Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault
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Men's pole vault at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Centennial Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
Date | 31 July 1996 (qualifying) 2 August 1996 (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 37 from 24 nations | |||||||||
Winning height | 5.92 OR | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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The men's pole vault was an event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] Thirty-seven athletes from 24 nations competed.[2] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Jean Galfione of France, the nation's second victory in the event (previously in 1984). Igor Trandenkov took silver, the first medal for Russia in the pole vault (though Trandenkov had himself taken silver in 1992 as well, as part of the Unified Team; Trandenkov was the sixth man to win two medals in the event and the first to do it under two different flags). Similarly, Andrei Tivontchik's bronze was the first for Germany, though both East Germany and West Germany as well as the Unified Team of Germany had previously won medals.