Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's pole vault
Women's pole vault at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
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Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
Date | 4–6 August 2012 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 39 from 25 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning height | 4.75 m | ||||||||||||
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Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics |
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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 | women | ||
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 | ||||
Long jump | men | women | ||
Triple jump | men | women | ||
High jump | men | women | ||
Pole vault | men | women | ||
Shot put | men | women | ||
Discus throw | men | women | ||
Javelin throw | men | women | ||
Hammer throw | men | women | ||
Combined events | ||||
Heptathlon | women | |||
Decathlon | men | |||
The women's pole vault competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, was held at the Olympic Stadium on 4–6 August.[1]
In the qualifying round, nobody needed to take an attempt at the automatic qualifier as the field was down to 12 at 4.55. Non-qualifiers included junior record holder Angelica Bengtsson, former world record holder Svetlana Feofanova and reigning world champion Fabiana Murer.
In the final, a strong headwind and light rain made it difficult for the competitors. By 4.55, the qualifying height, only five vaulters remained. That proved to be the final height for Martina Strutz. Even world record holder and two time defending champion Elena Isinbaeva had a miss at her opening at 4.55, though she made her next two heights 4.65 and 4.70 on the first attempt. 4.70 was the undoing of Silke Spiegelburg, leaving just Yarisley Silva and Jennifer Suhr for the medals. Suhr managed to remain clean to 4.70, while Silva had a miss at 4.45, a height Suhr didn't even attempt. It took two attempts for both to make 4.75, while Isinbayeva struggled, missing on two attempts. She strategically passed to take one last attempt at 4.80, but nobody had a good attempt at that height. Suhr jumped first in the order and had to sweat out the subsequent attempts by Isinbaeva and Silva, but won the gold on fewer misses, the difference was Silva's lone other miss at 4.45.
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Competition format
The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete had three attempts at each height and was eliminated if they failed to clear any height. Athletes who successfully jumped the qualifying height moved on the final. If fewer than 12 reached that height, the best 12 moved on. Cleared heights reset for the final, which followed the same three-attempts-per-height format until all athletes reached a height they could not jump.[2]
Schedule
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Date | Time | Round |
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Saturday, 4 August 2012 | 10:20 | Qualifications |
Monday, 6 August 2012 | 19:00 | Finals |
Records
Prior to the competition[update], the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS) | 5.06 m | Zurich, Switzerland | 28 August 2009 |
Olympic record | Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS) | 5.05 m | Beijing, China | 18 August 2008 |
2012 World leading | Jennifer Suhr (USA) | 4.83 m | Champaign, USA | 7 July 2012 |
Results
Qualifying round
Qual. rule: qualification standard 4.60m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).
Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | 4.10 | 4.25 | 4.40 | 4.50 | 4.55 | Result | Notes[3] |
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1 | B | Yelena Isinbayeva | Russia | – | – | – | o | o | 4.55 | q |
1 | A | Yarisley Silva | Cuba | – | – | – | o | o | 4.55 | q |
1 | A | Jennifer Suhr | United States | – | – | – | – | o | 4.55 | q |
4 | A | Lisa Ryzih | Germany | – | – | o | xo | o | 4.55 | q |
5 | B | Anna Rogowska | Poland | – | – | xo | xo | o | 4.55 | q |
6 | B | Silke Spiegelburg | Germany | – | – | – | o | xo | 4.55 | q |
7 | A | Holly Bleasdale | Great Britain | – | – | xo | o | xo | 4.55 | q |
7 | A | Vanessa Boslak | France | – | o | xo | o | xo | 4.55 | q |
7 | A | Martina Strutz | Germany | – | o | o | xo | xo | 4.55 | q |
10 | B | Becky Holliday | United States | – | xo | xxo | o | xo | 4.55 | q |
11 | A | Alana Boyd | Australia | – | o | xxo | xxo | xo | 4.55 | q |
12 | B | Jiřina Ptáčníková | Czech Republic | – | – | xo | xo | xxo | 4.55 | q |
13 | B | Stélla-Iró Ledáki | Greece | xxo | o | xo | o | xxx | 4.50 | |
14 | B | Fabiana Murer | Brazil | – | – | – | xo | xxx | 4.50 | |
15 | B | Lacy Janson | United States | – | o | o | xxx | 4.40 | ||
15 | A | Monika Pyrek | Poland | – | o | o | xxx | 4.40 | ||
17 | A | Anastasiya Shvedova | Belarus | – | xo | o | – | xxx | 4.40 | |
18 | A | Jillian Schwartz | Israel | o | xxo | o | xxx | 4.40 | ||
19 | A | Tomomi Abiko | Japan | o | o | xxx | 4.25 | |||
19 | A | Angelica Bengtsson | Sweden | – | o | xxx | 4.25 | |||
19 | B | Mélanie Blouin | Canada | o | o | xxx | 4.25 | |||
19 | B | Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou | Greece | – | o | xxx | 4.25 | |||
19 | A | Tina Šutej | Slovenia | o | o | xxx | 4.25 | |||
24 | A | Ekateríni Stefanídi | Greece | xo | o | xxx | 4.25 | |||
25 | B | Nicole Büchler | Switzerland | xxo | o | xxx | 4.25 | |||
26 | B | Kate Dennison | Great Britain | – | xo | xxx | 4.25 | |||
26 | B | Nataliya Mazuryk | Ukraine | – | xo | xxx | 4.25 | |||
26 | A | Minna Nikkanen | Finland | o | xo | xxx | 4.25 | |||
26 | A | Anastasia Savchenko | Russia | – | xo | xxx | 4.25 | |||
30 | A | Li Ling | China | – | xxo | xxx | 4.25 | |||
31 | A | Choi Yun-Hee | South Korea | xo | xxx | 4.10 | ||||
31 | A | Maria Leonor Tavares | Portugal | xo | xxx | 4.10 | ||||
33 | B | Marion Lotout | France | xxo | xxx | 4.10 | ||||
33 | A | Ganna Shelekh | Ukraine | xxo | – | xxx | 4.10 | |||
N/A | B | Dailis Caballero | Cuba | xxx | NM | |||||
N/A | B | Svetlana Feofanova | Russia | – | – | xx– | x | NM | ||
N/A | B | Caroline Bonde Holm | Denmark | xxx | NM | |||||
N/A | B | Liz Parnov | Australia | xxx | NM | |||||
N/A | B | Tori Pena | Ireland | xxx | NM |
Final
Rank | Name | Nationality | 4.30 | 4.45 | 4.55 | 4.65 | 4.70 | 4.75 | 4.80 | Result | Notes[4] |
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Jennifer Suhr | United States | – | – | o | – | o | xo | xxx | 4.75 | ||
Yarisley Silva | Cuba | – | xo | o | o | o | xo | xxx | 4.75 | =NR | |
Yelena Isinbayeva | Russia | – | – | x– | o | o | xx– | x | 4.70 | ||
4 | Silke Spiegelburg | Germany | – | – | o | o | x– | xx | 4.65 | ||
5 | Martina Strutz | Germany | – | xo | o | x– | xx | 4.55 | |||
6 | Jiřina Ptáčníková | Czech Republic | o | xxo | xx– | x | 4.45 | ||||
6 | Lisa Ryzih | Germany | – | xxo | xxx | 4.45 | |||||
6 | Holly Bleasdale | Great Britain | – | xxo | xxx | 4.45 | |||||
9 | Becky Holliday | United States | xo | xxo | xxx | 4.45 | |||||
10 | Vanessa Boslak | France | xo | xxx | 4.30 | ||||||
11 | Alana Boyd | Australia | xxo | xxx | 4.30 | ||||||
N/A | Anna Rogowska | Poland | – | xxx | NM |
References
- ↑ Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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