Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's pole vault

The official results of the Women's Pole Vault at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, held on Monday 25 September 2000. There were a total number of 30 participating athletes in this event, which made its Olympic debut. The qualifying round was held on Saturday 23 September 2000, with the qualifying height set at 4.35 metres.[1]

Women's pole vault
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
VenueStadium Australia
Date23 – 25 September
Competitors29 from 19 nations
Winning height4.60 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Stacy Dragila  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tatiana Grigorieva  Australia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Vala Flosadóttir  Iceland
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While the pole vault had been a standard Olympic event for a century, dating back to the first revival in 1896, this was the first time the event had been held for women.

The favorite coming into the event was world champion and world record holder Stacy Dragila, but the home favorite was Soviet transplant Australian Tatiana Grigorieva. At 4.55m these were the only two athletes still in the competition. Vala Flosadóttir, who had held the lead with a clean record to 4.50m, took the bronze medal, and set the National record while taking the only women's Olympic medal for Iceland to date.[citation needed] With Dragila's 4 misses in the competition, including one at 4.55m, Grigorieva had the lead. At 4.60m, Dragila reversed that with a clean clearance on her first attempt. Grigorieva was unable to match that and strategically moved to 4.65m, 2 cm higher than the world record Dragila had set in Sacramento in qualifying to the Olympics, to try to take the win. Neither competitor was able to clear 4.65m, Dragila took the gold and the Olympic record.

Schedule edit

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Date Time Round
Saturday, 23 September 2000 18:00 Qualification
Monday, 25 September 2000 18:00 Final

Records edit

Prior to the competition, the existing World record was as follows. As this was a new event in the Olympics, no previous Olympic record existed.

World record   Stacy Dragila (USA) 4.63 m Sacramento, United States 23 July 2000
Olympic record New Olympic event

The following record(s) were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Result Record
25 September Final Stacy Dragila   United States 4.60 m OR

Results edit

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 edit

Rule: Qualifying standard 4.35 (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank Group Name Nationality 4.00 4.15 4.25 4.30 Result Notes
1 B Vala Flosadóttir   Iceland o o o o 4.30 q
B Kellie Suttle   United States o o o o 4.30 q
A Tatiana Grigorieva   Australia o o o 4.30 q
A Daniela Bártová   Czech Republic o o o 4.30 q
A Nicole Rieger-Humbert   Germany o o 4.30 q
A Anzhela Balakhonova   Ukraine o 4.30 q
7 B Shuying Gao   China o o xo o 4.30 q
B Elmarie Gerryts   South Africa o o xo o 4.30 q
B Yvonne Buschbaum   Germany xo o o 4.30 q
A Marie Rasmussen   Denmark o xo o o 4.30 q, NR
11 A Stacy Dragila   United States o o xo 4.30 q
12 A Monika Pyrek   Poland o o xxo xo 4.30 q
13 B Doris Auer   Austria o xxo xxo 4.30 q
14 B Melissa Mueller   United States o o o xxx 4.25
15 B Emma George   Australia o xxo xxx 4.25
B María del Mar Sánchez   Spain o o xxo xxx 4.25
17 A Caroline Ammel   France o o xxx 4.15
18 B Marie Poissonnier   France xo o xxx 4.15
A Alejandra García   Argentina xo o xxx 4.15
20 A Janine Whitlock   Great Britain xxo o xxx 4.15
21 B Déborah Gyurcsek   Uruguay o xxo xxx 4.15
22 B Pavla Hamáčková   Czech Republic o xxx 4.00
A Þórey Edda Elísdóttir   Iceland o xxx 4.00
B Yelena Belyakova   Russia xxx NM
A Svetlana Feofanova   Russia xxx NM
A Zsuzsanna Szabo   Hungary xxx NM
B Katalin Donáth   Hungary xxx NM
B Thaila Iakovidou   Greece xxx NM
A Yelena Isinbayeva   Russia xxx NM
A Tanya Koleva   Bulgaria xxx NM

Final edit

Rank Name Nationality 4.00 4.15 4.25 4.35 4.40 4.45 4.50 4.55 4.60 4.65 Result Notes
  Stacy Dragila   United States o o xo o xxo xo o xxx 4.60 OR
  Tatiana Grigorieva   Australia xo o o o o xo o x– xx 4.55 PB
  Vala Flosadóttir   Iceland o o o o o o o xxx 4.50 NR
4 Daniela Bártová   Czech Republic o o xxo xxo o xxx 4.50
5 Nicole Humbert   Germany xxo xxo xxo xxo xxx 4.45
6 Yvonne Buschbaum   Germany xo o xo xxx 4.40
7 Monika Pyrek   Poland xo xxo o o xo xxx 4.40 NR
8 Marie Rasmussen   Denmark o o o o xxx 4.35 NR
9 Doris Auer   Austria o xxx 4.25
10 Gao Shuying   China o o xxx 4.15
11 Kellie Suttle   United States o xxx 4.00
Anzhela Balakhonova   Ukraine xxx NM
Elmarie Gerryts   South Africa xx– NM

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Women's Pole Vault". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

External links edit