2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault

The men's pole vault at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 10 and 12 July.[1][2][3]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Thiago Braz da Silva  Brazil	Ivan Horvat  Croatia	Shawnacy Barber  Canada

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	Maksim Tarasov (USSR)	5.80 m	Bryansk, Soviet Union	14 July 1989
	Raphael Holzdeppe (GER)		Biberach, Germany	28 June 2008
Championship Record	Germán Chiaraviglio (ARG)	5.71 m	Beijing, China	19 August 2006
World Junior Leading	Andrew Irwin (USA)	5.72 m	Baton Rouge, United States	13 May 2012

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Standard 5.20 m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q)

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	4.75	4.95	5.05	5.15	Result	Note
1	A	Thibault Boisseau	France	o	o	o	o	5.15	q
1	B	Andreas Duplantis	Sweden	—	—	o	o	5.15	q
1	B	Ivan Horvat	Croatia	o	o	o	o	5.15	q
4	A	Shawnacy Barber	Canada	o	o	xo	o	5.15	q
4	B	Robert Renner	Slovenia	—	xo	o	o	5.15	q
6	A	Didac Salas	Spain	—	—	xxo	o	5.15	q
6	B	Theodoros-Panayiotis Hrisanthopoulos	Greece	o	—	xxo	o	5.15	q
8	B	Jonas Efferoth	Germany	—	o	o	xo	5.15	q
9	A	Nikita Kirillov	United States	—	—	—	xxo	5.15	q
10	A	Arnaud Art	Belgium	—	xo	o	xxo	5.15	q
11	A	Lukas Hallanzy	Germany	—	xo	xxo	xxo	5.15	q, PB
12	A	Melker Svärd Jacobsson	Sweden	—	—	o	xxx	5.05	q
12	B	Thiago Braz da Silva	Brazil	—	—	o	xxx	5.05	q
12	B	Ruben Miranda	Portugal	o	o	o	xxx	5.05	q, SB
15	B	Axel Chapelle	France	xo	o	xo	xxx	5.05
16	A	Daiki Fujii	Japan	o	o	xxo	xxx	5.05
17	A	Lukas Wirth	Austria	o	o	xxx		4.95
17	B	Menno Vloon	Netherlands	—	o	xxx		4.95
19	A	Vladislav Mandych	Ukraine	xo	o	xxx		4.95
20	A	Rutger Koppelaar	Netherlands	xxo	o	xxx		4.95
21	A	Doo-hyun Han	South Korea	o	xo	xxx		4.95
22	A	Karol Pawlik	Poland	xo	xo	xxx		4.95
22	B	Eirik G. Dolve	Norway	xo	xo	xxx		4.95
24	A	Alessandro Sinno	Italy	o	xxo	xxx		4.95
24	B	Casey Bowen	United States	o	xxo	xxx		4.95
24	B	Manel Miralles	Spain	o	xxo	xxx		4.95
27	A	Per Magne Florvaag	Norway	xo	xxx			4.75
27	B	Nicholas Southgate	New Zealand	xo	xxx			4.75
29	A	Andreas Ronning	Denmark	xxo	xxx			4.75
	B	Brodie Cross	Australia	xxx				NM
	B	Wei Zhang	China	—	—	xxx		NM

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	4.85	5.00	5.10	5.20	5.30	5.35	5.40	5.45	5.50	5.55	5.60	5.65	Result	Notes
	Thiago Braz da Silva	Brazil	–	-	o	o	o	-	xo	o	xo	o	-	xxx	5.55	NJ
	Ivan Horvat	Croatia	-	o	o	o	xo	-	xxo	-	xo	o	xxx		5.55
	Shawnacy Barber	Canada	–	o	-	xo	o	o	xo	o	xo	xxo	xxx		5.55	NJ
4	Didac Salas	Spain	–	–	o	-	o	-	o	x-	xo	xx-	x		5.50
5	Robert Renner	Slovenia	-	o	-	o	o	-	xo	x-	xx				5.40
6	Melker Svärd Jakobsson	Sweden	–	xo	o	xxo	-	xxo	-	xxx					5.35	PB
7	Thibault Boisseau	France	-	o	-	xo	o	x-	xx						5.30	PB
8	Nikita Kirillov	United States	-	-	o	o	xxo	-	xxx						5.30
9	Jonas Efferoth	Germany	-	o	xo	o	xxx								5.20	SB
10	Andreas Duplantis	Sweden	-	xo	o	xo	x-	xx							5.20
11	Theódoros-Panayiótis Hrisanthópoulos	Greece	o	-	o	xxx									5.10
12	Lukas Hallanzy	Germany	o	o	xo	xxx									5.10
13	Rubem Miranda	Portugal	o	o	xxx										5.00
	Arnaud Art	Belgium	-	xxx											NM

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 31 athletes from 24 countries participated in the event.

•  Australia (1)
•  Austria (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Canada (1)
•  China (1)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Denmark (1)
•  France (2)
•  Germany (2)
•  Greece (1)
•  Italy (1)
•  Japan (1)
•  Netherlands (2)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Norway (2)
•  Poland (1)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  South Korea (1)
•  Spain (2)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Ukraine (1)
•  United States (2)

References

1. http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WJC12/Results/ResultsByEvent.aspx?/disctype=4/sex=M/discCode=PV/combCode=hash/timetable.html
2. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2012 Barcelona ESP Jul 10-15, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 22 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
3. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

• WJC12 pole vault schedule