The world famous Bubki record

The most famous athlete in the world for pole vaulting Sergei Nazarovich Bubka was born in the provincial Ukrainian city of Voroshilovgrad, which is now returned to the historical name of Lugansk.

Childhood of the sportsman

Even in his childhood, a talented boy was noticed by coach Vitaly Afanasievich Petrov, who later became his personal trainer. It was he, along with his elder brother Sergei Vasily, who convinced the boy's parents to transfer him to study in Donetsk, where there was a good sports base. By the way, Vasily Bubka - Sergey's brother - was also a famous athlete in pole vaulting.

First results

The first world record of Bubka was recorded in 1984 in Czechoslovakia at the sports competitions in the city of Bratislava. Although he earned his first gold medal at the World Championships in Helsinki a year before. A young athlete of twenty years in just one year in 1984, six more times set new world records. For this year in open stadiums four times he improved his result, and in the room three times. He was standing applauded in the stadiums of Bratislava, Paris, London, Rome, Vilnius, Milan and Los Angeles.

In July 1985, at an open stadium in France, Bubka set a world record, marking a new era, in this sport - he overcame the bar at six meters. Before this six-meter line was a distant dream of many athletes. Even for American athletes, who until the end of the seventies had an advantage in outfitting. Their poles were from a strategic material - fiberglass, which European athletes began to use only in the early eighties.

Personal record Bubki - raising the bar of world records by seventeen centimeters - falls on the same 1984-1985. In the first years of world fame, the six-meter unbowed height became for the young champion the desired result, the desire to assert itself. For the next fourteen centimeters took Sergei almost ten years.

Perseverance of Sergei

Bubka's record is thirty-five established world records, before in this kind of sports nobody achieved such staggering results. Sergei Bubka achieved such figures in sports due to his fantastic working capacity, strength, technical literacy and incredible speed that he could develop.

Bubka's Olympic record for the whole time of his sports career was one - in Seoul in 1988. Ukrainian athletes (or rather, at that time Soviet) at the Olympics, the failures were pursued. In 1984, when Bubka was at the height of glory, the Soviet Union refused to take part in the olympiad on the American continent. In 1992, in Barcelona, Sergei lost in the final competitions. And in 1996, when the champion was preparing to conquer a new record of six meters twenty centimeters, he was seriously injured, after which Sergei Bubka could remain an invalid. But the next year he became the world champion at the competitions in Greece.

His last world record Bubka established in 1994 in the city of Sister in an open stadium in Italy. This record Bubka was not beaten, and until today the height of six meters fourteen centimeters has not yet submitted to anyone.