.76
11 Maksym Mazuryk  Ukraine o xxo xxo xxx 5.76 PB
12 Denys Yurchenko  Ukraine o xxo x– xx 5.66

References