Athletics at the 1961 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
Decathlon	men

The men's pole vault event at the 1961 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria,^[1] with the final on 2 September 1961.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Dimitar Khlebarov  Bulgaria	Gérard Barras  Switzerland	Ihor Petrenko  Soviet Union

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Risto Ankio	Finland	4.10	q
	Gérard Barras	Switzerland	4.10	q
	Dimitar Khlebarov	Bulgaria	4.10	q
	Khristo Khristov	Bulgaria	4.10	q
	Ihor Petrenko	Soviet Union	4.10	q
	Rudolf Tomášek	Czechoslovakia	4.10	q
	Janusz Gronowski	Poland	4.10	q
	Dragan Arapović	Yugoslavia	4.10	q
	Friedbert Volk	West Germany	4.10	q
	István Török	Hungary	4.10	q
	Helmut Schmidt	West Germany	4.10	q
	Yasushi Yamada	Japan	4.10	q
	Jonathan Hugon	Great Britain	4.00
	Sinan Özisik	Turkey	3.80
	Dimitriyas Vicarapalo	Turkey	3.60

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Dimitar Khlebarov	Bulgaria	4.52
	Gérard Barras	Switzerland	4.52
	Ihor Petrenko	Soviet Union	4.52
4	Risto Ankio	Finland	4.46
5	Khristo Khristov	Bulgaria	4.40
6	Janusz Gronowski	Poland	4.40
7	Rudolf Tomášek	Czechoslovakia	4.30
8	István Török	Hungary	4.30
9	Yasushi Yamada	Japan	4.20
10	Helmut Schmidt	West Germany	4.10
11	Friedbert Volk	West Germany	4.00
12	Dragan Arapović	Yugoslavia	4.00