The men's pole vault event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia. [1] [2]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 4.40 | 4.50 | 4.60 | 4.70 | 4.80 | 4.90 | 5.00 | 5.10 | 5.20 | 5.30 | 5.35 | 5.40 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wolfgang Nordwig | – | – | – | – | – | – | xo | – | o | o | xo | o | 5.40 | WB | ||
| Kjell Isaksson | – | – | – | – | – | – | xo | – | xo | o | xxo | xxx | 5.35 | |||
| Yuriy Isakov | – | – | – | – | xxo | – | xo | – | xo | o | xxx | 5.30 | ||||
| 4 | Heinfried Engel | – | – | – | – | o | – | o | o | xxx | 5.10 | |||||
| 5 | Antti Kalliomäki | – | – | – | – | o | – | o | – | xxx | 5.00 | |||||
| 6 | Yuriy Khanafin | – | – | – | – | o | – | o | xxx | 5.00 | ||||||
| 7 | Wojciech Buciarski | – | – | – | – | o | – | xxx | 4.80 | |||||||
| 7 | Hans Lagerqvist | – | – | – | – | o | – | xxx | 4.80 | |||||||
| 9 | Zygmunt Dobrosz | – | – | xo | – | o | – | xxx | 4.80 | |||||||
| 10 | Nikolay Keydan | – | – | o | – | xo | – | xxx | 4.80 | |||||||
| 11 | Ignacio Sola | – | – | xo | – | xxo | – | xxx | 4.80 | |||||||
| 12 | Dinu Piștalu | – | – | – | xo | – | xxx | 4.70 | ||||||||
| 13 | Hans-Jürgen Ziegler | – | – | o | – | xxx | 4.60 | |||||||||
| 14 | Michel Ollivary | – | – | xxo | – | xxx | 4.60 | |||||||||
| 15 | Jesper Tørring | o | xxx | 4.40 | ||||||||||||
| Christos Papanikolaou | NM |