The first significant result of the 19-year-old athlete was victory in the first ever
Sergey Bubka
(Born 1963)
Ukrainian track and field athlete. Champion of the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul ( South Korea), 1988
Sergei Bubka made his most important jump on July 13, 1985. This happened in the suburbs of Paris at the stadium, which bears the name of the outstanding French stayer Jean Bouin, who died in 1914 in the First World War.
By the end of the pole vault competition, only a few continued to fight: American Bill Olson, Frenchman Philippe Collet and two Soviet vaulters - Alexander Krupsky and Sergei Bubka. When Bubka overcame a height of 5 meters 70 centimeters with a huge margin, the stadium became silent. Everyone expected that on this day Sergei would set another of his world records.
Bubka missed the height of 5 meters 80 centimeters, and then the bar was immediately raised by 6 meters. For many years, this milestone seemed magical, enchanted to pole vaulters; no one has ever overcome it, despite numerous attempts. It was Bubka himself who came closest to him - his world record, valid on July 13, 1985, was 5 meters 94 centimeters.
The stadium froze, Bubka began his run in complete silence. Then a sigh of disappointment echoed through the stands. He didn't take the height. But according to the rules, Sergei still had 6 minutes left, which should have been enough for the last attempt.
Before the new jump, Bubka hesitated, and when he began to run up, the roar suddenly began to grow in the stands, as if the stadium realized that this time the height would be taken. A few seconds later, the stadium jumped to its feet in a single impulse: the jumper finally overcame the enchanted six-meter line for the first time.
The next day, newspapers competed with each other to see whose headline better corresponded to the significance of the event: “Bubka is on the sixth sky,” “Bubka is flying over Paris,” “The athletics space has been conquered,” “Bubka is the superman of the pole.”
Since then, Sergei Bubka has overcome this milestone more than forty times, eventually bringing his world record to 6 meters 14 centimeters - it was set on July 31, 1994 and has not been broken by anyone since then. Bubka's indoor record, set a year earlier, is one centimeter higher - 6 meters 15 centimeters. And yet, the first overcoming of the 6-meter mark was the most important psychologically for him and therefore memorable.
Years after that first jump, as Bubka himself said, accidentally finding himself near the Jean Bouin stadium, he stopped the car and took his wife and sons to the stadium to take a piece of the surface from the runway as a souvenir. Immediately after that first takeoff to his “sixth heaven,” having forgotten about everything in the world with happiness, he, of course, did not do this.
Then, in July 1985, Sergei Bubka was 22 years old. By this time, his sports experience was more than ten years: Sergei came to the pole vaulting section of the children's sports school in the Ukrainian city of Lugansk on the advice of an older friend who was already involved there, and who really liked to soar to the height of the second floor with the help of an elastic fiberglass pole, operating like a catapult.
Fortunately for world sports, Sergei himself liked it. But it didn’t come to jumping right away: experienced trainer Vitaly Petrov, having recognized Sergei’s excellent physical abilities for precisely this seemingly easy athletics, at first he loaded him mainly with exercises to develop jumping ability and speed. But finally the moment of the first jump came. The height that the future multiple world record holder managed to overcome was 2 meters 75 centimeters. The world record then was 5 meters 65 centimeters.
In 1979, the coach, disappointed with the conditions of the Lugansk children's sports school, accepted an offer to move to Donetsk. His best students, among whom there were already masters of sports, including Sergei’s older brother Vasily, decided to follow him. Reluctantly, the mother let 16-year-old Sergei go to a strange city.
In Donetsk, he lived with his brother in a dormitory, went to school and everything free time devoted himself to training under the guidance of Vitaly Petrov. Already in 1980, Sergei fulfilled the standard of a master of sports, having overcome a height of 5 meters 10 centimeters, and for the first time won the national championship, although it was still only a youth championship.
Three years later, in 1983, Sergei Bubka went to Helsinki for the World Championships athletics. IN sports world At that time, few people knew Sergei; no one predicted victory for him. Coach Vitaly Petrov himself seemed to doubt that he would become the world champion in Helsinki. But there, on olympic stadium, Sergey Bubka achieved a height of 5 meters 70 centimeters, which was not achieved by any of the other competing jumpers.
However, few people then realized that the “era of Sergei Bubka” had begun in pole vaulting. At the end of the year, the newly crowned champion did not even make it into the top ten strongest pole vaulters in the world. But the following year, 1984, at a competition in Bratislava, Sergei set his first world record, reaching a height of 5 meters 85 centimeters.
And this was just the beginning: throughout his entire sports career, Bubka set world records... 35 times. Moreover, he competed with himself - over and over again he beat his own records. Only one single athlete, the French pole vaulter Thierry Vigneron, once managed to break Bubka's record. This happened at the Golden Gala tournament held in Rome in August 1984. But the Frenchman's record lasted only four minutes - Sergei broke it in his next attempt.
Just then, in August 1984, the games of the XXIII Olympiad ended in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, Bubka, like all Soviet athletes, did not take part in them. In response to the boycott of the previous Moscow Olympics by a number of Western countries due to the introduction Soviet troops to Afghanistan, the athletes of the socialist camp refused to go to Los Angeles.
No one, of course, can know for sure whether Sergei Bubka would have become an Olympic champion in 1984 if everything had turned out differently. Sport is sport, and the most seemingly accurate predictions often do not come true. But we can compare. The Olympic champion at the Los Angeles Games was the French jumper Pierre Quinon, who only needed to overcome a height of 5 meters 75 centimeters to win. And Sergei Bubka ended the 1984 season with a new world record - 5 meters 94 centimeters.
And yet to assert that Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Bubka would certainly become the champion in the high vault, it’s not worth it. If only because the multiple record holder and world champion at the Olympic Games, as subsequent years showed, was simply fatally, mystically unlucky. It’s even hard to believe, but Sergei Bubka was an Olympic champion, albeit a great champion - based on the totality of all his sporting merits - only once. This happened at the games of the XXIV Olympiad in 1988 in Seoul.
And here he won, admittedly, with difficulty. In the final competition, I started from a height of 5 meters 70 centimeters, but only took it on the second try. Then he covered 5 meters 75 centimeters. One of the competitors, Radion Gataullin, took 5 meters 85 meters. Bubka missed this height. Finally, Gataullin, having missed 5 meters 90 centimeters and not taking 5 meters 95 centimeters, finished the competition. Now Sergei Bubka, in order to win, had to overcome 5 meters 90 centimeters. Otherwise, with a result of 5 meters 75 centimeters, he would have been left without medals at all, and Gataullin became the champion.
The first two attempts to take 5 meters 90 centimeters were unsuccessful. And only for the third time Bubka reached the heights, winning an Olympic gold medal.
Why was the struggle so difficult? Later, Sergei said: as soon as he began the run-up for the very first attempt, one of the judges accidentally crossed his path, and he had to return to the start again. Perhaps this unfortunate accident was enough to bring down the mood, who knows.
For the next four years after the Olympics in Seoul, Sergei Bubka remained the strongest pole vaulter in the world. And at the games of the XXV Olympiad in 1992 in Barcelona, the world was shocked: all three attempts of Sergei Bubka to overcome the first height were unsuccessful. As a result, the world record holder did not qualify for the final competition.
But the following year, 1993, Bubka set two of his phenomenal records - 6 meters 14 centimeters and 6 meters 15 centimeters for indoor spaces. One - at competitions in Ukraine, the other - in the USA.
But the Olympics still remained as if under a spell for Bubka. In 1996 in Atlanta, during qualifying jumps, Sergei felt a sharp pain in the Achilles tendon and withdrew from the competition.
IN last time Bubka performed at the games of the XXVII Olympiad in 2000 in Sydney. And again, failure: he could not clear the height of 5 meters 70 centimeters and did not qualify for the finals. “It’s a pity,” he said later, “that I had to end my sports career on such an unsuccessful note.”
But what can you do: sport is sport, and even the greatest have to finish their performances sooner or later. Sergei Bubka left undefeated, and so far no one can even come close to his great records. We can assume that he lost at the Olympics. to myself.
In recent years, Sergei Bubka has been living in Monaco with his family, but he visits Donetsk very often. Back in 1990, the great athlete founded the Sergei Bubka Center in this city, which holds the Pole Stars competition. Bubka himself finances children's competitions and pays for the work of several coaches. He also has his own business in Donetsk - enterprises for baking bread and cookies.
And in Donetsk, in the very center of the city, there is a lifetime monument to Sergei Bubka. Very few athletes around the world have received such an honor.
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Sergei Nazarovich Bubka(ukr. Sergey Nazarovich Bubka; genus. December 4, 1963, Lugansk, Ukrainian SSR) - Soviet and Ukrainian pole vault athlete. The first person in the world to jump above six meters.
According to experts, Bubka never fully revealed all his capabilities. He admitted that he did not want to remain in history as a hero of one jump, like the American Bob Beamon, and actively participated in sports competitions for many years. Bubka is the only athlete to win six world championships (-). At the age of 37, Bubka took part in the Olympic Games in Sydney (). The President of the International Olympic Committee, Marquis Juan Antonio Samaranch, called him the most outstanding athlete of our time.
In August 2015, he was elected first vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations at the IAAF Congress in Beijing (China).
Policy
From 2002 to 2006 he was a people's deputy of Ukraine from the faction “For a United Ukraine! "at number 12 on the electoral list, two months later he joined the Party of Regions faction. Worked on the Committee on Youth Policy, Physical Education, Sports and Tourism.
In April 2010, he became a freelance adviser to the President of Ukraine V. Yanukovych.
Business
He was one of the main owners and president of Rodovid Bank, which was one of the largest banks in Ukraine. As a result of the financial crisis, the bank was nationalized in July 2009.
Hobbies
Family
Personal life
Awards
Ukrainian Awards
- Hero of Ukraine (February 4, 2001)
- Order of the State (2001)
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, III degree (August 24, 2012) - for significant personal contribution to the socio-economic, scientific, technical, cultural and educational development of the Ukrainian state, significant labor achievements, many years of conscientious work and on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the independence of Ukraine
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, IV degree (December 1, 2011)
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V degree (2008)
- Order of Merit, 1st class (1999)
- Order of Merit, 2nd class (1997)
- Honorary insignia of the President of Ukraine (1994)
- Honorary citizen of Lugansk (2008)
- Honorary citizen of Donetsk region (2003)
- Honorary citizen of Donetsk (1993)
- Certificate of honor from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ()
USSR awards
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1985)
Other awards
World records
Sergei Bubka set world records 35 times.
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Name: Sergei Nazarovich Bubka
Date of birth: 04-12-1963
Place of birth: Lugansk, Ukraine
Age: 54 years
Activity: Outstanding athlete, winner of Olympic gold
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Biography of Sergei Bubka
Childhood and youth
Sergei Bubka, born on December 4, 1963, was the second child in the family - three years earlier, in 1960, his older brother Vasily was born. The family, who lived in one of the largest industrial cities in Ukraine - Lugansk - had nothing to do with sports, but this did not stop the boys’ parents from instilling in them a love of physical exercise from a very early age.
In parallel with general education, Bubka also attended a sports school. Smart, dexterous and restless Seryozha, as a child he tried to “comprehend” different types sports, trying himself in new endeavors, but his heart was finally and irrevocably won by the pole, or rather pole vaulting.
Despite the fact that Sergei’s older brother was also an athlete, it was not he who was destined to introduce the future champion to the sport, but Seryozha’s close friend. Bubka was lucky with his coach - Vitaly Afanasyevich Petrov was not just one of the most experienced athletic trainers, he almost immediately managed to discern in Bubka a talent with which he could easily become a world champion.
The young athlete’s career developed rapidly, largely thanks to the coach, who helped Sergei develop not only speed and technique, but also endurance, which is important for any athlete. So, already at the age of 19, young Bubka took gold, and not just anywhere, but at the first ever athletics championship! Just a year after his triumphant performance in Helsinki, in 1984 he added his name to the list of record holders - Bubka set a record in Bratislava, conquering a height of 5 meters and 85 centimeters.
Sergei Bubka was savvy in the issue of sports not only practically, but also theoretically - after graduating from high school, he entered the Kiev Institute of Physical Education, where he received his degree without any problems, defending his dissertation. So Bubka became a candidate of pedagogical sciences.
Professional achievements
Bubka is one of the most titled athletes in Ukraine. In addition to being an Honored “Master of Sports,” he has the title of six-time world champion and as many as 35 world records. His 1994 record - a pole vault in an open arena with a height of 6.14 meters - has not yet been broken by any athlete! But a similar record, only indoors (6.15 meters), belonged to Bubka for 21 years - from 1993 to 2014. By the way, Bubka became the first person in history to overcome a six-meter high bar with the help of a pole (Paris, 1985) . The Donetsk resident, who added the Championship at the Olympic Games in 1988 to his list of victories, entered his name in the Guinness Book of Records - here Bubka is listed as a person with the largest number world records in athletics. Three times Sergei Nazarovich became the best athlete in the world, and is still the only athlete to win six world championships between 1983 and 1997.
Sergei Bubka, who devoted himself entirely to the sport, according to professionals, was never able to fully realize his potential. However, there are those who completely disagree with this opinion. For example, Juan Antonio Samaric, the most authoritative person in the world of sports, president of the International Olympic Committee, without a shadow of a doubt declared Bubka “ greatest athlete modernity."
Why, according to many, one of the most successful sports people of our time, was never able to fully open up? According to Bubka, most of all he was afraid that he would be remembered as a person with one record, in this case a jump. That is why he took part in many contests, competitions and Olympiads, trying to leave as many references to himself in the sports world as possible.
The end of a sports career and further activities in this field
Sergei Bubka left more sports at the beginning of the new millennium. Having successfully worked at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 (the athlete was already 37 years old at that time), he held his last competition as a participant in his native Donetsk in 2001. Passing the baton to young athletes, Bubka admitted that he wants the world to remember him not only as the most agile jumper, but also as a person who managed to make this world a little better.
Having stopped participating in competitions, Bubka, however, did not leave the sport completely - the athlete began working in the field of development sports activities. He is the founder of the “Sergei Bubka Club”, since 2005 he has been listed as the president of the Ukrainian National Olympic Committee, and in 2013 Sergei, a member of the International Olympic Committee, even tried his hand at fighting for the presidency of the organization, however, he lost this fight. Since August 2015, Sergei Bubka has been the vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Business, politics and social activities
Sergei Bubka is an influential person not only in sports. His opinion is listened to and taken into account. At one time, Sergei Nazarovich was even a freelance adviser to the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, who, by the way, is his fellow countryman. While in power, he also regulated the development of the sports industry in the country.
Today, like most former athletes, Bubka is a successful entrepreneur. Not only does he have to his credit sports schools, open and sponsored from personal funds, but also a number of other companies. For example, our own bakery, Bubka, supplies dry yeast and other ingredients used in bakery production.
Sergei Nazarovich’s social activities are, of course, aimed at introducing the new generation to sports; he is the author of projects aimed at mass inclusion children to healthy image life, which he tirelessly promotes. Sergei Bubka is also an honorary participant in actions aimed at combating tuberculosis.
Sergei Nazarovich owns a phrase with the deepest meaning: “Everything in life must be earned through labor, talent and abilities. Even luck." It can be safely used not only in relation to sports, but also in any other direction in life.
Personal life
Sergei Bubka has been married for more than thirty years to a woman who gave him two sons - Vitaly and Sergei. They both followed the example of their father and connected their lives with sports, but their choice fell on tennis. The eldest, son, Vitaly, has already completed his career, while the youngest continues to conquer the courts. Bubka’s wife, Lilia, is also directly connected with sports; she is a rhythmic gymnastics coach.
A Ukrainian who has achieved global recognition, a man with a huge number of awards, both world and domestic, today is an idol for millions of growing athletes. And not only athletes - looking at him, everyone can be inspired for their own achievements and discoveries!
