European Athletics Championships 2016 / men's high jump

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	23 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Amsterdam
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 9th (qualification) July 10th (final)
Medalist Gianmarco Tamberi ( ITA )   Robert Grabarz ( GBR )   Chris Baker ( GBR ) Eike Onnen ( GER )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

The men's high jump at the 2016 European Athletics Championships was held on July 9 and 10, 2016 in the Olympic Stadium in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam .

In this competition, the high jumpers from Great Britain won two medals, silver and bronze. As a special feature, the bronze medal was awarded twice due to the equality of two athletes in third place. European champion was the Italian Gianmarco Tamberi . The 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Robert Grabarz took second place. The bronze medal was shared by the Briton Chris Baker and the German Eike Onnen .

Existing records

World record	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor	Salamanca , Spain	July 27, 1993
European record	2.42 m	Patrik Sjöberg	Stockholm , Sweden	June 14, 2014
		Carlo Thränhardt	Berlin , Germany	February 26, 1988
		Bohdan Bondarenko	New York , USA	June 30, 1987
EM record	2.36 m	Andrei Silnow	EM Gothenburg , Sweden	August 9, 2006

Comment on the European record:
Carlo Thränhardt's above-mentioned European record was achieved in the hall. In the meantime, according to IAAF Rule 260.2 - Note 2 - in connection with IAAF Rule 260.13, records achieved in the hall are recognized as absolute records.

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

July 9, 2016, 2:10 p.m.

23 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.25 m. Exactly the number of twelve athletes planned for a final exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). So the final field didn't have to be filled any further.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.09 m	2.14 m	2.19 m	2.23 m	2.25 m
1	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	2.25	-	-	O	O	O
	Eike Onnen	Germany	2.25	-	O	O	O	O
	Miguel Ángel Sancho	Spain	2.25	O	O	O	O	O
4th	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	2.25	-	O	xo	O	O
	Dimítrios Chondrokoúkis	Cyprus	2.25	-	xo	O	O	O
6th	Vasilios Constantinou	Cyprus	2.25	-	xo	O	xo	O
7th	Konstadínos Baniótis	Greece	2.25	-	xo	O	O	xxo
8th	Dmitriy Kroytor	Israel	2.23	O	O	O	O	xxx
	Eugenio Rossi	San Marino	2.23	-	-	O	O	xxx
10	Raivydas Stanys	Lithuania	2.23	O	O	O	xxo	xxx
11	Yuri Krymarenko	Ukraine	2.23	O	xo	O	xxo	xxx
12	Pavel Seliwjorstau	Belarus	2.19	-	O	O	xxx

High jumpers eliminated from group A in qualification:

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  Dmitriy Kroytor - eighth with 2.23 m

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  Raivydas Stanys - tenth place with 2.23 m

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  Jurij Krymarenko - eleventh place with 2.23 m

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  Pawel Seliwjorstau - twelfth place with 2.19 m

Group B

Sylwester Bednarek failed with 2.23 m in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.09 m	2.14 m	2.19 m	2.23 m	2.25 m
1	Chris Baker	Great Britain	2.25	-	O	O	O	O
	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy	2.25	-	-	O	O	O
3	Andrij Prozenko	Ukraine	2.25	O	O	O	xxo	xo
4th	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	2.25	-	-	O	O	xxo
	Tikhomir Ivanov	Bulgaria	2.25	-	O	O	O	xxo
6th	Matúš Bubeník	Slovakia	2.23	O	O	O	xo	xxx
7th	Sylwester Bednarek	Poland	2.23	-	O	xo	xo	xxx
8th	Simón Siverio	Spain	2.19	O	O	O	xx–	x
9	Dmytro Yakovenko	Ukraine	2.19	O	O	xo	xxx
10	Barry Pender	Ireland	2.14	O	xo	xxx
11	Dzmitryi Nabokau	Belarus	2.09	xo	xxx

final

European champion Gianmarco Tamberi

July 10, 2016, 5:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.19 m	2.24 m	2.29 m	2.32 m	2.40 m
1	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy	2.32	O	O	O	O	xxx
2	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	2.29	O	xo	O	xxx
3	Chris Baker	Great Britain	2.29	O	O	xo	xxx
	Eike Onnen	Germany	2.29	O	O	xo	xxx
5	Tikhomir Ivanov	Bulgaria	2.24	O	O	xxx
6th	Konstadínos Baniótis	Greece	2.24	xxo	O	xxx
7th	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	2.24	O	xo	xx–	x
	Dimítrios Chondrokoúkis	Cyprus	2.24	O	xo	xx–	x
9	Vasilios Constantinou	Cyprus	2.24	O	xxo	xxx
	Andrij Prozenko	Ukraine	2.24	O	xxo	xxx
NM	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	ogV	-	-	xxx
	Miguel Ángel Sancho	Spain		xxx

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  Vice European Champion Robert Grabarz

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  Chris Baker - one of two bronze medalists

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  Eike Onnen - split bronze medal

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  Konstadínos Baniótis came in sixth place

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  Jaroslav Bába finished in seventh place

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  Dimítrios Chondrokoúkis - shared seventh place

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  Andrij Prozenko - one of two athletes in ninth place

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  Kyriakos Ioannou remained without a valid attempt in the final

Video

• Gianmarco Tamberi 2.32 on youtube.com, accessed on February 28, 2020

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 28, 2020
• European Championship 2016 Amsterdam, Men High Jump on todor66.com, accessed on February 28, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 28, 2020
• 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on February 28, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed February 28, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, High Jump Men , p. 21 (PDF; 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on February 28, 2020
3. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 240 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on February 9, 2020
4. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 244 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on February 9, 2020