Athletics at the 1983 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's pole vault event at the 1983 Summer Universiade was held at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Canada on 7 and 8 July 1983.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Konstantin Volkov  Soviet Union	Thierry Vigneron  France	Jeff Ward  United States

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
?	Thierry Vigneron	France	5.10	[2]
?	Philippe Collet	France	5.10	[2]
?	Daniel Aebischer	Switzerland	5.10	[3]
?	Daniel Forter	Switzerland	5.10	[3]
?	Konstantin Volkov	Soviet Union	5.10
?	Vladimir Polyakov	Soviet Union	5.10
?	Victor Drechsel	Italy	5.10
?	Teruhisa Kamiya	Japan	5.10
?	Jeff Buckingham	United States	5.10
?	Anton Paskalev	Bulgaria	5.10
?	Jeff Ward	United States	5.10
?	Peter Volmer	West Germany	5.10
?	Stanimir Penchev	Bulgaria	5.10
?	Gerald Heinrich	West Germany	5.10
15	George Barber	Canada	5.00

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Konstantin Volkov	Soviet Union	5.65
	Thierry Vigneron	France	5.60
	Jeff Ward	United States	5.50
4	Vladimir Polyakov	Soviet Union	5.40
5	Jeff Buckingham	United States	5.40
6	Daniel Aebischer	Switzerland	5.20
6	Philippe Collet	France	5.20
6	Stanimir Penchev	Bulgaria	5.20
6	Peter Volmer	West Germany	5.20
6	Anton Paskalev	Bulgaria	5.20
6	Gerald Heinrich	West Germany	5.20
12	Victor Drechsel	Italy	5.20
13	Teruhisa Kamiya	Japan	5.00
	Daniel Forter	Switzerland	NM	[6]