Events at the 1983 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the Men's Pole Vault event at the 1983 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 27 participating athletes. The qualification round was stopped and later canceled due to heavy rain and strong winds and eventually a straight final was held on 14 August, the last day of the championships.

Medalists

Gold	Sergey Bubka Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Konstantin Volkov Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Atanas Tarev Bulgaria (BUL)

Records

Serguei Bubka in Helsinki, 1983.

Standing records prior to the 1983 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Vladimir Polyakov (URS)	5.81 m	June 26, 1981	Tbilisi, Georgia
Event Record	New event

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	5.10	5.25	5.40	5.50	5.55	5.60	5.65	5.70	5.75	5.82	Result	Notes
	Sergey Bubka	Soviet Union	–	–	o	o	–	xxo	–	o	–	xxx	5.70
	Konstantin Volkov	Soviet Union	–	–	o	–	–	o	–	x–	xx		5.60
	Atanas Tarev	Bulgaria	–	–	xxo	o	–	o	xxx				5.60
4	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland	–	–	xo	–	o	–	xxx				5.55
5	Tom Hintnaus	Brazil	–	–	xo	o	–	xx–	x				5.50
6	Patrick Abada	France	–	–	–	xo	–	xxx					5.50
7	Miro Zalar	Sweden	–	–	xo	xo	–	xxx					5.50
8	Władysław Kozakiewicz	Poland	–	–	o	x–	xx						5.40
8	Thierry Vigneron	France	–	o	o	xxx							5.40
10	Felix Böhni	Switzerland											5.40
10	František Jansa	Czechoslovakia											5.40
10	Vladimir Polyakov	Soviet Union											5.40
13	Jeff Buckingham	United States											5.40
14	Veijo Vannesluoma	Finland											5.40
15	Günther Lohre	West Germany											5.25
15	Liang Weiqiang	China											5.25
17	Jürgen Winkler	West Germany											5.25
18	Timo Kuusisto	Finland											5.25
19	Tomomi Takahashi	Japan											5.25
20	Alberto Ruiz	Spain											5.10
	Pierre Quinon	France	–	–	xxx								NM
	Hermann Fehringer	Austria											NM
	Ivo Yanchev	Bulgaria											NM
	Tapani Haapakoski	Finland											NM
	Billy Olson	United States											NM
	Mike Tully	United States											NM
	George Barber	Canada											NM

See also

• 1980 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Moscow)
• 1982 Men's European Championships Pole Vault (Athens)
• 1984 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Los Angeles)
• 1984 Men's Friendship Games Pole Vault (Moscow)
• 1986 Men's European Championships Pole Vault (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Men's World Championships Pole Vault (Rome)
• 1988 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Seoul)

References

• Results