The Men's Pole Vault has been included in all Summer Olympic Games since 1896, and athletes from the United States have seen the most success in the event since this time. U.S. athletes have won 19 gold medals in this event, and 47 total medals. The most successful athlete in this event is Bob Richards, who won two golds and one bronze medal between 1948 and 1956. The pole vault is notable for a large number of medals shared between competitors with tied scores, for example, one gold, two silver and three bronze medals were given out in the event in 1912. The only athlete to have been stripped of a medal in this event was Ukraine's Denys Yurchenko, who was stripped of the bronze he won in 2008, after retests in 2016 showed traces of performance enhancing drugs.
Medal count by country in the Men's Pole Vault at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020
*No longer exists/competes at the Olympics.
**Includes the Unified Team of 1992 (which was made up of athletes from all former Soviet States, except the three Baltic states).
***Includes the United Team of Germany (1956-1964), but does not include East or West Germany.
This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).
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olympic.org, & The Guardian. (August 6, 2021). Medal count by country in the Men's Pole Vault at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 26, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117983/olympics-mens-pole-vault-medal-table-since-1896/
olympic.org, und The Guardian. "Medal count by country in the Men's Pole Vault at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020." Chart. August 6, 2021. Statista. Accessed December 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117983/olympics-mens-pole-vault-medal-table-since-1896/
olympic.org, The Guardian. (2021). Medal count by country in the Men's Pole Vault at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117983/olympics-mens-pole-vault-medal-table-since-1896/
olympic.org, and The Guardian. "Medal Count by Country in The Men's Pole Vault at The Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020." Statista, Statista Inc., 6 Aug 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117983/olympics-mens-pole-vault-medal-table-since-1896/
olympic.org & The Guardian, Medal count by country in the Men's Pole Vault at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117983/olympics-mens-pole-vault-medal-table-since-1896/ (last visited December 26, 2024)
Medal count by country in the Men's Pole Vault at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020 [Graph], olympic.org, & The Guardian, August 6, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117983/olympics-mens-pole-vault-medal-table-since-1896/
