1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault

These are the official results of the Men's Pole Vault event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total of 24 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Saturday September 5, 1987.

Medalists

Gold	Sergey Bubka Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Thierry Vigneron France (FRA)
Bronze	Radion Gataullin Soviet Union (URS)

Schedule

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
03.09.1987 – ??:??h	03.09.1987 – ??:??h
Final Round
05.09.1987 – 15:30h

Abbreviations

All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Sergey Bubka (URS)	6.03 m	June 23, 1987	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Event Record	Sergey Bubka (URS)	5.70 m	August 14, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Sergey Bubka (URS)	5.85 m	September 5, 1987	Rome, Italy

Results

Qualifying round

Held on Thursday 1987-09-03

RANK	GROUP A	HEIGHT
1.	Marian Kolasa (POL)	5.55 m
1.	Sergey Bubka (URS)	5.55 m
3.	Atanas Tarev (BUL)	5.50 m
4.	Hermann Fehringer (AUT)	5.40 m
	Zdenek Lubenský (TCH)
	Radion Gataullin (URS)
7.	Bernhard Zintl (FRG)	5.30 m
8.	Timo Kuusisto (FIN)	5.20 m
9.	Liang Xueren (CHN)	5.10 m
10.	István Bagyula (HUN)	5.00 m
—	Billy Olson (USA)	NM
—	Philippe Collet (FRA)	NM

RANK	GROUP B	HEIGHT
1.	Earl Bell (USA)	5.55 m
	Ferenc Salbert (FRA)
	Aleksandrs Obizajevs (URS)
4.	Nikolay Nikolov (BUL)	5.50 m
	Delko Lesev (BUL)
	Thierry Vigneron (FRA)
7.	Gianni Stecchi (ITA)	5.40 m
7.	Miro Zalar (SWE)	5.40 m
9.	Mirosław Chmara (POL)	5.20 m
—	Joe Dial (USA)	NM
	Bob Ferguson (CAN)
	Kimmo Kuusela (FIN)

Final

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Rank	Name	Nationality	5.30	5.40	5.50	5.60	5.70	5.75	5.80	5.85	6.05	Result	Notes
	Sergey Bubka	Soviet Union	–	–	–	–	o	–	–	o	xx	5.85	CR
	Thierry Vigneron	France	–	–	o	–	o	–	xo	xxx		5.80
	Radion Gataullin	Soviet Union	–	–	–	o	xo		xo	xxx		5.80
4	Marian Kolasa	Poland	–	–	o	xo	xxo	–	xxo	xxx		5.80
5	Earl Bell	United States	–	o	–	o	o	xxx				5.70
5	Nikolay Nikolov	Bulgaria	–	o	–	o	o	xx–	x			5.70	=PB
7	Delko Lesev	Bulgaria	–	o	–	o	xxx					5.60
8	Atanas Tarev	Bulgaria	–	o	–	xo	x–	xx				5.60
9	Aleksandrs Obižajevs	Soviet Union	–	–	o	–	xxx					5.50
10	Ferenc Salbert	France	–	–	xo	–	–	xxx				5.50
11	Gianni Stecchi	Italy	o	xo	xx–	x						5.40
12	Miro Zalar	Sweden	xo	–	xxx							5.30
	Hermann Fehringer	Austria	–	xxx								NM
	Zdeněk Lubenský	Czechoslovakia	xxx									NM