Men's pole vault at the 2013 World Championships
Venue	Luzhniki Stadium
Dates	10 August (qualification) 12 August (final)
Competitors	40 from 24 nations
Winning height	5.89 m (19 ft 3+3⁄4 in)
Medalists
Raphael Holzdeppe  Germany (GER)   Renaud Lavillenie  France (FRA)   Björn Otto  Germany (GER)
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Events at the 2013 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's pole vault at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 10–12 August.

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:^[1]

World record	Sergey Bubka (UKR)	6.14A	Sestriere, Italy	31 July 1994
Championship record	Dmitri Markov (AUS)	6.05	Edmonton, Canada	9 August 2001
World Leading	Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)	6.02	London, United Kingdom	27 July 2013
African record	Okkert Brits (RSA)	6.03	Cologne, Germany	18 August 1995
Asian record	Grigoriy Yegorov (KAZ)	5.90	Stuttgart, Germany	19 August 1993
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Brad Walker (USA)	6.04	Eugene, United States	8 June 2008
South American record	Thiago Braz da Silva (BRA)	5.83	Cartagena, Colombia	5 July 2013
European record	Sergey Bubka (UKR)	6.14A	Sestriere, Italy	31 July 1994
Oceanian record	Dmitri Markov (AUS)	6.05	Edmonton, Canada	9 August 2001

All times are local times (UTC+4)

Qualification: 5.70 m (Q) and at least 12 best (q) advanced to the final.^[3][4]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	5.25	5.40	5.55	5.65	5.70	Mark	Notes
1	A	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic (CZE)	-	o	-	xo		5.65	q
1	B	Renaud Lavillenie	France (FRA)	-	-	-	xo		5.65	q
3	B	Brad Walker	United States (USA)	-	-	o			5.55	q
3	A	Malte Mohr	Germany (GER)	-	-	o			5.55	q
3	A	Konstadinos Filippidis	Greece (GRE)	-	o	o			5.55	q
6	B	Augusto de Oliveira	Brazil (BRA)	-	xxo	o			5.55	q
7	B	Björn Otto	Germany (GER)	-	-	xo			5.55	q
7	A	Seito Yamamoto	Japan (JPN)	-	o	xo			5.55	q
7	A	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany (GER)	-	-	xo			5.55	q
7	A	Alhaji Jeng	Sweden (SWE)	-	o	xo			5.55	q
11	A	Valentin Lavillenie	France (FRA)	xxo	o	xo			5.55	q
12	A	Xue Changrui	China (CHN)	o	o	xxo			5.55	q
13	A	Sergey Kucheryanu	Russia (RUS)	-	xo	xxo			5.55	q
14	A	Oleksandr Korchmid	Ukraine (UKR)	-	o	xxx			5.40
14	A	Thiago Braz da Silva	Brazil (BRA)	-	o	xxx			5.40
14	A	Daichi Sawano	Japan (JPN)	-	o	xxx			5.40
14	A	Jere Bergius	Finland (FIN)	o	o	xxx			5.40
14	B	Nikita Filippov	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	o	o	xxx			5.40
19	B	Ivan Yeryomin	Ukraine (UKR)	xo	o	xxx			5.40
19	B	Jeremy Scott	United States (USA)	xo	o	xxx			5.40
21	B	Hiroki Ogita	Japan (JPN)	-	xo	xxx			5.40
21	B	Lázaro Borges	Cuba (CUB)	-	xo	xxx			5.40
21	B	Vladyslav Revenko	Ukraine (UKR)	-	xo	xxx			5.40
24	A	Edi Maia	Portugal (POR)	xo	xo	xxx			5.40
24	A	Jack Whitt	United States (USA)	xo	xo	xxx			5.40
24	B	Aleksandr Gripich	Russia (RUS)	xo	xo	xxx			5.40
27	A	Shawnacy Barber	Canada (CAN)	xo	xxo	xxx			5.40
28	A	Claudio Stecchi	Italy (ITA)	xxo	xxo	xxx			5.40
29	B	João Gabriel Sousa	Brazil (BRA)	o	xxx				5.25
29	B	Jin Min-Sub	South Korea (KOR)	o	xxx				5.25
31	A	Rasmus Wejnold Jørgensen	Denmark (DEN)	xo	xxx				5.25
31	B	Yang Yansheng	China (CHN)	xo	xxx				5.25
33	A	Mareks Ārents	Latvia (LAT)	xxo	xxx				5.25
	A	Zhang Wei	China (CHN)	xxx					NM
	B	Ivan Horvat	Croatia (CRO)	xxx					NM
	B	Steven Lewis	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	-	xxx				NM
	B	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Italy (ITA)	-	-	xxx			NM
	B	Robert Sobera	Poland (POL)	-	xxx				NM
	B	Igor Bychkov	Spain (ESP)	xxx					NM
	B	Michal Balner	Czech Republic (CZE)	-	xxx				NM

The final was started at 19:00.^[5]

Rank	Name	Nationality	5.50	5.65	5.75	5.82	5.89	5.96	Mark	Notes
	Raphael Holzdeppe	Germany (GER)	–	o	–	o	o	xxx	5.89
	Renaud Lavillenie	France (FRA)	–	xo	–	xo	xxo	xxx	5.89
	Björn Otto	Germany (GER)	o	o	xo	o	xxx		5.82
4	Brad Walker	United States (USA)	–	xo	xo	o	xxx		5.82
5	Malte Mohr	Germany (GER)	o	o	xo	xxo	xxx		5.82
6	Seito Yamamoto	Japan (JPN)	o	xxo	xxo	xxx			5.75	PB
7	Jan Kudlička	Czech Republic (CZE)	xxo	xo	xxo	xxx			5.75
8	Sergey Kucheryanu	Russia (RUS)	o	o	xxx				5.65
9	Alhaji Jeng	Sweden (SWE)	xo	o	xxx				5.65	SB
10	Konstadinos Filippidis	Greece (GRE)	o	xo	xxx				5.65
11	Augusto de Oliveira	Brazil (BRA)	xxo	xxo	xxx				5.65
12	Xue Changrui	China (CHN)	xo	xxx					5.50
	Valentin Lavillenie	France (FRA)	xxx						NM

• Pole vault results at IAAF website