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	29
Winning height	4.60 OR
Medalists
Stacy Dragila   United States   Tatiana Grigorieva   Australia   Vala Flosadóttir   Iceland

Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
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
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men
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)

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

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
	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
	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
	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

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

• Results