Awards and Positions Held
- Bubka won the Prince of Asturias Award in Sports in 1991
- Bubka was awarded best sportsman of the Soviet Union for three years in a row from 1984 to 1986
- Bubka was voted Sportsman of the Year for 1997 by the influential newspaper L'Équipe
- Bubka was honored as the best pole vaulter of the last half century by Track & Field News
- Bubka was designated as an IAAF council member in 2001. In 2011, he was elected to a 4 year term as a Vice-President of the organization.
- He is currently serving as the president of National Olympic Committee of Ukraine and is an IOC member
- Bubka was designated UNESCO Champion for Sport in 2003
- In 2005 he received the Panathlon international Flambeau d'Or for his contribution to the development and promotion of sports.
- From 2002 to 2006, he was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament for For United Ukraine (Regions of Ukraine faction) and its committee on questions of youth policy, physical culture, sport and tourism
- Completed his term in IOC athletes commission in August 2008
Bubka is today a member of the ‘Champions for Peace’ club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization.
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