The women's pole vault event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, was 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 into the event was world champion and world record holder Stacy Dragila, but the home favorite was Soviet transplant Australian Tatiana Grigorieva. At 4.55m these were the only two athletes still in the competition. Vala Flosadóttir, who had held the lead with a clean record to 4.50m, took the bronze medal, and set the National record while taking the only women's Olympic medal for Iceland to date. 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 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 4.60 m

Results

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 o o o o 4.30 q B Kellie Suttle o o o o 4.30 q A Tatiana Grigorieva – o o o 4.30 q A Daniela Bártová o – o o 4.30 q A Nicole Rieger-Humbert – o – o 4.30 q A Anzhela Balakhonova – – – o 4.30 q 7 B Shuying Gao o o xo o 4.30 q B Elmarie Gerryts o o xo o 4.30 q B Yvonne Buschbaum – xo o o 4.30 q A Marie Rasmussen o xo o o 4.30 q, 11 A Stacy Dragila – o o xo 4.30 q 12 A Monika Pyrek o o xxo xo 4.30 q 13 B Doris Auer – o xxo xxo 4.30 q 14 B Melissa Mueller o o o xxx 4.25 15 B Emma George – o xxo xxx 4.25 B María del Mar Sánchez o o xxo xxx 4.25 17 A Caroline Ammel o o xxx 4.15 18 B Marie Poissonnier xo o xxx 4.15 A Alejandra García xo o xxx 4.15 20 A Janine Whitlock xxo o xxx 4.15 21 B Déborah Gyurcsek o xxo xxx 4.15 22 B Pavla Hamáčková o – xxx 4.00 A Þórey Edda Elísdóttir o xxx 4.00 – B Yelena Belyakova – xxx – A Svetlana Feofanova – xxx – A Zsuzsanna Szabo – xxx – B Katalin Donáth xxx – B Thaila Iakovidou xxx – A Yelena Isinbayeva xxx – A Tanya Koleva xxx

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 Stacy Dragila – – o o xo o xxo xo o xxx 4.60 Tatiana Grigorieva – xo o o o o xo o x– xx 4.55 Vala Flosadóttir o o o o o o o xxx 4.50 4 Daniela Bártová o – o xxo – xxo o xxx 4.50 5 Nicole Humbert – xxo xxo xxo – xxo – xxx 4.45 6 Yvonne Buschbaum – – xo o xo xxx 4.40 7 Monika Pyrek xo xxo o o xo xxx 4.40 8 Marie Rasmussen o o o o xxx 4.35 9 Doris Auer – – o xxx 4.25 10 Gao Shuying o o xxx 4.15 11 Kellie Suttle o xxx 4.00 – Anzhela Balakhonova – – xxx – Elmarie Gerryts xx–

See also 1998 Women's European Championships Pole Vault (Budapest) 1999 Women's World Championships Pole Vault (Seville) 2001 Women's World Championships Pole Vault (Edmonton) 2002 Women's European Championships Pole Vault (Munich)

References

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