Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's pole vault
| Women's pole vault at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
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| Venue | Stadium Australia | ||||||||||||
| Date | 23 – 25 August | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 29 | ||||||||||||
| Winning height | 4.60 OR | ||||||||||||
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Stacy Dragila |
 United States
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Tatiana Grigorieva |
 Australia
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Vala Flosadóttir |
 Iceland
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The official results of the Women's Pole Vault at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, held on Monday 25 September 2000. There were a total number of 30 participating athletes in this event, which made its Olympic debut. The qualifying round was held on Saturday 23 September 2000, with the qualifying height set at 4.35 metres.
While the pole vault had been a standard Olympic event for a century, dating back to the first revival in 1896, this was the first time the event had been held for women.
The favorite coming in to the event was world champion and world record holder Stacy Dragila, but the home favorite was Soviet transplant Australian Tatiana Grigorieva. 4.55m thinned the crowd to just those two athletes, Vala Flosadóttir setting her National record while taking the bronze medal, to date the only women's Olympic medal for Iceland. With Dragila's 4 misses in the competition, including one at 4.55m, Grigorieva had the lead. At 4.60m, Dragila reversed that with a clean clearance on her first attempt. Grigorieva was unable to match that and strategically moved to 4.65m, 2 cm higher than the world record Dragila had set in Sacramento in qualifying to the Olympics, to try to take the win. Neither competitor was able to clear 4.65m, Dragila took the gold and the Olympic record.
All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)
Prior to the competition[update], the existing World record was as follows. As this was a new event in the Olympics, no previous Olympic record existed.
The following record(s) were established during the competition:
Key
Rule: Qualifying standard 4.35 (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).
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