1986 European Athletics Championships – Men's pole vault

Medalists

Gold	Sergey Bubka  Soviet Union
Silver	Vasiliy Bubka  Soviet Union
Bronze	Philippe Collet  France

Results

Qualification

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	František Jansa	Czechoslovakia	5.50	Q
	Thierry Vigneron	France	5.50	Q
	Philippe Collet	France	5.50	Q
	Kimmo Kuusela	Finland	5.50	Q
	Atanas Tarev	Bulgaria	5.50	Q
	Stanimir Penchev	Bulgaria	5.50	Q
	Sergey Bubka	Soviet Union	5.50	Q
	Nikolay Nikolov	Bulgaria	5.50	Q
	Vasiliy Bubka	Soviet Union	5.50	Q
	Zdeněk Lubenský	Czechoslovakia	5.50	Q
	Serge Ferreira	France	5.40	q
	Asko Peltoniemi	Finland	5.40	q
	Christiaan Leeuwenburgh	Netherlands	5.40	q
	Jürgen Winkler	West Germany	5.30
	Hermann Fehringer	Austria	5.30
	Bernhard Zintl	West Germany	5.20
	Andy Ashurst	Great Britain	NM
	Radion Gataullin	Soviet Union	NM
	Alberto Ruiz	Spain	NM
	Javier García	Spain	NM

Final

29 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	5.25	5.35	5.45	5.55	5.65	5.70	5.75	5.80	5.85	6.05	Result	Notes
	Sergey Bubka	Soviet Union	–	–	–	–	–	xxo	–	–	o	xxx	5.85	CR
	Vasiliy Bubka	Soviet Union											5.75
	Philippe Collet	France	–	–	–	–	o	–	xxo	–	xxx		5.75
4	Atanas Tarev	Bulgaria	–	o	–	xo	–	xxo					5.70
6	Kimmo Kuusela	Finland											5.55
6	Zdeněk Lubenský	Czechoslovakia	–	o	–	o	x						5.55
7	Stanimir Penchev	Bulgaria	–	xxo	–	o	xx–	x					5.55
8	Serge Ferreira	France											5.35
9	František Jansa	Czechoslovakia				xxx							5.35
9	Nikolay Nikolov	Bulgaria	–	xo	–	xxx							5.35
11	Christiaan Leeuwenburgh	Netherlands											5.25
12	Asko Peltoniemi	Finland											5.25
	Thierry Vigneron	France	–	–	–	–	xx–	x					NM

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.