The men's pole vault competition at the 2001 World Athletics Championships was held on August 9th.
Winners
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Dmitry Markov Australia | Alexander Averbukh Israel | Nick Haysong USA |
Final
| A place | Name | 5.50 | 5.65 | 5.75 | 5.85 | 5.90 | 5.95 | 6.05 | 6.10 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dmitry Markov ( AUS ) | - | - | xxo | - | o | o | x o | xxx | 6.05 | CR | |
| Alexander Averbukh ( ISR ) | - | xo | o | o | x- | xx | 5.85 | ||||
| Nick Haysong ( USA ) | - | o | o | x o | xxx | 5.85 | SB | ||||
| four | Michael Stoll ( GER ) | xxo | o | o | x o | xxx | 5.85 | SB | |||
| 5 | Roman Mesnil ( FRA ) | - | xxo | o | xx o | xxx | 5.85 | ||||
| 6 | Christian Tamming ( NED ) | o | o | o | xxx | 5.75 | SB | ||||
| 6 | Richard Spiegelburg ( GER ) | o | o | o | xxx | 5.75 | |||||
| 8 | Adam Kolas ( POL ) | xo | o | o | xxx | 5.75 | PB | ||||
| 9 | Timothy Mack ( USA ) | o | xxo | o | xxx | 5.75 | |||||
| 10 | Victor Chistyakov ( AUS ) | xxo | xo | x o | xxx | 5.75 | |||||
| eleven | Danny Ecker ( GER ) | - | o | - | xxx | 5.65 | |||||
| 12 | Martin Ericsson ( SWE ) | x o | xxx | 5.50 | |||||||
| - | Rens Blom ( NED ) | xxx | NM | ||||||||