2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault

Men's pole vault at the 2017 World Championships
Sam Kendricks, the winner of the event.
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	6 August (qualification) 8 August (final)
Competitors	29 from 19 nations
Winning height	5.95
Medalists
Sam Kendricks    United States   Piotr Lisek    Poland   Renaud Lavillenie    France

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The men's pole vault at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 8 August.[1]

Summary

Of the twelve finalists, only three reached 5.75 metres without any fails: Olympic bronze medalist Sam Kendricks (USA), world record holder Renaud Lavillenie and Xue Changrui (China). Two Polish vaulters, Piotr Lisek and Paweł Wojciechowski, also cleared that height but with previous misses. Kendricks and Xue succeeded first time at 5.82 metres, while all the others passed after one failure to the next height, 5.89 metres. Kendricks and Lisek cleared that height on their first attempts, and Lavillenie on his last attempt, with Xue and Wojciechowski failing to clear that height and leaving the three medallists confirmed. All three were unsuccessful in their first two tries at 5.95 metres, and on the third try Kendrick succeeded, Lisek failed, and Lavillenie passed. Both Kendricks and Lavillenie failed at 6.01 metres, leaving Lavillenie with bronze and Kendricks with gold.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:[2]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	6.16	Renaud Lavillenie	FRA	5 Feb 2014	Donetsk, Ukraine
Championship	6.05	Dmitri Markov	AUS	9 Aug 2001	Edmonton, Canada
World leading	6.00	Sam Kendricks	USA	24 Jun 2017	Sacramento, United States
African	6.03	Okkert Brits	RSA	18 Aug 1995	Cologne, Germany
Asian	5.92	Igor Potapovich	KAZ	19 Feb 1998	Stockholm, Sweden
NACAC	6.04	Brad Walker	USA	8 Jun 2008	Eugene, OR, United States
South American	6.03	Thiago Braz da Silva	BRA	15 Aug 2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
European	6.16	Renaud Lavillenie	FRA	15 Feb 2014	Donetsk, Ukraine
Oceanian	6.06	Steven Hooker	AUS	7 Feb 2009	Boston, MA, United States

The following records were set at the competition:[3]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date
Chinese	5.82	Xue Changrui	CHN	8 Aug 2017

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 5.70 metres.[4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), was as follows:[5]

Date	Time	Round
6 August	10:40	Qualification
8 August	19:35	Final

Results

Qualification

The qualification round took place on 6 August, in two groups, both starting at 10:40. Athletes attaining a mark of 5.75 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.[6] The overall results were as follows:[7]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	5.30	5.45	5.60	5.70	Mark	Notes
1	A	Renaud Lavillenie	France (FRA)	-	-	o	o	5.70	q
	A	Piotr Lisek	Poland (POL)	o	o	o	o	5.70	q
3	B	Sam Kendricks	United States (USA)	o	o	xxo	o	5.70	q
4	B	Shawnacy Barber	Canada (CAN)	o	o	o	xxo	5.70	q
5	A	Axel Chapelle	France (FRA)	xo	o	o	xxo	5.70	q
	A	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany (GER)	-	o	xo	xxo	5.70	q
7	B	Paweł Wojciechowski	Poland (POL)	-	o	xxo	xxo	5.70	q
8	A	Armand Duplantis	Sweden (SWE)	xxo	xo	xo	xxo	5.70	q
9	B	Arnaud Art	Belgium (BEL)	o	o	o	xxx	5.60	q
10	A	Xue Changrui	China (CHN)	-	xo	o	xxx	5.60	q
11	B	Kurtis Marschall	Australia (AUS)	o	xxo	o	xxx	5.60	q
	B	Yao Jie	China (CHN)	o	xxo	o	xxx	5.60	q
13	B	Christopher Nilsen	United States (USA)	o	o	xo	xxx	5.60
14	B	Valentin Lavillenie	France (FRA)	-	xo	xo	xxx	5.60
15	A	Andrew Irwin	United States (USA)	xxo	o	xo	xxx	5.60
16	A	Adrián Vallés	Spain (ESP)	xxo	xo	xo	xxx	5.60
17	A	Vladyslav Malykhin	Ukraine (UKR)	xxo	o	xxo	xxx	5.60
18	A	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic (CZE)	-	o	xxx		5.45
	B	Hiroki Ogita	Japan (JPN)	o	o	xxx		5.45
20	A	Germán Chiaraviglio	Argentina (ARG)	xo	o	xxx		5.45
21	A	Emmanouil Karális	Greece (GRE)	xxo	o	xxx		5.45
22	A	Ilya Mudrov	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	o	xo	xxx		5.45
	A	Ivan Horvat	Croatia (CRO)	o	xo	xxx		5.45
	B	Kévin Menaldo	France (FRA)	-	xo	xxx		5.45
25	B	Michal Balner	Czech Republic (CZE)	xo	xxo	xxx		5.45
26	A	Seito Yamamoto	Japan (JPN)	o	xxx			5.30
	B	Diogo Ferreira	Portugal (POR)	xxx				NH
	B	Igor Bychkov	Spain (ESP)	xxx				NH
	B	Menno Vloon	Netherlands (NED)	-	x-	-	r	NH
	B	Konstantinos Filippidis	Greece (GRE)	-	-	-	-	DNS	[a]

Final

The final took place on 8 August at 19:42. The results were as follows:[9]

Rank	Name	Nationality	5.50	5.65	5.75	5.82	5.89	5.95	6.01	Mark	Notes
	Sam Kendricks	United States (USA)	o	o	o	o	o	xxo	xr	5.95
	Piotr Lisek	Poland (POL)	o	xxo	o	x-	o	xxx		5.89
	Renaud Lavillenie	France (FRA)	–	o	o	x-	xo	xx-	x	5.89	SB
4	Xue Changrui	China (CHN)	o	o	o	o	xxx			5.82	NR
5	Paweł Wojciechowski	Poland (POL)	o	o	xo	x-	xx			5.75
6	Axel Chapelle	France (FRA)	o	o	xxx					5.65
7	Kurtis Marschall	Australia (AUS)	xo	o	xxx					5.65
8	Shawnacy Barber	Canada (CAN)	xo	xxo	xxx					5.65
9	Armand Duplantis	Sweden (SWE)	o	xxx						5.50
	Arnaud Art	Belgium (BEL)	xxx							NH
	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany (GER)	xxx							NH
	Yao Jie	China (CHN)	xxx							NH

References

1. Start list
2. "Pole Vault Men – Records". IAAF. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
3. "Records Set - Final" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
4. "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
5. "Pole Vault Men − Timetable". IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
6. "Pole Vault Men − Qualification − Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
7. "Pole Vault Men − Qualification − Summary" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
8. "Χωρίς τον Φιλιππίδη η αποστολή για Λονδίνο". ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΕΣ (in Greek). 2 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
9. "Pole Vault Men − Final − Results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 9 August 2017.

Notes

1. Konstantinos Filippidis didn't participate due to an injury before the Qualification Round.[8]