European Athletics Championships 2018 / men's high jump

discipline	Men's high jump
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Attendees	28 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 9, 2018 (qualification) August 11, 2018 (final)
Medalist
gold	Mateusz Przybylko ( GER )
silver	Maksim Nedassekau ( BLR )
bronze	Ilya Ivanyuk ( ANA )

Berlin Olympic Stadium

The men's high jump at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 9th and 11th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

European champion was the German Mateusz Przybylko . The Belarusian Maksim Nedassekau won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Russian Ilya Ivanyuk , who started under a neutral flag .

Records

World record	Javier Sotomayor	2.45 m	Salamanca , Spain	July 27, 1993
European record	Patrik Sjöberg	2.42 m	Stockholm , Sweden	June 30, 1987
	Bohdan Bondarenko		New York City , USA	June 14, 2014
Championship record	Andrei Silnow	2.36 m	EM in Gothenburg , Sweden	August 9, 2006

qualification

His two failed attempts at 2.21 m prevented Dmitry Kroyter from Israel from taking part in the final

The German Tobias Potye failed because of his two failed attempts at 2.21 m in the qualification

For the Italian Marco Fassinotti, the miss jump over 2.21 m was decisive for his retirement

The Belgian Bram Ghuys retired with 2.16 m in the qualification

August 9, 2018, 7:30 p.m. CEST

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height was 2.27 m. Since no jumper even attempted this height when it was clear that 2.25 m would be sufficient, the twelve best athletes from both groups together qualified for the final (highlighted in light green). Finally, twelve athletes who had jumped 2.21 m without any previous unsuccessful attempt reached the final fight.

Group A

space	athlete	country	2.11	2.16	2.21	2.25	Height (m)
01	Mateusz Przybylko	Germany	O	O	O	O	2.25
02	Dmytro Demjanjuk	Ukraine	-	O	xxo	O	2.25
03	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy	-	O	O	xo	2.25
04th	Sylwester Bednarek	Poland	O	O	xo	xxo	2.25
05	Douwe Amels	Netherlands	O	O	O	xxx	2.21
06th	Allan Smith	Great Britain	-	xo	xo	xxx	2.21
07th	Dmitry Kroyter	Israel	O	O	xxo	xxx	2.21
	Tobias Potye	Germany	O	O	xxo	xxx	2.21
09	Matúš Bubeník	Slovakia	O	O	xxx		2.16
	Adrijus Glebauskas	Lithuania	O	O	xxx		2.16
	Jonas Kløjgaard Jensen	Denmark	O	O	xxx		2.16
	David Smith	Great Britain	O	O	xxx		2.16
13	Andrei Skabejka	Belarus	O	xxx			2.11
NM	Eugenio Rossi	San Marino	xxx				without height

Group B

space	athlete	country	2.11	2.16	2.21	2.25	Height (m)
01	Maksim Nedassekau	Belarus	-	O	O	O	2.25
02	Andrij Prozenko	Ukraine	O	xo	xo	O	2.25
03	Eike Onnen	Germany	O	O	O	xo	2.25
04th	Alperen Acet	Turkey	O	O	xo	xo	2.25
	Ilya Ivanyuk	Authorized Neutral Athletes	O	O	xo	xo	2.25
06th	Konstandinos Baniotis	Greece	-	O	O	xxx	2.21
	Loïc Gasch	Switzerland	O	O	O	xxx	2.21
08th	Marco Fassinotti	Italy	O	O	xo	xxx	2.21
	Viktor Lonskyj	Ukraine	O	O	xo	xxx	2.21
10	Chris Baker	Great Britain	O	O	xxo	xxx	2.21
	Maciej Grynienko	Poland	O	O	xxo	xxx	2.21
12	Lukáš Beer	Slovakia	O	O	xxx		2.16
13	Bram Ghuys	Belgium	xo	O	xxx		2.16
14th	Vasilis Konstandinos	Cyprus	O	xxx			2.11

final

August 11, 2018, 8:00 p.m. CEST

European record holder Bohdan Bondarenko, the best European in recent years, was not among the participants. The favorites were primarily the Belarusian Maksim Nedassekau, who had impressed with strong performances this season, the reigning European champion Gianmarco Tamberi from Italy, the Ukrainian vice European champion from 2014 Andrij Prozenko, the neutral flag Ilya Ivanyuk - sixth of the World Cup 2017 - and the German World Cup fifth of 2017 Mateusz Przybylko.

At the jump height of 2.28 m, seven athletes were still in the competition. With the Turk Alperen Acet, Prozenko and the Pole Sylwester Bednarek, three of them failed here, so that four high jumpers were still fighting for the medals when 2.31 m was hung up. Without any failure, Przybylko and Ivanjuk led the field. Tamberi had a miss jump at 2.24 m. Nedassekau had torn 2.28 m twice and saved his last attempt for 2.31 m. He succeeded, so that he was still one of the medal candidates. Przybylko and Iwanjuk were successful with their first jumps, while Tamberi decided after a failed attempt to continue with his two remaining attempts at 2.33 m, which were now placed. The Italian didn't succeed. It tore twice and so Gianmarco Tamberi finished fourth. For Ilya Ivanyuk, 2.33 m was too high that day. He failed three times and had won the bronze medal.

For Przybylko and Nedassekau, however, things continued. Both jumped 2.33 m with their first attempts. For them it was now about gold and silver. Again, the jump height has been increased by two centimeters to 2.35 m. Here, too, Przybylko's white vest remained, he took the height with his first jump. Nedassekau, on the other hand, had two unsuccessful attempts and saved his remaining jump for the next height as he did at 2.28 m. This time, however, the Belarusian was not successful. Maksim Nedassekau failed at 2.37 m and was thus the winner of the silver medal. Przybylko had skipped the height and now let hang up 2.38 m. He tore three times, but Mateusz Przybylko was the new European champion with his 2.35 m skipped.

space	athlete	country	2.19	2.24	2.28	2.31	2.33	2.35	2.37	2.38	Height (m)
	Mateusz Przybylko	Germany	O	O	O	O	O	O	-	xxx	2.35 PBe
	Maksim Nedassekau	Belarus	O	O	xx–	O	O	xx–	x		2.33 PBe
	Ilya Ivanyuk	Authorized Neutral Athletes	O	O	O	O	xxx				2.31 PB
4th	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy	O	xo	O	x–	xx				2.28 SB
5	Alperen Acet	Turkey	O	xo	xxx						2.24
	Andrij Prozenko	Ukraine	O	xo	xxx						2.24
7th	Sylwester Bednarek	Poland	O	xxo	xxx						2.24
8th	Douwe Amels	Netherlands	O	xxx							2.19
	Eike Onnen	Germany	O	xxx							2.19
10	Konstandinos Baniotis	Greece	xxo	xxx							2.19
	Loïc Gasch	Switzerland	xxo	xxx							2.19
NM	Dmytro Demjanjuk	Ukraine	xxx								without height

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  European champion Mateusz Przybylko, Germany

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  The Italian Gianmarco Tamberi finished fourth

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  Fifth place for Andrij Prozenko from Ukraine

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  Sylwester Bednarek from Poland came in seventh place

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  The Dutchman Douwe Amels finished in eighth place

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  Eike Onnen, the second German in this final, also came in eighth

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  The Greek Konstandinos Baniotis came in tenth place

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 kB), accessed on January 6, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 6, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 6, 2019

Video

• The great high jump show of Mateusz Przybylko, European Championships 2018, sports show on youtube.com, published on August 11, 2018, accessed on January 6, 2019