Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault

Men's pole vault at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Montréal
Dates	24 & 26 July
Competitors	27 from 13 nations
Medalists
Tadeusz Ślusarski Poland   Antti Kalliomäki Finland   Dave Roberts United States

Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's pole vault competition featured as part of the athletics programme at the 1976 Summer Olympics and was held at the Olympic Stadium in Montréal on 24 and 26 July.

All three medallists tied the Olympic record mark of 5.50 metres. Tadeusz Ślusarski of Poland and Antti Kalliomäki of Finland both cleared all heights up to 5.50 m with no misses; Ślusarski passed two heights more than Kalliomäki, and won on the basis of fewer vaults in accordance with the rules of the time. American Dave Roberts, who also cleared 5.50 m on his first try but had one miss from an earlier height, took the bronze medal.^[1]

Schedule

Qualifying

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes[2]
1=	A	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	B	Patrick Abada	France	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	B	François Tracanelli	France	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	A	Günther Lohre	West Germany	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	A	Wojciech Buciarski	Poland	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	A	Władysław Kozakiewicz	Poland	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	A	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	A	Yuriy Prokhorenko	Soviet Union	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	A	Earl Bell	United States	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	A	Terry Porter	United States	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	A	Dave Roberts	United States	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	B	Bruce Simpson	Canada	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	B	Roberto Moré	Cuba	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	B	Tapani Haapakoski	Finland	5.10 (o)	Q
1=	B	Itsuo Takanezawa	Japan	5.10 (o)	Q
16=	A	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland	5.10 (xo)	Q
16=	A	Vladimir Kishkun	Soviet Union	5.10 (xo)	Q
18	B	Brian Hooper	Great Britain	5.10 (xo)	Q
19=	A	Don Baird	Australia	5.10 (xxo)	Q
19=	A	Jean-Michel Bellot	France	5.10 (xxo)	Q
21	B	Ray Boyd	Australia	5.00
22	B	Ken Wenman	Canada	5.00
23	B	Dimitrios Kytteas	Greece	5.00
24	B	Jeff Gutteridge	Great Britain	4.80
N/A	B	Yoshiomi Iwama	Japan	NM
N/A	B	Ingemar Jernberg	Sweden	NM
N/A	A	Yury Isakov	Soviet Union	NM

Final round

Rank	Name	Nationality	5.00	5.10	5.20	5.25	5.30	5.35	5.40	5.45	5.50	5.55	5.60	Result	Notes
01 !	Tadeusz Ślusarski	Poland	–	–	o	–	–	–	o	–	o	xxx		5.50	=OR
02 !	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland	–	o	–	–	o	–	o	o	o	xxx		5.50	=OR
03 !	Dave Roberts	United States	–	–	–	–	–	xo	–	–	o	–	xxx	5.50	=OR
4	Patrick Abada	France	–	–	–	–	xo	–	–	xo	–	xxx		5.45
5	Wojciech Buciarski	Poland	–	–	o	–	–	xo	–	xo	x-	xx-		5.45
6	Earl Bell	United States	–	–	o	–	–	o	–	xxo	–	xxx		5.45
7	Jean-Michel Bellot	France	–	–	–	o	–	–	o	–	xxx			5.40
8	Itsuo Takanezawa	Japan	xo	–	xo	–	xo	–	xxo	xxx				5.40
9	Günther Lohre	West Germany	–	xo	–	xo	–	xxo	–	xxx				5.35
10	Yuriy Prokhorenko	Soviet Union	–	–	–	o	–	xxx						5.25
11	Władysław Kozakiewicz	Poland	–	–	–	xo	–	–	–	xxx				5.25
12	Don Baird	Australia	–	o	–	xo	–	xxx						5.25
13=	Vladimir Kishkun	Soviet Union	–	–	o	–	–	–	xxx					5.20
13=	Terry Porter	United States	–	–	o	–	–	xxx						5.20
15	Tapani Haapakoski	Finland	xo	–	o	–	xxx							5.20
16	Brian Hooper	Great Britain	xo	–	xxx									5.00
N/A	Bruce Simpson	Canada	xxx											NM
N/A	Roberto Moré	Cuba	–	xxx										NM
N/A	François Tracanelli	France	–	–	–	–	xxx							NM
N/A	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden	–	–	xxx									NM

References

Results

• Athletics at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games: Men's Pole Vault. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2013-07-03.