Sergey Bubka won six consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympic gold medal (1988), and broke the world record for men's pole vault 35 times. He was the first vaulter to clear 6 metres in June 1985, in Paris; and 20 feet (6.10) in August 1991 in Malmö, Sweden. Bubka set his final world record of 6.15 in February 1993 in Donetsk which stood almost 21 years.
