1995 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault

These are the official results of the Men's Pole Vault event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 38 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Friday August 11, 1995. The qualification mark was set at 5.70 metres.

Medalists

Gold	Sergey Bubka Ukraine (UKR)
Silver	Maksim Tarasov Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Jean Galfione France (FRA)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
09.08.1995 – 16:30h	09.08.1995 – 16:30h
Final Round
11.08.1995 – 16:15h

Abbreviations

• 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

Qualifying round

• Held on Tuesday 1995-08-09

RANK	GROUP A	HEIGHT
1.	Maksim Tarasov (RUS)	5.65 m
2.	Dean Starkey (USA)	5.65 m
	Sergey Bubka (UKR)
4.	Valeri Bukrejev (EST)	5.65 m
5.	Igor Potapovich (KAZ)	5.65 m
6.	Tim Lobinger (GER)	5.65 m
7.	Jean Galfione (FRA)	5.55 m
8.	Heikki Vääräniemi (FIN)	5.55 m
9.	István Bagyula (HUN)	5.55 m
10.	Nick Buckfield (GBR)	5.55 m
11.	Peter Widén (SWE)	5.40 m
12.	Riaan Botha (RSA)	5.40 m
	Simon Arkell (AUS)
14.	Domitien Mestre (BEL)	5.20 m
15.	Aleksandr Zhukov (MDA)	5.20 m
	Christos Pallakis (GRE)
—	Paul Benavides (MEX)	NM
	José Manuel Arcos (ESP)
—	Ruhan Işim (TUR)	DNS

RANK	GROUP B	HEIGHT
1.	Radion Gataullin (RUS)	5.70 m
2.	Igor Trandenkov (RUS)	5.70 m
3.	Scott Huffman (USA)	5.65 m
4.	Andrei Tivontchik (GER)	5.65 m
5.	Okkert Brits (RSA)	5.65 m
6.	Trond Barthel (NOR)	5.55 m
7.	Patrik Stenlund (SWE)	5.55 m
8.	Dmitri Markov (BLR)	5.40 m
9.	Photis Stephani (CYP)	5.40 m
	Nuno Fernandes (POR)
11.	Kim Chul-Kyun (KOR)	5.40 m
12.	Javier García (ESP)	5.40 m
13.	James Miller (AUS)	5.20 m
14.	Martin Voss (DEN)	5.20 m
	Aleksandr Korchagin (KAZ)
	Jean-Michel Godard (FRA)
—	Bill Payne (USA)	NM
	Grigoriy Yegorov (KAZ)
	Konstantin Semyonov (ISR)

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	5.60	5.70	5.80	5.86	5.92	6.15	Mark	Notes
	Sergey Bubka	Ukraine	–	xo	–	–	o	xxx	5.92
	Maksim Tarasov	Russia	–	xo	–	o	xxx		5.86
	Jean Galfione	France	o	–	xo	xxo	xxx		5.86
4	Okkert Brits	South Africa	xo	–	o	–	xxx		5.80
5	Radion Gataullin	Russia	–	o	–	xxx			5.70
6	Scott Huffman	United States	o	xo	xxx				5.70
7	Igor Trandenkov	Russia	–	xxo	–	xxx			5.70
8	Dean Starkey	United States	o	xxx					5.60
9	Andrei Tivontchik	Germany							5.60
9	Igor Potapovich	Kazakhstan							5.60
11	Tim Lobinger	Germany							5.40
	Valeri Bukrejev	Estonia							NM

References

• Results
• IAAF
• Detailed results (p148)