| 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
| | ||
| Track events | ||
| 60 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | men | women |
| 60 m hurdles | men | women |
| 3000 m walk | 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 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis on 8 March.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 5.30 | 5.40 | 5.50 | 5.60 | 5.65 | 5.70 | 5.75 | 5.80 | 5.85 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sergey Bubka | – | – | – | – | o | – | – | – | xo | 5.85 | xxx CR | ||
| Earl Bell | x | 5.80 | |||||||||||
| Thierry Vigneron | xxo | o | xo | 5.80 | |||||||||
| 4 | Ferenc Salbert | 5.80 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Marian Kolasa | 5.75 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Atanas Tarev | 5.70 | =PB | ||||||||||
| 7 | Nikolay Nikolov | 5.60 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Doug Lytle | 5.60 | |||||||||||
| 9 | Radion Gataullin | 5.60 | |||||||||||
| 10 | Gianni Stecchi | 5.50 | NR | ||||||||||
| 11 | Javier García | 5.40 | |||||||||||
| 12 | Liang Xueren | 5.40 | |||||||||||
| 13 | Hermann Fehringer | 5.30 | |||||||||||
| 13 | Asko Peltoniemi | 5.30 | |||||||||||
| Antonio Montepeque | NM |