| 1 | Sergey Bubka | URS | |
5,85 | |
| 2 | Earl Bell | USA | |
5,80 | |
| 3 | Thierry Vigneron | FRA | |
5,80 | |
| 4 | Ferenc Salbert | FRA | 5,80 | ||
| 5 | Marian Kolasa | POL | 5,75 | ||
| 6 | Atanas Tarev | BUL | 5,70 | ||
| 7 | Nikolay Nikolov | BUL | 5,60 | ||
| 8 | Doug Lytle | USA | 5,60 | ||
| 9 | Rodion Gataullin | URS | 5,60 | ||
| 10 | Gianni Stecchi | ITA | 5,50 | NR | |
| 11 | Javier Chico Garcia | ESP | 5,40 | ||
| 12 | Liang Xueren | CHN | 5,40 | ||
| 13 | Asko Peltoniemi | FIN | 5,30 | ||
| 13 | Hermann Fehringer | AUT | 5,30 | ||
| Antonio Montepeque | GUA | NM |