(Voroshilovgrad today Lugansk, Ukraine Current, 1963) Ukrainian athlete. One of the most outstanding athletes of the twentieth century and certainly the best in their field, the pole vault. Began to devote himself to athletics for the first time trying the pole vault at the tender age of nine years. In 1978, fifteen, Bubka moved to Donetsk coach Vitaly Petrov with.The world is his knowledge of international athletics in 1983 when he won a meeting in Helsinki, jumping 5.70 meters to measure. In the years following Bubka set new standards for the pole vault. In Paris on July 13, 1985 became the first athlete ever to exceed 6 meters pole vault, long considered unattainable height.
But Sergei Bubka is not only in sports history with this result, but for the great capacity that has been in the years to overcome and improve himself. There are many occasions when, from time to time, in the event of the event, improves own world record. Every time his victory seems obvious, both for the public that admires him, and by its opponents. But every time the emotion that manages to provide is enormous. The Soviet Union, which competed for the nation, used to offer substantial monetary bonus for every world record set by their athletes, so there are some who argued that Bubka has deliberately taken advantage of this mechanism to get rich.
