2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	34 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 22, 2000 (qualification) September 24, 2000 (final)
Medalist Sergei Kljugin ( RUS )   Javier Sotomayor ( CUB )   Abderrahmane Hammad ( ALG )

The men's high jump at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 22nd and 24th, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 34 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Russian Sergei Kljugin . He won ahead of the Cuban Javier Sotomayor and the Algerian Abderrahmane Hammad .

With Wolfgang Kreißig and Christian Rhoden two German took part in the competition. Rhoden failed in the qualification, Kreißig reached the final and finished eighth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1996	Charles Austin ( USA )	2.39 m	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Vyacheslav Voronin ( Russia )	2.37 m	Seville 1999
European champion 1998	Artur Partyka ( Poland )	2.34 m	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Kwaku Boateng ( Canada ) Mark Boswell ( Canada )	2.25 m	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999	Julio Luciano ( Dominican Republic )	2.23 m	Bridgetown 1999
South American Champion 1999	Fabrício Romero ( Brazil )	2.26 m	Bogotá 1999
Asian champion 2000	Jurij Pachljajew ( Kazakhstan )	2.23 m	Jakarta 2000
African Champion 2000	Abderrahmane Hammad ( Algeria )	2.34 m	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Glen Peterson ( Australia )	2.00 m	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor ( Cuba )	Salamanca , Spain	July 27, 1993
Olympic record	2.39 m	Charles Austin ( USA )	Atlanta Final , USA	July 28, 1996

Remarks:

• All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
• All heights are given in meters (m).

qualification

September 22, 2000, 7:25 pm

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.30 m. Since nobody jumped this height, the final field had to be filled with the next best athletes from both groups to at least twelve participants. Here there were even thirteen athletes (highlighted in light green) due to the same height. Not a single jumper had even approached the actual qualification level, as it became clear that 2.27 m would be sufficient for participation in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	2.15	2.20	2.24	2.27	height	annotation
1	Stefan Holm	Sweden	-	O	O	O	2.27
	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel	O	O	O	O
3	Sergei Kljugin	Russia	-	xo	O	O	2.27
4th	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	-	O	O	x o	2.27
5	Mark Boswell	Canada	-	O	xo	xx o	2.27
6th	Tim Forsyth	Australia	O	O	O	xxx	2.24
	Elvir Krehmic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	O	O	O	xxx
8th	Mika Polku	Finland	O	O	x o	xxx	2.24
	Christian Rhoden	Germany	O	O	x o	xxx
	Andrij Sokolowskyj	Ukraine	O	O	x o	xxx
11	Yuri Pachlyayev	Kazakhstan	O	O	xx o	xxx	2.24
12	Charles Austin	United States	-	O	x-	xx	2.20
13	Benjamin Challenger	Great Britain	O	xxx			2.15
	Ruslan Hliwinskiy	Ukraine	O	xxx
	Takahisa Yoshida	Japan	O	xxx
	Stevan Zorić	Yugoslavia	O	xxx
17th	Jean-Claude Rabbath	Lebanon	x o	xxx			2.15
18th	Alyaksey Lyalin	Belarus	xx o	xxx			2.15

Group B

space	Surname	nation	2.15	2.20	2.24	2.27	height	annotation
1	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	-	O	O	O	2.27
	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	-	O	O	O
3	Nathan Leeper	United States	-	O	xxo	O	2.27
4th	Kwaku Boateng	Canada	O	-	O	x o	2.27
	Serhiy Dimchenko	Ukraine	O	O	O	x o
	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	-	O	-	x o
	Staffan beach	Sweden	-	O	O	x o
8th	Kenny Evans	United States	O	xo	O	x o	2.27
9	Lee Jin-taek	South Korea	x-	O	xxx		2.20
	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia	xo	O	xx-	x
11	Gilmar Mayo	Colombia	O	x o	xxx		2.20
	Wilbert Pennings	Netherlands	-	x o	-	xxx	2.20
	Brendan Reilly	Ireland	-	x o	xxx
14th	Toni Huikuri	Finland	O	xx o	xxx
15th	Pyotr Brajko	Russia	O	xxx			2.15
	Glenn Howard	New Zealand	O	xxx
ogV	Hugo Muñoz	Peru	xxx					without height
DNS	Lambros papakostas	Greece

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  The Yugoslav Dragutin Topić was eliminated in ninth place in his qualifying group

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  The Dutchman Wilbert Pennings got stuck with 2.20 m in the qualification

final

Silver medalist Javier Sotomayor from Cuba

The Swedish Olympic champion Stefan Holm

September 24, 2000, 6:10 p.m.

Thirteen athletes had qualified for the final: two Canadians, two Russians, two Swedes, two Americans, as well as one participant each from Algeria, Germany, Israel, Cuba and Ukraine.

The favorite was the Russian world champion Vyacheslav Voronin. Other medal contenders included the Canadian Vice World Champion Mark Boswell, the Russian European Championship third from 1998 Sergei Kljugin and the World Championship fourth Dragutin Topić from Yugoslavia. The 1996 Olympic champion Charles Austin from the USA failed to qualify. His predecessor, however, the 1992 Olympic champion Javier Sotomayor from Cuba, was in the final. Its start in Sydney , however, was controversial and controversial. After a doping test at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg in 1999, he was convicted of taking cocaine , disqualified and banned for two years. The Cuban federation protested, the suspension was shortened to one year, which enabled Sotomayor to start in Sydney. A protest by the associations of Sweden, Denmark and Norway against the reduction of the ban was not accepted.

The starting height of 2.20 m was mastered by all jumpers. The Swede Staffan Strand and Sotomayor had left out. American Kenny Evans failed at 2.25 m. At 2.29 m his compatriot Nathan Leeper and the Canadian Kwaku Boateng finished. Three other jumpers failed at 2.32 m: the German Wolfgang Kreißig, the Belarusian Serhij Dimtschenko and Voronin. Wolfgang Kreissig was the only one of them who had not failed before and was eighth in the end.

Seven jumpers were still in the competition when the bar was raised to 2.35 m, Sotomayor was the only one of them without a failed attempt. According to the status at this time, the Algerian Abderrahmane Hammad and the Russian Sergei Kljugin followed with one failed jump each, followed by the Swede Stefan Holm and the Israeli Konstantin Matusevich with two each, the Swede Staffan Strand and Boswell with three failed attempts each. It turned out that this stand was decisive for the final ranking, because all participants except Kljugin tried three times in vain on the now required 2.35 m. Mark Boswell and Staffan Strand finished sixth together. Konstantin Matusevich was rated fifth, Stefan Holm fourth, as Holm had jumped the last previously set height of 2.32 m in the first attempt, Matusevich, however, only with his third jump. Abderrahmane Hammad won bronze and Javier Sotomayor silver. Sergei Kljugin conquered 2.35 m with his first attempt and became Olympic champion.

Abderrahmane Hammad was Algeria's first medalist in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.32	2.35	Bottom line	annotation
1	Sergei Kljugin	Russia	O	-	O	xo	O	2.35
2	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	-	O	-	O	xxx	2.32
3	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	O	O	xo	O	xxx	2.32
4th	Stefan Holm	Sweden	O	O	xxo	O	xxx	2.32
5	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel	O	O	O	xx o	xxx	2.32
6th	Mark Boswell	Canada	xo	O	-	xx o	xxx	2.32
	Staffan beach	Sweden	-	xo	O	xx o	xxx
8th	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	O	O	O	xxx		2.29
9	Serhiy Dimchenko	Ukraine	O	xo	O	xxx		2.29
10	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	O	O	xx o	xxx		2.29
11	Nathan Leeper	United States	O	O	xxx			2.25
12	Kwaku Boateng	Canada	xo	x o	xxx			2.25
13	Kenny Evans	United States	x o	xxx				2.20

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed April 1, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 1, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 1, 2018

Video

• Sydney olympics 2000 | Men's High Jump , posted August 20, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed April 1, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 676 , accessed on April 1, 2018
2. ↑ BBC article of August 21, 2000 , accessed April 1, 2018