World Athletics Championships 1995 / men's high jump

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	35 athletes from 24 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (qualification) August 8th (final)
Medalist Troy Kemp ( BAH )   Javier Sotomayor ( CUB )   Artur Partyka ( POL )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The men's high jump at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 6th and 8th, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

World Champion was the for Bahamas launching Troy Kemp . He won ahead of the Cuban defending champion, Olympic champion from 1992 and vice world champion from 1991 Javier Sotomayor . Bronze went to the Olympic third from 1992, Vice World Champion from 1993 and Vice European Champion from 1994 Artur Partyka from Poland .

Existing records

World record	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor	Salamanca , Spain	July 27, 1993
World championship record	2.40 m		World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany	22nd August 1993

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

qualification

August 6, 1995, 10:15 a.m.

35 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.29 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). The failed attempt rule was also applied. In addition to the eight athletes who qualified for the final, there were four other non-qualified athletes who had jumped 2.27 m.

The jump heights in the two qualification groups were as follows:
2.10 - 2.15 - 2.20 - 2.24 - 2.27 - 2.29

The test series for the individual participants in the qualification groups are not listed in the sources.

Group A

Sorin Matei dropped out with 2.27 m skipped only because of his unsuccessful attempts

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Steve Smith	Great Britain	2.29
2	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia	2.29
	Tony Barton	United States	2.29
4th	Troy Kemp	Bahamas	2.27
	Steinar Hoen	Norway	2.27
6th	Jaroslaw Kotewicz	Poland	2.27
7th	Bi Hongyong	People's Republic of China	2.27
8th	Sorin Matei	Romania	2.27
9	Dimítrios Kokótis	Greece	2.24
	Gilmar Mayo	Colombia	2.24
	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	2.24
12	Lee Jin-taek	South Korea	2.24
	Arturo Ortíz	Spain	2.24
14th	Chris Anderson	Australia	2.24
15th	Charles Lefrançois	Canada	2.15
16	Mark Mandy	Ireland	2.15
17th	Róbert Ruffini	Slovakia	2.10
18th	Antonio Pazzaglia	San Marino	2.00

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Tim Forsyth	Australia	2.29
2	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	2.27
	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	2.27
	Artur Partyka	Poland	2.27
	Ian Thompson	Bahamas	2.27
6th	Charles Austin	United States	2.27
7th	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	2.27
8th	Lambros papakostas	Greece	2.27
9	Brendan Reilly	Great Britain	2.24
	Wolf-Hendrik Beyer	Germany	2.24
	Hakon Särnblom	Finland	2.24
12	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel	2.24
13	Khemraj Naïko	Mauritius	2.20
14th	Rick Noji	United States	2.20
	Oleg Zhukovskiy	Belarus	2.20
16	Ralf Sonn	Germany	2.20
NM	Juha Isolehto	Finland	ogV

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

final

The defending champion and Olympic champion from 1992 Javier Sotomayor (photo: 2015) became vice world champion like in 1991

August 8, 1995, 4:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.25 m	2.29 m	2.32 m	2.35 m	2.37 m	2.39 m
1	Troy Kemp	Bahamas	2.37	-	-	O	O	-	xo	xo	xxx
2	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	2.37	-	-	xxo	-	O	O	xxo	xxx
3	Artur Partyka	Poland	2.35	O	-	O	-	x–	O	xxx
4th	Steve Smith	Great Britain	2.35	-	-	-	O	-	xxo	xx–	x
	Steinar Hoen	Norway	2.35	-	O	O	O	O	xxo	xxx
6th	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	2.32	-	-	O	-	O	xxx
7th	Tony Barton	United States	2.29	-	O	O	O	xx–	-	x
8th	Tim Forsyth	Australia	2.25	-	O	O	xxx
	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia	2.25	O	-	O	xxx
	Jaroslaw Kotewicz	Poland	2.25	O	-	O	xxx
11	Ian Thompson	Bahamas	2.25	Expiration not listed in the sources
12	Bi Hongyong	People's Republic of China	2.15

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  Bronze medalist Artur Partyka (here in 2009) - he was Olympic third in 1992, vice world champion in 1993 and vice European champion in 1994

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  The reigning European champion Steinar Hoen (in 2012) took fourth place

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  Patrik Sjöberg (2013) , 1987 World Champion, 1984 / 1992 Olympic silver medalist and 1988 Olympic third, came to sixth place

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  Dragutin Topić reached eighth place

Video

• Men's High Jump World Champs Gothenburg 1995 on youtube.com, accessed May 29, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 29, 2020
• Men High Jump Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com, accessed May 29, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men High Jump, Gothenborg 1995, p. 160 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 29, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 29, 2020