The women's pole vault at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 12 and 14 July. [1] [2] [3]
The 2010 world junior champion, Angelica Bengtsson of Sweden, is eligible to defend her title.
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Angelica Bengtsson  Sweden | Elizabeth Parnov  Australia | Roberta Bruni  Italy |
Prior to the competition [update] , the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.
| World Junior Record | Angelica Bengtsson (SWE) | 4.63 m (i) | Stockholm, Sweden | 22 February 2011 |
| Championship Record |  Floé Kühnert (GER) | 4.40 m | Kingston, Jamaica | 18 July 2002 |
 Ekaterina Kolesova (RUS) | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 11 July 2008 | ||
| Valeriya Volik (RUS) | ||||
| World Junior Leading | Angelica Bengtsson (SWE) | 4.58 m | Sollentuna, Sweden | 5 July 2012 |
| Broken records during the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship Record | Angelica Bengtsson (SWE) | 4.50 | Barcelona, Spain | 14 July 2012 |
Qualification: Standard 4.10 m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q)
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 3.80 | 3.95 | 4.05 | 4.15 | 4.20 | 4.25 | 4.30 | 4.35 | 4.40 | 4.45 | 4.50 | 4.60 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Angelica Bengtsson | Sweden | – | – | – | – | – | o | – | o | – | – | xo | xxx | 4.50 | CR |
 | Liz Parnov | Australia | – | – | – | – | xxo | – | o | – | 4.30 | |||||
 | Roberta Bruni | Italy | – | – | xo | xxo | xxo | xxx | 4.20 | |||||||
| 4 | Kira Grünberg |  Austria | xxo | o | o | o | xxx | 4.15 | NJ | |||||||
| 4 | Anjuli Knäsche | Germany | o | xo | xo | o | xx- | x | 4.15 | |||||||
| 6 | Emily Grove |  United States | o | xo | o | xo | xxx | 4.15 | ||||||||
| 7 | Alissa Söderberg | Sweden | o | o | o | xxo | xxx | 4.15 | ||||||||
| 8 | Xu Huiqin |  China | – | – | o | xxx | 4.05 | |||||||||
| 9 | Lilli Schnitzerling | Germany | xo | xxo | xxx | 3.95 | ||||||||||
| 10 | Reena Koll |  Estonia | o | xxx | 3.80 | |||||||||||
| Natalya Demidenko | Russia | – | – | xxx | NM | |||||||||||
| Ganna Shelekh |  Ukraine | – | – | – | xxx | NM |
According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.
Australia (2) Austria (1)
Belarus (1)
Canada (1) China (1) Estonia (1)
Finland (1) Germany (2)
Greece (1) Italy (2)
Puerto Rico (1) Russia (2)
South Korea (1)
Spain (2) Sweden (2)
Switzerland (1)
Turkey (2) Ukraine (2)
United Kingdom (1) United States (2)
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