| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Indoor 2025 Men Pole Vault | Armand Duplantis |  SWE | 6.15m1 | Emmanouil Karalis |  GRE | 6.05m1 | Sam Kendricks |  USA | 5.90m1 |
| Indoor 2024 Men Pole Vault | Armand Duplantis | SWE | 6.05m | Sam Kendricks | USA | 5.90m | Emmanouil Karalis | GRE | 5.85m |
| Indoor 2022 Men Pole Vault | Armand Duplantis | SWE | 6.20m | Thiago Braz |  BRA | 5.95m | Christopher Nilsen | USA | 5.90m |
| Indoor 2018 Men Pole Vault | Renaud Lavillenie |  FRA | 5.90m | Sam Kendricks | USA | 5.85m | Piotr Lisek |  POL | 5.85m |
| Indoor 2016 Men Pole Vault | Renaud Lavillenie | FRA | 6.02m | Sam Kendricks | USA | 5.80m | Piotr Lisek | POL | 5.75m |
| Indoor 2014 Men Pole Vault | Konstadínos Filippídis | GRE | 5.80m | Malte Mohr |  GER | 5.80m | Jan Kudlicka |  CZE | 5.80m |
| Indoor 2012 Men Pole Vault | Renaud Lavillenie | FRA | 5.95m | Björn Otto | GER | 5.80m | Brad Walker | USA | 5.80m |
| Indoor 2010 Men Pole Vault | Steven Hooker |  AUS | 6.01m | Malte Mohr | GER | 5.70m | Alexander Straub | GER | 5.65m |
| Indoor 2008 Men Pole Vault | Evgeniy Lukyanenko |  RUS | 5.90m | Brad Walker | USA | 5.85m | Steven Hooker | AUS | 5.80m |
| Indoor 2006 Men Pole Vault | Brad Walker | USA | 5.80m | Alhaji Jeng | SWE | 5.70m | Tim Lobinger | GER | 5.60m |
| Indoor 2004 Men Pole Vault | Igor Pavlov | RUS | 5.75m | Adam Ptacek | CZE | 5.70m | Tim Lobinger | GER | 5.70m |
| Indoor 2003 Men Pole Vault | Tim Lobinger | GER | 5.80m | Michael Stolle | GER | 5.75m | Rens Blom |  NED | 5.75m |
| Indoor 2001 Men Pole Vault | Lawrence Johnson | USA | 5.95m | Tye Harvey | USA | 5.90m | Romain Mesnil | FRA | 5.85m |
| Indoor 1999 Men Pole Vault | Jean Galfione | FRA | 6.00m | Jeff Hartwig | USA | 5.95m | Danny Ecker | GER | 5.85m |
| Indoor 1997 Men Pole Vault | Igor Potapovitch |  KAZ | 5.90m | Lawrence Johnson | USA | 5.85m | Maxim Tarasov | RUS | 5.80m |
| Indoor 1995 Men Pole Vault | Sergey Bubka |  UKR | 5.90m | Igor Potapovich | KAZ | 5.80m | Okkert Brits |  RSA | 5.75m |
| Indoor 1993 Men Pole Vault | Rodion Gataullin | RUS | 5.90m | Grigoriy Yegorov | KAZ | 5.80m | Jean Galfione | FRA | 5.80m |
| Indoor 1991 Men Pole Vault | Serguey Bubka |  URS | 6.00m | Viktor Ryshenkov | URS | 5.80m | Ferenc Salbert | FRA | 5.70m |
| Indoor 1989 Men Pole Vault | Rodion Gataullin | URS | 5.85m | Grigoriy Yegorov | URS | 5.80m | Joe Dial | USA | 5.70m |
| Indoor 1987 Men Pole Vault | Serguey Bubka | URS | 5.85m | Earl Bell | USA | 5.80m | Thierry Vigneron | FRA | 5.80m |
| World Indoor Games |
| Indoor 1985 Men Pole Vault | Sergey Bubka | URS | 5.75m | Thierry Vigneron | FRA | 5.70m | Vasiliy Bubka | URS | 5.60m |
