The men's pole vault at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 4 March 2018.Start list

Summary Only 15 competitors meant only a final was held. Several notable names were eliminated early on; 2015 World Champion Shawnacy Barber; 2016 Olympic champion Thiago Braz da Silva; world junior record holder Armand Duplantis; 2014 World Indoor Champion Konstantinos Filippidis; 2011 World Champion Paweł Wojciechowski; and 2013 World Champion Raphael Holzdeppe. Young newcomers Kurtis Marschall and Emmanouil Karalis cleared personal bests of 5.80m to be among the last contenders. The medalists were decided by a first attempt clearance at 5.85m, by Piotr Lisek, Sam Kendricks and Renaud Lavillenie. At that point, Lavillenie was still clean placing him in first place, Kendricks had one miss for second and Lisek had two misses for third. Six other vaulters had attempts left, many strategically passing to 5.90m after the clearances, but none were able to clear another height. In fact, only Lavillenie was able to get over on his second attempt, confirming his win. Kendricks took one attempt for the win at 5.95m but in the end the podium in 2018 was exactly the same as in 2016.

Records Standing records prior to the 2018 IAAF World Indoor ChampionshipsWorld indoor record6.16Donetsk, Ukraine15 February 2014Championship record6.02Portland, United States17 March 2016World Leading5.93Clermont-Ferrand, France25 February 2018

Schedule Date Time Round4 March 2018 15:00 Final

Results The final was started at 15:00.Final results

Rank Name Nationality 5.45 5.60 5.70 5.80 5.85 5.90 5.95 6.00 Result Notes Renaud Lavillenie – – o – o xo – xxx 5.90 Sam Kendricks o o o x– o xx– x 5.85 Piotr Lisek – xo – x– o xxx 5.85 4 Kurtis Marschall xo o o o x– xx 5.80 5 Emmanouil Karalis xo o xo o x– xx 5.80 Raphael Holzdeppe o xo xo o x– xx 5.80 7 Konstantinos Filippidis xo o o x– xx 5.70 8 Armand Duplantis o xo o x– x– x 5.70 9 o xxo xo xx– x 5.70 10 Axel Chapelle o o xxx 5.60 11 Xue Changrui o xo xxx 5.60 12 Thiago Braz da Silva – xxo – xxx 5.60 13 Scott Houston xo xxo xxx 5.60 Paweł Wojciechowski xo xxo xxx 5.60 15 Shawnacy Barber o xxx 5.45

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