Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault

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Men's pole vault
at the Games of the Olympiad
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Armand Duplantis, pole vaulting qualification, 3rd of August 2024
Venue Stade de France, Paris, France
Date
  • 3 August 2024 (qualification)
    5 August 2024 (final)
Competitors 31 from 19 nations
Winning height 6.25 WR
Medalists
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1st Armand Duplantis  Sweden
2nd Sam Kendricks  United States
3rd Emmanouil Karalis  Greece
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The men's pole vault at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 3 and 5 August 2024 at Stade de France. This was the 30th time that the event was contested at the Summer Olympics. Sweden's Armand Duplantis won his second consecutive Olympic gold medal, setting a world record of 6.25 metres (20 ft 6 in). Sam Kendricks of the United States earned the silver, while Emmanouil Karalis of Greece took the bronze.

Background

The reigning Olympic champion Armand Duplantis has dominated the event since 2018, winning every major championship except for the 2019 World Championships and advancing the world record ten times since 2020. He sets his world records by 1 cm increments to pick up record bonuses as often as possible but frequently clears the bar by large margins. Only two other athletes have jumped within 0.18 m (0 ft 7 in) of his record since he started his run: KC Lightfoot, who was not able to qualify through the US trials, and Sam Kendricks, who performed the jump in the 2019 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships en route to beating Duplantis in that competition. Aside from Duplantis, Lightfoot, and Kendricks, only four other contemporary vaulters have recorded vaults of over 6 meters: Thiago Braz while winning the 2016 Olympics, Piotr Lisek, Chris Nilsen, and EJ Obiena. Nilsen, the returning silver medalist, is the only other athlete to successfully surpass that height this year. Braz, the bronze medalist from 2020, was serving a drug suspension and did not participate.

Summary

In the qualification round, 10 athletes cleared Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value)., five with perfect rounds including Duplantis. Two others with perfect rounds to 5.70 m also advanced. Nilsen and Lisek did not advance.[1]

In the final, ten took jumps at Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value).. Emmanouil Karalis, Ersu Şaşma, and Duplantis had clean rounds going. It was only Duplantis's second jump of the competition. Kendricks and Sondre Guttormsen missed their first attempt and passed. Huang Bokai made three unsuccessful attempts. At 5.90 m, Duplantis passed. Kendricks, Karalis, and Obiena all cleared on their first attempts. Kurtis Marschall, Şaşma, and Guttormsen missed once and passed to the next height. None of them would make it.

At 5.95 m, Kendricks and Duplantis made their first attempts; Karalis missed once and passed to Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value)., which he had never cleared before. Obiena took all three of his attempts and failed. Only Duplantis cleared 6.00 m (on his first attempt) and the medals were settled; Obiena's earlier miss at 5.80 m gave Karalis the bronze and Kendricks silver. Having secured the gold medal, Duplantis asked for the bar to be set to an Olympic record Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value)., which he cleared easily. His next request was to move to Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value)., in an attempt to set a new world record, which he cleared on his third and final attempt.[2][3]

Less than three weeks after the Olympics, Duplantis improved the world record again at 6.26 m in Silesia. Coincidentally, Duplantis, Kendricks, and Karalis repeated their placements and also won their respective medals.

Qualification

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Main article: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification § Men's pole vault

For the men's pole vault event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. 32 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by jumping the entry standard of 5.82 m or higher or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event.[4]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic, and area records were as follows.

Record Athlete (Nation) Height (m) Location Date
World record  Armand Duplantis (SWE) 6.24[5] Xiamen, China 20 April 2024
Olympic record  Thiago Braz (BRA) 6.03 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 15 August 2016
World leading  Armand Duplantis (SWE) 6.24[6] Xiamen, China 20 April 2024
Area Record[7] Athlete (Nation) Height (m)
Africa (records)  Okkert Brits (RSA) 6.03
Asia (records)  EJ Obiena (PHI) 6.00
Europe (records)  Armand Duplantis (SWE) 6.24 WR
North, Central America

and Caribbean (records)

  KC Lightfoot (USA) 6.07
Oceania (records)  Steve Hooker (AUS) 6.06
South America (records)  Thiago Braz (BRA) 6.03

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Event Athlete (Nation) Height (m) Record
5 August Final  Armand Duplantis (SWE) 6.25 WR, OR

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

The men's pole vault took place over two separate days.

Date Time Round
Saturday, 3 August 2024 10:10 Qualifying[8]
Monday, 5 August 2024 19:00 Final[8]

Results

Qualification

32 athletes qualified for the first round by qualification time or world ranking.[9]

Qualification Rules: Qualifying performance 5.80 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank Group Athlete Nation 5.40 5.60 5.70 5.75 Height Notes
1 A Armand Duplantis  Sweden – o – o 5.75 q
A Sondre Guttormsen  Norway o o o o 5.75 q, =SB
A Emmanouil Karalis  Greece – o o o 5.75 q
A Ersu Şaşma  Turkey o o o o 5.75 q
B Oleg Zernikel  Germany o o o o 5.75 q
6 A Menno Vloon  Netherlands xo o o o 5.75 q
7 A EJ Obiena  Philippines – xx- o o 5.75 q
8 A Sam Kendricks  United States o o xo xo 5.75 q
9 B Huang Bokai  China o xxo o xo 5.75 q, =PB
10 A Bo Kanda Lita Baehre  Germany xo o xxo xxo 5.75 q
11 A Valters Kreišs  Latvia o o o xxx 5.70 q
A Kurtis Marschall  Australia o o o 5.70 q
13 B Claudio Stecchi  Italy o o xo xxx 5.70 SB
14 A Thibaut Collet  France o xo xxo xxx 5.70
15 A Anthony Ammirati  France o o xxx 5.60
B Ben Broeders  Belgium o o xxx 5.60
A Simen Guttormsen  Norway o o xxx 5.60
B Piotr Lisek  Poland o o xxx 5.60
A Robert Sobera  Poland o o xxx 5.60
20 B David Holý  Czech Republic o xo xxx 5.60
B Yao Jie  China o xo xxx 5.60
22 A Jacob Wooten  United States o xxo xxx 5.60
23 B Torben Blech  Germany o xxx 5.40
B Robin Emig  France o xxx 5.40
B Matěj Ščerba  Czech Republic o xxx 5.40
26 B Pedro Buaró  Portugal xo xxx 5.40
B Christopher Nilsen  United States xo xxx 5.40
B Zhong Tao  China xo xxx 5.40
29 B Urho Kujanpää  Finland xxo xxx 5.40
B Hussain Al-Hizam  Saudi Arabia xxx NM
B Pål Haugen Lillefosse  Norway DNS

[10]

Final

Rank Athlete Nation 5.50 5.70 5.80 5.85 5.90 5.95 6.00 6.10 6.25 Height Notes
1st Armand Duplantis  Sweden – o – o – o o o xxo 6.25 WR
2nd Sam Kendricks  United States o o o x- o o xxx – 5.95 =SB
3rd Emmanouil Karalis  Greece o o o o o x- xx – 5.90
4 EJ Obiena  Philippines o o x- o o xxx – 5.90
5 Ersu Şaşma  Turkey o o o o x- xx – 5.85 SB
6 Kurtis Marschall  Australia o o x- o x- xx – 5.85
7 Huang Bokai  China o xo o xxx – 5.80 PB
8 Sondre Guttormsen  Norway o xxo o x- x- x – 5.80 SB
9 Bo Kanda Lita Baehre  Germany o o xx- x – 5.70
Oleg Zernikel  Germany o o xx- x – 5.70
11 Menno Vloon  Netherlands o xxo xxx – 5.70
12 Valters Kreišs  Latvia xo xxx – 5.50

[2]

References

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  4. ↑ Sean McAlister, "How to qualify for athletics at Paris 2024. The Olympics qualification system explained Archived 2022-12-22 at the Wayback Machine", Olympics.com, 20 December 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  5. ↑ "All time Top lists – Senior – Pole vault men Archived 2024-07-15 at the Wayback Machine", World Athletics, 29 June 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  6. ↑ "Season Top Lists – Senior 2024 – Pole vault men Archived 2024-03-03 at the Wayback Machine", World Athletics, 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Paris 2024 - Olympic Schedule - Athletics Archived 2024-03-24 at the Wayback Machine", Olympics.com. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
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