Sergei Bubka (Сергій Бубка) (born 4 December 1963 in Voroshilovgrad U.S.S.R., today Luhansk, Ukraine) is an Ukrainian (and previous Soviet) athlete. He is the number one pole vaulter to clear 6.00 & 6.Ten metres (Twenty feet). He placed a todays globe record of Half a dozen.Xiv metres in 31 July 1994 in Sestriere, Italy.

Sergei Bubka began pole vaulting when young when nine. Inside 1978, aged 15 Bubka moved to Donetsk, Ukraine with his coach Vitaly Petrov. He entered globe athletics inside 1983 when he won the event within Helsinki sustaining Cinque.Lxx metres (Xviii feet Octet inches). within the years that followed, Bubka placed fresh standards in pole vaulting. He cleared Half a dozen.00 metres (Nineteen feet Ogdoad inches) in 13 July 1985 in Paris. This height experienced yearn been considered unachievable. Bubka improved his have record little by little. Around 1988 he achieved 6.06 metres inside Nice, France. This increased a suspense whether he can beat a Sextet.Ten metres mark at a Olympic Games in Seoul in the same month. Somewhat foiled, he however won a gold medallion by having Phoebe.Xc metres (Xix feet Foursome inches).

Bubka increased the world record by Xxi centimetres (Octet inches) in the Iv years between 1984 & 1988, to a higher degree more pole vaulters stand achieved in the former Dozen years. He was a number one jock ever to go for it ended Half a dozen.X metres within San Sebastián, Spain in 1991. Amazingly Bubka failed to place within the subsequent Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992. He placed a todays globe record of Half a dozen.Fourteen metres inside 1994 after some commentators experienced already predicted a decline of the neat sportswoman. Inside 1996 Bubka qualified for the Olympic Games within Atlanta, America, however an injury prevented him from either participate in the games.

A key to Sergei Bubka's profits was non lone his speed & nature & severity, however instead his development and mastery of the Petrov/Bubka technical indicator model. the technical indicator model occurs as sequence of positions & pressures that describe the method & form of a style of pole vaulting. A Petrov/Bubka model is superior to several others in todays world because it allows a pole vaulter to day and night put energy into a pole when constantly rising towards a bar. Bubka's mastery of this model was a foundation of his profits; his spectacular speed & nature & severity so accented a superiority of his technical indicator model and leave his career to skyrocket.

He was awarded better sportswoman of the Soviet Union for iii years around the row from either 1984 to 1986.

Since 2002, he is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament & its committee in questions of youth policy, physical culture, sport & touristry.