Sergei Bubka Sergei Bubka (Ukrainian: Сергій Бубка) (born December 4, 1963) is a retired Ukrainian pole vaulter. He represented the Soviet Union before its dissolution in 1991. He is widely regarded as the best pole vaulter ever and one of the best athletes of modern times. Bubka won 6 consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympics gold and broke the world record for men's pole vaulting 35 times (17 outdoor and 18 indoor records). He was the first to clear 6.0 metres and the first and only (as of June 2007) to clear 6.10 metres (20 feet). He holds the current outdoor world record of 6.14 metres, set on 31 July 1994 in Sestriere, Italy and the current indoor world record of 6.15 meters, set on 21 February 1993 in Donetsk, Ukraine. Biography Sergei Bubka was born and brought up in the city of Lugansk, Ukrainian SSR (now Luhansk, Ukraine). His father was a soldier and his mother a medical assistant. He commented that neither of them were active in sports. Sergei had a ferocious competitive spirit which was channeled into multiple sports until he met the pole vault coach Vitaly Petrov. Bubka started pole vaulting at the age of 10. In 1978 at an age of 15, Bubka moved to Donetsk, Ukraine with his coach for better training facilities. Pole vaulting career Sergei Bubka has an elder brother Vasiliy Bubka, who was also a pole vaulter.Vasiliy's personal best outdoors is 5.86 meters. Sergei Bubka entered international athletics in 1981 participating in the European Junior Championships where he fetched a 7th place. But the 1983 World Championships held in Helsinki proved to be his actual entry point to the mainstream world athletics, where a relatively unknown Bubka snatched the gold clearing 5.70 metres (18 feet 8 inches). The years that followed witnessed the unparalleled dominance of Bubka on pole vaulting with him setting new records and standards in pole vaulting. He set his first world record of 5.85m in 26 May, 1984 which he improved to 5.88m a week after and then to 5.90 m a month after. He cleared 6.00 metres (19 feet 8 inches) on 13 July 1985 in Paris. This height had long been considered unattainable. With virtually no opponents, Bubka improved his own record over the next 10 years until he reached his career best and the current world record of 6.14 m in 1994. He was the first and only (as of August 2007) athlete ever to jump over 6.10 metres in San Sebastián, Spain in 1991. He set the current world record of 6.14 metres in 1994 after some commentators had already predicted the decline of the great sportsman. Bubka increased the world record by 21 centimetres (8 inches) in the 4 years between 1984 and 1988, more than other pole vaulters had achieved in the previous 12 years. He cleared the once considered unattainable height 6.00 meters (or better) on more than 44 occasions. Bubka officially retired from his pole vault career in 2001. His son Sergei Bubka Jr. is a tennis player and is currently a regular in ATP's second string circuits. IAAF World Championships Olympics curse Though he had complete dominance on pole vaulting at his time, he was highly unlucky in the Olympic Games. The first Olympics after his introduction into international athletics was in 1984, which was boycotted by the USSR along with the other Eastern Bloc countries. Two months before the games he vaulted 12 cm higher than the eventual Olympic gold medal winner Pierre Quinon. In 1988 Bubka entered the Seoul Olympics and won his only Olympic gold medal. In 1992 he failed to clear in his first 3 attempts and was out of the Barcelona Olympics. In Atlanta, 1996, a heel injury caused him to withdraw from the competition without making even one jump. In Sydney, 2000, he was eliminated from the final after three attempts at 5.70 m. World record progression by Bubka Bubka broke the world record for men's pole vaulting a total of 35 times in his career. He broke the outdoor world records 17 times and the indoor world records 18 times. The fact that most of the time he improved his own previous record proves the absolute dominance of Bubka in the event.

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