1. Sergey Nazarovych Bubka is a Ukrainian former pole vaulter.
29 Facts About Sergey Bubka
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Sergey Bubka represented the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991.
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Sergey Bubka won six consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympic gold medal, and broke the world record for men's pole vault 35 times.
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Sergey Bubka was the first pole vaulter to clear 6.0 meters and 6.10 meters.
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Sergey Bubka held the indoor 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 meters on February 15,2014, at the same meet in the same arena.
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Sergey Bubka held the outdoor world record at 6.14 meters between July 31,1994, and September 17,2020.
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Sergey Bubka is Senior Vice President of the International Association of Athletics Federations, serving since 2007, and served as President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine from 2005 to November 2022.
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Sergey Bubka is an Honorary Member of the International Olympic Committee, having been involved since 1996.
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Sergey Bubka's older brother, Vasiliy Bubka, was a medal-winning pole vaulter.
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Until the dissolution of the USSR in late 1991, Sergey Bubka competed for Soviet teams.
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Sergey Bubka's son, Sergei Bubka is a former professional tennis player.
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From 2002 to 2006, Sergey Bubka was a member of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada with the Party of Regions group and until 2014 an advisor to Viktor Yanukovych.
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Sergey Bubka was on the youth policy, physical culture, sport and tourism committee while a MVR.
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Sergey Bubka has been linked to business conducted in Ukraine's Russian-occupied territories.
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On 5 March 2022, Sergey Bubka professed his love for his homeland after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and declared: "Ukraine will win".
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Sergey Bubka started competing on the international athletics scene in 1981 when he participated in the European Junior Championship finishing seventh.
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Sergey Bubka 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.
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Sergey Bubka cleared 6.00 meters for the first time on 13 July 1985 in Paris.
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Sergey Bubka vaulted on UCS Spirit poles throughout his later career.
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Sergey Bubka became the first athlete ever to jump over 6.10 meters, in San Sebastian, Spain in 1991.
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Sergey Bubka increased the world record by 21 centimeters in the period from 1984 to 1994.
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Sergey Bubka cleared 6.00 meters or better on 45 occasions.
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Sergey Bubka officially retired from pole vault in 2001 during a ceremony at his Pole Vault Stars meeting in Donetsk.
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In 1988 Sergey Bubka competed in the Seoul Olympics and won his only Olympic gold medal clearing 5.90 meters.
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Sergey Bubka won the pole vault event in six consecutive IAAF World Championships in Athletics in the period from 1983 to 1997:.
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Sergey Bubka broke the world record for men's pole vault 35 times during his career.
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Sergey Bubka broke the outdoor world record 17 times and the indoor world record 18 times.
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Sergey Bubka lost his outdoor world record only once in his career.
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Sergey Bubka gripped the pole higher than most vaulters to get extra leverage, though Sergey Bubka himself played down the effect of grip alone.