1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's pole vault

1969 European Athletics Championships
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
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault
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

The men's pole vault at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 19 and 20 September 1969.^[1]

Gold	Wolfgang Nordwig  East Germany
Silver	Kjell Isaksson  Sweden
Bronze	Aldo Righi  Italy

20 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Wolfgang Nordwig	East Germany	5.30	CR
	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden	5.20
	Aldo Righi	Italy	5.10
4	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece	5.00
5	John-Erik Blomqvist	Sweden	5.00
6	Joachim Bär	East Germany	5.00
7	Mike Bull	Great Britain	5.00
8	Erkki Mustakari	Finland	4.90
9	Alain-Pierre Legrain	France	4.80
10	Risto Ivanoff	Finland	4.70
11	Gianfranco Mariani	Italy	4.70
	Yuriy Isakov	Soviet Union	NH

19 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	John-Erik Blomqvist	Sweden	4.80	Q
	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece	4.80	Q
	Gianfranco Mariani	Italy	4.80	Q
	Joachim Bär	East Germany	4.80	Q
	Alain-Pierre Legrain	France	4.80	Q
	Wolfgang Nordwig	East Germany	4.80	Q
	Risto Ivanoff	Finland	4.80	Q
	Aldo Righi	Italy	4.80	Q
	Yuriy Isakov	Soviet Union	4.70	Q
	Mike Bull	Great Britain	4.70	Q
	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden	4.70	Q
	Erkki Mustakari	Finland	4.70	Q
	Robert Steinhacker	Hungary	4.50
	François Tracanelli	France	NH
	Renato Dionisi	Italy	NH

According to an unofficial count, 15 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.