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For the first time in 26 years, the world record of the Soviet and Ukrainian athlete Sergei Bubka was broken.
20-year-old Swedish athlete Arman Duplantis was able to perform a 6-meter 15-centimeter pole vault yesterday, breaking Bubka’s record by one centimeter.
And while the new star is already being congratulated on social networks, “Strana” recalled the achievement of our compatriot, whom no one in the world could block until yesterday.
Yes, indeed, Bubka was undefeated: the record was broken when our athlete had long since ended his sports career.
How Bubka set his record
Sergei Bubka, before his super record, was already a world-famous athlete from the Soviet Union. He was born in Lugansk, but lived and studied in Donetsk. Sergey comes from a simple family: his father is a military man, his mother is a nurse.
In the capital of Donbass, he took his first steps in the field of sports, enrolling in a children’s sports school.
At 19 he made his debut in a competition in Bratislava. It was an athlete’s first gold medal and took him 5.89 meters. In 1984 alone he set up to seven world records. Its main position was to raise the log bar to a small height. And every year, inch by inch, it reaches new heights.
According to Bubka’s first coach, Vitaly Petrov, it’s all about Sergey’s character.
“He’s an unusually calm and unflappable guy. But far from being phlegmatic, he can run a hundred meters distance with a masterful result. He also has tremendous explosive power, and this is a condition for a pole carrier. Sergei has, as we say , the highest ‘grip’ in the world: he holds the pole higher than five meters above the surface of the track. And this only depends on people who are exceptionally strong, “said his first coach, Vitaly Petrov, about Bubka .
According to Petrov, another athlete’s trump card is courage: “True, this is also a mandatory quality for a pole vault, but Bubka is desperate. More than once these synthetic ‘catapults’ broke under him. They broke with a thunderous roar, and the athlete, doing in the air, somersault, flying on foam pillows. Usually such a spin for a long time takes athletes out of mental balance. And Sergei, at least that much : a strong-willed character. And one more quality of my student that I attribute to which a true champion should have: sociability, kindness, cheerful disposition, optimistic. In this sense, Bubka, it seems to me, is ideal. He quickly converges with people, being able to get the best out of them. Sergei was asked shortly after setting the world record: “Well, when will the six meters be?” He replied, “My coach and I are planning that jump in 1986 …”
However, the phenomenal height of 6 meters surrendered to him earlier, in 1985 in Paris, when the athlete turned 22 years old. It went down in history as the first pole wheel to conquer such a bar. This may have been facilitated by a powerful moral impulse: four days before the competition, the athlete’s first-born, who was named Vitaly, was born.
Sergey Bubka with his wife and children: Sergey and Vitaly. 1994 year. Photo: Alexander Strinadko
Over time, Sergei received the title of Honorary Master of Sports. In his entire sports career, he managed to jump 45 times above this mark.
But the Lugansk native set his main world record in 1994 at an open stadium in Sestriere, Italy, when he was 30 years old. It was the world record number 35 for Bubka: 6 meters 14 centimeters.
As a prize in prestigious competitions, the Ukrainian received a Ferrari sports car worth 120 thousand dollars, and for each record he was paid about 1,500 rubles.
The athlete’s coach Evgeny Volobuev always appreciated the high potential of the athlete and said that Sergei could take a height of 6 meters 40 centimeters.
These words partly confirm the competition in Tokyo in 1991, when Bubka jumped to a height of 5 meters 95 centimeters. But the Japanese calculated with the help of a computer that the actual height was 6 meters 37 centimeters.
The Ukrainian athlete remains the only athlete to win six world championships in a row from 1983 to 1997 inclusive.
While still an active athlete Sergey Bubka founded “Sergey Bubka’s Club” in Donetsk, which hosts the international tournament “Pole Stars”. In this tournament, he personally set three world records.
Bubka took a height of 6.15 meters in Donetsk in 1993, he was 30 years old
During his lifetime, a monument was erected to him in Donetsk, near the Olympic sports complex.
Bubka always managed to be the first, he was often talked about as a legendary man who was ahead of his time. So Bubka’s name is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the owner of the largest number of world records (in particular, he has the 13 highest jumps in history and athletics).
Serhiy Bubka’s achievements are important for Ukraine not only in sporting terms. It was thanks to his talent that people began to know our country around the world. This was even before Chernobyl and long before the successes of Klitschko’s boxers and soccer player Andriy Shevchenko.
After retiring from sports
Following the end of his sports career, Bubka fought for the position of president of the International Olympic Committee in 2013, but lost the election to German Thomas Bach. Now he is the president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, he is the vice president of the Association of World Masters Games (IAAF).
Sergei Bubka has been a deputy and businessman. He was a member of the Party of Regions and was an advisor to President Viktor Yanukovych. He also owned Rodovid Bank, which collapsed after the 2008 economic crisis and was nationalized.
How Bubka’s record was broken
The record, which surpassed the previous one by just one centimeter, 6.15 meters, was set on September 17 in an open area in Rome on the stage of the “Diamond League” by 20-year-old Swedish athlete Arman Duplantis.
It is known that the Swedish athlete reached this record for a long time, and for the first time tried to jump at the age of three, when a mop served as a stick.
“The world record is finally here! It’s great. I really wanted to climb 6.15m. Everybody kept talking about it, it was a big ‘burden’ on my shoulder, and I feel like I had to do it for people. he stopped asking me this question. When I did, it was more a relief than a joy, “shared the athlete.
Duplantis broke Bubka’s record in Rome on September 17. Photo: twitter.com/Diamond_League
The 20-year-old poleman is the silver medalist at the 2019 World Championships in Doha and has a gold medal at the 2018 European Championships. Arman became the youngest world champion in history in the sport, surpassing, in addition to the Ukrainian Sergei Bubka, the Russian Timur Morgunov and the French world record holder Renaud Lavillenyy.
It seemed that the 6-meter 14-centimeter record would hold Bubka forever, but after 26 years, his result passed into the hands of the younger generation.
He personally congratulated Duplantis on his Twitter page, calling his result “amazing” and happy for his parents.
“Congratulations on breaking my record! Amazing result!” – She wrote on her social network page. “I’m happy for him and his parents. They are wonderful people. And I’m glad for athletics and sports in general that we have such a bright star for many years to come. All the best and eager to reach new heights!” – admonished the famous sportsman.
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