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

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

Schedule

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

Abbreviations

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  • 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

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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

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Qualifying round

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ L'Athletisme (September 1987, p40)