The men's pole vault competition of the athletics events at the 2015 Pan American Games took place on July 21 at the CIBC Pan Am and Parapan Am Athletics Stadium.[1] The defending Pan American Games champion is Lázaro Borges of Cuba.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:
| World record |  Sergey Bubka (UKR)
|
6.14 | Sestriere, Italy | July 31, 1994 |
| Pan American Games record |  Lázaro Borges (CUB)
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5.80 | Guadalajara, Mexico | October 28, 2011 |
Qualification
Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the minimum standard (4.98) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2014 to June 28, 2015).[2]
Schedule
| Date | Time | Round |
|---|---|---|
| July 21, 2015 | 10:15 | Final |
Results
All results shown are in meters.
| KEY: | q | Best non-qualifiers | Q | Qualified | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best | DQ | Disqualified |
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 5.00 | 5.20 | 5.40 | 5.60 | 5.65 | 5.70 | 5.75 | 5.80 | 5.85 | 5.90 | 5.93 | Mark | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Shawnacy Barber |  Canada |
– | o | xo | xo | – | o | – | xo | – | – | xxx | 5.80 | =PR |
 |
Germán Chiaraviglio |  Argentina |
– | xxo | o | o | – | x– | o | – | xxx | 5.75 | NR | ||
 |
Mark Hollis |  United States |
– | – | xo | xxx | 5.40 | ||||||||
|
Jacob Blankenship | United States |
– | – | xo | xxx | 5.40 | ||||||||
| 5 | Lázaro Borges | Cuba |
– | xxo | xo | xxx | 5.40 | SB | |||||||
| 6 | Jason Wurster | Canada |
o | xxx | 5.00 | ||||||||||
| 6 | José Rodolfo Pacho |  Ecuador |
o | xxx | 5.00 | ||||||||||
| Thiago Braz da Silva |  Brazil |
– | – | xxx | NM | ||||||||||
| Fabio da Silva | Brazil |
– | – | xxx | NM | ||||||||||
| Daniel Zupeuc |  Chile |
xxx | NM |
References
- ^ "Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Ticket Program Guide" (PDF). toronto2015.org. TO2015. 20 April 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ^ "Athletics Technical Manual" (PDF). americasathletics.org. TO2015. 11 January 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 April 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2015.