Nationality Spain Name Javier Gazol Sport Athletics | Weight 86 kg (190 lb) Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | |
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Full name Javier Sebastian GazolCondon Club Transbaso Monzon Polidux | ||
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Javier Sebastián Gazol Condón (born October 27, 1980 in Zaragoza) is a Spanish pole vaulter. Representing his nation Spain in the men's pole vault at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Gazol cleared a height at 5.60 metres to set his own personal best from the Spanish Championships in Almería. Throughout his sporting career, Gazol trained for the track and field club Transbaso Monzón Polidux in his native Zaragoza, under his personal coach Hans Ruf.
Gazol qualified for the Spanish squad as a lone athlete in the men's pole vault at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Nearly a week before the Games commenced, Gazol improved his personal best and an Olympic B-standard of 5.60 m to earn a spot on the Spanish team at the national championships in Almería. Gazol successfully vaulted 5.30 m on his first attempt, but failed to raise the bar at a targeted height of 5.50 m after three straight misses, leaving him in a twenty-eighth place draw with Czech Republic's Štěpán Janáček and Australia's Steven Hooker at the end of the qualifying round.