World Athletics Championships 1999 / men's high jump

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 21 (qualifying) August 23 (final)
Medalist Vyacheslav Voronin ( RUS )   Mark Boswell ( CAN )   Martin Buss ( GER )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The men's high jump at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 21 and 23, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

World champion became the Russian Vyacheslav Voronin . Silver went to the Canadian Mark Boswell . Third place went to the German Martin Buss .

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.

There was a best performance and three other records:

• a world best of the year:
  • 2.37 m - Vyacheslav Voronin Russia , final on August 23
• a continental record:
  • 2.29 m (African record) - Abderrahmane Hammad Algeria , qualification, group A on August 21
• two national records:
  • 2.35m - Mark Boswell Canada , final on August 23
  • 2.29m - Brendan Reilly Ireland , final on 23 August

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

August 21, 1999, 7:10 p.m.

31 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.29 m. Eleven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field consisting of at least twelve athletes was filled with the next placed jumpers. In twelfth place, two participants were tied, who had jumped 2.26 m without any unsuccessful attempt and thus reached the final, which now consists of thirteen athletes (highlighted in light green).

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.23 m	2.26 m	2.29 m
1	Kwaku Boateng	Canada	2.29	-	O	O	O	O
	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	2.29	O	O	O	O	O
	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia	2.29	O	O	O	O	O
4th	Charles Austin	United States	2.29	O	-	O	xo	O
5	Martin Buss	Germany	2.29	-	xxo	O	O	O
6th	Staffan beach	Sweden	2.29	-	O	O	O	xo
7th	Wilbert Pennings	Netherlands	2.29	O	O	-	xo	xo
8th	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	2.29 AF	xxo	O	xo	xxo	xxo
9	Gilmar Mayo	Colombia	2.23	O	O	xxo	x–	xx
10	Anthony Idiata	Nigeria	2.20	O	O	xx
	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel	2.20	O	O	xxx
12	Elvir Krehmic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.20	xo	O	-	xxx
13	Ben Challenger	Great Britain	2.20	O	xxo	xxx
14th	Andrij Sokolowskyj	Ukraine	2.15	O	xxx
15th	Lambros papakostas	Greece	2.15	xo	-	xxx
NM	Metin Durmusoglu	Turkey	ogV	xxx

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.23 m	2.26 m	2.29 m
1	Mark Boswell	Canada	2.29	O	-	xo	O	O
	Stefan Holm	Sweden	2.29	O	O	O	xo	O
3	Lee Jin-taek	South Korea	2.29	O	O	-	xo	xo
4th	Brendan Reilly	Ireland	2.26	O	O	-	O	xxx
	Steve Smith	Great Britain	2.26	-	O	-	O	x–
6th	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	2.26	-	xo	O	O	xxx
7th	Tim Forsyth	Australia	2.26	O	-	xo	xxo	xxx
8th	Dejan Miloševic	Slovenia	2.23	O	xo	O	xxx
9	Sergii Dymchenko	Ukraine	2.23	O	O	xo	xxx
10	Jan Janků	Czech Republic	2.23	O	xo	xo	xxx
11	Jean-Claude Rabbath	Lebanon	2.20	O	xo	xxx
12	Sergei Kljugin	Russia	2.20	xo	xo	xxx
13	Henry Patterson	United States	2.20	O	xxo	-	xxx
14th	Charles Clinger	United States	2.15	O	xxx
15th	Takahiro Kimino	Japan	2.15	xo	xxx

final

August 23, 1999, 7:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.20 m	2.25 m	2.29 m	2.32 m	2.35 m	2.37 m	2.40 m
1	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	2.37 WL	O	-	O	O	O	O	xxx
2	Mark Boswell	Canada	2.35 NO	O	-	xxo	-	xxo	xxx
3	Martin Buss	Germany	2.32	O	O	O	O	xxx
4th	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia	2.32	O	O	O	xxo	xxx
5	Staffan beach	Sweden	2.29	O	-	O	xxx
6th	Kwaku Boateng	Canada	2.29	O	xxo	O	xxx
	Lee Jin-taek	South Korea	2.29	O	xxo	O	xxx
8th	Charles Austin	United States	2.29	O	-	xxo	xx–	x
	Brendan Reilly	Ireland	2.29 NO	O	-	xxo	xxx
10	Wilbert Pennings	Netherlands	2.25	O	O	-	xxx
	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	2.25	O	O	-	xxx
	Stefan Holm	Sweden	2.25	O	O	x–	xx
NM	Steve Smith	Great Britain	ogV	-	-	-	-	x–	xx

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  Dragutin Topić, 1990 European Champion, only missed a medal because of two failed attempts at the decisive height of 2.34 m and came fourth

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  Wilbert Pennings was tied for tenth place

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  Stefan Holm (photo: 2013) reached tenth place in the final - he later won several medals and became Olympic champion in 2004

Video

• Men's High Jump Finals 2.35 and 2.37 1999 IAAF Outdoor World Track & Field Championships on youtube.com, accessed July 8, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
• Men High Jump Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 17, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men High Jump, Seville 1999, p. 160f (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 17, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 17, 2020