| 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Track events | ||
| 60 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | men | women |
| 60 m hurdles | men | women |
| 4×400 m relay | men | women |
| Field events | ||
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | women |
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | women |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Combined events | ||
| Pentathlon | women | |
| Heptathlon | men | |
The men's pole vault event at the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 3 March at 17:00 local time.
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Piotr Lisek  Poland | Konstadinos Filippidis  Greece | Paweł Wojciechowski Poland |
| Standing records prior to the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record |  Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) | 6.16 | Donetsk, Ukraine | 15 February 2014 |
| European record | ||||
| Championship record | 6.04 | Prague, Czech Republic | 7 March 2015 | |
| World Leading | Piotr Lisek (POL) | 6.00 | Potsdam, Germany | 4 February 2017 |
| European Leading | ||||
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | 5.35 | 5.50 | 5.60 | 5.70 | 5.75 | 5.80 | 5.85 | 5.90 | Result | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Piotr Lisek | Poland | o | o | o | o | x- | o | o | xxx | 5.85 | |
 | Konstadinos Filippidis | Greece | xo | o | o | o | x- | xo | o | xxx | 5.85 | NR |
 | Paweł Wojciechowski | Poland | o | o | o | xo | – | – | xxo | xxx | 5.85 | SB |
| 4 | Jan Kudlička |  Czech Republic | – | o | – | o | o | o | xxx | 5.80 | SB | |
| 5 | Raphael Holzdeppe |  Germany | – | – | o | o | x- | o | xxx | 5.80 | SB | |
| 6 | Axel Chapelle | France | xo | o | xo | o | o | o | xxx | 5.80 | PB | |
| 7 | Ivan Horvat |  Croatia | xo | o | xo | o | o | xxx | 5.75 | |||
| 8 | Mareks Ārents |  Latvia | o | xo | o | xxx | 5.60 | SB | ||||
| 8 | Stanley Joseph | France | o | xo | o | xxx | 5.60 | |||||
| 10 | Kévin Menaldo | France | – | o | xo | xxx | 5.60 | |||||
| 11 | Emmanouil Karális | Greece | o | o | xxx | 5.50 | ||||||
| Florian Gaul | Germany | DNS | ||||||||||
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