2009 European Athletics U23 Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's pole vault event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Girėno stadionas (Darius and Girėnas Stadium) on 17 and 19 July.^[1][2][3][4]

Medalists[edit]

Gold	Raphael Holzdeppe  Germany
Silver	Luke Cutts  United Kingdom
Bronze	Dimitrios Patsoukakis  Greece

Results[edit]

Final[edit]

19 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts									Result	Notes
			5.00	5.15	5.30	5.40	5.50	5.55	5.60	5.65	5.70
	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany	–	–	–	o	–	xo	–	o	x	5.65
	Luke Cutts	United Kingdom	–	o	x	o	xo	xo	xxo	x–	xx	5.60
	Dimitrios Patsoukakis	Greece	–	o	xo	o	o	o	xx–	x		5.55
4	Eemeli Salomäki	Finland	–	o	o	xo	xo	x–	xx			5.50
5	Łukasz Michalski	Poland	–	–	o	xo	xxo	–	xxx			5.50
6	Stevy Dume	France	o	–	o	xo	xx–	x				5.40
7	Yevgeniy Ageyev	Russia	xxo	xxo	o	xo	xxx					5.40
8	Denis Goossens	Belgium	–	o	xxx							5.15
8	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic	–	o	xxx							5.15
8	Ivan Gertleyn	Russia	–	o	xxx							5.15
11	Flavien Basson	France	xo	xo	xxx							5.15
12	Wout van Wengerden	Netherlands	–	xxo	xxx							5.15

Qualifications[edit]

17 July
Qualifying perf. 5.40 or 12 to the Final

Group A[edit]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany	5.40	Q
2	Ivan Gertleyn	Russia	5.40	Q
3	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic	5.40	Q
4	Yevgeniy Ageyev	Russia	5.30	q
4	Stevy Dume	France	5.30	q
6	Luke Cutts	United Kingdom	5.30	q
7	Jere Bergius	Finland	5.20
8	Stefanos Koufidis	Greece	5.20
9	Edi Maia	Portugal	5.20
10	Jorn Bakker	Netherlands	5.10
	Luis Fernando Moro	Portugal	DNS

Group B[edit]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Eemeli Salomäki	Finland	5.40	Q
1	Łukasz Michalski	Poland	5.40	Q
3	Wout van Wengerden	Netherlands	5.40	Q
4	Denis Goossens	Belgium	5.40	Q
5	Dimitrios Patsoukakis	Greece	5.30	q
6	Flavien Basson	France	5.30	q
7	Albert Vélez	Spain	5.20
7	Karsten Dilla	Germany	5.20
7	Pavel Prokopenko	Russia	5.20
10	Rasmus Wejnold Jørgensen	Denmark	5.10
11	Jouni Marjaniemi	Finland	4.95

Participation[edit]

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

References[edit]