Marek Plawgo is a Polish athlete. He mainly competes in the 400 meters hurdles, but he also starts in the 400 meters and the 4 x 400 meters relay.
Mirosław Marian Chmara is a retired pole vaulter from Poland. His personal best jump of 5.90 metres, achieved in June 1988 in Villeneuve-d'Ascq. His personal best was also a Polish record for 23 years. It was beaten by Paweł Wojciechowski who jumped 5.91 in August 2011 in Szczecin.
Silke Spiegelburg is a German pole vaulter. She is the younger sister of Richard Spiegelburg. She represented Germany at the Summer Olympics in 2004, 2008 and 2012, as well as having competed at the World Championships in Athletics. She is a European silver medallist in the event both indoors and outdoors.
Dmitry Andreevich Starodubtsev ; born 3 January 1986 in Chelyabinsk) is a Russian pole vaulter. He has a personal best of 5.90 m and was a finalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. He has won medals at world youth and junior levels and was third at the Summer Universiade in 2007.
Jennifer "Jenn" Suhr is an American pole vaulter. She has been an Olympic and World champion, has been ranked #1 in the World, has been the #1 American pole vaulter since 2006, and has won a total of 17 US National Championships. She holds the world indoor pole vault record at 5.03 m. She holds the American women's pole vault record indoors. In 2008, she won the U.S. Olympic trials, setting an American record of 4.92 m and won a silver medal in the Beijing Olympics. She won the gold medal at the London Olympics on August 6, 2012. Track & Field News named her American Female Athlete of the Year for 2008.
Yarisley Silva Rodríguez is a Cuban pole vaulter. She won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics – the first Latin American athlete to win an Olympic medal in that event.
Konstantinos Filippidis is a Greek pole vaulter. He won the gold medal at the 2014 World Indoor Championships and the silver medal at the 2017 European Indoor Championships. He took the sixth place at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Steven ("Steve") James Lewis is an English pole vaulter. His personal best jump of 5.82 metres, set in July 2012, is the British record for the event. Indoors his best is 5.77 m, achieved in Dessau on 2 March 2012.
Renaud Lavillenie is a French pole vaulter. He is the current indoor world record holder, with a height of 6.16 m set indoors on 15 February 2014.
Malte Mohr is a German pole vaulter. At the 2009 World Athletics Championships, Mohr finished in 14th place with a vault of 5.50 metres. At the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Mohr was runner-up behind Steve Hooker with a vault of 5.70 metres.
Mateusz Didenkow is a retired Polish track and field athlete who competed in the pole vault. His personal best for the event is 5.75 metres, set in 2011.
Holly Bethan Bradshaw is a British track and field athlete who specialises in the pole vault. She is the current British record holder in the event indoors and outdoors, with clearances of 4.87 metres and 4.81 metres. She won a bronze medal at the 2012 World Indoor Championships, a gold medal at the 2013 European Indoor Championships, a bronze medal at the 2018 European Championships, and a silver medal at the 2019 European Indoor Championships. She also won at the 2018 Athletics World Cup. Coached by Scott Simpson., she has been consistently ranked among the world's best and has been ranked in the world top ten on the Track and Field News merit rankings four times.
Lázaro Eduardo Borges Reid is Cuban pole vaulter.
Hsieh Chia-han is a Taiwanese pole vaulter. He is the national record holder with his personal best of 5.32 m. He was the gold medallist at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in 2014.
Kévin Menaldo is a French track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault. He has a personal best of 5.75 m and was the silver medallist at the 2013 Mediterranean Games.
Luke Cutts is a British pole vaulter. His personal best of 5.83 m set in 2014 is the British indoor record for the event. His outdoor best of 5.70 m puts him third on the all-time British lists.
Mark Hollis is an American track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault. His personal best for the event is 5.83 m, set in 2014. He finished third at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup.
The men's pole vault competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium between 13–15 August. Thiago Braz da Silva of Brazil won the gold medal.
The men's pole vault at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22 and 24 August.
