2002 European Athletics Championships – Men's pole vault

Events at the 2002 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's pole vault at the 2002 European Athletics Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 8–10.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Aleksandr Averbukh  Israel	Lars Börgeling  Germany	Tim Lobinger  Germany

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 5.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Lars Börgeling	Germany	5.60	q
2	Patrik Kristiansson	Sweden	5.60	q
3	Pavel Gerasimov	Russia	5.60	q
4	Adam Ptáček	Czech Republic	5.60	q
5	Piotr Buciarski	Denmark	5.60	q
6	Richard Spiegelburg	Germany	5.45
7	Vesa Rantanen	Finland	5.25
7	Tom Erik Olsen	Norway	5.25
9	Jurij Rovan	Slovenia	5.25
9	Fabio Pizzolato	Italy	5.25
11	Dennis Kholev	Israel	5.25
	Thibaut Duval	France	NM

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Štěpán Janáček	Czech Republic	5.60	q
2	Denis Yurchenko	Ukraine	5.60	q
3	Tim Lobinger	Germany	5.60	q
4	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy	5.60	q
5	Aleksandr Averbukh	Israel	5.45	q
5	Vasiliy Gorshkov	Russia	5.45	q
7	Oscar Janson	Sweden	5.45	q
8	João André	Portugal	5.45
9	Mikko Latvala	Finland	5.25
9	Ilian Efremov	Bulgaria	5.25
11	Rens Blom	Netherlands	5.25
	Romain Mesnil	France	NM

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	5.40	5.50	5.60	5.70	5.75	5.80	5.85	Result	Notes
	Aleksandr Averbukh	Israel	–	–	xo	–	o	xo	o	5.85	SB
	Lars Börgeling	Germany	–	–	xo	–	x–	o	xx–	5.80
	Tim Lobinger	Germany	–	o	–	xx–	o	xo	xxx	5.80
4	Patrik Kristiansson	Sweden	xo	–	xo	xo	o	xo	xxx	5.80
5	Štěpán Janáček	Czech Republic	xo	o	xo	–	o	xx–	x	5.75
6	Adam Ptáček	Czech Republic	o	o	xo	o	xxx			5.70
6	Denis Yurchenko	Ukraine	–	xo	–	o	x–	xx		5.70
8	Vasiliy Gorshkov	Russia	o	–	xxo	o	x–	xx		5.70
9	Oscar Janson	Sweden	o	o	o	xxx				5.60
10	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy	o	–	xxo	–	xxx			5.60
11	Piotr Buciarski	Denmark	–	xo	xxx					5.50
12	Pavel Gerasimov	Russia	o	–	xxx					5.40

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