Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

Men's high jump at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	14–16 August 2016
Competitors	44 from 28 nations
Winning height	2.38 m
Medalists
Derek Drouin   Canada   Mutaz Essa Barshim   Qatar   Bohdan Bondarenko   Ukraine

Official Video Highlights

Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
List of athletes
Qualification
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4 × 100 m relay		men		women
4 × 400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's high jump competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was held at the Olympic Stadium between 14–16 August.^[1]

Summary

Forty-four athletes competed in the qualification round, all, save for one, having achieved the Olympic qualifying mark of 2.29 m. Eleven of those competitors cleared 2.29 m to advance to the final, with an additional four who jumped 2.26 m also advancing.

The 2012 Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov was absent as a result of the Russian team's ban for doping. Another major absence, due to injury, was Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi who ranked second in the world and had won the 2016 World Indoor Championships. The top ranked athlete with 2.40 m was Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim, who won the 2012 Olympic bronze medal and had previously jumped 2.43m in competition in 2014, the second-highest clearance in history. Derek Drouin of Canada, who shared the 2012 bronze with Barshim, was ranked third in the world in 2016 and was the winner at the 2015 World Championships. The 2015 silver and bronze medallists Bohdan Bondarenko and Zhang Guowei, American Olympic medallist Erik Kynard, and 31-year-old Donald Thomas of the Bahamas (ranked fourth), also qualified for the event. All those athletes, save for Zhang, advanced to the final.^[2][3]

The opening height in the final was 2.20 m. Of the 15 men who qualified for the final, two failed to clear the next height, 2.25 m, and a further three were eliminated at 2.29 m. Six athletes remained clean through 2.29 m, having no misses on any of their attempts (though Bondarenko passed at the height). At 2.33 m, five competitors cleared on their initial attempt, four were eliminated and six remained in the competition. Barshim, Drouin, and Bondarenko remained clean at 2.33 m; Robert Grabarz and Andriy Protsenko also cleared 2.33 m on their first attempts, but both men had a single miss at earlier heights and were tied for fourth. Erik Kynard was in sixth place after taking three attempts to get over 2.33 m. Barshim and Drouin remained perfect at 2.36 m; Grabarz, Protsenko and Kynard were unable to advance while Bondarenko passed at the height. Barshim, Drouin and Bondarenko were now guaranteed medals, as Barshim and Drouin were the only ones over 2.36 m, and Bondarenko had fewer misses in the competition than the three others (besides Drouin, Barshim and himself) who had cleared 2.33 m. With the bar now set at 2.38 m (7 ft 9 ¹⁄₂ in) , Drouin cleared on his first attempt. Bashim was unable to clear 2.38 m after three attempts, and was eliminated. Bondarenko failed twice to clear at the height and, following Barshim's second failure, he elected to pass his third attempt. With the bar raised to an Olympic-record height of 2.40 m, he hoped to clear and take the lead from Drouin, but he had only a single attempt. Jumping before Drouin, he failed at his attempt and Drouin won the competition, securing Canada's first gold medal in the event since 1932. Having won the gold medal, Drouin elected to attempt the height and thus set a new Olympic record. His single attempt was a failure and he decided to retire from the competition. Barshim received the silver medal and Bondarenko received the bronze.

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete had three attempts at each height and was eliminated if they had three consecutive failed attempts, either at one height, or over two (or even three) heights if they chose to pass after one or two failures at one height. Athletes who successfully jumped the qualifying height moved on to the final. If fewer than 12 reached that height, the best 12 moved on. Cleared heights reset for the final, which followed the same three-attempts-per-height format until all athletes recorded three consecutive failed attempts, save for the victor who could opt not to make any more attempts.

Schedule

All times are Brasilia Time (UTC-3)

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.45 m	Salamanca, Spain	27 July 1993
Olympic record	Charles Austin (USA)	2.39 m	Atlanta, Georgia, United States	28 July 1996
2016 World leading	Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)	2.40 m	Opole, Poland	11 June 2016

Results

Key

Qualifying round

Qualification rule: Qualifying performance 2.31 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	2.17	2.22	2.26	2.29	Result	Note
1	A	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar	o	o	o	o	2.29	q
1	A	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	-	o	-	o	2.29	q
1	B	Derek Drouin	Canada	o	o	o	o	2.29	q
1	B	Tihomir Ivanov	Bulgaria	o	o	o	o	2.29	q, SB
5	B	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	-	o	xo	o	2.29	q
5	B	Erik Kynard	United States	o	o	xo	o	2.29	q
7	B	Majededdin Ghazal	Syria	-	o	o	xo	2.29	q
7	A	Andriy Protsenko	Ukraine	o	o	o	xo	2.29	q
9	B	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	o	o	xo	xo	2.29	q
10	A	Trevor Barry	Bahamas	o	o	xo	xxo	2.29	q, SB
10	A	Brandon Starc	Australia	xo	o	o	xxo	2.29	q, SB
12	B	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	o	o	o	xxx	2.26	q
12	A	Luis Castro	Puerto Rico	o	o	o	xxx	2.26	q
12	B	Dimitrios Chondrokoukis	Cyprus	o	o	o	xxx	2.26	q, SB
12	A	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	o	o	o	xxx	2.26	q
16	A	Chris Baker	Great Britain	xo	o	o	xxx	2.26
17	A	Ricky Robertson	United States	o	o	xo	xxx	2.26
18	A	Michael Mason	Canada	xo	o	xo	xxx	2.26
18	B	Nauraj Singh Randhawa	Malaysia	xo	o	xo	xxx	2.26
20	B	Dmytro Yakovenko	Ukraine	o	xxo	xo	xxx	2.26	SB
21	B	Bradley Adkins	United States	xxo	xo	xo	xxx	2.26
22	A	Woo Sang-hyeok	South Korea	o	o	xxo	xxx	2.26
23	B	David Smith	Puerto Rico	o	xo	xxo	xxx	2.26
24	A	Eike Onnen	Germany	o	xxo	xxo	xxx	2.26
25	A	Wojciech Theiner	Poland	o	o	xxx		2.22
25	B	Jamal Wilson	Bahamas	o	o	xxx		2.22
25	B	Zhang Guowei	China	o	o	xxx		2.22
28	B	Mateusz Przybylko	Germany	xo	o	xxx		2.22
29	B	Arturo Chávez	Peru	xxo	o	xxx		2.22
30	B	Sylwester Bednarek	Poland	o	xo	xxx		2.22
30	A	Andrei Churyla	Belarus	o	xo	xxx		2.22
32	A	Wang Yu	China	xo	xo	xxx		2.22
33	A	Silvano Chesani	Italy	o	xxo	xxx		2.22
34	A	Konstadinos Baniotis	Greece	xo	xxo	xxx		2.22
35	A	Matúš Bubeník	Slovakia	o	xxx			2.17
35	A	Takashi Eto	Japan	o	xxx			2.17
35	A	Hsiang Chun-Hsien	Chinese Taipei	o	xxx			2.17
35	B	Edgar Rivera	Mexico	o	xxx			2.17
35	A	Eugenio Rossi	San Marino	o	xxx			2.17
35	B	Talles Frederico Silva	Brazil	o	xxx			2.17
41	B	Joel Baden	Australia	xo	xxx			2.17
41	A	Dmitry Kroyter	Israel	xo	xxx			2.17
43	B	Dzmitry Nabokau	Belarus	xxo	xxx			2.17
43	B	Yun Seung-hyun	South Korea	xxo	xxx			2.17

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.33	2.36	2.38	2.40	Result	Note[4]
01 !	Derek Drouin	Canada	o	o	o	o	o	o	x	2.38
02 !	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar	o	o	o	o	o	xxx		2.36
03 !	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	–	o	–	o	–	xx–	x	2.33
04 !4	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	o	xo	o	o	xxx			2.33	=SB
	Andriy Protsenko	Ukraine	o	o	xo	o	xxx			2.33	SB
06 !6	Erik Kynard	United States	o	xo	o	xxo	xxx			2.33
07 !7	Majededdin Ghazal	Syria	o	o	o	xxx				2.29
	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	o	o	o	xxx				2.29
	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	o	o	o	xxx				2.29
10	Tihomir Ivanov	Bulgaria	o	xo	o	xxx				2.29	=PB
11	Trevor Barry	Bahamas	o	o	xxx					2.25
12	Dimitrios Chondrokoukis	Cyprus	xo	o	xxx					2.25
13	Luis Castro	Puerto Rico	o	xxo	xxx					2.25
14	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	o	xxx						2.20
15	Brandon Starc	Australia	xo	xxx						2.20

References