2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault

The men's pole vault at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 10–12 August.

Men's pole vault at the 2013 World Championships
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium
Dates	10 August (qualification) 12 August (final)
Competitors	40 from 24 nations
Winning height	5.89 m (19 ft 3 ^3⁄4 in)
Medalists
Raphael Holzdeppe  Germany (GER)   Renaud Lavillenie  France (FRA)   Björn Otto  Germany (GER)

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:[1]

World record	Sergey Bubka (UKR)	6.14A	Sestriere, Italy	31 July 1994
Championship record	Dmitri Markov (AUS)	6.05	Edmonton, Canada	9 August 2001
World Leading	Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)	6.02	London, United Kingdom	27 July 2013
African record	Okkert Brits (RSA)	6.03	Cologne, Germany	18 August 1995
Asian record	Grigoriy Yegorov (KAZ)	5.90	Stuttgart, Germany	19 August 1993
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Brad Walker (USA)	6.04	Eugene, United States	8 June 2008
South American record	Thiago Braz da Silva (BRA)	5.83	Cartagena, Colombia	5 July 2013
European record	Sergey Bubka (UKR)	6.14A	Sestriere, Italy	31 July 1994
Oceanian record	Dmitri Markov (AUS)	6.05	Edmonton, Canada	9 August 2001

Qualification standards

A result[2]	B result
5.70	5.60

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
10 August 2013	10:15	Qualification
12 August 2013	20:25	Final

All times are local times (UTC+4)

Results

KEY:

Q

Qualified

q

12 best performers

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Qualification

Qualification: 5.70 m (Q) and at least 12 best (q) advanced to the final.[3][4]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	5.25	5.40	5.55	5.65	5.70	Mark	Notes
1	A	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic (CZE)	-	o	-	xo		5.65	q
1	B	Renaud Lavillenie	France (FRA)	-	-	-	xo		5.65	q
3	B	Brad Walker	United States (USA)	-	-	o			5.55	q
3	A	Malte Mohr	Germany (GER)	-	-	o			5.55	q
3	A	Konstadinos Filippidis	Greece (GRE)	-	o	o			5.55	q
6	B	Augusto de Oliveira	Brazil (BRA)	-	xxo	o			5.55	q
7	B	Björn Otto	Germany (GER)	-	-	xo			5.55	q
7	A	Seito Yamamoto	Japan (JPN)	-	o	xo			5.55	q
7	A	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany (GER)	-	-	xo			5.55	q
7	A	Alhaji Jeng	Sweden (SWE)	-	o	xo			5.55	q
11	A	Valentin Lavillenie	France (FRA)	xxo	o	xo			5.55	q
12	A	Xue Changrui	China (CHN)	o	o	xxo			5.55	q
13	A	Sergey Kucheryanu	Russia (RUS)	-	xo	xxo			5.55	q
14	A	Oleksandr Korchmid	Ukraine (UKR)	-	o	xxx			5.40
14	A	Thiago Braz da Silva	Brazil (BRA)	-	o	xxx			5.40
14	A	Daichi Sawano	Japan (JPN)	-	o	xxx			5.40
14	A	Jere Bergius	Finland (FIN)	o	o	xxx			5.40
14	B	Nikita Filippov	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	o	o	xxx			5.40
19	B	Ivan Yeryomin	Ukraine (UKR)	xo	o	xxx			5.40
19	B	Jeremy Scott	United States (USA)	xo	o	xxx			5.40
21	B	Hiroki Ogita	Japan (JPN)	-	xo	xxx			5.40
21	B	Lázaro Borges	Cuba (CUB)	-	xo	xxx			5.40
21	B	Vladyslav Revenko	Ukraine (UKR)	-	xo	xxx			5.40
24	A	Edi Maia	Portugal (POR)	xo	xo	xxx			5.40
24	A	Jack Whitt	United States (USA)	xo	xo	xxx			5.40
24	B	Aleksandr Gripich	Russia (RUS)	xo	xo	xxx			5.40
27	A	Shawnacy Barber	Canada (CAN)	xo	xxo	xxx			5.40
28	A	Claudio Stecchi	Italy (ITA)	xxo	xxo	xxx			5.40
29	B	João Gabriel Sousa	Brazil (BRA)	o	xxx				5.25
29	B	Jin Min-Sub	South Korea (KOR)	o	xxx				5.25
31	A	Rasmus Wejnold Jørgensen	Denmark (DEN)	xo	xxx				5.25
31	B	Yang Yansheng	China (CHN)	xo	xxx				5.25
33	A	Mareks Ārents	Latvia (LAT)	xxo	xxx				5.25
	A	Zhang Wei	China (CHN)	xxx					NM
	B	Ivan Horvat	Croatia (CRO)	xxx					NM
	B	Steven Lewis	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	-	xxx				NM
	B	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy (ITA)	-	-	xxx			NM
	B	Robert Sobera	Poland (POL)	-	xxx				NM
	B	Igor Bychkov	Spain (ESP)	xxx					NM
	B	Michal Balner	Czech Republic (CZE)	-	xxx				NM

Final

The final was started at 19:00.[5]

Rank	Name	Nationality	5.50	5.65	5.75	5.82	5.89	5.96	Mark	Notes
	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany (GER)	–	o	–	o	o	xxx	5.89
	Renaud Lavillenie	France (FRA)	–	xo	–	xo	xxo	xxx	5.89
	Björn Otto	Germany (GER)	o	o	xo	o	xxx		5.82
4	Brad Walker	United States (USA)	–	xo	xo	o	xxx		5.82
5	Malte Mohr	Germany (GER)	o	o	xo	xxo	xxx		5.82
6	Seito Yamamoto	Japan (JPN)	o	xxo	xxo	xxx			5.75	PB
7	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic (CZE)	xxo	xo	xxo	xxx			5.75
8	Sergey Kucheryanu	Russia (RUS)	o	o	xxx				5.65
9	Alhaji Jeng	Sweden (SWE)	xo	o	xxx				5.65	SB
10	Konstadinos Filippidis	Greece (GRE)	o	xo	xxx				5.65
11	Augusto de Oliveira	Brazil (BRA)	xxo	xxo	xxx				5.65
12	Xue Changrui	China (CHN)	xo	xxx					5.50
	Valentin Lavillenie	France (FRA)	xxx						NM

References

1. "Records & Lists – Hammer Throw". IAAF. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
2. IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013 – Standards, All Russia Athletic Federation, 2012, archived from the original on 16 August 2013, retrieved 8 August 2013
3. Start list
4. Qualification Results
5. Final Results

External links

• Pole vault results at IAAF website