Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Mycenaean Greeks, Minoan Greeks and Celts. It has been a full medal event at the Olympic Games since 1896 for men and since 2000 for women.
Sergey Nazarovych Bubka is a former Ukrainian pole vaulter. He represented the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. Bubka was twice named Athlete of the Year by Track & Field News, and in 2012 was one of 24 athletes inducted as inaugural members of the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame.
Jean Galfione is a French retired pole vaulter. During his pole vaulting career, he won at least one medal in each of the following major international competitions - the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships, the European Championships and the European Indoors Championships
Giuseppe "Peppe" Gibilisco is an Italian coach and former pole vaulter, who won the 2003 World Championships with a personal best of 5.90 m. He followed this with a bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics. He also competed in four-man bobsleigh in two race of the 2016–17 Bobsleigh World Cup finishing 25th and 28th.
Pierre Quinon was a pole vaulter from France who won the 1984 Olympic Games pole vault gold medal and held the pole vault outdoor world record for just four days in the summer of 1983.
Mauro Barella is a retired Italian pole vaulter.
John Thomas Pennel was an American pole vaulter, and four-time world record holder.
Renaud Lavillenie is a French pole vaulter. Lavillenie won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London and the silver medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. In addition to his Olympic success, he has won three World Indoor Championships gold medals (record), three European Championships gold medals and four European Indoor Championships gold medals. He has also won one silver medal and four bronze medals at the World Championships. As of 25 August 2016, he holds the French national records for the highest pole vault clearance both outdoors and indoors. The 6.16 was the absolute world record for the pole vault for over six years, 2014–2020. He was the pole vault overall winner of the IAAF Diamond League in seven consecutive years, from 2010 to 2016.
Marco Andreini is an Italian retired pole vaulter.
Andrea Giannini is a retired Italian pole vaulter.
Maurilio Mariani is a retired Italian pole vaulter.
Claudio Michel Stecchi is an Italian pole vaulter. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Pole vault.
Roberta Bruni is an Italian pole vaulter. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Pole vault. Her personal best of 4.60 m is the Italian record for the event.
Matteo Rubbiani is an Italian pole vaulter.
Andrea Pegoraro is a former Italian pole vaulter.
Massimo Maria Allevi is a former Italian pole vaulter.
Armand GustavDuplantis is a Swedish-American pole vaulter, the current world outdoor and indoor record holder, the current Olympic and two time World outdoor and two-time indoor champion, the current European champion, and the current Diamond League champion. He won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. Duplantis is a two-time European champion from 2018, when he set current world under-20 record, and from 2022. Indoors, he is 2022 World Indoor Championship and 2021 European Indoor Championship gold medallist.
Ernest John "EJ" Uy Obiena, OLY is a Filipino Olympian pole vaulter, currently ranked second in the world in men's pole vault (2023), per the World Athletics Organization.
Emerson Obiena is a Filipino pole vaulter and coach. Obiena was silver medalist at the 1993 Southeast Asian Games finishing behind fellow countryman, Edward Lasquete in the pole vault event and at the 1999 Southeast Asian Games. The last medal he won in an international competition was a bronze, which he obtained at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games.
Giacchetto is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with the surname include:
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