1991 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault

Events at the 1991 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
10 km walk				women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

These are the official results of the Men's Pole Vault event at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. There were a total number of 31 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Thursday August 29, 1991.

Medalists

Gold	Sergey Bubka Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	István Bagyula Hungary (HUN)
Bronze	Maksim Tarasov Soviet Union (URS)

Schedule

• All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
27.08.1991 – 16:40h	27.08.1991 – 16:40h
Final Round
29.08.1991 – 16:00h

Qualifying round

RANK	GROUP A	HEIGHT
1.	Sergey Bubka (URS)	5.50 m
	Maksim Tarasov (URS)
	Peter Widén (SWE)
4.	Thierry Vigneron (FRA)	5.50 m
	Galin Nikov (BUL)
6.	Tim Bright (USA)	5.50 m
	Jean Galfione (FRA)
8.	Mike Edwards (GBR)	5.40 m
9.	Mirosław Chmara (POL)	5.40 m
10.	Simon Arkell (AUS)	5.40 m
11.	Nikolay Nikolov (BUL)	5.30 m
12.	Kim Chul-Kyun (KOR)	5.30 m
13.	Sazan Fisheku (ALB)	5.30 m
14.	Alberto Ruiz (ESP)	5.20 m
—	Petri Peltoniemi (FIN)	NM

RANK	GROUP B	HEIGHT
1.	Radion Gataullin (URS)	5.50 m
2.	Bernhard Zintl (GER)	5.50 m
3.	István Bagyula (HUN)	5.50 m
4.	Philippe Collet (FRA)	5.50 m
5.	Hermann Fehringer (AUT)	5.50 m
	Doug Wood (CAN)
7.	Hideyuki Takei (JPN)	5.45 m
8.	Joe Dial (USA)	5.40 m
	Jani Lehtonen (FIN)
10.	Paul Gibbons (NZL)	5.40 m
11.	Zdenek Lubensky (TCH)	5.40 m
12.	Kelly Riley (USA)	5.30 m
13.	Javier García (ESP)	5.30 m
13.	Delko Lesev (BUL)	5.30 m
15.	Edgar Díaz (PUR)	5.20 m
16.	Martin Voss (DEN)	5.20 m

Final

RANK	FINAL	HEIGHT
	Sergey Bubka (URS)	5.95 m CR
	István Bagyula (HUN)	5.90 m
	Maksim Tarasov (URS)	5.85 m
4.	Radion Gataullin (URS)	5.85 m
5.	Peter Widén (SWE)	5.75 m
6.	Tim Bright (USA)	5.75 m
7.	Hermann Fehringer (AUT)	5.60 m
8.	Thierry Vigneron (FRA)	5.60 m
9.	Bernhard Zintl (GER)	5.50 m
10.	Jean Galfione (FRA)	5.40 m
11.	Doug Wood (CAN)	5.40 m
12.	Galin Nikov (BUL)	5.30 m
—	Philippe Collet (FRA)	NM

See also

• 1988 Summer Olympics (Seoul)
• 1990 European Championships (Split)
• 1992 Summer Olympics (Barcelona)
• 1994 European Championships (Helsinki)

References

• Results