1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 20 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 10, 1984 (qualifying) August 11, 1984 (final)
Medalist Dietmar Mögenburg ( FRG )   Patrik Sjöberg ( SWE )   Zhu Jianhua ( CHN )

The men's high jump at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 10 and 11, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Thirty athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Dietmar Mögenburg from the Federal Republic of Germany. He won ahead of the Swede Patrik Sjöberg and the Chinese Zhu Jianhua .

In addition to the Olympic champion, Carlo Thränhardt and Gerd Nagel competed for the Federal Republic of Germany . Nagel failed in the qualification. Thränhardt reached the final and was tenth.
The Swiss Roland Dalhäuser also reached the final. There he failed with three failed attempts at his starting height.
Jumpers from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1980	Gerd Wessig ( GDR )	2.36 m	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Hennadij Avdjejenko ( Soviet Union )	2.32 m	Helsinki 1983
European Champion 1982	Dietmar Mögenburg ( Federal Republic of Germany )	2.30 m	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	Francisco Centelles ( Cuba )	2.29 m	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983	Jorge Alfaro ( Cuba )	2.25 m	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Jorge Achanjo ( Brazil )	2.14 m	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Zhu Jianhua ( People's Republic of China )	2.31 m	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Moussa case ( Senegal )	2.20 m	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	2.39 m	Zhu Jianhua ( People's Republic of China )	Eberstadt , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	June 10, 1984
Olympic record	2.36 m	Gerd Wessig ( GDR )	Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	August 1, 1980

qualification

Date: August 10, 1984

For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification height for direct entry into the final was 2.24 m. Since exactly twelve jumpers (highlighted in light blue) jumped this height, the final field was not filled any further.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	2.05 m	2.10 m	2.15 m	2.18 m	2.21 m	2.24 m	height	annotation
1	Milton Goode	United States	-	-	-	O	O	O	2.24 m
	Dietmar Mögenburg	BR Germany	-	-	O	-	O	O
3	Doug Nordquist	United States	-	-	O	O	O	O	2.24 m
	Patrick Sjöberg	Sweden
	Zhu Jianhua	People's Republic of China	-	O	-	O	O	O
6th	Milton Ottey	Canada	-	O	O	O	O	O	2.24 m
7th	Dwight Stones	United States	-	-	O	O	xo	O	2.24 m
8th	Erkki Niemi	Finland	-	O	O	O	O	x o	2.24 m
9	Roland Dalhauser	Switzerland	-	-	-	-	xxo	x o	2.24 m
10	Carlo Thränhardt	BR Germany	O	-	x-	-	O	xx o	2.24 m
11	Eddy Annijs	Belgium	-	-	O	-	x o	xxx	2.21 m
12	Takao Sakamoto	Japan	-	O	O	O	x o	xxx	2.21 m
13	Gerd Nagel	BR Germany	O	xo	O	O	xxx		2.18 m
14th	Franck Verzy	France	-	O	x o	-	xxx		2.15 m
ogV	Stephen Wray	Bahamas	-	-	xxx					without height

Group B

space	Surname	nation	2.05 m	2.10 m	2.15 m	2.18 m	2.21 m	2.24 m	height	annotation
1	Liu Yunpeng	People's Republic of China	-	O	O	-	O	O	2.24 m
2	Cai Shu	People's Republic of China	-	O	O	-	O	x o	2.24 m
3	Thomas Eriksson	Sweden	-	O	O	xo	O	xxx	2.21 m
4th	John Atkinson	Australia	O	O	O	xo	O	xxx	2.21 m
5	Geoff Parsons	Great Britain	-	-	O	-	x o	xxx	2.21 m
6th	Hrvoje Fižuleto	Yugoslavia	O	xxo	xo	O	xxx		2.18 m
7th	Alain Metellus	Canada	-	O	O	x o	xxx		2.18 m
8th	Clarence Saunders	Bermuda	-	O	O	xx o	xxx		2.18 m
9	Novica Čanović	Yugoslavia	-	-	O	-	xxx		2.15 m
	Dimitrios Kattis	Greece	-	-	O	xxx
11	Desmond Morris	Jamaica	-	xo	x o	xxx			2.15 m
12	Tin-Sau Lam	Hong Kong	O	x o	xxx				2.10 m
	Chin-Chiang Liu	Chinese Taipei
14th	Mutale Mulenga	Zambia	x o	xxx		style			2.05 m
ogV	Mark Naylor	Great Britain	-	xxx						without height

final

Twelve jumpers qualified for the final on August 11, 1984: three Chinese, three US-Americans, two jumpers from the Federal Republic of Germany, and one jumper each from Switzerland, Finland, Sweden and Canada.

European champion Dietmar Mögenburg, FR Germany, and the Chinese world record holder Zhu Jianhua were favorites . Medal chances were also given to the US jumper Dwight Stones, who had won the bronze medal in 1972 and 1976 respectively. Other contenders for top placements, such as the German high jumpers Carlo Thränhardt and Gerd Nagel, were injured or could not even take part. This included the strong athletes from the boycott states such as world champion Hennadij Awdjejenko from the USSR, his compatriot Igor Paklin and vice European champion Janusz Trzepizur from Poland.

With Roland Dalhäuser from Switzerland and Milton Goode from the United States, two athletes remained without a valid attempt in the final. At 2.29 m there were still eight jumpers in the race. Seven of them had jumped the height, the Chinese Cai Shu had failed once and had saved his two remaining attempts to tackle 2.31 m. Four of the jumpers still in the competition failed at 2.31 m. These were the two Chinese Cai Shu (eighth in the end result) and Liu Yunpeng (seventh), the Canadian Milton Ottey (6th) and the US-American Doug Nordquist (5th).

The next height of 2.33 m was too high this time for Stones, who failed three times and ended up fourth. Jianhua had also torn once and took his two remaining attempts with him to the next level. The Swede Patrik Sjöberg had a failed attempt before jumping the height. Mögenburg succeeded in doing this in the first attempt. Mögenburg also mastered 2.35 m with his first jump. Sjöberg tore three times, and Jianhua failed with both of his remaining attempts. Dietmar Mögenburg was Olympic champion, silver went to Patrik Sjöberg, bronze to Zhu Jianhua, who up to 2.31 m had one failed attempt less than Stones - also 2.31 m. Mögenburg then set the new world record height of 2.40 m, but failed three times.

Dietmar Mögenburg won the first Olympic victory in the high jump for the Federal Republic of Germany.

Zhu Jianhua was the first Chinese medalist in this discipline.

For the second time, the US team stayed in the high jump without winning a medal. The first time this happened was in 1980 in Moscow , where the United States had not participated because of the Olympic boycott.

space	Surname	nation	2.15 m	2.18 m	2.21 m	2.24 m	2.27 m	2.29 m	2.31 m	2.33 m	2.35 m	2.40 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Dietmar Mögenburg	BR Germany	O	-	O	-	O	-	O	O	O	xxx	2.35 m
2	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	-	-	O	-	xo	O	xo	x o	xxx		2.33 m
3	Zhu Jianhua	People's Republic of China	O	-	O	-	O	-	O	x-	xx		2.31 m
4th	Dwight Stones	United States	-	O	-	O	-	x-	O	xxx			2.31 m
5	Doug Nordquist	United States	-	O	-	O	O	O	xxx				2.29 m
6th	Milton Ottey	Canada	O	-	O	xo	xo	O	xxx				2.29 m
7th	Liu Yunpeng	People's Republic of China	O	-	O	O	xxo	x o	xxx				2.29 m
8th	Cai Shu	People's Republic of China	O	-	xo	O	x o	x-	xx				2.27 m
9	Erkki Niemi	Finland	O	-	xo	xx o	xxx						2.24 m
10	Carlo Thränhardt	BR Germany	x o	-	xx-	x							2.15 m
ogV	Roland Dalhauser	Switzerland	-	-	xxx									without height
	Milton Goode	United States

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 30f

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed January 11, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 285, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 11, 2018

Video

• Los Angeles in 1984 olympic korkeusfinaali , published July 29, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed January 11, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 676 , accessed on January 11, 2018
2. ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 285, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 11, 2018
3. ↑ SportsReference Hochsprung , accessed January 11, 2018