2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault

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

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.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

Record Athlete Date LocationWorld5.06Yelena IsinbayevaZürich, SwitzerlandChampionship5.01Yelena Isinbayeva12 Aug 2005Helsinki, FinlandWorld leading4.85Katerina Stefanidi8 Jun 2017Rome, ItalyAfrican4.42Elmarie Gerryts12 Jun 2000Wesel, GermanyAsian4.66Li Ling6 Jun 2015Wuhan, China NACAC5.02 Jennifer Suhr2 Mar 2013Albuquerque, United StatesSouth American4.87Fabiana Murer3 Jul 2016São Bernardo do Campo, BrazilEuropean5.06Yelena Isinbayeva28 Aug 2009Zürich, SwitzerlandOceanian4.82Eliza McCartney26 Feb 2017Auckland, New Zealand

The following records were set at the competition:

Record Athlete Date Greek4.91Katerina Stefanidi6 Aug 2017Venezuelan4.65Robeilys Peinado6 Aug 2017

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 4.55 metres.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), was as follows: Date Time Round4 August 19:45 Qualification6 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. The overall results were as follows:

Rank Group Name Nationality 4.20 4.35 4.50 4.55 4.60 Mark Notes 1 B Katerina Stefanidi - - - - o 4.60 2 B Lisa Ryzih - - o o 4.55 A Sandi Morris - o o o 4.55 A Robeilys Peinado o o o o 4.55 5 A Alysha Newman - o xxo o 4.55 6 B Yarisley Silva - - o xo 4.55 7 B Nicole Büchler - - xxo xo 4.55 8 B Angelica Bengtsson o o o xxo 4.55 B Olga Mullina Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) o o o xo 4.55 10 B Anicka Newell - o o xxx 4.50 A Holly Bradshaw - - o - 4.50 12 A Eliza McCartney - xo xo xxx 4.50 13 A Angelica Moser o xo xxo xxx 4.50 14 A Silke Spiegelburg o o xxx 4.35 15 A Liz Parnov xo o xxx 4.35 B Tina Šutej xo o xxx 4.35 17 A Lisa Gunnarsson xxo o xxx 4.35 18 A Romana Maláčová o xo xxx 4.35 B Jirina Ptacnikova o xo xxx 4.35 20 B Ninon Guillon-Romarin o xxx 4.20 B Friedelinde Petershofen o xxx 4.20 A Fanny Smets o xxx 4.20 A Minna Nikkanen o xxx 4.20 24 B Maryna Kylypko xo xxx 4.20 B Jennifer Suhr - - - xxx B Amálie Švábíková xxx B Emily Grove xxx A Kelsie Ahbe xxx A Iryna Zhuk xxx A Anzhelika Sidorova Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) - - xxx A Michaela Meijer - xxx

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

Rank Name Nationality 4.30 4.45 4.55 4.65 4.75 4.82 4.89 4.91 5.02 Mark Notes Katerina Stefanidi o o o x- o xxx 4.91 Sandi Morris o o o o x- xx 4.75 Robeilys Peinado o o o xo xxx 4.65 = Yarisley Silva o o xo xxx 4.65 5 Lisa Ryzih xo o xo xxx 4.65 6 Holly Bradshaw o xxo xxx 4.65 7 Alysha Newman xo o o xxo xxx 4.65 8 Olga Mullina Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) xo o o xxx 4.55 9 Eliza McCartney o xo xxx 4.55 10 Angelica Bengtsson xo o xo xxx 4.55 11 Nicole Büchler o xxx 4.45 12 Anicka Newell xo xo xxx 4.45

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