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)
Medalist Javier Sotomayor ( CUB )   Patrik Sjöberg ( SWE )   Hollis Conway ( USA ) Tim Forsyth ( AUS ) Artur Partyka ( POL )

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

The Norwegian Steinar Hoen dropped out as seventh in his qualification group with a 2.23 m jump

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
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
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

Cuban Olympic champion Javier Sotomayor - here in a photo from 2008

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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 676 , accessed on February 11, 2018
2. ↑ ^{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