| Olympic Games/World Champs | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 2022 Men Pole Vault | Armand Duplantis |  SWE | 6.21m2 | Chris Nilsen |  USA | 5.94m1 | Ernest John Obiena |  PHI | 5.94m2 |
| Olympic 2020 Men Pole Vault | Armand Duplantis | SWE | 6.02m | Christopher Nilsen | USA | 5.97m | Thiago Braz da Silva |  BRA | 5.87m |
| 2019 Men Pole Vault | Sam Kendricks | USA | 5.97m | Armand Duplantis | SWE | 5.97m | Piotr Lisek |  POL | 5.87m |
| 2017 Men Pole Vault | Sam Kendricks | USA | 5.89m | Piotr Lisek | POL | 5.89m | Renaud Lavillenie |  FRA | 5.89m |
| Olympic 2016 Men Pole Vault | Thiago Braz da Silva | BRA | 6.03m | Renaud Lavillenie | FRA | 5.98m | Sam Kendricks | USA | 5.85m |
| 2015 Men Pole Vault | Shawnacy Barber |  CAN | -.--m | Raphael Marcel Holzdeppe |  GER | -.--m | Pawel Wojciechowski | POL | -.--m |
| Renaud Lavillenie | FRA | -.--m |
| Piotr Lisek | POL | -.--m |
| 2013 Men Pole Vault | Raphael Holzdeppe | GER | -.--m | Renaud Lavillenie | FRA | -.--m | Björn Otto | GER | -.--m |
| Olympic 2012 Men Pole Vault | Renaud Lavillenie | FRA | -.--m | Bjorn Otto | GER | -.--m | Raphael Holzdeppe | GER | -.--m |
| 2011 Men Pole Vault | Pawel Wojciechowski | POL | -.--m | Lazaro Borges |  CUB | -.--m | Renaud Lavillenie | FRA | -.--m |
| 2009 Men Pole Vault | Steven Hooker |  AUS | -.--m | Romain Mesnil | FRA | -.--m | Renaud Lavillenie | FRA | -.--m |
| Olympic 2008 Men Pole Vault | Steve Hooker | AUS | -.--m | Evgeny Lukyanenko |  RUS | -.--m | Derek Miles | USA | -.--m |
| 2007 Men Pole Vault | Brad Walker | USA | -.--m | Romain Mesnil | FRA | -.--m | Danny Ecker | GER | -.--m |
| 2005 Men Pole Vault | Rens Blom |  NED | -.--m | Brad Walker | USA | -.--m | Pavel Gerasimov | RUS | -.--m |
| Olympic 2004 Men Pole Vault | Timothy Mack | USA | -.--m | Toby Stevenson | USA | -.--m | Giuseppe Gibilisco |  ITA | -.--m |
| 2003 Men Pole Vault | Giuseppe Gibilisco | ITA | -.--m | Okkert Brits |  RSA | -.--m | Patrik Kristiansson | SWE | -.--m |
| 2001 Men Pole Vault | Dmitri Markov | AUS | -.--m | Aleksandr Averbukh |  ISR | -.--m | Nick Hysong | USA | -.--m |
| Olympic 2000 Men Pole Vault | Nick Hysong | USA | -.--m | Lawrence Johnson | USA | -.--m | Maksim Tarasov | RUS | -.--m |
| 1999 Men Pole Vault | Maksim Tarasov | RUS | -.--m | Dmitriy Markov | AUS | -.--m | Aleksandr Averbukh | ISR | -.--m |
| 1997 Men Pole Vault | Sergey Bubka |  UKR | -.--m | Maksim Tarasov | RUS | -.--m | Dean Starkey | USA | -.--m |
| Olympic 1996 Men Pole Vault | Jean Galfione | FRA | -.--m | Igor Trandenkov | RUS | -.--m | Andrei Tivontchik | GER | -.--m |
| 1995 Men Pole Vault | Sergey Bubka | UKR | -.--m | Maksim Tarasov | RUS | -.--m | Jean Galfione | FRA | -.--m |
| 1993 Men Pole Vault | Sergey Bubka | UKR | -.--m | Grigoriy Yegorov |  KAZ | -.--m | Maksim Tarasov | RUS | -.--m |
| -.--m | Igor Trandenkov | RUS | -.--m |
| Olympic 1992 Men Pole Vault | Maxim Tarassov |  EUN | -.--m | Igor Trandenkov | EUN | -.--m | Javier Garcia |  ESP | -.--m |
| 1991 Men Pole Vault | Sergey Bubka |  URS | -.--m | Istvan Bagyula |  HUN | -.--m | Maksim Tarasov | URS | -.--m |
| Olympic 1988 Men Pole Vault | Sergey Bubka | URS | -.--m | Radion Gataoulline | URS | -.--m | Grigori Egorov | URS | -.--m |
| 1987 Men Pole Vault | Sergey Bubka | URS | -.--m | Thierry Vigneron | FRA | -.--m | Radion Gataullin | URS | -.--m |
| Olympic 1984 Men Pole Vault | Pierre Quinon | FRA | -.--m | Mike Tully | USA | -.--m | Earl Bell | USA | -.--m |
| -.--m | Thierry Vigneron | FRA | -.--m |
| 1983 Men Pole Vault | Sergey Bubka | URS | -.--m | Konstantin Volkov | URS | -.--m | Atanas Tarev |  BUL | -.--m |
| Olympic 1980 Men Pole Vault | Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz | POL | -.--m | Konstantin Volkov | URS | -.--m | Tadeusz Slusarski | POL | -.--m |
| Olympic 1976 Men Pole Vault | Tadeusz Slusarski | POL | -.--m | Antti Kalliomaki |  FIN | -.--m | David Roberts | USA | -.--m |
| Olympic 1972 Men Pole Vault | Wolfgang Nordwig |  GDR | -.--m | Bob Seagren | USA | -.--m | Jan Johnson | USA | -.--m |
| Olympic 1968 Men Pole Vault | Bob Seagren | USA | -.--m | Claus Schiprowski |  FRG | -.--m | Wolfgang Nordwig | GDR | -.--m |
| Olympic 1964 Men Pole Vault | Fred Hansen | USA | 5.10m | Wolfgang Reinhardt | FRG | 5.05m | Klaus Lehnertz | FRG | 5.00m |
| Olympic 1960 Men Pole Vault | Donald Bragg | USA | 4.70m | Ron Morris | USA | 4.60m | Eelis Landstrom | FIN | 4.55m |
| Olympic 1956 Men Pole Vault | Robert Richards | USA | 4.56m | Bob Gutowski | USA | 4.53m | Georgios Roubanis |  GRe | 4.50m |
| Olympic 1952 Men Pole Vault | Robert Richards | USA | 4.55m | Donald Laz | USA | 4.50m | Ragnar Lundberg | SWE | 4.40m |
| Olympic 1948 Men Pole Vault | Guinn Smith | USA | 4.30m | Erkki Kataja | FIN | 4.20m | Robert Richards | USA | 4.20m |
| Olympic 1936 Men Pole Vault | Earle Meadows | USA | 4.35m | Shuhei Nishida |  JPN | 4.25m | Sueo Oe | JPN | 4.25m |
| Olympic 1932 Men Pole Vault | William Miller | USA | 4.31m | Shuhei Nishida | JPN | 4.30m | George Jefferson | USA | 4.20m |
| Olympic 1928 Men Pole Vault | Sabin Carr | USA | 4.20m | William Droegemueller | USA | 4.10m | Charles McGinnis | USA | 3.95m |
| Olympic 1924 Men Pole Vault | Lee Barnes | USA | 3.95m | Glenn Graham | USA | 3.95m | James Brooker | USA | 3.90m |
| Olympic 1920 Men Pole Vault | Frank Foss | USA | 4.09m | Henry Petersen |  DEN | 3.70m | Edwin Myers | USA | 3.60m |
| Olympic 1912 Men Pole Vault | Harold Babcock | USA | 3.95m | Frank Nelson | USA | 3.85m | |
| Marc Wright | USA | 3.85m |
| Olympic 1908 Men Pole Vault | Edward Cook | USA | 3.71m | | Edward Archibald |  CAn | 3.58m |
| Alfred Gilbert | USA | 3.71m | Bruno Soderstrom | SWE | 3.58m |
| Charles Jacobs | USA | 3.58m |
| Olympic 1904 Men Pole Vault | Charles Dvorak | USA | 3.50m | Leroy Samse | USA | 3.35m | Louis Wilkins | USA | 3.35m |
| Olympic 1900 Men Pole Vault | Irving Baxter | USA | 3.30m | Meredith Colkett | USA | 3.25m | Carl Albert Andersen |  NOR | 3.20m |
| Olympic 1896 Men Pole Vault | William Hoyt | USA | 3.30m | Albert Tyler | USA | 3.20m | Ioannis Theodoropoulos | GRe | 2.60m |
| Evangelos Damaskos | GRe | 2.60m |
