The official results of the Women's Pole Vault at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, held on Monday 25 September 2000.
There were a total number of 30 participating athletes in this event, which made its Olympic debut.
[2][3] The favorite coming into the event was world champion and world record holder Stacy Dragila,[4][5] but the home favorite was Soviet transplant Australian Tatiana Grigorieva.
Vala Flosadóttir, who had held the lead with a clean record to 4.50m, took the bronze medal, and set the National record while taking the only women's Olympic medal for Iceland to date.
Grigorieva was unable to match that and strategically moved to 4.65m, 2 cm higher than the world record Dragila had set in Sacramento in qualifying to the Olympics, to try to take the win.