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

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

RANK	FINAL	HEIGHT
	Sergey Bubka (URS)	5.85 m CR
	Thierry Vigneron (FRA)	5.80 m
	Radion Gataullin (URS)	5.80 m
4.	Marian Kolasa (POL)	5.80 m
5.	Earl Bell (USA)	5.70 m
	Nikolay Nikolov (BUL)
7.	Delko Lesev (BUL)	5.60 m
8.	Atanas Tarev (BUL)	5.60 m
9.	Aleksandrs Obizajevs (URS)	5.50 m
10.	Ferenc Salbert (FRA)	5.50 m
11.	Gianni Stecchi (ITA)	5.40 m
12.	Miro Zalar (SWE)	5.30 m
—	Hermann Fehringer (AUT)	NM
	Zdenek Lubenský (TCH)

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

• Results