1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's pole vault

The men's pole vault event at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis on 8 March.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	5.30	5.40	5.50	5.60	5.65	5.70	5.75	5.80	5.85	Result	Notes
	Sergey Bubka	Soviet Union	–	–	–	–	o	–	–	–	xo	5.85	xxx CR
	Earl Bell	United States									x	5.80
	Thierry Vigneron	France			xxo			o		xo		5.80
4	Ferenc Salbert	France										5.80
5	Marian Kolasa	Poland										5.75
6	Atanas Tarev	Bulgaria										5.70	=PB
7	Nikolay Nikolov	Bulgaria										5.60
8	Doug Lytle	United States										5.60
9	Radion Gataullin	Soviet Union										5.60
10	Gianni Stecchi	Italy										5.50	NR
11	Javier García	Spain										5.40
12	Liang Xueren	China										5.40
13	Hermann Fehringer	Austria										5.30
13	Asko Peltoniemi	Finland										5.30
	Antonio Montepeque	Guatemala										NM