Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault
| Men's pole vault at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 13–15 August 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 31 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning height | 6.03 OR, AR | ||||||||||||
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The men's pole vault competition at the
Thiago Braz da Silva of Brazil won the gold medal, the nation's first medal in the men's pole vault. Renaud Lavillenie of France was unable to successfully defend his 2012 gold, but became the seventh man to win two medals with silver this time. Sam Kendricks
's bronze returned the United States to the podium after a one-Games absence.
Summary
Background
This was the 28th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics.
The
Konstadinos Filippidis of Greece, and seventh-place finisher Jan Kudlička
of the Czech Republic.
No nation made its men's pole vaulting debut, the fifth Games that occurred. The United States made its 27th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.
Competition
In the qualifying round, nine men reached 5.70 m with three others progressing on 5.60 m. An injury-affected
Konstadínos Filippídis showed form as the only athletes to clear 5.70 m in one attempt.[6]
After one attempt by
Thiago Braz cleared an outdoor personal record of 5.93 m on his second attempt to surpass Kendricks. Jumping ahead of him, after Lavillenie cleared 5.98 m, with nothing to be gained by a clearance, Braz passed. At the next height, 6.03 m (19 ft 9+1⁄4 in) after Lavillenie had missed twice, on his second attempt, Braz made a solid clearance. Lavillenie passed to the next height, 6.08 m. Even though he holds the world record, that was set in controlled conditions indoors, 6.08 m is a height he has never cleared outdoors. These conditions, with rain and wind affecting competitions all across the Olympic venues, were anything but controlled. Lavillenie missed and the Olympic title was settled.[7]
Braz set a new
Six metres club
.
The following evening the medals were presented by
IAAF
.
Qualification
A
IAAF. Both indoor and outdoor meets were accepted. NOCs could also use their universality place—each NOC could enter one male athlete regardless of time if they had no male athletes meeting the entry standard for an athletics event—in the pole vault.[9][10]
Competition format
The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete had three attempts at each height and was eliminated if he failed to clear any height. Athletes who successfully jumped the qualifying height moved on to the final. If fewer than 12 reached that height, the best 12 moved on. Cleared heights reset for the final, which followed the same three-attempts-per-height format until all athletes reached a height they could not jump.
Records
Prior to the competition[update], the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record |  Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) |
6.16 | Donetsk, Ukraine | 15 February 2014 |
| Olympic record |  Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) |
5.97 | London, United Kingdom | 10 August 2012 |
| 2016 World leading | Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)
|
5.96 | Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France | 18 July 2016 |
Two men were left after 5.93 metres, with the bar raised to a potential Olympic record height of 5.98 metres.
Thiago Braz da Silva
passed at the height, as matching the new record would do him no good in placement in the event. At 6.03 metres, Lavillenie missed, Braz missed, Lavillenie missed again, and then Braz cleared to take the Olympic record from Lavillenie. The Frenchman took his final attempt at 6.08 metres, unsuccessfully; with the gold medal secured, Braz did not jump at the greater height.
The following national record was established during the competition:
| Country | Athlete | Round | Height | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil |  Thiago Braz da Silva (BRA ) |
Final | 6.03 | OR, AR |
Schedule
All times are UTC-3)
| Date | Time | Round |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, 13 August 2016 | 20:20 | Qualifying |
| Monday, 15 August 2016 | 20:35 | Finals |
Results
Key
- o = Height cleared
- x = Height failed
- – = Height passed
- r = Retired
- SB = Season's best
- PB = Personal best
- NR = National record
- AR = Area record
- OR = Olympic record
- WR = World record
- WL = World lead
- NM = No mark
- DNS = Did not start
- DQ = Disqualified
Qualifying round
Qualification rule: Qualifying performance 5.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.
| Rank | Group | Athlete | Nation | 5.30 | 5.45 | 5.60 | 5.70 | Height | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | Sam Kendricks |  United States |
o | o | o | o | 5.70 | q |
| 2 | B | Konstadinos Filippidis |
 Greece |
o | o | xo | o | 5.70 | q |
| 3 | B | Thiago Braz da Silva |
Brazil |
– | xx– | o | o | 5.70 | q |
| 4 | A | Renaud Lavillenie | France |
– | – | – | xo | 5.70 | q |
| A | Xue Changrui |  China |
– | o | o | xo | 5.70 | q | |
| 6 | A | Piotr Lisek |  Poland |
– | o | xo | xo | 5.70 | q |
| 7 | B | Shawnacy Barber |
 Canada |
– | xxo | o | xo | 5.70 | q |
| A | Germán Chiaraviglio |  Argentina |
o | o | xxo | xo | 5.70 | q, SB | |
| A | Jan Kudlička |  Czech Republic |
o | o | xxo | xo | 5.70 | q | |
| 10 | B | Michal Balner | Czech Republic |
o | o | o | xxx | 5.60 | q |
| A | Pauls Pujāts |  Latvia |
o | o | o | xxx | 5.60 | q | |
| A | Daichi Sawano |  Japan |
– | o | o | xxx | 5.60 | q | |
| 13 | A | Robert Sobera | Poland |
o | x | o | xxx | 5.60 | |
| 14 | B | Yao Jie |
China |
– | xo | xo | xxx | 5.60 | |
| 15 | A | Kurtis Marschall |  Australia |
o | o | xxo | xxx | 5.60 | |
| 16 | B | Mareks Ārents | Latvia |
o | o | xxx | — | 5.45 | |
| B | Huang Bokai | China |
o | o | xxx | — | 5.45 | ||
| B | Stanley Joseph | France |
o | o | xxx | — | 5.45 | ||
| B | Kévin Menaldo | France |
– | o | xr | — | 5.45 | ||
| B | Paweł Wojciechowski |
Poland |
o | o | xxx | — | 5.45 | ||
| 21 | A | Hiroki Ogita | Japan |
xo | o | xxx | — | 5.45 | |
| 22 | A | Luke Cutts |  Great Britain |
o | xo | xxx | — | 5.45 | |
| A | Augusto Dutra de Oliveira | Brazil |
o | xo | xxx | — | 5.45 | ||
| B | Robert Renner |  Slovenia |
o | xo | xxx | — | 5.45 | ||
| 25 | A | Tobias Scherbarth |  Germany |
xo | xo | xxx | — | 5.45 | |
| 26 | A | Raphael Holzdeppe | Germany |
– | xxo | xxx | — | 5.45 | |
| 27 | B | Ivan Horvat |  Croatia |
o | xxx | — | 5.30 | ||
| 28 | B | Logan Cunningham | United States |
xxo | xxx | — | 5.30 | ||
| B | Karsten Dilla | Germany |
xxo | xxx | — | 5.30 | |||
| B | Cale Simmons | United States |
xxo | xxx | — | 5.30 | |||
| — | B | Seito Yamamoto | Japan |
– | xxx | — | NM | ||
| — | A | Melker Svärd Jacobsson |  Sweden |
— | DNS | ||||
Final
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | 5.50 | 5.65 | 5.75 | 5.85 | 5.93 | 5.98 | 6.03 | 6.08 | Height | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Thiago Braz da Silva |
Brazil |
– | o | xo | o | xo | – | xo | — | 6.03 | OR, AR |
 |
Renaud Lavillenie | France |
– | – | o | o | o | o | xx– | x | 5.98 | |
 |
Sam Kendricks | United States |
o | xo | x– | o | xxx | — | 5.85 | |||
| 4 | Jan Kudlička | Czech Republic |
o | o | o | x– | xx | — | 5.75 | |||
| Piotr Lisek | Poland |
o | o | o | x– | xx | — | 5.75 | ||||
| 6 | Xue Changrui | China |
xxo | xxo | xx– | x | — | 5.65 | ||||
| 7 | Michal Balner | Czech Republic |
o | xxx | — | 5.50 | ||||||
Konstadinos Filippidis |
Greece |
o | xxx | — | 5.50 | |||||||
| Daichi Sawano | Japan |
o | xxx | — | 5.50 | |||||||
| 10 | Shawnacy Barber |
Canada |
xo | xxx | — | 5.50 | ||||||
| 11 | Germán Chiaraviglio | Argentina |
xxo | xxx | — | 5.50 | ||||||
| — | Pauls Pujāts | Latvia |
xxx | — | NM | |||||||
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