Athletics — Pole Vault, Men

Times held 38
Total participants 551
Total countries 67

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1870 Pole Vault, Men 3 1
1875 Pole Vault, Men 2 1
1889 Pole Vault, Men 6 1
1896 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 5 2
1900 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 8 5
1904 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 7 2
1904 Pole Vault (AAU Championship), Men Olympic (non-medal) 3 1
1904 Pole Vault (Olympic Collegiate Championship), Men Olympic (non-medal) 2 1
1904 Pole Vault (Western AAU Championship), Men Olympic (non-medal) 3 1
1904 Pole Vault (YMCA Championship), Men Olympic (non-medal) 3 1
1906 Pole Vault, Men Intercalated 11 8
1908 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 15 7
1912 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 25 11
1920 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 15 7
1924 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 20 13
1928 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 20 13
1932 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 8 4
1936 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 30 21
1948 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 19 10
1952 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 28 18
1956 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 19 12
1960 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 29 20
1964 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 30 19
1968 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 23 15
1972 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 21 12
1976 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 27 13
1980 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 19 10
1984 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 19 13
1988 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 21 13
1992 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 34 25
1996 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 37 24
2000 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 36 22
2004 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 39 25
2008 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 38 25
2012 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 32 23
2016 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 31 16
2020 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 29 18
2024 Pole Vault, Men Olympic 30 19

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Bill HoytUSA Albert TylerUSA Evangelos Damaskos
Ioannis Theodoropoulos
GRE
GRE
1900 Irv BaxterUSA Meredith ColketUSA Carl Albert AndersenNOR
1904 Charles DvorakUSA LeRoy SamseUSA Lou WilkinsUSA
1906 Fernand GonderFRA Bruno SöderströmSWE Ed GloverUSA
1908 A. C. Gilbert
Ed Cook
USA
USA
Ed Archibald
Bruno Söderström
Clare Jacobs
CAN
SWE
USA
1912 Harry BabcockUSA Frank Nelson
Marc Wright
USA
USA
William Halpenny
Bertil Uggla
Frank Murphy
CAN
SWE
USA
1920 Frank FossUSA Henry PetersenDEN Ed MyersUSA
1924 Lee BarnesUSA Glenn GrahamUSA Jim BrookerUSA
1928 Sabin CarrUSA Bill DroegemuellerUSA Charles McGinnisUSA
1932 Bill MillerUSA Shuhei NishidaJPN George JeffersonUSA
1936 Earle MeadowsUSA Shuhei NishidaJPN Sueo OeJPN
1948 Guinn SmithUSA Erkki KatajaFIN Bob RichardsUSA
1952 Bob RichardsUSA Don LazUSA Ragnar LundbergSWE
1956 Bob RichardsUSA Bob GutowskiUSA Georgios RoumpanisGRE
1960 Don BraggUSA Ron MorrisUSA Eeles LandströmFIN
1964 Fred HansenUSA Wolfgang ReinhardtGER Klaus LehnertzGER
1968 Bob SeagrenUSA Claus SchiprowskiFRG Wolfgang NordwigGDR
1972 Wolfgang NordwigGDR Bob SeagrenUSA Jan JohnsonUSA
1976 Tadeusz ŚlusarskiPOL Antti KalliomäkiFIN Dave RobertsUSA
1980 Władysław KozakiewiczPOL Tadeusz Ślusarski
Konstantin Volkov
POL
URS
1984 Pierre QuinonFRA Mike TullyUSA Thierry Vigneron
Earl Bell
FRA
USA
1988 Sergey BubkaURS Rodion GataullinURS Grigory YegorovURS
1992 Maksim TarasovEUN Igor TrandenkovEUN Javier GarcíaESP
1996 Jean GalfioneFRA Igor TrandenkovRUS Andrej TiwontschikGER
2000 Nick HysongUSA Lawrence JohnsonUSA Maksim TarasovRUS
2004 Tim MackUSA Toby StevensonUSA Giuseppe GibiliscoITA
2008 Steve HookerAUS Yevgeny LukyanenkoRUS Derek MilesUSA
2012 Renaud LavillenieFRA Björn OttoGER Raphael HolzdeppeGER
2016 Thiago BrazBRA Renaud LavillenieFRA Sam KendricksUSA
2020 Mondo DuplantisSWE Chris NilsenUSA Thiago BrazBRA
2024 Mondo DuplantisSWE Sam KendricksUSA Emmanouil KaralisGRE

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
United States USA 19 16 14 49
France FRA 4 1 1 6
Sweden SWE 2 1 3 6
Poland POL 2 1 0 3
Soviet Union URS 1 2 1 4
Unified Team EUN 1 1 0 2
Brazil BRA 1 0 1 2
East Germany GDR 1 0 1 2
Australia AUS 1 0 0 1
Germany GER 0 2 3 5
Finland FIN 0 2 1 3
Japan JPN 0 2 1 3
Russian Federation RUS 0 2 1 3
Denmark DEN 0 1 0 1
West Germany FRG 0 1 0 1
Greece GRE 0 0 4 4
Canada CAN 0 0 2 2
Italy ITA 0 0 1 1
Norway NOR 0 0 1 1
Spain ESP 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Bob Richards USA 2 0 1 3
Mondo Duplantis SWE 2 0 0 2
Tadeusz Ślusarski POL 1 1 0 2
Bob Seagren USA 1 1 0 2
Renaud Lavillenie FRA 1 1 0 2

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Argentina ARG 2016 Summer Olympics Germán Chiaraviglio 11 See all
Australia AUS 2008 Summer Olympics Steve Hooker 1 Gold See all
Austria AUT 1936 Summer Olympics Josef Haunzwickel =6 See all
1936 Summer Olympics Alfred Proksch =6
Belarus BLR 1996 Summer Olympics Dzmitry Markau 6 See all
Belgium BEL 1924 Summer Olympics Maurice Henrijean 7 See all
Bohemia BOH 1912 Summer Olympics Jindřich Jirsák =23 r1/2 See all
Brazil BRA 2016 Summer Olympics Thiago Braz 1 Gold See all
Bulgaria BUL 1960 Summer Olympics Hristo Hristov 10 See all
Canada CAN 1908 Summer Olympics Ed Archibald =3 Bronze See all
1912 Summer Olympics William Halpenny =3 Bronze
Chile CHI 1936 Summer Olympics Adolfo Schlegel 24 See all
Chinese Taipei TPE 1964 Summer Olympics Yang C. K. 10 r1/2 See all
Croatia CRO 2012 Summer Olympics Ivan Horvat =18 r1/2 See all
Cuba CUB 2012 Summer Olympics Lázaro Borges =15 r1/2 See all
Cyprus CYP 1992 Summer Olympics Fotis Stefani =26 r1/2 See all
Czechia CZE 2016 Summer Olympics Jan Kudlička =4 See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1936 Summer Olympics Jan Korejs =6 See all
1964 Summer Olympics Rudolf Tomášek 6
Denmark DEN 1920 Summer Olympics Henry Petersen 2 Silver See all
East Germany GDR 1972 Summer Olympics Wolfgang Nordwig 1 Gold See all
Egypt EGY 1952 Summer Olympics Gamal El-Sherbini 26 r1/2 See all
Estonia EST 1920 Summer Olympics Johann Martin 13 r1/2 See all
Finland FIN 1948 Summer Olympics Erkki Kataja 2 Silver See all
1976 Summer Olympics Antti Kalliomäki 2 Silver
France FRA 1906 Intercalated Games Fernand Gonder 1 Gold See all
1984 Summer Olympics Pierre Quinon 1 Gold
1996 Summer Olympics Jean Galfione 1 Gold
2012 Summer Olympics Renaud Lavillenie 1 Gold
Germany GER 1964 Summer Olympics Wolfgang Reinhardt 2 Silver See all
2012 Summer Olympics Björn Otto 2 Silver
Great Britain GBR 2012 Summer Olympics Steve Lewis =4 See all
Haiti HAI 1924 Summer Olympics Louis Dejoie DNS See all
Hungary HUN 1900 Summer Olympics Jakab Kauser =4 See all
Iceland ISL 1948 Summer Olympics Torfi Bryngeirsson =14 r1/2 See all
1952 Summer Olympics Torfi Bryngeirsson =14
1960 Summer Olympics Valbjörn Þorláksson =14 r1/2
Iraq IRQ 1960 Summer Olympics Mohamed Al-Shahwani AC r1/2 See all
Israel ISR 1992 Summer Olympics Danny Krasnov 8 See all
2004 Summer Olympics Alex Averbukh 8
Italy ITA 2004 Summer Olympics Giuseppe Gibilisco 3 Bronze See all
Japan JPN 1932 Summer Olympics Shuhei Nishida 2 Silver See all
1936 Summer Olympics Shuhei Nishida 2 Silver
Kazakhstan KAZ 1996 Summer Olympics Igor Potapovich 4 See all
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia KSA 2024 Summer Olympics Hussain Al-Hizam NH QR See all
Latvia LAT 2016 Summer Olympics Pauls Pujāts AC r2/2 See all
2024 Summer Olympics Valters Kreišs 12
Madagascar MAD 1968 Summer Olympics Dominique Rakotorahalahy DNS See all
Mauritius MRI 1992 Summer Olympics Kersley Gardenne =24 r1/2 See all
Mexico MEX 2008 Summer Olympics Giovanni Lanaro =24 r1/2 See all
Netherlands NED 2004 Summer Olympics Rens Blom =9 See all
New Zealand NZL 1992 Summer Olympics Paul Gibbons AC r1/2 See all
Nigeria NGR 1960 Summer Olympics Owen Okundaye AC r1/2 See all
Norway NOR 1900 Summer Olympics Carl Albert Andersen 3 Bronze See all
Pakistan PAK 1956 Summer Olympics Allah Ditta 15 r1/2 See all
People's Republic of China CHN 2016 Summer Olympics Xue Changrui 6 See all
Peru PER 1948 Summer Olympics Luis Ganoza 16 r1/2 See all
Philippines PHI 2024 Summer Olympics Ernest Obiena 4 See all
Poland POL 1976 Summer Olympics Tadeusz Ślusarski 1 Gold See all
1980 Summer Olympics Władysław Kozakiewicz 1 Gold
Portugal POR 1996 Summer Olympics Nuno Fernandes =18 r1/2 See all
Puerto Rico PUR 1960 Summer Olympics Rolando Cruz 4 See all
Republic of Korea KOR 1988 Summer Olympics Kim Cheol-Gyun 16 r1/2 See all
Republic of Moldova MDA 1996 Summer Olympics Alexandru Jucov 29 r1/2 See all
Romania ROU 1952 Summer Olympics Zeno Dragomir =18 See all
Russian Federation RUS 1996 Summer Olympics Igor Trandenkov 2 Silver See all
2008 Summer Olympics Yevgeny Lukyanenko 2 Silver
Saint Lucia LCA 2000 Summer Olympics Dominic Johnson =26 r1/2 See all
Senegal SEN 1972 Summer Olympics Abass Goudiaby DNS See all
Slovenia SLO 2016 Summer Olympics Robert Renner =22 r1/2 See all
South Africa RSA 2000 Summer Olympics Okkert Brits 7 See all
Soviet Union URS 1988 Summer Olympics Sergey Bubka 1 Gold See all
Spain ESP 1992 Summer Olympics Javier García 3 Bronze See all
Sweden SWE 2020 Summer Olympics Mondo Duplantis 1 Gold See all
2024 Summer Olympics Mondo Duplantis 1 Gold
Switzerland SUI 1984 Summer Olympics Felix Böhni 7 See all
Türkiye TUR 2024 Summer Olympics Ersu Şaşma 5 See all
Ukraine UKR 2004 Summer Olympics Denys Yurchenko =9 See all
Unified Team EUN 1992 Summer Olympics Maksim Tarasov 1 Gold See all
United States USA 1896 Summer Olympics Bill Hoyt 1 Gold See all
1900 Summer Olympics Irv Baxter 1 Gold
1904 Summer Olympics Charles Dvorak 1 Gold
1908 Summer Olympics A. C. Gilbert =1 Gold
1908 Summer Olympics Ed Cook =1 Gold
1912 Summer Olympics Harry Babcock 1 Gold
1920 Summer Olympics Frank Foss 1 Gold
1924 Summer Olympics Lee Barnes 1 Gold
1928 Summer Olympics Sabin Carr 1 Gold
1932 Summer Olympics Bill Miller 1 Gold
1936 Summer Olympics Earle Meadows 1 Gold
1948 Summer Olympics Guinn Smith 1 Gold
1952 Summer Olympics Bob Richards 1 Gold
1956 Summer Olympics Bob Richards 1 Gold
1960 Summer Olympics Don Bragg 1 Gold
1964 Summer Olympics Fred Hansen 1 Gold
1968 Summer Olympics Bob Seagren 1 Gold
2000 Summer Olympics Nick Hysong 1 Gold
2004 Summer Olympics Tim Mack 1 Gold
United States Virgin Islands ISV 1984 Summer Olympics Brian Morrissette 15 r1/2 See all
Uzbekistan UZB 2008 Summer Olympics Leonid Andreyev AC r2/2 See all
West Germany FRG 1968 Summer Olympics Claus Schiprowski 2 Silver See all
Yugoslavia YUG 1960 Summer Olympics Leon Lukman 9 See all