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Athletics At The 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's Pole Vault
The Men's Pole Vault was an event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total number of 34 participating athletes from 23 nations. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The qualification mark was set at 5.60 metres (six + six athletes). This was a remarkably clean competition, with only three athletes having a miss at a height that was not their best or better in the competition. Maksim Tarasov took gold with only three attempts, clean through 5.80. Igor Trandenkov equalled Tarasov, but took three attempts to clear 5.80. Javier García took bronze in his home town by clearing 5.75 on his second attempt, to edge Kory Tarpenning who cleared it on his third. It was the second consecutive Games that Soviet or former Soviet vaulters won the event; Spain earned its first men's pole vault medal with García's bronze. Background This was the 22nd appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys (, formerly known as the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc and Estadio de Montjuic) is a stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Originally built in 1927 for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, 1929 International Exposition in the city (and Barcelona's bid for the 1936 Summer Olympics, which were awarded to Berlin), it was renovated in 1989 to be the main stadium for the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1992 Summer Paralympics. With its current capacity of 55,926 seats (67,007 during the 1992 Olympics), Estadi Lluís Companys is the 6th largest stadium in Spain and the 2nd largest in Catalonia. The stadium is located in the Anella Olímpica, in Montjuïc, a large hill to the southwest of the city which overlooks the harbor. History Designed by architect Pere Domènech i Roura for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, 1929 Expo, the stadium was officially opened on 20 May 1929. The opening ceremonies included Spain national rugby union team, Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeri Bukrejev
Valeri Bukrejev (born June 15, 1964 in Tallinn) is a retired Estonian pole vaulter. He finished seventh at the 1993 World Championships, eighth at the 1994 European Indoor Championships in a new Estonian indoor record of 5.60 metres and fourth at the 1994 Goodwill Games. He renewed Estonian indoor record in March 1995 in Kuopio, which is also the current Estonian indoor record. His personal best is 5.86 metres, achieved in July 1994 in Somero Somero () is a town and municipality of Finland. It is part of the Southwest Finland region in the province of Western Finland, located northeast of Salo, east of Turku and northwest of Helsinki. The municipality has a population of () and cove .... This is the current Estonian record. Eesti Kergejõustikuliit References *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galin Nikov
Galin Nikov ( bg, Галин Ников; born 25 November 1968) is a retired Bulgarian pole vaulter. He finished thirteenth at the 1990 European Indoor Championships and twelfth at the 1991 World Championships. He also won gold medals at the 1990 and 1992 Balkan Games. His personal best jump was 5.65 metres, achieved in July 1992 in Sofia. This ranks him seventh among Bulgarian pole vaulters, behind Spas Bukhalov, Atanas Tarev, Nikolay Nikolov, Stanimir Penchev, Delko Lesov and Ilian Efremov. The same jump height was achieved by Ivo Yanchev Ivo Yanchev ( bg, Иво Янчев; born 5 September 1960) is a retired Bulgarian pole vaulter. He finished eleventh at the 1978 European Indoor Championships, thirteenth at the 1981 European Indoor Championships and twelfth at the 1983 Europe ... and Valentin Videv. - T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jani Lehtonen
Jani Valdemar Lehtonen (11 August 1968, in Mäntsälä – 22 December 2008, in Tampere) was a Finnish pole vaulter. He finished eleventh at the 1990 European Championships, eighth at the 1992 European Indoor Championships and fifth at the 1993 World Indoor Championships, His personal best vault was 5.82 metres, achieved in June 1993 in Kuortane. This is the current Finnish record. Lehtonen committed suicide
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Jean Galfione
Jean Galfione (born 9 June 1971) is a French retired pole vaulter. During his pole vaulting career, he won at least one medal in each of the following major international competitions - the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships, the European Championships and the European Indoors Championships Pole vaulting career Before the 1996 Olympic Games Jean Galfione started pole vaulting as part of the decathlon when he was 13 years old and a member of the Stade français sports club. He was talent-spotted by Maurice Houvion, who was a coach at INSEP. In 1987 he became part of the group of pole vaulters trained by Houvion at INSEP. In 1988, he broke the pole vault national youth record by clearing 5.16 m. In 1990 he won the World Junior Championships pole vault gold medal with a jump of 5.45 m and also broke the pole vault national junior indoor record with a jump of 5.60 m. Galfione clinched his first Olympic or World Outdoor/Indoor Championships me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Volz
David Volz (born May 2, 1962) is a retired American pole vaulter, who finished fifth at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In addition, he won a bronze medal at the 1985 Summer Universiade. With 5.75 meters in 1982, Volz and Jean-Michel Bellot shared the number one spot on the top performers list that year. His name is memorialized for creating a technique, now illegal, of steadying or even replacing the bar while still in mid-air to prevent it from falling off, known as "Volzing".http://www.polevaultpower.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=132&start=24 Pole Vault Power He now resides in Bloomington, Indiana, where he is vice president of Cook, Inc. He is married to Marci Endris Volz, who teaches at Bloomington High School South. His three sons, Drake, Drew, and Deakin all pole vaulted for Bloomington High School South Bloomington High School South (simply referred to as BHSS or South) is a public high school in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Monroe C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Ruiz
Alberto Ruiz Benito (born 22 December 1961 in Barcelona) is a retired Spanish pole vaulter. His personal best jump was 5.61 metres, achieved in June 1986 in Manresa Manresa () is the capital of the Comarca of Bages, located in the geographical centre of Catalonia, Spain, and crossed by the river Cardener. It is an industrial area with textile, metallurgical, and glass industries. The houses of Manresa are .... International competitions References * External links * * * 1961 births Living people Spanish male pole vaulters Olympic athletes of Spain Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games competitors for Spain Athletes (track and field) at the 1983 Mediterranean Games Athletes from Catalonia Athletes from Barcelona {{Spain-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Bright
Timothy William Bright (born July 28, 1960) is a retired American decathlete and pole vaulter. Born in Taft, California, Bright represented the US in the decathlon at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics and the 1987 World Championships, and in the pole vault at the 1985 World University Games, the 1985 World Cup, the 1991 World Championships and the 1992 Olympics. He won the American national championships in decathlon in 1987. His personal best score was 8340 points, achieved in June 1987 in San Jose. At one point he held the Decathlon World Record for the Pole Vault, set during the 1988 Olympics. He also became American champion in pole vault in 1991 and 1992. His personal best jump was 5.87 metres, achieved in July 1990 in Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c .... Coach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Krasnov
Yevgeniy ("Danny") Krasnov (born 27 May 1970 in Moscow, Russian SFSR) is a retired Israeli pole vaulter. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1991. His personal best is 5.75 metres, achieved in August 1994 in Brussels. The current Israeli record belongs to Aleksandr Averbukh Aleksandr "Alex" Valeryevich Averbukh ( he, אלכס אברבוך, russian: Александр Валерьевич Авербух; born October 1, 1974) is a retired Russian decathlete and Israeli Olympic athlete, who competed in the pole vault. ... with 5.93 metres. Achievements References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Krasnov, Danny 1970 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UTC+2
UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2020-11-08T23:41:45+02:00. This time is used in: As standard time (year-round) ''Principal cities: Cairo, Pretoria, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lubumbashi, Kigali, Gaborone, Bujumbura, Manzini, Maseru, Tripoli, Lilongwe, Maputo, Windhoek, Omdurman, Juba, Lusaka, Harare, Kaliningrad'' Africa Central Africa *Botswana *Burundi *Democratic Republic of the Congo **The provinces of Bas-Uele, Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, Haut-Uele, Kasaï, Kasaï Occidental, Kasaï Oriental, Katanga, Lomani, Lualaba, Maniema, Nord-Kivu, Orientale, Sankuru, Sud-Kivu, Tanganyika, Tshopo and Ituri Interim Administration *Egypt *Eswatini *Lesotho *Libya *Malawi *Mozambique *Namibia *Rwanda *South Africa (except Prince Edward Islands) *Sudan *South Sudan *Zambia *Zimbabwe Europe *Russia **Northwestern Federal District ***Kaliningrad Oblast As standard tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year. It corresponds to UTC+02:00, which makes it the same as Eastern European Time, Central Africa Time, South African Standard Time, Egypt Standard Time and Kaliningrad Time in Russia. Names Other names which have been applied to Central European Summer Time are Middle European Summer Time (MEST), Central European Daylight Saving Time (CEDT), and Bravo Time (after the second letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet). Period of observation Since 1996, European Summer Time has been observed between 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET and 03:00 CEST) on the last Sunday of March, and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday of October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union. There were proposals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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