1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault

Medalists

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

Schedule

• All times are
  UTC+1
  )

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

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
	Sergey Bubka (URS)
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)

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
	Miro Zalar (SWE)
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

See also

• 1983 Men's World Championships Pole Vault (Helsinki)
• 1984 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships Pole Vault (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Seoul)
• 1990 Men's European Championships Pole Vault (Split)
• 1991 Men's World Championships Pole Vault (Tokyo)
• 1992 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Barcelona)

References

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