| Event: | Women's pole vault |
| Games: | 2011 |
| Venue: | Telmex Athletics Stadium |
| Dates: | October 24 |
| Competitors: | 16 |
| Nations: | 11 |
| Win Label: | Winning height |
| Gold: | Yarisley Silva |
| Goldnoc: | CUB |
| Silver: | Fabiana Murer |
| Silvernoc: | BRA |
| Bronze: | Becky Holliday |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 2007 |
| Next: | 2015 |
The women's pole vault competition of the athletics events at the 2011 Pan American Games took place on the 24 of October at the Telmex Athletics Stadium.[1] The defending Pan American Games champion is Fabiana Murer of Brazil.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:
| World record | 5.06 | Zürich, Switzerland | August 28, 2009 | ||
| Pan American Games record | 4.60 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | July 23, 2007 |
Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the minimum standard (3.50 meters) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2010 to September 14, 2011).
Only a final was held. There was no qualification round.
| PR | Pan American games record | |
| WR | world record | |
| NR | national record | |
| PB | personal best | |
| SB | season best | |
| DNS | did not start | |
| DNF | did not finish | |
| DQ | disqualified |
16 athletes from 11 countries competed.[2]
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | 3.40 | 3.55 | 3.70 | 3.85 | 4.00 | 4.10 | 4.20 | 4.30 | 4.40 | 4.50 | 4.60 | 4.65 | 4.70 | 4.75 | 4.80 | Result | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | o | o | o | o | – | o | o | xxx | 4.75 | PR, NR | ||||
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | xxo | x– | xo | o | x- | xx | 4.70 | |||||
| – | – | – | – | – | xo | – | o | – | xxx | 4.30 | ||||||||||
| – | – | – | – | – | – | o | xo | xxx | 4.30 | |||||||||||
| – | – | – | – | xo | o | o | xxo | xxx | 4.30 | |||||||||||
| – | – | – | – | xo | xo | o | xxx | 4.20 | ||||||||||||
| – | – | – | – | o | o | xxx | 4.10 | |||||||||||||
| – | – | – | – | – | o | xxx | 4.10 | |||||||||||||
| – | – | o | o | o | xxx | 4.00 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | – | o | o | o | xxx | 3.85 | ||||||||||||||
| 11 | – | o | o | xxo | xxx | 3.85 | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | – | xxo | xo | xxx | 3.70 | |||||||||||||||
| 13 | xo | o | xxx | 3.55 | ||||||||||||||||
| 14 | – | xxo | xxx | 3.55 | ||||||||||||||||
| 15 | xo | xxx | 3.40 | |||||||||||||||||
| – | – | – | xxx |