Athletics at the 1959 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
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	men

The men's pole vault event at the 1959 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Comunale di Torino in Turin on 3 and 4 September 1959.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Noriaki Yasuda  Japan	Mirko Kuzmanović  Yugoslavia	Bernard Balastre  France

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
?	?	Igor Petrenko	Soviet Union	3.70
?	?	Helmut Schmidt	West Germany	3.70
?	?	Wolfgang Mayer	West Germany	3.70
?	?	Noriaki Yasuda	Japan	3.70
?	?	Paul Van Loo	Belgium	3.70
?	?	Fernando Adarraga	Spain	3.70
?	?	Peter Grunder	Switzerland	3.70
?	?	István Török	Hungary	3.70
?	?	Jiří Trmal	Czechoslovakia	3.70
?	?	Christian Ramadier	France	3.70	[3]
?	?	Mirko Kuzmanović	Yugoslavia	3.70
?	?	Zhang Zhangfa	China	3.70
?	?	Andrzej Kiełczewski	Poland	3.70
?	?	Bernard Balastre	France	3.70	[3]

^[4]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Noriaki Yasuda	Japan	4.35
	Mirko Kuzmanović	Yugoslavia	4.30
	Bernard Balastre	France	4.20
4	István Török	Hungary	4.10
5	Christian Ramadier	France	4.10
6	Igor Petrenko	Soviet Union	4.10
7	Jiří Trmal	Czechoslovakia	4.10
8	Zhang Zhangfa	China	4.00
9	Andrzej Kiełczewski	Poland	4.00
10	Helmut Schmidt	West Germany	3.90
11	Fernando Adarraga	Spain	3.80
12	Paul Van Loo	Belgium	3.80
13	Wolfgang Mayer	West Germany	3.80