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Born in Luhansk, Sergey Nazarovych Bubka was a track-and-field athlete in the 100-meter dash and the long jump, but became a world-class champion only when he turned to the pole vault. In 1983, he won the world championship in Helsinki, Finland, and the following year set his first world record, clearing 5.85m (19 ft 2 in).
Sergey Bubka (born December 14, 1963, Voroshilovgrad, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. [now Luhansk, Ukraine]) is a Ukrainian athlete, the first pole-vaulter to clear 6.1 metres (20 feet). Bubka began pole-vaulting at age 9. When his coach, Vitaly Petrov, was transferred to Donetsk, Ukraine, Bubka, at age 15, followed. Bubka won the pole vault at the 1983 ...
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The Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka was virtually unknown before he won the 1983 World Championship at just 19. But in the years that followed, he became the most famous name in the sport ...
Jul 13, 2020 · Thirty-five years ago today, Sergey Bubka defied the odds, and gravity, becoming the first pole vaulter ever to clear six metres. The 22-year-old pole vault prodigy soared to the world record at the Paris International Track and Field Meet, shattering his previous mark of 5.94m, set in Rome in August 1984.
Nickname is "Bubka Junior". Started playing tennis at age 7 in Donetsk, Ukraine. Speaks Russian, English and French. Father, Sergei, is a former athlete, who won six consecutive World Championships, an Olympic gold medal and broke the world record for pole vaulting 35 times. Mother, Liliya, used to be a rhythmic gymnast; brother, Vitaly.
Sep 14, 1988 · Then came Bubka, slashing and snorting down the runway like a sprinter, driving down on the tip of his fiberglass stake and erupting into the air, a whistle shrieking from his lips as he cleared the bar, both fists clenched and raised as he plunged to the pit. Other men pole-vaulted. Sergei Bubka catapulted. “Like an animal,” says Don Bragg ...
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Sergey Bubka is a former pole vaulter and a current sports administrator from Ukraine. He won the gold medal at the 1988 Olympics, broke the world record 28 times, and served as the IOC Executive Board member and the IAAF vice-president.
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