| 1981 European Athletics Indoor Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Track events | ||
| 50 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | men | |
| 50 m hurdles | men | women |
| 5000 m walk | men | |
| Field events | ||
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | |
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | |
| Shot put | men | women |
The men's pole vault event at the 1981 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 22 February. [1] [2] [3]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 5.00 | 5.15 | 5.25 | 5.35 | 5.45 | 5.50 | 5.55 | 5.60 | 5.65 | 5.70 | 5.75 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Thierry Vigneron |  France | − | − | − | xo | − | o | − | o | − | o | xxx | 5.70 | =WR , CR |
 | Aleksandr Krupskiy |  Soviet Union | − | − | o | − | o | − | o | o | o | x− | xx | 5.65 | |
 | Jean-Michel Bellot | France | − | − | − | o | − | xo | − | − | xo | xxx | 5.65 | ||
| 4 | Patrick Desruelles |  Belgium | − | − | o | − | o | − | o | o | xxx | 5.60 | |||
| 5 | Mariusz Klimczyk |  Poland | − | − | − | xxo | − | xo | o | − | xxx | 5.55 | |||
| 6 | Philippe Houvion | France | − | − | o | − | o | − | xo | − | xxx | 5.55 | |||
| 7 | Vladimir Polyakov | Soviet Union | − | − | o | − | o | − | xo | − | xxx | 5.55 | |||
| 8 | Atanas Tarev |  Bulgaria | − | − | o | − | xxo | o | x− | x− | x | 5.50 | |||
| 9 | Brian Hooper |  Great Britain | o | − | o | xo | xxo | xxx | 5.45 | ||||||
| 10 | Aleksandr Chernyayev | Soviet Union | − | o | − | o | − | xxx | 5.35 | ||||||
| 11 | Günther Lohre |  West Germany | − | − | o | xo | xxx | 5.35 | |||||||
| 12 | Rauli Pudas |  Finland | − | − | xo | xo | xxx | 5.35 | |||||||
| 13 | Ivo Yanchev | Bulgaria | − | o | xo | xo | − | xr | 5.35 | ||||||
| 14 | Miro Zalar |  Sweden | − | − | xo | xxo | xx− | x | 5.35 | ||||||
| 15 | Tapani Haapakoski | Finland | − | o | o | xxx | 5.25 | ||||||||
| 16 | Roger Oriol |  Spain | − | xxo | o | xxx | 5.25 | ||||||||
| 17 | Petr Habel |  Czechoslovakia | xo | o | xxx | 5.15 | |||||||||
| Ilkka Pekkala | Finland | xxx | NM | ||||||||||||
| Keith Stock | Great Britain | − | xxx | NM | |||||||||||
| Bernd Müller | West Germany | xxx | NM | ||||||||||||
| Zbigniew Matyka | Poland | xxx | NM |
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