2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault explained

Event:Women's pole vault
Competition:2017 World Championships
Venue:Olympic Stadium
Dates:4 August (qualification)
6 August (final)
Competitors:31
Nations:19
Win Label:Winning height
Goldnoc:GRE
Silver:Sandi Morris
Silvernoc:USA
Bronze:Robeilys Peinado
Bronzenoc:VEN
Bronze2:Yarisley Silva
Bronzenoc2:CUB
Prev:2015
Next:2019

The women's pole vault at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 4 and 6 August.[1]

Summary

It essentially took a clearance at 4.50 metres to make it into the final. The one clearance (with earlier misses) brought 13 still in at 4.55 metres each thinking there was more work to do. Lisa Ryzih, Sandi Morris and Robeilys Peinado remained perfect at 4.55 metres, with Olympic Champion Katerina Stefanidi passing all the way until the automatic qualifier height of 4.60 metres.

In the final, four women were perfect to 4.55 metres including home team favourite, Holly Bradshaw, Yarisley Silva, Peinado and Morris with Stefanidi again still passing. At Stefanidi's starting height 4.65 meters, she cleared on her first attempt and was only matched with a perfect round by Morris. Ryzih, Peinado and Silva all missed once before clearing. Ryzih's earlier miss at 4.45 metres dropping out of the tie that defined the tied bronze medalists as none of them could go any higher. So it was a repeat battle from the Olympics. Morris and Stefanidi still perfect over 4.75 metres. At 4.82 metres, Morris missed but Stefanidi made it. Morris passed to try 4.89 metres for the win, but she couldn't make it. Neither did Stefanidi, but she really didn't need to. After Morris missed her last attempt, Stefanidi passed to 4.91 metres, which she made on her first attempt for a national record, stamping an exclamation point on her win. Stefanidi then moved the bar up to 5.02 metres try to join Morris and become the fourth woman over 5 metres and set a new championship record, but she missed all three attempts.[2]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:[3]

Record Athlete Date Location
World5.06Yelena Isinbayeva Russian FederationZürich, Switzerland
Championship5.01Yelena Isinbayeva Russian Federation12 Aug 2005Helsinki, Finland
World leading4.85Katerina Stefanidi8 Jun 2017Rome, Italy
African4.42Elmarie Gerryts12 Jun 2000Wesel, Germany
Asian4.66Li Ling6 Jun 2015Wuhan, China
NACAC5.02 Jennifer Suhr United States2 Mar 2013Albuquerque, United States
South American4.87Fabiana Murer Brazil3 Jul 2016São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
European5.06Yelena Isinbayeva Russian Federation28 Aug 2009Zürich, Switzerland
Oceanian4.82Eliza McCartney New Zealand26 Feb 2017Auckland, New Zealand

The following records were set at the competition:[4]

Record Athlete Date
Greek4.91Katerina Stefanidi6 Aug 2017
Venezuelan4.65Robeilys Peinado Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of6 Aug 2017

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 4.55 metres.[5]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), was as follows:[6]

DateTimeRound
4 August 19:45 Qualification
6 August 19:00 Final

Results

Qualification

The qualification round took place on 4 August, in two groups, with Group A starting at 19:50 and Group B starting at 19:49. Athletes attaining a mark of 4.60 metres ( 

Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.[7] The overall results were as follows:[8]
Rank GroupName Nationality 4.20 4.35 4.50 4.55 4.60 Mark Notes
1 B - - - - o 4.60
2 B - - o o 4.55
A - o o o 4.55
A o o o o 4.55
5 A - o xxo o 4.55
6 B - - o xo 4.55
7 B - - xxo xo 4.55
8 B o o o xxo 4.55
B Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) o o o xo 4.55
10 B - o o xxx 4.50
A - - o - 4.50
12 A - xo xo xxx 4.50
13 A o xo xxo xxx 4.50
14 A o o xxx 4.35
15 A xo o xxx 4.35
B xo o xxx 4.35
17 A xxo o xxx 4.35
18 A o xo xxx 4.35
B o xo xxx 4.35
20 B o xxx 4.20
B o xxx 4.20
A o xxx 4.20
A o xxx 4.20
24 B xo xxx 4.20
B - - - xxx
B xxx
B xxx
A xxx
A xxx
A Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) - - xxx
A - xxx

Final

The final took place on 6 August at 19:01. The results were as follows:[9]

data-sort-type="number"Rank !Name Nationality 4.30 4.45 4.55 4.65 4.75 4.82 4.89 4.91 5.02 Mark Notes
o o o x- o xxx 4.91
o o o o x- xx 4.75
o o o xo xxx 4.65 =
o o xo xxx 4.65
5 xo o xo xxx 4.65
6 o xxo xxx 4.65
7 xo o o xxo xxx 4.65
8 Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) xo o o xxx 4.55
9 o xo xxx 4.55
10 xo o xo xxx 4.55
11 o xxx 4.45
12 xo xo xxx 4.45

Notes and References

  1. https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/5151/AT-PV-W-q----.SL2.pdf Start list
  2. Web site: Report: women's pole vault final – IAAF World Championships London 2017. IAAF. 11 August 2017. 6 August 2017.
  3. Web site: Pole Vault Women – Records . IAAF. 2 July 2017.
  4. Web site: Records Set - Final. IAAF. 14 August 2017.
  5. Web site: Qualification System and Entry Standards. IAAF. 9 August 2017.
  6. Web site: Pole Vault Women − Timetable. IAAF. 9 August 2017.
  7. Web site: Pole Vault Women − Qualification − Results. IAAF. 9 Aug 2017.
  8. Web site: Pole Vault Women − Qualification − Summary. IAAF. 9 Aug 2017.
  9. Web site: Pole Vault Women − Final − Results. IAAF. 9 Aug 2017.

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