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Date: 26 September 1988 / 28 September 1988
| Rank | Name | Nation | Distance |
| 1 | Sergey Bubka | URS | 5.90m [19' 4 ¼"] |
| 2 | Radion Gataullin | URS | 5.85m [19' 2 ¼"] |
| 3 | Grigoriy Yegorov | URS | 5.80m [19' ¼"] |
| 4 | Earl Bell | USA | 5.70m [18' 8 ½"] |
| 5 | Thierry Vigneron | FRA | 5.70m [18' 8 ½"] |
| 5 | Philippe Collet | FRA | 5.70m [18' 8 ½"] |
| 7 | Istvan Bagyula | HUN | 5.60m [18' 4 ½"] |
| 8 | Philippe D'Encausse | FRA | 5.60m [18' 4 ½"] |
| 9 | Asko Peltoniemi | FIN | 5.60m [18' 4 ½"] |
| 10 | Kory Tarpenning | USA | 5.50m [18' ½"] |
| 11 | Zdenek Lubensky | TCH | 5.50m [18' ½"] |
| 12 | Billy Olson | USA | 5.50m [18' ½"] |
| 13 | Hermann Fehringer | AUT | 5.40m [17' 8 ½"] |
| Qualifying | |||
| 14 | Miroslaw Chmara | POL | 5.40m [17' 8 ½"] |
| 14 | Marian Kolassa | POL | 5.40m [17' 8 ½"] |
| 16 | Kim Chul-Kyun | KOR | 5.30m [17' 4 ¾"] |
| 16 | Paul Just | CAN | 5.30m [17' 4 ¾"] |
| Did not qualify for final (No mark set) | |||
| Atanas Tarev | BUL | ||
| Lee Jae-Bok | KOR | ||
| Javier Garcia | ESP | ||
| Andrew Ashurst | GBR | ||