# 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 |
| 4. | Zdenek Lubenský (TCH) | 5.40 m |
| 4. | Radion Gataullin (URS) | 5.40 m |
| 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 |
| 1. | Ferenc Salbert (FRA) | 5.55 m |
| 1. | Aleksandrs Obizajevs (URS) | 5.55 m |
| 4. | Nikolay Nikolov (BUL) | 5.50 m |
| 4. | Delko Lesev (BUL) | 5.50 m |
| 4. | Thierry Vigneron (FRA) | 5.50 m |
| 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) | NM |
| — | Kimmo Kuusela (FIN) | NM |

### Final

| 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 | |