The women's pole vault event at the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on 15–16 March 2003.
The winning margin was 20 cm which as of July 2024 remains the only time the women's pole vault was won by more than 10 cm at these championships.
| width=200 bgcolor=gold | Gold | width=200 bgcolor=silver | Silver | width=200 bgcolor=CC9966 | Bronze |
| Svetlana Feofanova | Yelena Isinbayeva | Monika Pyrek |
Qualification: Qualification Performance 4.35 (Q) or at least 8 best performers advanced to the final.
| Rank | Group | Athlete ! | Nationality | 4.10 | 4.25 | 4.30 | 4.35 | Result | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | o | o | – | o | 4.35 | Q | ||||
| B | – | o | – | o | 4.35 | Q | ||||
| B | – | – | – | o | 4.35 | Q | ||||
| A | o | xo | – | o | 4.35 | Q | ||||
| A | – | o | xo | o | 4.35 | Q | ||||
| B | xo | o | – | o | 4.35 | Q | ||||
| B | o | o | – | xo | 4.35 | Q | ||||
| B | o | o | o | xxo | 4.35 | Q | ||||
| B | xo | o | xo | xxx | 4.35 | |||||
| 10 | A | o | o | xxx | 4.25 | |||||
| 11 | A | o | xxo | xxx | 4.25 | |||||
| 12 | A | xo | xxx | 4.10 | ||||||
| 13 | A | xxo | xxx | 4.10 | ||||||
| A | xxx | |||||||||
| A | xxx | |||||||||
| A | xxx | |||||||||
| B | – | – | xxx | |||||||
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | 4.20 | 4.35 | 4.45 | 4.55 | 4.60 | 4.65 | 4.70 | 4.75 | 4.80 | Result | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | o | o | xo | o | o | o | o | xo | 4.80 | WR | ||||
| xo | o | o | o | o | x– | – | xx | 4.60 | ||||||
| o | o | o | xxx | 4.45 | ||||||||||
| 4 | o | xxo | o | xxx | 4.45 | SB | ||||||||
| 5 | o | xo | xo | xxx | 4.45 | |||||||||
| 6 | o | xo | xxx | 4.35 | ||||||||||
| 6 | o | xo | xxx | 4.35 | ||||||||||
| xxx | ||||||||||||||