Athletics at the 2023 Pan American Games
Qualification
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		women
10,000 m	men		women
100 m hurdles			women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men		women
3000 m steeplechase	men		women
4×100 m relay	men		women
4×400 m relay	men	mixed	women
Road events
Marathon	men		women
20 km walk	men	mixed	women
Field events
High jump	men		women
Pole vault	men		women
Long jump	men		women
Triple jump	men		women
Shot put	men		women
Discus throw	men		women
Hammer throw	men		women
Javelin throw	men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon			women
Decathlon	men

The men's pole vault competition of the athletics events at the 2023 Pan American Games took place on November 4 at the Julio Martínez National Stadium.

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record	Armand Duplantis (SWE)	6.22	Clermont-Ferrand, France	February 25, 2023
Pan American Games record	Lazaro Borges (CUB)	5.80	Guadalajara, Mexico	October 28, 2011

All times shown are in meters.

The results were as follows:^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	4.90	5.10	5.20	5.30	5.40	5.50	5.55	5.60	5.65	Mark	Notes
	Matt Ludwig	United States	–	–	o	–	o	o	o	xx–	x	5.55
	Germán Chiaraviglio	Argentina	–	–	xo	–	xxo	o	x––	xx		5.50
	Jorge Luna	Mexico	xxo	xo	xo	xo	o	xxx				5.40
4	Guillermo Correa	Chile	o	xo	xo	o	xo	xxx				5.40	PB
5	Eduardo Nápoles	Cuba	–	–	o	o	xxx					5.30
6	José Tomás Nieto	Colombia	–	xo	xo	xo	xxx					5.30
7	Zach Bradford	United States	–	xo	o	xxx						5.20
8	Austin Ramos	Ecuador	o	xo	xxo	xxx						5.20	SB
9	Cristóbal Núñez	Chile	xo	xxo	xxo	xxx						5.20
10	Ricardo Montes	Mexico	–	xo	xxx							5.10
	Dyander Pacho	Ecuador	–	xxx								NH