Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault

Men's pole vault
at the Games of the XI Olympiad

Dates

August 5

Medalists

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's pole vault event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 5, 1936. The final was won by American Earle Meadows.

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	3.40	3.60	3.80	4.00	4.15	4.25	4.35	4.45	Result	Notes
1 !	Earle Meadows	United States	pass	o	pass	o	o	xo	xo	xxx	4.35	OR
2 !	Shuhei Nishida	Japan	pass	pass	o	o	o	o	xxx		4.25
3 !	Sueo Ōe	Japan	pass	pass	o	o	o	xo	xxx		4.25
4	Bill Sefton	United States	pass	o	pass	o	xxo	o	xxx		4.25
5	Bill Graber	United States	pass	o	pass	o	xo	xxx			4.15
6	Kiyoshi Adachi	Japan	pass	o	o	o	xxx				4.00
6	Syl Apps	Canada	pass	o	o	o	xxx				4.00
6	Péter Bácsalmási	Hungary	pass	o	o	xxo	xxx				4.00
6	Josef Haunzwickel	Austria	pass	o	o	xo	xxx				4.00
6	Danilo Innocenti	Italy	pass	o	o	xo	xxx				4.00
6	Jan Korejs	Czechoslovakia	pass	xo	o	xxo	xxx				4.00
6	Bo Ljungberg	Sweden	pass	o	o	o	xxx				4.00
6	Alfred Proksch	Austria	pass	o	o	o	xxx				4.00
6	Wilhelm Schneider	Poland	pass	pass	o	o	xxx				4.00
6	Dick Webster	Great Britain	pass	o	o	o	xxx				4.00
6	Viktor Zsuffka	Hungary	pass	o	o	xxo	xxx				4.00
17	Andries du Plessis	South Africa	o	o	o	xxx					3.80
17	Ernst Larsen	Denmark	pass	o	o	xxx					3.80
17	Julius Müller	Germany	pass	o	o	xxx					3.80
17	Miroslav Klásek	Czechoslovakia	pass	o	o	xxx					3.80
17	Fu Baolu	Republic of China	pass	o	o	xxx					3.80
17	Pierre Ramadier	France	pass	o	o	xxx					3.80
17	Siegfried Schulz	Germany	pass	o	o	xxx					3.80
24	Adolfo Schlegel	Chile	pass	xo	xxx						3.60
25	André Crépin	France	o	xxx							3.40

Key: OR = Olympic record

Pole vault at the Athletics at the Summer Olympics

Men's	1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 • 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008

Women's	2000 • 2004 • 2008