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1. Serhiy Bubka
Prepare Oksana Tokar
Teacher lyalko Valentina
Mihaylovna
2014 year

2. Serhiy Nazarovych Bubka is a Ukrainian former pole vaulter.
He represented the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991,
was twice named Athlete of the Year by Track & Field
News,[1] and in 2012 was one of 24 athletes inducted as
inaugural members of theInternational Association of
Athletics Federations Hall of Fame.

3.  Bubka won six 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
pole vaulter to clear 6.0 metres
and 6.10 metres.
 He held the world record of 6.15
meters, set on 21 February 1993
in Donetsk, Ukraine for almost 21
years until France's Renaud
Lavillenie cleared 6.16 metres on
15 February 2014 at the same
meet in the same arena.

4.  Born in Voroshilovgrad (now Luhans'k),
Bubka was a good track-and-field athlete
in the 100-meter dash and the long jump,
but became a world-class competitor only
when he turned to the pole vault. In 1983,
virtually unknown internationally, he won
the world championship at Helsinki, Finland,
and the following year set his first world
record, clearing 5m 75 cm (19 ft 2‚ in).

5.  Until the dissolution of the
Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR) in late
1991, Bubka competed for
Soviet teams. The Soviet
sports system rewarded
athletes for setting new
world records, and he
became noted for
establishing new records
by slim amounts,
sometimes as little as a
centimeter higher. This
allowed him to collect
frequent bonus payments
and made Bubka an
attraction at track-and-field
meets.

6.  Sergey Bubka entered
international athletics in 1981
participating in the European
Junior Championships where he
reached 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, with him setting new
records and standards in pole
vaulting.

7.  He set his first world record of
5.85m on 26 May 1984 which
he improved to 5.88m a
week later, and then to
5.90m a month later. He
cleared 6.00 metres (19 feet
8 inches) for the first time on
13 July 1985 in Paris.[5] 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 then
world record of 6.14 m (20
feet 13⁄4 inches) in 1994.

8.  He became the first athlete ever to
jump over 6.10 metres, in San
Sebastián, Spain in 1991. Until January
2014, no other athlete had cleared
6.07, indoors or outdoors. He set the
currently listed 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 6.00
meters or better on 45 occasions, more
than all other athletes in history
combined (as of 20 April 2009 there
have been 42 clearances of 6.00
metres by other athletes).
 Bubka officially retired from his pole
vault career in 2001 with a ceremony
at his Pole Vault Stars meeting
in Donetsk.

9.  Though he had complete dominance on pole
vaulting at his time, he had a relatively poor record in
the Olympic Games. The first Olympics after his
introduction into international athletics was in 1984,
which was boycotted by the USSR along with most
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 clearing 5.90 m. In 1992 he
failed to clear in his first 3 attempts (5.70, 5.70, 5.75 m)
and was out of the Barcelona Olympics. At
the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 a heel injury caused him
to withdraw from the competition without making
even one jump. In 2000 at the Sydney Olympics he
was eliminated from the final after three unsuccessful
attempts at 5.70 m.

11.  On 28 May 2013, Sergey
Bubka confirmed that he
would run for President of
the International Olympic
Committee. At
the 125th IOC
Session in Buenos Aires he
lost the election toThomas
Bach.

12.  "I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One
must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which
pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I
love it because the results are immediate and the
strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life
that is difficult to prove."[25] – Sergey Bubka
 "Here is a man who has personally altered his art form,
changed the way competitors prepare for it and perform
it, even the way spectators perceive it." – Gary Smith
of Sports Illustrated about Bubka
 "My jump was imperfect, my run-in was too short and my
hands were too far back at takeoff. When I manage to
iron out these faults, I am sure I can improve." – In an
interview after he was the first person to break 20 feet
(6.10 m).