The men's pole vault event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia. [1] [2]
The 2nd European Athletics Indoor Championships were held on 13 and 14 March 1971 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
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| 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 |
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