Athletics at the 1970 Summer Universiade – Men's pole vault
The men's pole vault event at the 1970 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Comunale in Turin on 3 September 1970.[1][2]
Records[edit]
| Standing records prior to the 1970 Summer Universiade | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record |  Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)
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5.45 | East Berlin, East Germany | 17 June 1970 |
| Universiade record |  Heinfried Engel (FRG)
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5.00 | Tokyo, Japan | 1967 |
Results[edit]
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | 4.60 | 4.80 | 5.00 | 5.20 | 5.30 | 5.42 | 5.46 | 5.50 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Wolfgang Nordwig | East Germany |
– | – | o | o | o | o | xxo | xxx | 5.46 | WR |
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Christos Papanikolau |  Greece |
o | xxx | 5.42 | NR | ||||||
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François Tracanelli |  France |
o | x– | xx | 5.30 | ||||||
| 4 | Heinfried Engel | West Germany |
5.20 | |||||||||
| 5 | Kyoichiro Inoue |  Japan |
5.00 | |||||||||
| 6 | Mike Bull |  Great Britain |
5.00 | |||||||||
| 7 | Yury Isakov |  Soviet Union |
4.80 | |||||||||
| 8 | Zygmunt Dobrosz |  Poland |
4.80 | |||||||||
| 9 | Vittorio Gian Pontonutti |  Italy |
4.60 | |||||||||
| 10 | Reinhard Kuretzky | West Germany |
4.60 | |||||||||
| 11 | Allen Kane |  Canada |
4.60 | |||||||||
| 12 | Jeff Sakala |  United States |
4.60 | |||||||||
| Jean-Prosper Tsondzabéka |  Republic of the Congo |
NM | ||||||||||
| Robert Liotard | France |
NM | ||||||||||
| Kiyoshi Niwa | Japan |
NM |