1971 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	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		women
Decathlon	men

The men's pole vault at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 11 and 13 August 1971.^[1]

Gold	Wolfgang Nordwig  East Germany
Silver	Kjell Isaksson  Sweden
Bronze	Renato Dionisi  Italy

13 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Wolfgang Nordwig	East Germany	5.35	CR
	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden	5.30
	Renato Dionisi	Italy	5.30
4	Hans Lagerqvist	Sweden	5.25
5	Włodzimierz Sokołowski	Poland	5.10
6	John-Erik Blomqvist	Sweden	5.10
7	Yuriy Isakov	Soviet Union	5.10
8	Heinfried Engel	West Germany	5.10
9	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland	5.00
10	Altti Alarotu	Finland	4.90
11	Hans-Jürgen Ziegler	West Germany	4.90
12	Risto Ivanoff	Finland	4.90

11 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Renato Dionisi	Italy	5.00	Q
	Wolfgang Nordwig	East Germany	5.00	Q
	Włodzimierz Sokołowski	Poland	5.00	Q
	Heinfried Engel	West Germany	5.00	Q
	Hans-Jürgen Ziegler	West Germany	5.00	Q
	Risto Ivanoff	Finland	5.00	Q
	Hans Lagerqvist	Sweden	5.00	Q
	Kjell Isaksson	Sweden	5.00	Q
	Antti Kalliomäki	Finland	5.00	Q
	Altti Alarotu	Finland	5.00	Q
	John-Erik Blomqvist	Sweden	5.00	Q
	Yuriy Isakov	Soviet Union	5.00	Q
	Wojciech Buciarski	Poland	4.90
	Jean-Michel Bellot	France	4.90
	Yevgeniy Tananyka	Soviet Union	4.90
	Serge Lefebvre	France	4.70
	Aldo Righi	Italy	4.60
	Mike Bull	Great Britain	NH
	François Tracanelli	France	NH
	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece	NH

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.