2002 European Athletics Championships – Men's pole vault

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

External links

• Results Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine