Athletics at the 1970 Summer Universiade – Men's pole vault

Athletics at the 1970 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
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
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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's pole vault event at the 1970 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Comunale in Turin on 3 September 1970.^[1]

Records[]

Standing records prior to the 1970 Summer Universiade
World record	Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)	5.45	East Berlin, East Germany	17 June 1970
Universiade record	Heinfried Engel (FRG)	5.00	Tokyo, Japan	1967

Results[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	4.60	4.80	5.00	5.20	5.30	5.42	5.46	5.50	Result	Notes
	Wolfgang Nordwig	East Germany	–	–	o	o	o	o	xxo	xxx	5.46	WR
	Christos Papanikolau	Greece						o	xxx		5.42	NR
	François Tracanelli	France					o	x–	xx		5.30
4	Heinfried Engel	West Germany									5.20
5		Japan									5.00
6	Mike Bull	Great Britain									5.00
7	Yury Isakov	Soviet Union									4.80
8		Poland									4.80
9		Italy									4.60
10	Reinhard Kuretzky	West Germany									4.60
11		Canada									4.60
12		United States									4.60
		Republic of the Congo									NM
		France									NM
	Kiyoshi Niwa	Japan									NM

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