Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's pole vault

Women's pole vault

at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad

Venue

Stadium Australia

Date

23 – 25 August

Competitors

Winning height

4.60 OR

Medalists

	Stacy Dragila	United States
	Tatiana Grigorieva	Australia
	Vala Flosadóttir	Iceland

Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Track events
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200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
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110 m hurdles	men
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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
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Field events
Long jump	men	women
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High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
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Heptathlon		women
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Wheelchair races

The official results of the Women's Pole Vault at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, held on Monday 25 September 2000. There were a total number of 30 participating athletes in this event, which made its Olympic debut. The qualifying round was held on Saturday 23 September 2000, with the qualifying height set at 4.35 metres.

While the pole vault had been a standard Olympic event for a century, dating back to the first revival in 1896, this was the first time the event had been held for women.

The favorite coming in to the event was world champion and world record holder Stacy Dragila, but the home favorite was Soviet transplant Australian Tatiana Grigorieva. 4.55m thinned the crowd to just those two athletes, Vala Flosadóttir setting her National record while taking the bronze medal, to date the only women's Olympic medal for Iceland. With Dragila's 4 misses in the competition, including one at 4.55m, Grigorieva had the lead. At 4.60m, Dragila reversed that with a clean clearance on her first attempt. Grigorieva was unable to match that and strategically moved to 4.65m, 2 cm higher than the world record Dragila had set in Sacramento in qualifying to the Olympics, to try to take the win. Neither competitor was able to clear 4.65m, Dragila took the gold and the Olympic record.

Schedule

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Date	Time	Round
Saturday, 23 September 2000	18:00	Qualification
Monday, 25 September 2000	18:00	Final

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World record was as follows. As this was a new event in the Olympics, no previous Olympic record existed.

World record	Stacy Dragila (USA)	4.63 m	Sacramento, United States	23 July 2000
Olympic record	New Olympic event

The following record(s) were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Result	Record
25 September	Final	Stacy Dragila	United States	4.60 m	OR

Results

Key

o = Height cleared
x = Height failed
– = Height passed
r = Retired
SB = Season's best
PB = Personal best
NR = National record
AR = Area record
OR = Olympic record
WR = World record
WL = World lead
NM = No mark
DNS = Did not start
DQ = Disqualified

Qualifying round

Rule: Qualifying standard 4.35 (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	4.00	4.15	4.25	4.30	Result	Notes
1	B	Vala Flosadóttir	Iceland	o	o	o	o	4.30	q
	B	Kellie Suttle	United States	o	o	o	o	4.30	q
	A	Tatiana Grigorieva	Australia	–	o	o	o	4.30	q
	A	Daniela Bártová	Czech Republic	o	–	o	o	4.30	q
	A	Nicole Rieger-Humbert	Germany	–	o	–	o	4.30	q
	A	Anzhela Balakhonova	Ukraine	–	–	–	o	4.30	q
7	B	Shuying Gao	China	o	o	xo	o	4.40	q
	B	Elmarie Gerryts	South Africa	o	o	xo	o	4.30	q
	B	Yvonne Buschbaum	Germany	–	xo	o	o	4.30	q
	A	Marie Rasmussen	Denmark	o	xo	o	o	4.30	q, NR
11	A	Stacy Dragila	United States	–	o	o	xo	4.30	q
12	A	Monika Pyrek	Poland	o	o	xxo	xo	4.30	q
13	B	Doris Auer	Austria	–	o	xxo	xxo	4.30	q
14	B	Melissa Mueller	United States	o	o	o	xxx	4.25
15	B	Emma George	Australia	–	o	xxo	xxx	4.25
15	B	Mari Mar Sánchez	Spain	o	o	xxo	xxx	4.25
17	A	Caroline Ammel	France	o	o	xxx		4.15
18	B	Marie Poissonnier	France	xo	o	xxx		4.15
18	A	Alejandra García	Argentina	xo	o	xxx		4.15
20	A	Janine Whitlock	Great Britain	xxo	o	xxx		4.15
21	B	Déborah Gyurcsek	Uruguay	o	xxo	xxx		4.15
22	B	Pavla Hamáčková	Czech Republic	o	–	xxx		4.00
22	A	Þórey Edda Elísdóttir	Iceland	o	xxx			4.00
–	B	Yelena Belyakova	Russia	–	xxx			0.00 !NM
–	A	Svetlana Feofanova	Russia	–	xxx			0.00 !NM
–	A	Zsuzsanna Szabo	Hungary	–	xxx			0.00 !NM
–	B	Katalin Donath	Hungary	xxx				0.00 !NM
–	B	Thaila Iakovidou	Greece	xxx				0.00 !NM
–	A	Yelena Isinbayeva	Russia	xxx				0.00 !NM
–	A	Tanya Koleva	Bulgaria	xxx				0.00 !NM

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	4.00	4.15	4.25	4.35	4.40	4.45	4.50	4.55	4.60	4.65	Result	Notes
01 !	Stacy Dragila	United States	–	–	o	o	xo	o	xxo	xo	o	xxx	4.60	OR
02 !	Tatiana Grigorieva	Australia	–	xo	o	o	o	o	xo	o	x–	xx	4.55	PB
03 !	Vala Flosadóttir	Iceland	o	o	o	o	o	o	o	xxx			4.50	NR
4	Daniela Bártová	Czech Republic	o	–	o	xxo	–	xxo	o	xxx			4.50
5	Nicole Humbert	Germany	–	xxo	xxo	xxo	–	xxo	–	xxx			4.45
6	Yvonne Buschbaum	Germany	–	–	xo	o	xo	xxx					4.40
7	Monika Pyrek	Poland	xo	xxo	o	o	xo	xxx					4.40	NR
8	Marie Rasmussen	Denmark	o	o	o	o	xxx						4.35	NR
9	Doris Auer	Austria	–	–	o	xxx							4.25
10	Gao Shuying	China	o	o	xxx								4.15
11	Kellie Suttle	United States	o	xxx									4.00
–	Anzhela Balakhonova	Ukraine	–	–	xxx								0.00 !NM
–	Elmarie Gerryts	South Africa	xx–										0.00 !NM

References

Results

Pole vault at the Olympic Games

Summary

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Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

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