Sergey Bubka first got involved with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1996 when he was elected as a Member of the Athletes’ Commission, providing input into the governance of sport from the perspective of an active athlete. He represented the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. Mr. Bubka is currently vice president of IAAF, president of National Olympic Committee of Ukraine and is an IOC member. Almost 20 years later he is still involved as an Honorary Member. Tbilisi, Georgia – Sergey Bubka, IAAF Vice President, unveiled ‘Flying Bubka,’ a new biography aimed at young people, at a special conference in Tbilisi, Georgia ahead of the Summer European Youth Olympic Festival.. Bubka began pole-vaulting at age 9. Something usually went wrong for Bubka at the Olympic Games. Over the next 14 years, he won all five World Championships, and is still the only athlete in any event to win six. Bubka was twice named Athlete of the Year by Track & Field News, and in 2012 was one of 24 athletes inducted as inaugural members of the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame.

Olympic misfortune. He was the first pole vaulter to clear 6.0 Serhiy Nazarovych Bubka (Ukrainian: Сергі́й Наза́рович Бу́бка; [Серге́й Наза́рович Бу́бка, Sergey Nazarovich Bubka] error: {{lang-xx}}: text haes italic markup ; born 4 December 1963) is a Ukrainian umwhile pole vaulter. Han er også flere gange blevet kåret til verdens bedste atletikudøver nogensinde. Bubka won six consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympic gold medal and broke the world record for men's pole vault 35 times. Sergey Bubka retired from competition in 2001 and was voted best pole vaulter of the last half century by Track & Field News. July 25, 2015. When his coach, Vitaly Petrov, was transferred to Donetsk, Ukraine, Bubka, at age 15, followed.Bubka won the pole vault at the 1983 world track-and-field championships in Helsinki, Finland, with a vault of 5.7 metres (18 feet 8.25 inches).In subsequent years, Bubka changed the standards of pole-vaulting, setting numerous world records. Pole vaulter Sergey Bubka burst onto the international scene when, as a 19 year old, he won gold at the inaugural World Athletics Championships in 1983. He … Serhiy Nazarovych Bubka is a Ukrainian former pole vaulter.

Sergey Bubka is a former Ukrainian pole vaulter and the first one to clear 6.0 meter mark.

Sergej Nazarovitj Bubka (født 4. december 1963 i Lugansk, Sovjetunionen) er en pensioneret ukrainsk atletikudøver (stangspringer), der med én OL- én EM- og seks VM-guldmedaljer samt hele 35 verdensrekorder i stangspring regnes som verdens bedste stangspringer gennem tiden. He represented the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991 and has been involved with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) since 2001.