World Athletics Championships 2019 / men's pole vault

Athletics World Championships 2019
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Doha
Competition location	Khalifa International Stadium
Competition phase	September 29th (qualification) October 1st (final)
Medalist Sam Kendricks ( USA )   Armand Duplantis ( SWE )   Piotr Lisek ( POL )

The winner Sam Kendricks (2017)

The men's pole vault at the 2019 World Athletics Championships took place in Doha , Qatar on September 28 and October 1, 2019 .

30 athletes from 15 countries took part in the competition. The gold medal was won by Sam Kendricks with 5.97 m, silver went to Armand Duplantis with 5.97 and Piotr Lisek secured the bronze medal with 5.87 m.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Renaud Lavillenie	6.16 m	Donetsk , Ukraine	15th February 2014
Championship record	Dmitri Markov	6.05 m	World Championships in Edmonton , Canada	August 9, 2001

qualification

The qualification height was at least 5.75 m to go straight to the final. Eight athletes made this mark, they are highlighted in light blue. The remaining jumpers who are allowed to take part in the final, the number of athletes should be at least twelve, are those with the highest jumped height below the qualification height, they are highlighted in light green.

Group A

September 28, 2019, 5:30 p.m. local time (5:30 p.m.  CEST )

space	athlete	country	5.30	5.45	5.60	5.70	5.75	Height (m)
1	Sam Kendricks	United States	O	O	O	O	O	5.75
2	Thiago Braz	Brazil	-	O	O	O	xo	5.75
3	Claudio Stecchi	Italy	-	-	O	xo	xo	5.75
4th	Huang Bokai	People's Republic of China	-	O	xxo	xo	xo	5.75 PB
5	Valentin Lavillenie	France	-	O	O	O	xxx	5.70
6th	Ben Broeders	Belgium	-	xo	xo	O	xxx	5.70
7th	Pawel Wojciechowski	Poland	-	O	O	xxo	xxx	5.70
8th	Emmanouil Karalis	Greece	-	O	O	xxx		5.60
9	Ding Bangchao	People's Republic of China	xo	xo	xxo	xxx		5.60
10	Zachery Bradford	United States	xxo	xo	xxo	xxx		5.60
11	Torben sheet metal	Germany	O	O	xx–	R.		5.45
12	Jin Min-sub	South Korea	-	xo	-	xxx		5.45
13	Daichi Sawano	Japan	-	xxo	xxx			5.45
14th	Masaki Ejima	Japan	xo	xxo	xxx			5.45
	Milker Svärd Jacobsson	Sweden						DNS
	Menno Vloon	Netherlands

Group B

September 28, 2019, 5:30 p.m. local time (5:30 p.m.  CEST )

space	athlete	country	5.30	5.45	5.60	5.70	5.75	Height (m)
1	Piotr Lisek	Poland	-	O	O	O	O	5.75
2	Cole Walsh	United States	-	xo	xo	xxo	O	5.75
3	Armand Duplantis	Sweden	-	-	O	O	xxo	5.75
4th	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany	-	O	xo	xxo	xxo	5.75
5	Augusto Dutra	Brazil	-	O	xo	O	xxx	5.70
6th	Bo Kanda Lita Baehre	Germany	-	O	xxo	O	xxx	5.70
7th	Konstandinos Filippidis	Greece	O	O	O	xxo	xxx	5.70
8th	Renaud Lavillenie	France	-	-	O	xxx		5.60
	KC Lightfoot	United States	O	O	O	xxx
	Ernest Obiena	Philippines	-	O	O	xxx
11	Robert Sobera	Poland	O	xxo	O	xxx		5.60
12	Seito Yamamoto	Japan	O	xo	xo	xxx		5.60
13	Rutger Koppelaar	Netherlands	O	O	xxx			5.45
14th	Alioune Sene	France	xxo	xo	xxx			5.45
15th	Sondre Guttormsen	Norway	xo	xxx				5.30
	Yao Jie	People's Republic of China	xxx					NM
	Harry Coppell	United Kingdom						DNS

final

October 1, 2019, 8:05 p.m. local time (7:05 p.m.  CEST )

space	athlete	country	5.55	5.70	5.80	5.87	5.92	5.97	6.02	Height (m)
	Sam Kendricks	United States	O	O	O	xxo	O	xxo	xx–	5.97
	Armand Duplantis	Sweden	-	O	O	xo	xxo	xxo	xxx	5.97
	Piotr Lisek	Poland	O	O	O	xo	x–	xx		5.87
4th	Bo Kanda Lita Baehre	Germany	O	O	xxx					5.70
5	Thiago Braz	Brazil	xo	O	xxx					5.70
6th	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany	O	xo	xxx					5.70
	Valentin Lavillenie	France	O	xo	xxx
8th	Claudio Stecchi	Italy	O	xxo	xxx					5.70
9	Huang Bokai	People's Republic of China	O	xxx						5.55
10	Augusto Dutra	Brazil	xo	xxx						5.55
	Cole Walsh	United States	xo	xxx
12	Ben Broeders	Belgium	xxo	xxx						5.55

Explanation of symbols:
- = height skipped, x = failed attempt, o = height skipped

Web links and sources

• Results on the website of the IAAF (English)