| Event: | Men's pole vault |
| Games: | 2011 |
| Venue: | Telmex Athletics Stadium |
| Dates: | October 28 |
| Competitors: | 12 |
| Nations: | 8 |
| Win Label: | Winning height |
| Gold: | Lázaro Borges |
| Goldnoc: | CUB |
| Silver: | Jeremy Scott |
| Silvernoc: | USA |
| Bronze: | Giovanni Lanaro |
| Bronzenoc: | MEX |
| Prev: | 2007 |
| Next: | 2015 |
The men's pole vault event of the athletics events at the 2011 Pan American Games was held the 28 of October at the Telmex Athletics Stadium.[1] The defending Pan American Games champion is Fábio Gomes da Silva of the Brazil.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:
| World record | 6.14 | Sestriere, Italy | July 31, 1994 | ||
| Pan American Games record | 5.75 | Mar del Plata, Argentine | March 18, 1995 |
Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the minimum standard (5.00) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2010 to September 14, 2011).[2]
All distances shown are in meters:centimeters
The final was held on October 28.
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | 4.90 | 5.05 | 5.20 | 5.30 | 5.40 | 5.50 | 5.60 | 5.65 | 5.70 | 5.76 | 5.80 | Result | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | – | – | – | o | o | o | – | o | xxo | o | 5.80 | PR | ||||
| Jeremy Scott | – | – | – | o | xo | xo | o | – | xxx | 5.60 | ||||||
| – | – | – | o | o | o | xxx | 5.50 | |||||||||
| – | – | xo | – | xo | xo | xxx | 5.50 | SB | ||||||||
| – | – | – | o | xo | xxx | 5.40 | ||||||||||
| – | o | xo | – | xo | xxx | 5.40 | ||||||||||
| – | – | o | xxx | 5.20 | ||||||||||||
| o | o | xxx | 5.05 | |||||||||||||
| o | xo | xxx | 5.05 | |||||||||||||
| 10 | o | xxx | 4.90 | |||||||||||||
| – | – | xxx | ||||||||||||||
| xxx |