| POS | Rank | Heat | ATHLETE | COUNTRY | RESULTS | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | A | Trond Barthel |  NOR | 5.70 q SB | 
| 1 | 5 | B | Riaan Botha |  RSA | 5.70 q | 
| 1 | 3 | A | Sergey Bubka |  UKR | 5.70 q SB | 
| 1 | 3 | A | Nick Buckfield |  GBR | 5.70 q SB | 
| 1 | 1 | B | Martin Eriksson |  SWE | 5.70 q PB | 
| 1 | 3 | B | Jean Galfione |  FRA | 5.70 q | 
| 1 | 7 | A | Danny Krasnov |  ISR | 5.70 q SB | 
| 1 | 1 | A | Tim Lobinger |  GER | 5.70 q | 
| 1 | 6 | A | Pat Manson |  USA | 5.70 q | 
| 1 | 2 | B | Yevgeniy Smiryagin |  RUS | 5.70 q | 
| 1 | 6 | B | Dean Starkey |  USA | 5.70 q | 
| 1 | 4 | B | Vadim Strogalev |  RUS | 5.70 q | 
| 1 | 1 | A | Maksim Tarasov |  RUS | 5.70 q | 
| 14 | 9 | A | Alain Andji |  FRA | 5.60 | 
| 14 | 8 | A | Juan Gabriel Concepción |  ESP | 5.60 | 
| 14 | 8 | B | Khalid Lachheb |  FRA | 5.60 | 
| 14 | 10 | B | Fabio Pizzolato |  ITA | 5.60 | 
| 14 | 7 | B | Igor Potapovich |  KAZ | 5.60 | 
| 14 | 9 | B | Michael Stolle |  GER | 5.60 | 
| 14 | 9 | A | Andrei Tivontschik |  GER | 5.60 | 
| 21 | 15 | A | Edgardo DÃaz |  PUR | 5.45 SB | 
| 21 | 12 | A | Iliyan Efremov |  BUL | 5.45 | 
| 21 | 14 | A | Andrea Giannini |  ITA | 5.45 | 
| 21 | 11 | B | Paul Gibbons |  NZL | 5.45 | 
| 21 | 13 | A | Vesa Rantanen |  FIN | 5.45 | 
| 21 | 11 | A | Peter Widén |  SWE | 5.45 | 
| 27 | 16 | A | Ruhan Isim |  TUR | 5.30 | 
| 27 | 12 | B | Laurens Looije |  NED | 5.30 | 
| 27 | 12 | B | Vyacheslav Shuteyev |  UKR | 5.30 | 
| B | Stávros TsÃtouras |  GRE | DQ | ||
| A | Okkert Brits |  RSA | NM | ||
| B | Javier GarcÃa |  ESP | NM | ||
| A | Lawrence Johnson |  USA | NM | ||
| A | Aleksandr Korchagin |  KAZ | NM | ||
| B | Jurij Rovan |  SLO | NM | ||
| B | Heikki Vääräniemi |  FIN | NM | ||
| B | Martin Voss |  DEN | NM | ||
| A | Montxu Miranda |  ESP | DNF | ||
| B | Dmitri Markov |  BLR | DNS |