2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump

The men's high jump at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 11 and 13 August.^[1]

Men's high jump at the 2017 World Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	11 August (qualification) 13 August (final)
Competitors	27 from 19 nations
Winning height	2.35
Medalists
Mutaz Essa Barshim    Qatar   Danil Lysenko    Authorised Neutral Athletes   Majd Eddin Ghazal    Syria
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Summary

After winning Olympic gold, then setting the world decathlon best in the high jump, defending champion Derek Drouin (CAN) could not return due to a nagging injury. Olympic silver medalist Mutaz Essa Barshim (BHR) was perfect through the automatic qualifier in the preliminaries and up to 2.29 m in the final. Danil Lysenko, competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete and Majd Eddin Ghazal (SYR), who trains in war ravaged Damascus both cleared with one miss. Both Edgar Rivera (MEX) and Mateusz Przybylko (GER) cleared on their final attempt to stay alive, while returning silver medalist and Olympic bronze medalist Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) passed the height.

At 2.32 m Barshim remained perfect, while Lysenko also cleared on his first attempt. Nobody else was able to clear, leaving Ghazal with the bronze. At 2.35 m (7 ft 8+1⁄2 in) Barshim again remained perfect, while Lysenko couldn't get over a new personal best, leaving him with silver, Barshim a perfectly clean competition to the gold medal. Barshim moved the bar up to 2.40 m when he finally missed three times.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[2]

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date	Location
World	2.45	Javier Sotomayor	CUB	27 Jul 1993	Salamanca, Spain
Championship	2.41	Bohdan Bondarenko	UKR	15 Aug 2013	Moscow, Russia
World leading	2.38	Mutaz Essa Barshim	QAT	15 Jun 2017	Oslo, Norway
African	2.38	Jacques Freitag	RSA	5 Mar 2005	Oudtshoorn, South Africa
Asian	2.43	Mutaz Essa Barshim	QAT	5 Sep 2014	Brussels, Belgium
NACAC	2.45	Javier Sotomayor	CUB	27 Jul 1993	Salamanca, Spain
South American	2.33A	Gilmar Mayo	COL	17 Oct 1994	Pereira, Colombia
European	2.42	Patrik Sjöberg	SWE	30 Jun 1987	Stockholm, Sweden
		Bohdan Bondarenko	UKR	14 Jun 2014	New York City, United States
Oceanian	2.36	Tim Forsyth	AUS	2 Mar 1997	Melbourne, Australia

No records were set at the competition.^[3]

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 2.30 metres.^[4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows:^[5]

Date	Time	Round
11 August	11:15	Qualification
13 August	19:00	Final

Results

Qualification

The qualification round took place on 11 August, in two groups, both starting at 11:15. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 2.31 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.^[6] The overall results were as follows:^[7]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	2.17	2.22	2.26	2.29	2.31	Mark	Notes
1	A	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar (QAT)	–	o	o	o	o	2.31	Q
2	A	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine (UKR)	–	o	–	xo	o		Q
3	B	Danil Lysenko	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	o	o	o	o	xo		Q
4	A	Tihomir Ivanov	Bulgaria (BUL)	o	o	xo	xo	xo		Q, PB
	B	Mateusz Przybylko	Germany (GER)	o	o	xo	xo	xo		Q
6	A	Robbie Grabarz	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	–	o	o	xo	xxo		Q, SB
7	A	Ilya Ivanyuk	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	o	o	o	o	xxx	2.29	q
	B	Majd Eddin Ghazal	Syria (SYR)	o	o	o	o	xxx		q
	A	Bryan McBride	United States (USA)	o	o	o	o	xxx		q
10	A	Eike Onnen	Germany (GER)	xo	xo	o	o	xxx		q
11	A	Edgar Rivera	Mexico (MEX)	o	o	xxo	o	xxx		q
12	A	Wang Yu	China (CHN)	o	xo	o	xo	xxx		q
13	B	Andriy Protsenko	Ukraine (UKR)	xo	o	xo	xo	xxx	2.29
14	B	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy (ITA)	o	xo	xo	xo	xxx		SB
15	A	Talles Frederico Silva	Brazil (BRA)	o	o	xxo	xo	xxx
16	A	Ricky Robertson	United States (USA)	o	o	xo	xxo	xxx
17	B	Fernando Ferreira	Brazil (BRA)	xo	xo	xo	xxo	xxx
18	B	Michael Mason	Canada (CAN)	o	o	o	xxx		2.26
19	B	Eure Yáñez	Venezuela (VEN)	xo	xxo	o	xxx
20	A	Sylwester Bednarek	Poland (POL)	o	o	xo	xxx
	A	Nauraj Singh Randhawa	Malaysia (MAS)	o	o	xo	xxx
22	B	Takashi Eto	Japan (JPN)	o	xo	xxx			2.22
	A	Donald Thomas	Bahamas (BAH)	o	xo	xxx
24	B	Zhang Guowei	China (CHN)	xo	xo	xxx
25	B	Woo Sang-hyeok	South Korea (KOR)	xo	xxo	xxx
26	B	Jeron Robinson	United States (USA)	xo	xxx				2.17
	B	Erik Kynard	United States (USA)	xr					NH

Final

The final took place on 13 August at 19:00. The results were as follows:^[8]

Rank	Name	Nationality	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.32	2.35	2.40	Mark	Notes
	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar (QAT)	o	o	o	o	o	xxx	2.35
	Danil Lysenko	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	o	o	xo	o	xxx		2.32
	Majd Eddin Ghazal	Syria (SYR)	o	o	xo	xxx			2.29
4	Edgar Rivera	Mexico (MEX)	o	o	xxo	xxx			2.29
5	Mateusz Przybylko	Germany (GER)	o	xo	xxo	xxx			2.29
6	Robbie Grabarz	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	o	o	xxx				2.25
6	Ilya Ivanyuk	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	o	o	xxx				2.25
8	Bryan McBride	United States (USA)	o	xo	xxx				2.25
9	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine (UKR)	–	xxo	–	xxx			2.25
10	Eike Onnen	Germany (GER)	xxo	xxx					2.20
	Tihomir Ivanov	Bulgaria (BUL)	xr						NH
	Wang Yu	China (CHN)							DNS