The men's pole vault at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 8 August.Start list

Summary Of the twelve finalists, only three reached 5.75 metres without any fails: Olympic bronze medalist Sam Kendricks (USA), world record holder Renaud Lavillenie and Xue Changrui (China). Two Polish vaulters, Piotr Lisek and Paweł Wojciechowski, also cleared that height but with previous misses. Kendricks and Xue succeeded first time at 5.82 metres, while all the others passed after one failure to the next height, 5.89 metres. Kendricks and Lisek cleared that height on their first attempts, and Lavillenie on his last attempt, with Xue and Wojciechowski failing to clear that height and leaving the three medallists confirmed. All three were unsuccessful in their first two tries at 5.95 metres, and on the third try Kendrick succeeded, Lisek failed, and Lavillenie passed. Both Kendricks and Lavillenie failed at 6.01 metres, leaving Lavillenie with bronze and Kendricks with gold.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

Record Athlete Date LocationWorld6.16Renaud Lavillenie5 Feb 2014Donetsk, UkraineChampionship6.05Dmitri Markov9 Aug 2001Edmonton, CanadaWorld leading6.00Sam Kendricks24 Jun 2017Sacramento, United StatesAfrican6.03Okkert Brits18 Aug 1995Cologne, GermanyAsian5.92Igor PotapovichStockholm, SwedenNACAC6.04Brad Walker8 Jun 2008Eugene, OR, United StatesSouth American6.03Thiago Braz da Silva15 Aug 2016Rio de Janeiro, BrazilEuropean6.16Renaud Lavillenie15 Feb 2014Donetsk, UkraineOceanian6.06Steven Hooker7 Feb 2009Boston, MA, United States

The following records were set at the competition:

Record Athlete Date Chinese5.82Xue Changrui8 Aug 2017

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 5.70 metres.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), was as follows: Date Time Round6 August 10:40 Qualification8 August 19:35 Final

Results Qualification The qualification round took place on 6 August, in two groups, both starting at 10:40. Athletes attaining a mark of 5.75 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:

Rank Group Name Nationality 5.30 5.45 5.60 5.70 Mark Notes1 A Renaud Lavillenie - - o o 5.70 A Piotr Lisek o o o o 5.70 3 B Sam Kendricks o o xxo o 5.70 4 B Shawnacy Barber o o o xxo 5.70 5 A Axel Chapelle xo o o xxo 5.70 A Raphael Holzdeppe - o xo xxo 5.70 7 B Paweł Wojciechowski - o xxo xxo 5.70 8 A Armand Duplantis xxo xo xo xxo 5.70 9 B Arnaud Art o o o xxx 5.60 10 A Xue Changrui - xo o xxx 5.60 11 B Kurtis Marschall o xxo o xxx 5.60 B Yao Jie o xxo o xxx 5.60 13 B Christopher Nilsen o o xo xxx 5.60 14 B Valentin Lavillenie - xo xo xxx 5.60 15 A Andrew Irwin xxo o xo xxx 5.60 16 A Adrián Vallés xxo xo xo xxx 5.60 17 A Vladyslav Malykhin xxo o xxo xxx 5.60 18 A Jan Kudlička - o xxx 5.45 B Hiroki Ogita o o xxx 5.45 20 A Germán Chiaraviglio xo o xxx 5.45 21 A Emmanouil Karális xxo o xxx 5.45 22 A Ilya Mudrov o xo xxx 5.45 A Ivan Horvat o xo xxx 5.45 B Kévin Menaldo - xo xxx 5.45 25 B Michal Balner xo xxo xxx 5.45 26 A Seito Yamamoto o xxx 5.30 B Diogo Ferreira xxx B Igor Bychkov xxx B Menno Vloon - x- - B Konstantinos Filippidis - - - -

Final The final took place on 8 August at 19:42. The results were as follows:

Rank Name Nationality 5.50 5.65 5.75 5.82 5.89 5.95 6.01 Mark Notes Sam Kendricks o o o o o xxo xr 5.95 Piotr Lisek o xxo o x- o xxx 5.89 Renaud Lavillenie o o x- xo xx- x 5.89 4 Xue Changrui o o o o xxx 5.82 5 Paweł Wojciechowski o o xo x- xx 5.75 6 Axel Chapelle o o xxx 5.65 7 Kurtis Marschall xo o xxx 5.65 8 Shawnacy Barber xo xxo xxx 5.65 9 Armand Duplantis o xxx 5.50 Arnaud Art xxx Raphael Holzdeppe xxx Yao Jie xxx

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