World Athletics Championships 2015 / men's high jump

World Athletics Championships 2015
discipline	Men's high jump
city	Beijing
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	41 athletes from 27 countries
Competition phase	August 28, 2015 (qualification) August 30, 2015 (final)
Medalist
gold	Derek Drouin ( CAN )
silver	Zhang Guowei ( CHN )
	Bohdan Bondarenko ( UKR )

World champion Derek Drouin after his great success

The men's high jump at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place on August 28th and 30th, 2015 in Beijing , People's Republic of China .

The Canadian Derek Drouin won the world title . The Chinese Zhang Guowei and the Ukrainian Bohdan Bondarenko won the silver medal together.

Records

World record	Javier Sotomayor	2.45 m	Salamanca , Spain	July 27, 1993
Championship record	Bohdan Bondarenko	2.41 m	World Cup in Moscow , Russia	15th August 2013

qualification

August 28, 2015, 9:45 a.m. local time (3:45 a.m. CEST )

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height was 2.31 m. Since only nine jumpers achieved this performance (highlighted in light blue), the final field with the next best athletes from both groups was filled to at least twelve - in this case even fourteen athletes for the final due to the same number of failed attempts at the same height (highlighted in light green). Ultimately, 2.29 m had to be achieved without any unsuccessful attempt to participate in the final.

Group A

space	athlete	country	2.17	2.22	2.26	2.29	2.31	Height (m)
01	Derek Drouin	Canada	O	O	O	O	O	2.31
02	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar	-	O	O	xo	O	2.31
03	Brandon Starc	Australia	O	O	xxo	xxo	O	2.31 PB
04th	Eike Onnen	Germany	O	O	O	O	xxo	2.31
05	Konstandinos Baniotis	Greece	O	O	xo	xo	xxo	2.31 SB
06th	Trevor Barry	Bahamas	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.29 SB
	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.29
08th	Yes, Corian Duffield	United States	xxo	O	O	O	xxx	2.29
09	Andrij Prozenko	Ukraine	O	xo	xo	xo	xxx	2.29
10	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	-	O	O	xxx		2.26
	Wang Yu	People's Republic of China	O	O	O	xxx		2.26
12	Jesse Williams	United States	O	O	xo	xxx		2.26
	Mihai Donisan	Romania	O	O	xo	xxx		2.26
14th	Ivan Uchow	Russia	O	xo	xo	xxx		2.26
15th	Naoto Tobe	Japan	O	xxo	xo	xxx		2.26
16	Kabelo Kgosiemang	Botswana	O	O	xxx			2.22
	Takashi Etō	Japan	O	O	xxx			2.22
	Yuri Krymarenko	Ukraine	O	O	xxx			2.22
19th	Sylwester Bednarek	Poland	O	xo	xxx			2.22
20th	Ali Mohd Younes Idriss	Sudan	O	xxx				2.17

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  The Ukrainian Andrij Prozenko was eliminated despite jumping 2.29 m because he had two failed attempts

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  2.26 m was not enough for the American Jesse Williams for the final qualification

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  The Romanian Mihail Donisan was eliminated with 2.26 m in the qualification

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  The Russian co-favorite Iwan Uchow failed with his 2.26 m already in the qualification

Group B

space	athlete	country	2.17	2.22	2.26	2.29	2.31	Height (m)
01	Zhang Guowei	People's Republic of China	O	O	O	O	O	2.31
02	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	-	O	-	xo	O	2.31
03	Dimitrios Chondrokoukis	Cyprus	O	O	O	xo	xxo	2.31
04th	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	O	O	O	xxo	xxo	2.31 SB
05	Daniil Zyplakov	Russia	O	O	O	O	xx—	2.29
	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	O	O	O	O	x—	2.29
	Erik Kynard	United States	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.29
08th	Majd Eddin Ghazal	Syria	O	O	xo	O	xxx	2.29 NO
09	Michael Mason	Canada	O	O	O	xxx		2.26
10	Joel Baden	Australia	O	xo	O	xxx		2.26 SB
11	Ryan Ingraham	Bahamas	xxo	-	xo	xxx		2.26
12	Dmytro Yakovenko	Ukraine	xo	O	xxo	xxx		2.26
13	Mateusz Przybylko	Germany	O	O	xxx			2.22
14th	Hsiang Chun-hsien	Chinese Taipei	xxo	O	-	xxx		2.22
15th	Dmitry Kroyter	Israel	O	xo	xxx			2.22
16	Yuji Hiramatsu	Japan	O	xxx				2.17
17th	Eugenio Rossi	San Marino	xo	xxx				2.17
	Matúš Bubeník	Slovakia	xo	xxx				2.17
19th	Talles Frederico Silva	Brazil	xxo	xxx				2.17
NM	Raivydas Stanys	Lithuania	xxx					without height
DNS	Marco Fassinotti	Italy

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  The Syrian Majeddin Hjazal did not reach the final despite a 2.29 m jump due to a failed attempt

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  2.26 m was not enough for the Canadian Michael Mason to take part in the finals

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  Ryan Ingraham of the Bahamas jumped 2.26m in qualifying and was eliminated

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  The German Mateusz Przybylko got stuck in the qualification at 2.22 m and did not reach the final

final

August 30, 2015, 6:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m. CEST )

The three top favorites for the high jump were the reigning world and European champion Bohdan Bondarenko from Ukraine, the vice world champion and Olympic third party Mutaz Essa Barshim from Qatar as well as the Canadian World Cup third and also Olympic third Derek Drouin. The US Olympic runner-up and fifth at the World Cup, Erik Kynard, started with good prospects for a top placement . The Olympic champion, fourth in the World Cup and third in the European Championship, Iwan Uchow was also among the participants, but was already eliminated in the qualification.

Seven high jumpers were still in the competition when the 2.33 m was raised. Bondarenko, Drouin, the Chinese Zhang Guowei and the Russian Daniil Zyplakow have not yet had any failed attempts. Barshim and Donald Thomas from the Bahamas had one failed jump, the Czech Jaroslav Bába had two failed attempts. Bondarenko, Drouin, Zhang and Barshim each jumped the new height the first time. Zyplakow and Bába were eliminated after three unsuccessful attempts, Thomas skipped the height completely.

At 2.36 m, Bondarenko, Drouin and Zhang were still tied, Barshim followed with a failed attempt. In addition, Thomas was still in the race, who had skipped the last altitude. None of the five remaining high jumpers jumped the 2.36 m, there were only unsuccessful attempts. Barshim was fourth in the final ranking with a skipped 2.33 m. Zyplakow, Thomas and Bába had each managed 2.29 m. Due to the failure rule, Zyplakow was fourth ahead of Thomas, Bába was seventh.

The gold medal now had to be awarded in the jump-off. In the fourth attempt, none of the three tied athletes jumped the required 2.36 m. Then 2.34 m were laid, which the Canadian Drouin mastered. With Bondarenko and Guowei also tearing that height, gold went to Drouin while the other two finished in tied second place.

space	athlete	country	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.33	2.36	2.36	2.34	Height (m)
	Derek Drouin	Canada	O	O	O	O	xxx	x	O	2.34
	Zhang Guowei	People's Republic of China	O	O	O	O	xxx	x	x	2.33
	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	-	O	-	O	xxx	x	x	2.33
04th	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar	O	O	xo	O	xxx			2.33
05	Daniil Zyplakov	Russia	O	O	O	xxx				2.29
06th	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	O	O	xo	-	xxx			2.29
07th	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	O	xo	xo	xxx				2.29
08th	Erik Kynard	United States	O	O	xxx					2.25
	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy	O	O	xxx					2.25
10	Trevor Barry	Bahamas	xxo	O	xxx					2.25
11	Dimitrios Chondrokoukis	Cyprus	O	xo	xxx					2.25
12	Brandon Starc	Australia	O	xxo	xxx					2.25
	Eike Onnen	Germany	O	xxo	xxx					2.25
14th	Konstandinos Baniotis	Greece	xo	xxx						2.20

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  World Champion Derek Drouin, Canada

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  The Chinese Vice World Champion Zhang Guowei was very happy

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  Defending champion Bohdan Bondarenko won the silver medal like Zhang

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  Mutaz Essa Barshim took fourth place

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  The Bahamas jumper Donald Thomas finished sixth

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  The Czech Jaroslav Bába came in seventh place

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  The US co-favorite Erik Kynard had to be satisfied with a shared eighth place after his 2.25 m

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  Like Kynard, the Italian Gianmarco Tamberi finished eighth

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  Dimitrios Chondrokoukis from Cyprus reached eleventh place

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  Shared twelfth place for the German Eike Onnen

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  The Greek Konstandinos Baniotis Chondrokoukis came in fourteen

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, high jump men on the IAAF website , accessed on October 30, 2018
• Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on October 30, 2018
• Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on October 30, 2018

Videos

• 2015 Beijing - World Championship - High Jump - Men on youtube.com, published August 31, 2015, accessed October 30, 2018
• Derek Drouin wins Gold High Jump IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 on youtube.com, published August 30, 2015, accessed October 30, 2018