2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's pole vault

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Men's pole vault
at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Venue Oregon Convention Center
DatesMarch 17
Competitors14 from 9 nations
Winning height6.02 m (19 ft 9 in)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of France.svg  France
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
  2014
2018  
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The men's pole vault at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on March 17, 2016. [1] [2]

Contents

The men's and women's pole vault competition were the only events on the opening day. They were conducted simultaneously with two parallel runways down the center of the arena. The runways were at floor level, unlike the more common raised runways which is a more dangerous situation; one which resulted in the injury to Renaud Lavillenie minutes after setting the world record two years earlier. It was that injury that prevented Lavillenie from defending his world indoor title at the previous championship, but he was back this year with the world leading jump going into the competition.

Of the 14 competitors, six had already left the competition before Lavillenie even bothered to make his first attempt at 5.75, 2 hours into the competition. All of the competitors in this field had cleared 5.75, most of them this season, but no other had the confidence to wait until 5.75 for their opening height. Piotr Lisek had already cleared the height, but he already had a miss earlier in the competition, so with his easy clearance, shrugging before landing in the pit, Lavillenie was immediately in the lead. Jan Kudlička and Shawn Barber struggled to clear on their third attempt. That would be the best those other jumpers would achieve. Sam Kendricks was still perfect in the competition to that point but had sat out 5.75. He remained perfect at 5.80 to take the lead while Lavillenie confidently passed and the others failed. Kendricks failed at his first attempt at 5.85, Barber and Lisek also saved one heroic attempt for 5.85, while Lavillenie remained on the sidelines. Kendricks then passed to 5.90 and failed again. Lavillenie then picked up his pole, almost 45 minutes after his first attempt and cleared the bar in only his second attempt of the evening. Kendricks took one final attempt to stay in the competition but had to settle for silver. Lavillenie continued, moving the bar to 6.02 he rattled the bar on his way down but it stayed on the pegs and he remained perfect in the competition. Lavillenie then had the bar raised another half a foot to world record height 6.17 m (20 ft 2+34 in), though none of the attempts were close.

Records

Standing records prior to the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships
World record Flag of France.svg  Renaud Lavillenie  (FRA)6.16 Donetsk, Ukraine 15 February 2014
Championship record Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Steven Hooker  (AUS)6.01 Doha, Qatar 13 March 2010
World LeadingFlag of France.svg  Renaud Lavillenie  (FRA)6.03 Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic 5 March 2016
African record Flag of South Africa.svg  Okkert Brits  (RSA)5.90 Liévin, France16 February 1997
Toronto, Canada 1 June 1997
Asian record Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Igor Potapovich  (KAZ)5.92 Stockholm, Sweden 19 February 1998
European record Flag of France.svg  Renaud Lavillenie  (FRA)6.16Donetsk, Ukraine15 February 2014
North and Central American
and Caribbean record
Flag of the United States.svg  Jeff Hartwig  (USA)6.02 Sindelfingen, Germany 10 March 2002
Oceanian Record Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Steven Hooker  (AUS)6.06 Boston, United States 7 February 2009
South American record Flag of Brazil.svg  Thiago Braz  (BRA)5.93 Berlin, Germany 13 February 2016

Qualification standards

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Renaud Lavillenie during competition
IndoorOutdoor
5.77

Schedule

DateTimeRound
17 March 201619:05 Final

Results

The final was started at 19:05. [3]

RankNameNationality5.405.555.655.755.805.855.906.026.17ResultNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Renaud Lavillenie Flag of France.svg France oooxxx6.02 CR
Silver medal icon.svg Sam Kendricks Flag of the United States.svg United States oooox–xx5.80
Bronze medal icon.svg Piotr Lisek Flag of Poland.svg Poland oxooxx–x5.75
4 Jan Kudlička Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic oxxoxxoxxx5.75
4 Shawnacy Barber Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada oxxoxxoxx–x5.75
6 Robert Sobera Flag of Poland.svg Poland ooxxx5.65
7 Konstantinos Filippidis Flag of Greece.svg Greece xooxoxxx5.65
8 Mike Arnold Flag of the United States.svg United States oxxoxxoxxx5.65
9 Michal Balner Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic ooxxx5.55
10 Seito Yamamoto Flag of Japan.svg Japan xooxxx5.55
10 Carlo Paech Flag of Germany.svg Germany xooxxx5.55
12 Jérôme Clavier Flag of France.svg France oxoxxx5.55
12 Thiago Braz da Silva Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil xoxx–x5.55
14 Augusto Dutra de Oliveira Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil xoxxx5.40

References

  1. "IAAF World Indoor Championships Timetable". IAAF. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  2. Start list
  3. Final results