2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault

It essentially took a clearance at 4.50 metres to make it into the final. The one clearance (with earlier misses) brought 13 still in at 4.55 metres each thinking there was more work to do. Lisa Ryzih, Sandi Morris and Robeilys Peinado remained perfect at 4.55 metres, with Olympic Champion Katerina Stefanidi passing all the way until the automatic qualifier height of 4.60 metres.

In the final, four women were perfect to 4.55 metres including home team favourite, Holly Bradshaw, Yarisley Silva, Peinado and Morris with Stefanidi again still passing. At Stefanidi's starting height 4.65 meters, she cleared on her first attempt and was only matched with a perfect round by Morris. Ryzih, Peinado and Silva all missed once before clearing. Ryzih's earlier miss at 4.45 metres dropping out of the tie that defined the tied bronze medalists as none of them could go any higher. So it was a repeat battle from the Olympics. Morris and Stefanidi still perfect over 4.75 metres. At 4.82 metres, Morris missed but Stefanidi made it. Morris passed to try 4.89 metres for the win, but she couldn't make it. Neither did Stefanidi, but she really didn't need to. After Morris missed her last attempt, Stefanidi passed to 4.91 metres, which she made on her first attempt for a national record, stamping an exclamation point on her win. Stefanidi then moved the bar up to 5.02 metres try to join Morris and become the fourth woman over 5 metres and set a new championship record, but she missed all three attempts.[2]

Before the competition records were as follows:[3]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	5.06	Yelena Isinbayeva	RUS	28 Aug 2009	Zürich, Switzerland
Championship	5.01	Yelena Isinbayeva	RUS	12 Aug 2005	Helsinki, Finland
World leading	4.85	Katerina Stefanidi	GRE	8 Jun 2017	Rome, Italy
African	4.42	Elmarie Gerryts	RSA	12 Jun 2000	Wesel, Germany
Asian	4.66	Li Ling	CHN	6 Jun 2015	Wuhan, China
NACAC	5.02 i	Jennifer Suhr	USA	2 Mar 2013	Albuquerque, United States
South American	4.87	Fabiana Murer	BRA	3 Jul 2016	São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
European	5.06	Yelena Isinbayeva	RUS	28 Aug 2009	Zürich, Switzerland
Oceanian	4.82	Eliza McCartney	NZL	26 Feb 2017	Auckland, New Zealand

The following records were set at the competition:[4]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date
Greek	4.91	Katerina Stefanidi	GRE	6 Aug 2017
Venezuelan	4.65	Robeilys Peinado	VEN	6 Aug 2017

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 4.55 metres.[5]

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), was as follows:[6]