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Show medals won by any nation at the Olympic Games in Pole vault · all years

2024 Paris

1 Pole vault Men SWE Armand Duplantis OG 6.25 WR
2 Pole vault Men USA Sam Kendricks 5.95
3 Pole vault Men GRE Emmanouil Karalis 5.90

2021 Tokyo

1 Pole vault Men SWE Armand Duplantis OG 6.02
2 Pole vault Men USA Chris Nilsen 5.97
3 Pole vault Men BRA Thiago Braz OG 5.87

2016 Rio de Janeiro

1 Pole vault Men BRA Thiago Braz OG 6.03 ORAR
2 Pole vault Men FRA Renaud Lavillenie OG 5.98
3 Pole vault Men USA Sam Kendricks 5.85

2012 London

1 Pole vault Men FRA Renaud Lavillenie OG 5.97
2 Pole vault Men GER Bjorn Otto 5.91 note
3 Pole vault Men GER Raphael Holzdeppe 5.91 note

2008 Beijing

1 Pole vault Men AUS Steven Hooker OG 5.96
2 Pole vault Men RUS Yevgeny Lukyanenko 5.85
DQ Pole vault Men UKR Denys Yurchenko Disqualified · medal withdrawn 5.70 note
3 Pole vault Men USA Derek Miles 5.70

2004 Athens

1 Pole vault Men USA Tim Mack OG 5.95
2 Pole vault Men USA Toby Stevenson 5.90
3 Pole vault Men ITA Giuseppe Gibilisco 5.85

2000 Sydney

1 Pole vault Men USA Nick Hysong OG 5.90 note
2 Pole vault Men USA Lawrence Johnson 5.90 note
3 Pole vault Men RUS Maksim Tarasov OG 5.90 note

1996 Atlanta

1 Pole vault Men FRA Jean Galfione OG 5.92 NR note
2 Pole vault Men RUS Igor Trandenkov 5.92 note
3 Pole vault Men GER Andrej Tivontchik 5.92 note

1992 Barcelona

1 Pole vault Men URS Maksim Tarasov OG 5.80 note
2 Pole vault Men URS Igor Trandenkov 5.80 note
3 Pole vault Men ESP Javier Garcia (1966) 5.75

1988 Seoul

1 Pole vault Men URS Sergey Bubka OG 5.90
2 Pole vault Men URS Radion Gataullin 5.85
3 Pole vault Men URS Grigoriy Yegorov 5.80

1984 Los Angeles

1 Pole vault Men FRA Pierre Quinon OG 5.75
2 Pole vault Men USA Mike Tully 5.65
3 Pole vault Men USA Earl Bell 5.60
3 Pole vault Men FRA Thierry Vigneron 5.60

1980 Moscow

1 Pole vault Men POL Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz OG 5.78
2 Pole vault Men URS Konstantin Volkov 5.65
2 Pole vault Men POL Tadeusz Slusarski OG 5.65

1976 Montreal

1 Pole vault Men POL Tadeusz Slusarski OG 5.50 note
2 Pole vault Men FIN Antti Kalliomaki 5.50 note
3 Pole vault Men USA David Roberts 5.50 note

1972 Munich

1 Pole vault Men GDR Wolfgang Nordwig OG 5.50
2 Pole vault Men USA Bob Seagren OG 5.40
3 Pole vault Men USA Jan Johnson 5.35

1968 Mexico City ↗

1 Pole vault Men USA Bob Seagren OG 5.40 note
2 Pole vault Men GER Claus Schiprowski 5.40 note
3 Pole vault Men GDR Wolfgang Nordwig OG 5.40 note

1964 Tokyo

1 Pole vault Men USA Fred Hansen OG 5.10
2 Pole vault Men GER Wolfgang Reinhardt 5.05
3 Pole vault Men GER Klaus Lehnertz 5.00

1960 Rome

1 Pole vault Men USA Don Bragg OG 4.70
2 Pole vault Men USA Ron Morris 4.60
3 Pole vault Men FIN Eeles Landstrom 4.55

1956 Melbourne

1 Pole vault Men USA Bob Richards OG 4.56
2 Pole vault Men USA Bob Gutowski 4.53
3 Pole vault Men GRE Georgios Roubanis 4.50

1952 Helsinki

1 Pole vault Men USA Bob Richards OG 4.55
2 Pole vault Men USA Don Laz 4.50
3 Pole vault Men SWE Ragnar Lundberg 4.40

1948 London

1 Pole vault Men USA Guinn Smith OG 4.30
2 Pole vault Men FIN Erkki Kataja 4.20 note
3 Pole vault Men USA Bob Richards OG 4.20 note

1936 Berlin

1 Pole vault Men USA Earle Meadows OG 4.35
2 Pole vault Men JPN Shuhei Nishida 4.25
3 Pole vault Men JPN Sueo Oe 4.25

1932 Los Angeles

1 Pole vault Men USA Bill Miller (1912) OG 4.31 ,5
2 Pole vault Men JPN Shuhei Nishida 4.30
3 Pole vault Men USA George Jefferson 4.20

1928 Amsterdam

1 Pole vault Men USA Sabin Carr OG 4.20
2 Pole vault Men USA William Droegemuller 4.10
3 Pole vault Men USA Charles McGinnis 3.95

1924 Paris

1 Pole vault Men USA Lee Barnes OG 3.95
2 Pole vault Men USA Glenn Graham 3.95
3 Pole vault Men USA James Brooker 3.90

1920 Antwerp

1 Pole vault Men USA Frank Foss OG 4.09
2 Pole vault Men DEN Henry Petersen 3.70
3 Pole vault Men USA Edwin Myers 3.60

1912 Stockholm

1 Pole vault Men USA Harry Babcock OG 3.95
2 Pole vault Men USA Frank Nelson 3.85
2 Pole vault Men USA Marc Wright 3.85
3 Pole vault Men USA Frank Murphy 3.80 note
3 Pole vault Men SWE Bertil Uggla 3.80 note
3 Pole vault Men CAN William Halpenny 3.80 note

1908 London

1 Pole vault Men USA Alfred Gilbert OG 3.71
1 Pole vault Men USA Edward Cook OG 3.71
3 Pole vault Men USA Charles Jacobs 3.58
3 Pole vault Men SWE Bruno Söderström 3.58
3 Pole vault Men CAN Edward Archibald 3.58

1906 Athens

1 Pole vault Men FRA Fernand Gonder OG 3.50
2 Pole vault Men SWE Bruno Söderström 3.40
3 Pole vault Men USA Edward Glover 3.35

1904 St. Louis

1 Pole vault Men USA Charles Dvorak OG 3.50 ,5
2 Pole vault Men USA Leroy Samse 3.35
3 Pole vault Men USA Louis Wilkins 3.35

1900 Paris

1 Pole vault Men USA Irving Baxter OG 3.30
2 Pole vault Men USA Meredith Colkett 3.25
3 Pole vault Men NOR Carl Albert Andersen 3.20

1896 Athens

1 Pole vault Men USA William Hoyt OG 3.30
2 Pole vault Men USA Albert Tyler 3.20
3 Pole vault Men GRE Evangelos Damaskos (1875) 2.60