2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault
The men's pole vault at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 10–12 August.
Records
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:| World record | 6.14A | Sestriere, Italy | 31 July 1994 | |
| Championship record | 6.05 | Edmonton, Canada | 9 August 2001 | |
| World Leading | 6.02 | London, United Kingdom | 27 July 2013 | |
| African record | 6.03 | Cologne, Germany | 18 August 1995 | |
| Asian record | 5.90 | Stuttgart, Germany | 19 August 1993 | |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | 6.04 | Eugene, United States | 8 June 2008 | |
| South American record | 5.83 | Cartagena, Colombia | 5 July 2013 | |
| European record | 6.14A | Sestriere, Italy | 31 July 1994 | |
| Oceanian record | 6.05 | Edmonton, Canada | 9 August 2001 |
Qualification standards
Schedule
Results
Qualification
Qualification: 5.70 m and at least 12 best advanced to the [|final].| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | 5.25 | 5.40 | 5.55 | 5.65 | 5.70 | Mark | Notes |
| 1 | A | Jan Kudlička | - | o | - | xo | 5.65 | q | ||
| 1 | B | Renaud Lavillenie | - | - | - | xo | 5.65 | q | ||
| 3 | B | Brad Walker | - | - | o | 5.55 | q | |||
| 3 | A | Malte Mohr | - | - | o | 5.55 | q | |||
| 3 | A | Konstadinos Filippidis | - | o | o | 5.55 | q | |||
| 6 | B | Augusto de Oliveira | - | xxo | o | 5.55 | q | |||
| 7 | B | Björn Otto | - | - | xo | 5.55 | q | |||
| 7 | A | Seito Yamamoto | - | o | xo | 5.55 | q | |||
| 7 | A | Raphael Holzdeppe | - | - | xo | 5.55 | q | |||
| 7 | A | Alhaji Jeng | - | o | xo | 5.55 | q | |||
| 11 | A | Valentin Lavillenie | xxo | o | xo | 5.55 | q | |||
| 12 | A | Xue Changrui | o | o | xxo | 5.55 | q | |||
| 13 | A | Sergey Kucheryanu | - | xo | xxo | 5.55 | q | |||
| 14 | A | Oleksandr Korchmid | - | o | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 14 | A | Thiago Braz da Silva | - | o | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 14 | A | Daichi Sawano | - | o | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 14 | A | Jere Bergius | o | o | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 14 | B | Nikita Filippov | o | o | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 19 | B | Ivan Yeryomin | xo | o | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 19 | B | Jeremy Scott | xo | o | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 21 | B | Hiroki Ogita | - | xo | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 21 | B | Lázaro Borges | - | xo | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 21 | B | Vladyslav Revenko | - | xo | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 24 | A | Edi Maia | xo | xo | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 24 | A | Jack Whitt | xo | xo | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 24 | B | Aleksandr Gripich | xo | xo | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 27 | A | Shawnacy Barber | xo | xxo | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 28 | A | Claudio Stecchi | xxo | xxo | xxx | 5.40 | ||||
| 29 | B | João Gabriel Sousa | o | xxx | 5.25 | |||||
| 29 | B | Jin Min-Sub | o | xxx | 5.25 | |||||
| 31 | A | xo | xxx | 5.25 | ||||||
| 31 | B | Yang Yansheng | xo | xxx | 5.25 | |||||
| 33 | A | Mareks Ārents | xxo | xxx | 5.25 | |||||
| A | Zhang Wei | xxx | ' | |||||||
| B | Ivan Horvat | xxx | ' | |||||||
| B | Steven Lewis | - | xxx | ' | ||||||
| B | Giuseppe Gibilisco | - | - | xxx | ' | |||||
| B | Robert Sobera | - | xxx | ' | ||||||
| B | Igor Bychkov | xxx | ' | |||||||
| B | Michal Balner | - | xxx | NM |
Final
The final was started at 19:00.| Rank | Name | Nationality | 5.50 | 5.65 | 5.75 | 5.82 | 5.89 | 5.96 | Mark | Notes |
| Raphael Holzdeppe | – | o | – | o | o | xxx | 5.89 | |||
| Renaud Lavillenie | – | xo | – | xo | xxo | xxx | 5.89 | |||
| Björn Otto | o | o | xo | o | xxx | 5.82 | ||||
| Brad Walker | – | xo | xo | o | xxx | 5.82 | ||||
| Malte Mohr | o | o | xo | xxo | xxx | 5.82 | ||||
| Seito Yamamoto | o | xxo | xxo | xxx | 5.75 | PB | ||||
| Jan Kudlička | xxo | xo | xxo | xxx | 5.75 | |||||
| Sergey Kucheryanu | o | o | xxx | 5.65 | ||||||
| Alhaji Jeng | xo | o | xxx | 5.65 | SB | |||||
| 10 | Konstadinos Filippidis | o | xo | xxx | 5.65 | |||||
| 11 | Augusto de Oliveira | xxo | xxo | xxx | 5.65 | |||||
| 12 | Xue Changrui | xo | xxx | 5.50 | ||||||
| Valentin Lavillenie | xxx |