World Athletics Championships 1993 / men's high jump

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	38 athletes from 28 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 20th (qualification) August 22nd (final)
Medalist Javier Sotomayor ( CUB )   Artur Partyka ( POL )   Steve Smith ( GBR )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's high jump at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held on August 20 and 22, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

The Spanish Olympic champion in 1992 , vice world champion in 1991 and world record holder Javier Sotomayor became world champions . He won Artur Partyka from Poland before the Olympic third in 1992 . Bronze went to the British Steve Smith .

Records

Existing records

World record	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor	Salamanca , Spain	July 27, 1993
World championship record	2.38 m	Patrik Sjöberg	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	September 6, 1987
		Hennadij Avdjejenko
		Igor Paklin
		Charles Austin	1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan	September 1, 1991

Record improvement

The Cuban world champion Javier Sotomayor improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 22nd by two centimeters to 2.40 m

qualification

August 20, 1993, 5:45 p.m.

38 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.31 m. Nobody needed to tackle this mark after ten athletes jumped 2.28m. The final field was supplemented by the two best-placed high jumpers with each 2.25 m skipped. These twelve high jumpers (highlighted in light green) contested the final on the day after next.

Group A

• 

  Steinar Hoen - two years later European champion - failed with 2.25 m in the qualification

• 

  Dragutin Topić retired with his 2.25 m in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Ralf Sonn	Germany	2.28
2	Artur Partyka	Poland	2.28
3	Hollis Conway	United States	2.28
4th	Arturo Ortíz	Spain	2.25
	Jean-Charles Gicquel	France	2.25
6th	Juha Isolehto	Finland	2.25
7th	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	2.25
	Steinar Hoen	Norway	2.25
	Alexei Jemelin	Russia	2.25
10	Roberto Ferrari	Italy	2.25
11	Brendan Reilly	Great Britain	2.20
	Lee Jin-taek	South Korea	2.20
13	Marino Drake	Cuba	2.20
14th	Dragutin Topić	IWP	2.20
15th	Robert Marinov	Bulgaria	2.15
16	Mark Mandy	Ireland	2.10
	Satoru Nonaka	Japan	2.10
18th	Fakhr Aldien Gor	Jordan	2.05
	Karl Scatliffe	British Virgin Islands	2.05
DNS	Lambros papakostas	Greece

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Tony Barton	United States	2.28
	Tim Forsyth	Australia	2.28
	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	2.28
	Steve Smith	Great Britain	2.28
5	Oleg Zhukovskiy	Belarus	2.28
6th	Troy Kemp	Bahamas	2.28
7th	Robert Ruffini	Slovakia	2.28
8th	Wolf-Hendrik Beyer	Germany	2.25
9	Takahisa Yoshida	Japan	2.25
10	Rick Noji	United States	2.25
	Alex Zaliauskas	Canada	2.20
12	Xavier Robilliard	France	2.20
13	Gustavo Becker	Spain	2.20
	Georgi Dakov	Bulgaria	2.20
	Itai Margalit	Israel	2.20
16	Othmane Belfaa	Algeria	2.15
	Igor Paklin	Kyrgyzstan	2.15
18th	Hugo Muñoz	Peru	2.10
19th	Antonio Pazzaglia	San Marino	2.05
DNS	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

final

August 22, 1993, 3:00 p.m.

space

Surname

nation

Result (noun)

2.15 m

2.20 m

2.25 m

2.28 m

2.31 m

2.34 m

2.37 m

2.40 m

2.46 m

1

Javier Sotomayor

Cuba

2.40 CR

-

-

O

-

-

O

O

xo

xxx

2

Artur Partyka

Poland

2.37 NO

O

-

xo

-

O

x–

O

xxx

3

Steve Smith

Great Britain

2.37 NO

-

-

O

-

xxo

xo

O

xxx

4th

Ralf Sonn

Germany

2.34

-

O

-

O

O

O

xxx

5

Troy Kemp

Bahamas

2.34

-

-

O

-

xo

O

xxx

6th

Hollis Conway

United States

2.34

-

-

xo

-

xo

xo

x–

xx

7th

Arturo Ortíz

Spain

2.31

-

O

-

O

xo

xx–

x

8th

Tony Barton

United States

2.31

O

-

O

O

xxo

xxx

9

Tim Forsyth

Australia

2.28

Expiration not listed in the sources

10

Oleg Zhukovskiy

Belarus

2.28

11

Jean-Charles Gicquel

France

2.25

Robert Ruffini

Slovakia

2.25

• 

  After the Olympic victory in 1992 , the world record holder Javier Sotomayor (photo; 2009) has now also won the world championship title

• 

  Artur Partyka (here in 2013) improved from third place at the 1992 Olympic Games to second place at these world championships

Video links

• IAAF WORLD CHAMP. STUTTGART-93-HIGH JUMP MEN (1 OF 3) on youtube.com, accessed on May 12, 2020
• IAAF WORLD CHAMP. STUTTGART-93-HIGH JUMP MEN (2 OF 3) on youtube.com, accessed on May 12, 2020
• IAAF WORLD CHAMP. STUTTGART-93-HIGH JUMP MEN (3 OF 3) on youtube.com, accessed on May 12, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 12, 2020
• Men High Jump Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 12, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men High Jump, Stuttgart 1993, p. 159f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 12, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 12, 2020
2. ↑ Yugoslavia was during the Yugoslav wars according to the UN administrative penalties ( RESOLUTIONS AND DECISIONS OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL 1993 on www.un.org (PDF, 10.2 MB), accessed on May 12, 2020) by the IAAF of the World Cup -participation suspended . Individual athletes from this area were allowed to start with a special permit.