1990 European Athletics Championships – Men's pole vault

Qualification standard: Qualification Performance 5.60 or at least 12 best performers advance to the final^[2]

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	4.90	5.10	5.30	5.40	5.50	Result	Notes
1	A	Sergey Bubka	Soviet Union	–	–	–	–	xxo	5.50	q
2	A	Hermann Fehringer	Austria						5.40	q
3	A	Philippe Collet	France						5.30	q
4	A	Ferenc Salbert	France						5.30	q
5	A	Petri Peltoniemi	Finland						5.30	q
6	A	Marco Andreini	Italy						5.10
7	A	Ruhan Işım	Turkey						4.90
	A	Peter Widén	Sweden						NM
	A	Sazan Fisheku	Albania						NM
	A	Nikolay Nikolov	Bulgaria						NM
1	B	Grigoriy Yegorov	Soviet Union						5.40	q
2	B	Radion Gataullin	Soviet Union	–	–	–	xxo		5.40	q
3	B	Galin Nikov	Bulgaria						5.30	q
4	B	Thierry Vigneron	France						5.30	q
5	B	Javier García	Spain						5.30	q
6	B	Jani Lehtonen	Finland						5.30	q
7	B	István Bagyula	Hungary						5.30	q
8	B	Mike Edwards	Great Britain						5.10
	B	Bernhard Zintl	West Germany						NM

Rank	Name	Nationality	5.20	5.40	5.60	5.70	5.75	5.80	5.85	5.90	6.08	Result	Notes
	Radion Gataullin	Soviet Union				xo			o	x-	xx	5.85	=CR
	Grigoriy Yegorov	Soviet Union			o		xo		x–	xx		5.75
	Hermann Fehringer	Austria										5.75
4	Philippe Collet	France				o	–	xr				5.70
5	Javier García	Spain				xo						5.70
6	Sergey Bubka	Soviet Union	–	–	–	xxo	–	xxx				5.70
7	Ferenc Salbert	France		o	o	xxx						5.60
8	Petri Peltoniemi	Finland										5.40
9	Galin Nikov	Bulgaria										5.40
10	István Bagyula	Hungary										5.20
	Thierry Vigneron	France										NM
	Jani Lehtonen	Finland										NM

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

• 1988 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Seoul)
• 1991 Men's World Championships Pole Vault (Tokyo)
• 1992 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Barcelona)
• 1994 Men's European Championships Pole Vault (Helsinki)

• Results