2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault

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Men's pole vault
at the 2017 World Championships
Olympic Stadium
Dates6 August (qualification)
8 August (final)
Competitors29 from 19 nations
Winning height5.95
Medalists
gold medal Sam Kendricks   United States
silver medal Piotr Lisek   Poland
bronze medal Renaud Lavillenie   
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The men's

Olympic Stadium on 6 and 8 August.[1]

Summary

Of the twelve finalists, only three reached 5.75 metres without any fails: Olympic bronze medalist

Paweł Wojciechowski
, also cleared that height but with previous misses. Kendricks and Xue succeeded first time at 5.82 metres, while all the others passed after one failure to the next height, 5.89 metres. Kendricks and Lisek cleared that height on their first attempts, and Lavillenie on his last attempt, with Xue and Wojciechowski failing to clear that height and leaving the three medallists confirmed. All three were unsuccessful in their first two tries at 5.95 metres, and on the third try Kendrick succeeded, Lisek failed, and Lavillenie passed. Both Kendricks and Lavillenie failed at 6.01 metres, leaving Lavillenie with bronze and Kendricks with gold.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:[2]

Record Perf. Athlete Nat. Date Location
World 6.16 Renaud Lavillenie  FRA 5 Feb 2014 Donetsk, Ukraine
Championship
 6.05 Dmitri Markov  AUS 9 Aug 2001 Edmonton, Canada
World leading 6.00 Sam Kendricks  USA 24 Jun 2017
Sacramento
, United States
African 6.03 Okkert Brits  RSA 18 Aug 1995 Cologne, Germany
Asian 5.92 Igor Potapovich  KAZ 19 Feb 1998 Stockholm, Sweden
NACAC 6.04
Brad Walker
  USA 8 Jun 2008 Eugene, OR, United States
South American 6.03
Thiago Braz da Silva
  BRA 15 Aug 2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
European 6.16 Renaud Lavillenie  FRA 15 Feb 2014 Donetsk, Ukraine
Oceanian 6.06
Steven Hooker
  AUS 7 Feb 2009
Boston, MA
, United States

The following records were set at the competition:[3]

Record Perf. Athlete Nat. Date
Chinese 5.82 Xue Changrui  CHN 8 Aug 2017

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 5.70 metres.[4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), was as follows:[5]

Date Time Round
6 August 10:40 Qualification
8 August 19:35 Final

Results

Qualification

The qualification round took place on 6 August, in two groups, both starting at 10:40. Athletes attaining a mark of 5.75 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.[6] The overall results were as follows:[7]

Rank Group Name Nationality 5.30 5.45 5.60 5.70 Mark Notes
1 A Renaud Lavillenie  France (FRA) - - o o 5.70 q
A Piotr Lisek  Poland (POL) o o o o 5.70 q
3 B Sam Kendricks  United States (USA) o o xxo o 5.70 q
4 B
Shawnacy Barber
  Canada (CAN) o o o xxo 5.70 q
5 A Axel Chapelle  France (FRA) xo o o xxo 5.70 q
A Raphael Holzdeppe  Germany (GER) - o xo xxo 5.70 q
7 B
Paweł Wojciechowski
  Poland (POL) - o xxo xxo 5.70 q
8 A Armand Duplantis  Sweden (SWE) xxo xo xo xxo 5.70 q
9 B Arnaud Art  Belgium (BEL) o o o xxx 5.60 q
10 A Xue Changrui  China (CHN) - xo o xxx 5.60 q
11 B Kurtis Marschall  Australia (AUS) o xxo o xxx 5.60 q
B
Yao Jie
  China (CHN) o xxo o xxx 5.60 q
13 B
Christopher Nilsen
  United States (USA) o o xo xxx 5.60
14 B Valentin Lavillenie  France (FRA) - xo xo xxx 5.60
15 A Andrew Irwin  United States (USA) xxo o xo xxx 5.60
16 A
Adrián Vallés
  Spain (ESP) xxo xo xo xxx 5.60
17 A Vladyslav Malykhin  Ukraine (UKR) xxo o xxo xxx 5.60
18 A Jan Kudlička  Czech Republic (CZE) - o xxx 5.45
B Hiroki Ogita  Japan (JPN) o o xxx 5.45
20 A Germán Chiaraviglio  Argentina (ARG) xo o xxx 5.45
21 A
Emmanouil Karális
  Greece (GRE) xxo o xxx 5.45
22 A Ilya Mudrov  Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) o xo xxx 5.45
A Ivan Horvat  Croatia (CRO) o xo xxx 5.45
B Kévin Menaldo  France (FRA) - xo xxx 5.45
25 B Michal Balner  Czech Republic (CZE) xo xxo xxx 5.45
26 A Seito Yamamoto  Japan (JPN) o xxx 5.30
B Diogo Ferreira  Portugal (POR) xxx NH
B
Igor Bychkov
  Spain (ESP) xxx NH
B Menno Vloon  Netherlands (NED) - x- - r NH
B Konstantinos Filippidis  Greece (GRE) - - - - DNS [a]

Final

The final took place on 8 August at 19:42. The results were as follows:[9]

Rank Name Nationality 5.50 5.65 5.75 5.82 5.89 5.95 6.01 Mark Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sam Kendricks  United States (USA) o o o o o xxo xr 5.95
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Piotr Lisek  Poland (POL) o xxo o x- o xxx 5.89
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Renaud Lavillenie  France (FRA) – o o x- xo xx- x 5.89 SB
4 Xue Changrui  China (CHN) o o o o xxx 5.82 NR
5
Paweł Wojciechowski
  Poland (POL) o o xo x- xx 5.75
6 Axel Chapelle  France (FRA) o o xxx 5.65
7 Kurtis Marschall  Australia (AUS) xo o xxx 5.65
8
Shawnacy Barber
  Canada (CAN) xo xxo xxx 5.65
9 Armand Duplantis  Sweden (SWE) o xxx 5.50
Arnaud Art  Belgium (BEL) xxx NH
Raphael Holzdeppe  Germany (GER) xxx NH
Yao Jie
  China (CHN) xxx NH

References

  1. ^ Start list
  2. ^ "Pole Vault Men – Records".
    IAAF
    . Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  3. IAAF
    . Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  4. IAAF
    . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  5. IAAF
    . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  6. IAAF
    . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  7. IAAF
    . Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  8. ^ "Χωρίς τον Φιλιππίδη η αποστολή για Λονδίνο". ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΕΣ (in Greek). 2 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  9. IAAF
    . Retrieved 9 August 2017.

Notes

  1. ^ Konstantinos Filippidis didn't participate due to an injury before the Qualification Round.[8]
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