1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 28 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 26, 1996 (qualification) July 28, 1996 (final)
Medalist Charles Austin ( USA )   Artur Partyka ( POL )   Steve Smith ( GBR )

The men's high jump at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 26th and 28th, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 37 athletes took part.

The American Charles Austin became Olympic champion . He won ahead of Poland's Artur Partyka and Steve Smith from Great Britain.

Wolfgang Kreissig started for Germany , who qualified for the final and finished ninth there.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1992	Javier Sotomayor ( Cuba )	2.34 m	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Troy Kemp ( Bahamas )	2.37 m	Gothenburg 1995
European Champion 1994	Steinar Hoen ( Norway )	2.35 m	Helsinki 1994
Pan American champion 1995	Javier Sotomayor ( Cuba )	2.40 m	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995	Marino Drake ( Cuba )	2.21 m	Guatemala City 1995
South American Champion 1995	Gilmar Mayo ( Colombia )	2.25 m	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Lee Jin-taek ( South Korea )	2.26 m	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Khemraj Naïko ( Mauritius )	2.16 m	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania Champion 1994	Michael Sharapoff ( New Zealand )	2.05 m	Auckland 1994

Existing records

World record	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor ( Cuba )	Salamanca , Spain	July 27, 1993
Olympic record	2.38 m	Hennadij Avdjejenko ( Soviet Union )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 25, 1988

Note: All times are Atlanta local time ( UTC − 5 ).

qualification

July 26, 1996, from 9:00 a.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.28 m. Since more than twelve jumpers jumped this height (highlighted in light blue), the final field did not have to be filled with more jumpers.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	2.10 m	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.24 m	2.26 m	2.28 m	height	annotation
1	Charles Austin	United States	-	-	O	-	O	O	2.28 m
2	Steinar Hoen	Norway	-	O	O	O	xxo	O	2.28 m
3	Troy Kemp	Bahamas	-	O	-	O	O	x o	2.28 m
	Jarosław Kotewicz	Poland	-	O	-	O	O	x o
	Lambros papakostas	Greece	-	-	O	O	O	x o
6th	Lee Jin-taek	South Korea	-	O	xo	O	O	x o	2.28 m
7th	Steve Smith	Great Britain	-	O	-	xo	xo	x o	2.28 m
8th	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	O	O	O	O	xo	xx o	2.28 m
	Przemysław Radkiewicz	Poland	-	O	O	xo	O	xx o
10	Charles Lefrançois	Canada	-	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.26 m
11	Mark Mandy	Ireland	O	O	O	xxx			2.20 m
12	Julio Luciano	Dominican Republic	O	xo	x o	xxx			2.20 m
13	Cameron Wright	United States	O	O	xx o	xxx			2.20 m
14th	Chris Anderson	Australia	O	O	xxx				2.15 m
	Tomohiro Nomura	Japan	O	O	xxx
	Stevan Zorić	Yugoslavia	-	O	xxx
17th	Kim Tae-hoi	South Korea	xo	xx o	xxx				2.15 m
ogV	Hugo Muñoz	Peru	xxx	-	xxx					without height
	Yew Tong Wong	Singapore	xxx	-	xxx

Group B

The Yugoslav Olympic champion Dragutin Topić

space	Surname	nation	2.10 m	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.24 m	2.26 m	2.28 m	height	annotation
1	Tim Forsyth	Australia	-	-	O	O	O	O	2.28 m
	Artur Partyka	Poland	-	-	O	-	O	O
	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia	-	-	O	O	O	O
4th	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	-	-	O	-	xo	x o	2.28 m
5	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	-	O	xo	xo	O	x o	2.28 m
6th	Vyacheslav Tyrtyshnik	Ukraine	O	O	O	xo	O	xxx	2.26 m
7th	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel	O	O	O	xo	O	xxx	2.26 m
8th	Arturo Ortíz	Spain	-	O	O	xo	x o	xxx	2.26 m
9	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	O	O	xo	xo	x o	xxx	2.26 m
10	Ian Thompson	Bahamas	-	O	-	xo	xx o	xxx	2.26 m
11	Gilmar Mayo	Colombia	-	O	xo	xo	xx o	xxx	2.26 m
12	Marko turban	Estonia	-	xo	O	O	xxx		2.24 m
13	Khemraj Naïko	Mauritius	O	O	x o	xxx			2.20 m
14th	Loo Kum Zee	Malaysia	xo	O	xxx				2.15 m
15th	Edward Broxterman	United States	xxo	O	xxx				2.15 m
16	Cho Hyun-wook	South Korea	O	xxx					2.10 m
17th	Fakhredin Fouad	Jordan	xx o	xxx					2.10 m
ogV	Olivier Sanou	Burkina Faso	xxx							without height
DNS	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden

final

Silver medalist Artur Partyka from Poland

July 28, 1996, 6:00 p.m. Fourteen athletes had qualified for the final, all of whom had jumped the required qualifying height of 2.28 m. Three Poles met one participant each from Australia, the Bahamas, Germany, Greece, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Norway, South Korea, the Czech Republic, the USA and Great Britain.

The 1992 Olympic champion and world record holder Javier Sotomayor from Cuba had qualified for the final, but was not one of the favorites due to an ankle injury. The medal contenders were the American Charles Austin, who had appeared with strong jumps in the Olympic season, world champion Troy Kemp, Bahamas, the Polish vice champion and vice European champion Artur Partyka, the World Cup -Fünfte and European champion Steinar Hoen from Norway and the Briton Steve Smith , like Partyka Vice European Champion, also World Cup fourth in 1994 and World Cup third in 1993 .

Seven jumpers were still in the race after the height of 2.32 m. Another four participants failed because of the 2.35 m that was subsequently placed. The remaining Springer Partyka, Smith and Austin, now made the medals among themselves. Partyka mastered the following 2.37 m in the second attempt. Austin and Smith took their last jump to a height of 2.39 m after two failed attempts. Austin made it and stayed in the competition, Smith tore the bar and won bronze. Partyka failed once and now it was the one who gambled, taking his two remaining attempts with him to the next height of 2.41 m. However, both jumps were unsuccessful here. Thus, Charles Austin was Olympic champion with skipped 2.39 m. He improved Javier Sotomayor's Olympic record by an inch. He then failed three times at the new world record height of 2.46 m. Artur Partyka won the silver medal. Fourth was the Yugoslav Dragutin Topić ahead of Steinar Hoen and Lambros Papakostas from Greece.

space	Surname	nation	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.25 m	2.29 m	2.32 m	2.35 m	2.37 m	2.39 m	2.41 m	2.46 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Charles Austin	United States	O	-	O	-	O	O	xx-	O	-	xxx	2.39 m	OR
2	Artur Partyka	Poland	-	O	-	O	-	O	x o	x--	xx		2.37 m
3	Steve Smith	Great Britain	-	-	xo	-	O	x o	xx-	x			2.35 m
4th	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia	-	O	O	O	O	xx-	x				2.32 m
5	Steinar Hoen	Norway	-	O	O	xo	O	xx-	x				2.32 m
6th	Lambros papakostas	Greece	-	O	O	O	x o	xx-	x				2.32 m
7th	Tim Forsyth	Australia	-	O	O	O	xx o	xx-	x				2.32 m
8th	Lee Jin-taek	South Korea	-	xo	O	O	xxx						2.29 m
9	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	-	xo	xo	O	xxx						2.29 m
10	Przemysław Radkiewicz	Poland	-	xo	xo	x o	xxx						2.29 m
11	Jarosław Kotewicz	Poland	O	-	O	xxx							2.25 m
	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	-	-	O	-	xxx
13	Troy Kemp	Bahamas	-	-	x o		x--	xx					2.25 m
14th	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	xo	xox	x o	xxx							2.25 m

literature

• Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 37

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed March 3, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 88, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 3, 2018

Video

• Men's High Jump Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 20, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 3, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 676 , accessed on March 3, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 88, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 3, 2018