The most titled Ukrainian athlete Sergey Bubka, born 4 December 1963 in Lugansk. Today is his 55th anniversary. About the phenomenal victories and failures, and also about the famous record Olympian read in the article 24 of the channel. Sergey is a six-time world champion in the pole vault, the winner of…
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) senior vice-president Sergey Bubka has been cleared of wrongdoing by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) following newspaper reports concerning links of a financial relationship with officials at the centre of doping and corruption scandals. French newspaper Le Monde reported in September 2017 that Bubka made a…
Sergey Bubka dominated pole vault for over a decade — in the European Championships (Outdoor and Indoor), the World Championships and World Indoor, won the Olympic gold medal in Seoul in 1988 and broke the world record 35 times. He represented the Soviet Union, until its dissolution in 1991, and then…
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Pole vault must evolve if it is to remain relevant as individual sports look for new ways to attract fans but any changes introduced should not be at the expense of athlete safety, former great Sergey Bubka has told Reuters. Athletics has been hit hard over the…
“It was really exciting. You run with a stick and after you jump, you fly. If you do it wrong, you can kill yourself. It is a really serious event. But when I started, I started simple: jumping across benches or tables,” says Sergey Bubka, describing how he first began…
Kolkata, Jan 5 (UNI) Pole vault legend and 1988 Olympic gold medalist Sergey Bubka to be International Event Ambassador for the 15th edition of the Tata Mumbai marathon, to be held on January 21 in Mumbai,. Procam International, organiser of the country’s finest distance running events, today announced that six-time…
Ukraine’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board member Sergey Bubka has “completely denied any wrongdoing” after reports of links of a financial relationship with officials at the centre of doping and corruption scandals. According to French newspaper Le Monde, Bubka made a payment of $45,000 (£33,200/€37,800) on June 18 in 2009…
Check out our New Elite Poster of Shawn Barber in the center of the magazine! Over halfway through the semester and Thanksgiving Break is almost here! That means indoor season is just around the corner! For this month, we have a range of articles for you to enjoy. First, we…
Former Olympic champion Sergey Bubka thinks the fight against doping is the main task facing whoever triumphs in tomorrow’s IAAF presidential election, a vote he is still confident he will win. Flanked by fellow Ukrainian sporting greats in footballer Andriy Shevchenko and boxer Vitali Klitschko, Bubka defended his sport’s record…
Sergey Bubka achieved 35 world records, six world titles and one Olympic gold in his glittering pole vault career, and now—30 years after his historic first six-metre vault—he aims for the top of the ruling body IAAF. But the 51-year-old Ukrainian faces a formidable challenger in Briton Sebastian Coe in…
