World Athletics Championships 2001 / men's high jump

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	25 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 5th (qualification) August 8th (final)
Medalist
gold	Martin Buss ( GER )
silver	Vyacheslav Voronin ( RUS ) Yaroslav Rybakov ( RUS )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The high jump of the men at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics was on 5 and 8 August 2001 at Commonwealth Stadium, the Canadian city of Edmonton held.

In this competition there were two silver medals for high jumpers from Russia . Consequently, no bronze medal was awarded. The German World Cup third in 1999, Martin Buß, became world champion . Defending champion Vyacheslav Voronin and Yaroslav Rybakov shared second place .

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.

The German world champion Martin Buß achieved a new world best of the year with his victory jump of 2.36 m in the final on August 8th.

doping

There was a doping case here.

The two-time world champion ( 1993 / 1997 ), Olympic champion in 1992 and world record holder Javier Sotomayor had finished fourth, but was due to a positive nandrolone disqualified -Befunds and received a two-year ban, but had no effect because the Cubans in autumn Resigned from active competitive sport in 2001. He never admitted his doping.

The Czech Jan Janků , who could have participated in the final with a 2.25 m jump in the second attempt, was disadvantaged here .

Legend

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

-	waived
O	skipped
x	invalid

qualification

August 5, 2001, 10:17 am

25 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.29 m. Nobody had to approach this height at all, because after all attempts over 2.27 m were finished, only ten athletes were left in the competition. They all qualified for the final. The final field was supplemented with the two best placed competitors who jumped 2.25 m. This is how the field of participants for the final came about with twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green).

Group A

With his 2.15 m Grzegorz Sposób had no chance of participating in the final

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.25 m	2.27 m
1	Charles Austin	United States	2.27	-	O	-	O
2	Staffan beach	Sweden	2.27	-	O	xxo	O
3	Mark Boswell	Canada	2.27	-	O	-	xo
	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	2.27	O	O	O	xo
5	Martin Buss	Germany	2.27	-	O	xo	xo
6th	Sergei Kljugin	Russia	2.25	O	O	O	xxx
7th	Jan Janků	Czech Republic	2.25 actually qualified for the final	-	O	xo	xxx
8th	Serhiy Dymchenko	Ukraine	2.25	xxo	xo	xxo	xxx
9	Mika Polku	Finland	2.20	O	O	xxx
	David Furman	United States	2.20	O	O	xxx
11	Elvir Krehmic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.20	-	xxo	xxx
12	Grzegorz Sposób	Poland	2.15	O	xxx
13	Jacques Friday	South Africa	2.15	xxo	xxx

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.25 m	2.27 m
1	Stefan Holm	Sweden	2.27	-	O	xxo	O
	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	2.27	O	O	xxo	O
3	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	2.27	O	xo	O	xo
4th	Kwaku Boateng	Canada	2.27	-	xo	xo	xo
5	Gilmar Mayo	Colombia	2.25	O	xo	O	xxx
6th	Nathan Leeper	United States	2.25	O	xo	xo	xxx
7th	Ben Challenger	Great Britain	2.20	O	xo	xxx
	Alexander Kravtsov	Russia	2.20	O	xo	xxx
9	Einar Karl Hjartarson	Iceland	2.20	xo	xo	xxx
10	Andrij Sokolowskyj	Ukraine	2.15	O	xxx
NM	Eugene Ernesta	Seychelles	ogV	xxx
DOP	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	admitted to the finals

final

August 8, 2001, 6:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	2.20 m	2.25 m	2.30 m	2.33 m	2.36 m
1	Martin Buss	Germany	2.36 WL	O	O	O	x–	xo
2	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	2.33	-	O	O	O	xxx
	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	2.33	O	O	O	O	xxx
4th	Sergei Kljugin	Russia	2.30	O	-	xo	xxx
	Stefan Holm	Sweden	2.30	O	O	xo	x–	xx
6th	Staffan beach	Sweden	2.25	-	O	xx–	x
	Mark Boswell	Canada	2.25	O	O	-	xxx
8th	Kwaku Boateng	Canada	2.25	O	xxo	x–	xxx
9	Charles Austin	United States	2.20	O	-	xxx
	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	2.20	O	xxx
11	Gilmar Mayo	Colombia	2.20	xxo	xxx
DOP	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba

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  Yaroslav Rybakov - vice world champion together with a compatriot

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  Stefan Holm took fourth place

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  At the end of his career Javier Sotomayor was 1992 Olympic champion, two-time world champion ( 1993 / 1997 converted) and world record holder, the doping abuse

Video

• 2001 World Championships in Athletics - Men's High Jump Final , video posted August 13, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed August 12, 2020

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 24, 2020
• Men High Jump Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 12, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men High Jump, Edmonton 2001, p. 161 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on August 12, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 12, 2020
2. ↑ Javier Sotomayor: World records, doping and Fidel Castro , Aargauer Zeitung, July 29, 2020 at aargauerzeitung.ch, accessed on August 12, 2020