2017 World Athletics Championships / Men's high jump

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's high jump
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Attendees	27 athletes from 19 countries
Competition phase	August 11, 2017 (qualification) August 13, 2017 (final)
Medalist
gold	Mutaz Essa Barshim ( QAT )
silver	Danil Lyssenko ( ANA )
bronze	Majd Eddin Ghazal ( SYR )

World champion Mutasz Essa Barshim

The men's high jump at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place on August 11th and 13th, 2017 in London , United Kingdom .

World champion was Mutaz Essa Barshim from Qatar. In second place came the Russian Danil Lyssenko , who started under a neutral flag . The Syrian Majd Eddin Ghazal won the bronze medal.

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

The Pole Sylwester Bednarek retired with 2.26 m in the qualification

For the Ukrainian Andrij Prozenko, 2.29 m was not enough for the final

The Italian Gianmaco Tamberi jumped 2.29 m and was eliminated

August 11, 2017, 11:15 a.m. local time (12:15 p.m. CEST )

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualifying height required for direct entry into the final was 2.31 m. Since only six athletes jumped this height, the final field was filled with the following best jumpers from both groups to twelve participants. After all, 2.29 m achieved in the first or second jump with at most one further failed attempt was sufficient for participation in the final.

Group A

space	athlete	country	2.17	2.22	2.26	2.29	2.31	Height (m)
1	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar	-	O	O	O	O	2.31
2	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	-	O	-	xo	O	2.31
3	Tikhomir Ivanov	Bulgaria	O	O	xo	xo	xo	2.31 PB
4th	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	-	O	O	xo	xxo	2.31 SB
5	Ilya Ivanyuk	Authorized Neutral Athletes	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.29
	Bryan McBride	United States	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.29
7th	Eike Onnen	Germany	xo	xo	O	O	xxx	2.29
	Edgar Rivera	Mexico	O	O	xxo	O	xxx	2.29
9	Wang Yu	People's Republic of China	O	xo	O	xo	xxx	2.29
10	Talles Frederico Silva	Brazil	O	O	xxo	xo	xxx	2.29
11	Ricky Robertson	United States	O	O	xo	xxo	xxx	2.29
12	Sylwester Bednarek	Poland	O	O	xo	xxx		2.26
	Nauraj Singh Randhawa	Malaysia	O	O	xo	xxx		2.26
14th	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	O	xo	xxx			2.22

Group B

space	athlete	country	2.17	2.22	2.26	2.29	2.31	Height (m)
1	Danil Lysenko	Authorized Neutral Athletes	O	O	O	O	xo	2.31
2	Mateusz Przybylko	Germany	O	O	xo	xo	xo	2.31
3	Majd Eddin Ghazal	Syria	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.29
4th	Andrij Prozenko	Ukraine	xo	O	xo	xo	xxx	2.29
	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy	O	xo	xo	xo	xxx	2.29 SB
6th	Fernando Ferreira	Brazil	xo	xo	xo	xxo	xxx	2.29
7th	Michael Mason	Canada	O	O	O	xxx		2.26
8th	Your Yáñez	Venezuela	xo	xxo	O	xxx		2.26
9	Takashi Etō	Japan	O	xo	xxx			2.22
10	Zhang Guowei	People's Republic of China	xo	xo	xxx			2.22
11	Woo Sang-hyeok	South Korea	xo	xxo	xxx			2.22
12	Jeron Robinson	United States	xo	xxx				2.17
NM	Erik Kynard	United States	x					without height

final

August 13, 2017, 7:00 p.m. local time (8:00 p.m. CEST )

The 2016 Olympic champion and reigning world champion Derek Drouin from Canada did not compete here in London . The favorites were especially the Olympic runner-up from 2016 and vice world champion from 2013 Mutaz Essa Barshim from Qatar, the Olympic third from 2016, world champion from 2013 and runner-up world champion from 2015 Bohdan Bondarenko from Ukraine as well as the two Olympic winners from 2016 Robert Grabarz from Great Britain and Andrij Prozenko from Ukraine. The Chinese Zhang Guowei, vice world champion together with Bondarenko in 2015, was among the participants. But the Chinese had already been eliminated in the qualification.

Nine high jumpers were still in the running when the 2.29 m was set up. With Barshim, Danil Lyssenko and Ilya Iwanjuk, who are starting under a neutral flag, Syrian Majd Eddin Ghazal, Mexican Edgar Rivera and British Robbie Grabarz, six of them have so far failed to make any attempt. The German Mateusz Przybylko and the US American Bryan McBride had two failed jumps and Bondarenko had three failed jumps. Barshim jumped the new height of 2.29 m as the only participant in the first attempt. Lyssenko and Ghazal followed suit with their second jumps each. Rivera and Przybylko were successful on their third attempts each. Grabarz, Ivanyuk and McBride failed three times while Bondarenko skipped the height.

Six jumpers tackled the 2.32 m now laid out. Barshim and Lyssenko mastered the altitude the first time, while all the other athletes were already at the end here. That was surprising, because the results achieved at World Championships and Olympic Games in recent years were higher. Majd Eddin Ghazal was now clear as the bronze medal winner due to the failed attempt rule, Rivera and Przybylko finished fourth and fifth. Bondarenko was only 2.26 m tall and finished ninth behind the two joint sixths Robbie Grabarz and Ilja Iwanjuk and Bryan McBride.

The decision about the world championship title was still pending. She fell at the next jump height of 2.35 m. Mutaz Essa Barshim was again confidently successful with his first attempt. Danil Lyssenko, on the other hand, tore three times and was vice world champion with his 2.32 m skipped. Mutaz Essa Barshim then tried his hand at 2.40 m. This time, however, this height was too high for him and so he became world champion for the first time with 2.35 m.

space	athlete	country	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.32	2.35	2.40	Height (m)
	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar	O	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.35
	Danil Lysenko	Authorized Neutral Athletes	O	O	xo	O	xxx		2.32
	Majd Eddin Ghazal	Syria	O	O	xo	xxx			2.29
4th	Edgar Rivera	Mexico	O	O	xxo	xxx			2.29
5	Mateusz Przybylko	Germany	O	xo	xxo	xxx			2.29
6th	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	O	O	xxx				2.25
	Ilya Ivanyuk	Authorized Neutral Athletes	O	O	xxx				2.25
8th	Bryan McBride	United States	O	xo	xxx				2.25
9	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	-	xxo	-	xxx			2.25
10	Eike Onnen	Germany	xxo	xxx					2.20
NM	Tikhomir Ivanov	Bulgaria	x R						without height
DNS	Wang Yu	People's Republic of China

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  World champion Mutasz Essa Barshim, Qatar

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  Vice World Champion Danil Lyssenko, at the start under a neutral flag

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  Bronze medalist Majd Eddin Ghazal, Syria

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  The German Mateusz Przybylko came in fifth

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  Shared sixth place for the British Robbie Grabarz

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  The 2015 vice world champion Bohdan Bondarenko had to be satisfied with ninth place this time

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  The German Eike Onnen came in tenth

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, men's high jump on the IAAF website , accessed on November 30, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 30, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 30, 2018

Video

• High Jump - Mutasz Essa Barshim on youtube.com, published August 13, 2017, accessed November 30, 2018