1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 43 athletes from 27 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Barcelona | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 31, 1992 (qualifying) August 2, 1992 (final) |
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The men's high jump at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on July 31 and August 2, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 43 athletes took part.
The Cuban Javier Sotomayor became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Swede Patrik Sjöberg . The bronze medal was awarded three times in this competition. The American Hollis Conway , the Australian Tim Forsyth and the Pole Artur Partyka achieved the same height with the same number of failed attempts and heights.
For Germany went Wolf-Hendrik Beyer , Dietmar Mögenburg and Ralf Sonn at the start. Beyer and Mögenburg failed in the qualification, Sonn reached the final and finished sixth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
With Dragutin Topić and Stevan Zorić two Serbian athletes took part. Since Serbia was under UN sanctions at the time and was not allowed to send an Olympic team, they competed as independent Olympic participants . The Olympic flag was used as a flag . The abbreviation here was IOP (for Individual Olympic Participant ).
Current title holders
Olympic champion in 1988 | Hennadij Avdjejenko ( Soviet Union ) | 2.38 m | Seoul 1988 |
World Champion 1991 | Charles Austin ( USA ) | 2.38 m | Tokyo 1991 |
European champion 1990 | Dragutin Topić ( Yugoslavia ) | 2.34 m | Split 1990 |
Pan American champion 1991 | Javier Sotomayor ( Cuba ) | 2.35 m | Havana 1991 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991 | Carlos Arzuaga ( Puerto Rico ) | 2.11 m | Xalapa 1991 |
South American Champion 1991 | Gilmar Mayo ( Colombia ) | 2.20 m | Manaus 1991 |
Asian champion 1991 | Lee Jin-taek ( South Korea ) | 2.22 m | Kuala Lumpur 1991 |
African Champion 1992 | Yacine Mousli ( Algeria ) | 2.21 m | Belle Vue Maurel 1992 |
Oceania Champion 1990 | Ray Featherstone ( New Zealand ) | 2.06 m | Suva 1990 |
Existing records
World record | 2.44 m | Javier Sotomayor ( Cuba ) | San Juan , Puerto Rico | July 29, 1989 |
Olympic record | 2.38 m | Hennadij Avdjejenko ( Soviet Union ) | Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 25, 1988 |
qualification
Date: July 31, 1992
For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.29 m. Since only two athletes managed this height (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best jumpers from both groups (highlighted in light green). So there were finally fourteen finalists and 2.26 m skipped were enough to reach the final fight. The participants in qualification group B, who had jumped 2.26 m, renounced their attempts over 2.29 m knowing the starting position.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 2.00 m | 2.05 m | 2.10 m | 2.15 m | 2.20 m | 2.23 m | 2.26 m | 2.29 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | - | - | - | - | O | - | O | - | 2.26 m | |
2 | Sorin Matei | Romania | - | - | - | xo | O | xo | O | - | 2.26 m | |
3 | Hollis Conway | United States | - | - | - | O | O | O | x o | - | 2.26 m | |
4th | Georgi Dakov | Bulgaria | - | - | - | O | xo | xo | x o | - | 2.26 m | Missing information on this in the official report |
5 | Artur Partyka | Poland | - | - | O | - | O | - | xx o | - | 2.26 m | |
6th | Tim Forsyth | Australia | - | - | - | - | xo | O | xx o | - | 2.26 m | |
7th | Steinar Hoen | Norway | - | - | - | O | O | x o | xxx | 2.23 m | ||
8th | Ian Thompson | Bahamas | - | - | - | xo | O | xx o | xxx | 2.23 m | ||
9 | Darrin Plab | United States | - | - | - | xxo | xo | xx o | xxx | 2.23 m | ||
10 | Lee Jin-taek | South Korea | - | - | - | - | O | - | xxx | 2.20 m | ||
11 | Yuri Sergiyenko | EUN | - | - | O | xo | x o | xxx | 2.20 m | |||
12 | Wolf-Hendrik Beyer | Germany | - | - | - | O | xx o | xxx | 2.20 m | |||
13 | Xu Yang | People's Republic of China | - | O | xo | O | xx o | xxx | 2.20 m | |||
14th | Dietmar Mögenburg | Germany | - | - | - | O | xxx | 2.15 m | ||||
Arturo Ortíz | Spain | - | - | - | O | - | xxx | |||||
16 | Dalton Grant | Great Britain | - | - | - | x o | xxx | 2.15 m | ||||
Stevan Zorić | IOP | - | - | - | x o | - | xxx | |||||
18th | Kosmas Michalopoulos | Greece | - | - | O | - | xxx | 2.10 m | ||||
Khemraj Naïko | Mauritius | - | - | O | xxx | |||||||
Hossein Shahyan | Iran | - | - | O | xxx | |||||||
21st | Karl Scatliffe | British Virgin Islands | O | O | x o | xxx | 2.10 m | |||||
22nd | Hilaire Onwanlélé | Gabon | - | O | xxx | 2.05 m |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 2.00 m | 2.05 m | 2.10 m | 2.15 m | 2.20 m | 2.23 m | 2.26 m | 2.29 m | height | annotation |
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1 | Marino Drake | Cuba | - | - | - | O | - | xxo | xo | x o | 2.29 m | |
2 | Steve Smith | Great Britain | - | - | - | O | - | O | xxo | xx o | 2.29 m | |
3 | Charles Austin | United States | - | - | - | - | O | - | O | x- | 2.26 m | |
Patrik Sjöberg | Sweden | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | x- | |||
Dragutin Topić | IOP | - | - | - | - | O | - | O | ||||
6th | Ralf Sonn | Germany | - | - | - | O | xo | O | O | - | 2.26 m | |
7th | Gustavo Becker | Spain | - | - | - | xo | xo | - | O | 2.26 m | ||
8th | Troy Kemp | Bahamas | - | - | - | - | O | - | x o | x- | 2.26 m | |
9 | Brendan Reilly | Great Britain | - | - | O | O | xo | xx o | xxx | 2.23 m | ||
10 | Lambros papakostas | Greece | - | - | - | - | O | - | xxx | 2.20 m | ||
Håkon Särnblom | Norway | - | - | O | O | O | - | xxx | ||||
12 | Igor Paklin | EUN | - | - | - | - | x o | - | xxx | 2.20 m | ||
Lochsley Thomson | Australia | - | - | O | - | x o | - | xxx | ||||
14th | David Anderson | Australia | - | - | O | x o | xxx | 2.15 m | ||||
15th | Alex Zaliauskas | Canada | - | - | O | xx o | xxx | 2.15 m | ||||
16 | Abdullah Mohamed Al-Sheib | Qatar | - | O | O | xxx | 2.10 m | |||||
Danny Beauchamp | Seychelles | O | O | O | xxx | |||||||
Yacine Mousli | Algeria | - | - | O | xxx | |||||||
19th | Cho Hyun-uk | South Korea | - | - | x o | xxx | 2.10 m | |||||
20th | Fakhredin Fouad Al-Dien Gor | Jordan | O | x o | from | 2.05 m | ||||||
ogV | Clarence Saunders | Bermuda | - | - | - | xxx | without height |
final
Date: August 2, 1992
Fourteen athletes had qualified for the final, only two of them via the direct qualification mark set, all the others via their placements. In the final there were two Cubans and two Americans as well as one athlete each from Australia, Bahamas, Bulgaria, Germany, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Spain, Great Britain and Serbia as independent Olympic participants .
The top favorite was the Cuban world record holder Javier Sotomayor. Other medal candidates were the reigning world champion Charles Austin from the USA, the World Cup third Hollis Conway, also USA, the World Cup fourth Dalton Grant from Great Britain and the 1987 world champion Patrik Sjöberg from Sweden. Grant, however, already retired in the qualification.
When the jump height of 2.34 m was set after 2.31 m, there were still eight jumpers in the competition. Austin skipped eight feet. Troy Kemp of the Bahamas failed at 2.34 m. After a failed attempt over the 2.34 m that was now laid out, Austin saved the other two jumps for 2.37 m. Likewise, the German Ralf Sonn played poker after two failed attempts above this height. Neither of these jumpers could overcome the next height of 2.37 m. Both Sonn and Austin had lost each other. Conway, the Australian Tim Forsyth and the Pole Artur Partyka tore three times, as did Sjöberg. Sotomayor had two failed attempts and took his remaining jump to the next height of 2.39 m. While Sotomayor had managed 2.34 m in the first attempt, Sjöberg, Conway, Forsyth and Partyka each had one failed attempt. The decision had already been made. Patrik Sjöberg had the silver medal behind Sotomayor because he had made no further unsuccessful attempts. Hollis Conway, Tim Forsyth and Artur Partyka were together in third place. All three jumpers had had another failed attempt at earlier heights. Thus three bronze medals went to these athletes. In the end, Javier Sotomayor tore the bar on his last attempt over 2.39 m - but he was already an Olympic champion.
Javer Sotomayor was the first Cuban Olympic and medalist in the high jump .
space | Surname | nation | 2.15 m | 2.20 m | 2.24 m | 2.28 m | 2.31 m | 2.34 m | 2.37 m | 2.39 m | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | - | - | xo | - | O | O | xx- | x | 2.34 m | |
2 | Patrik Sjöberg | Sweden | - | - | O | - | O | x o | xxx | 2.34 m | ||
3 | Hollis Conway | United States | - | O | - | xo | - | x o | xxx | 2.34 m | ||
Tim Forsyth | Australia | - | O | O | - | xo | x o | xxx | ||||
Artur Partyka | Poland | O | - | xo | - | O | x o | xxx | ||||
6th | Ralf Sonn | Germany | - | O | O | O | O | xx- | x | 2.31 m | ||
7th | Troy Kemp | Bahamas | - | O | - | xo | O | xxx | 2.31 m | |||
8th | Charles Austin | United States | - | O | - | O | - | x-- | xx | 2.28 m | ||
Marino Drake | Cuba | - | O | - | O | xxx | ||||||
Dragutin Topić | IOP | - | O | - | O | xx- | x | |||||
11 | Gustavo Becker | Spain | - | O | xo | O | xxx | 2.28 m | ||||
12 | Steve Smith | Great Britain | O | - | O | - | xx- | x | 2.24 m | |||
13 | Sorin Matei | Romania | - | - | x o | - | xxx | 2.24 m | ||||
14th | Georgi Dakov | Bulgaria | O | O | xx o | xxx | 2.24 m |
Web links
- SportsReference high jump , accessed February 11, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 48, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 11, 2018
Video
- Men's High Jump Final Barcelona Olympics 1992 , published November 4, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 11, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 676 , accessed on February 11, 2018
- ↑ a b Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 48, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 11, 2018