2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	38 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 20, 2004 (qualification) August 22, 2004 (final)
Medalist Stefan Holm ( SWE )   Matt Hemingway ( USA )   Jaroslav Bába ( CZE )

The men's high jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 20 and 22, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 38 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Swede Stefan Holm . He won ahead of the American Matt Hemingway and the Czech Jaroslav Bába .

With Roman Fricke , a German was launched. Fricke failed in the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic Champion 2000	Sergei Kljugin ( Russia )	2.35 m	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Jacques Freitag ( South Africa )	2.35 m	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Yaroslav Rybakov ( Russia )	2.31 m	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Germaine Mason ( Jamaica )	2.34 m	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003	Lisvany Pérez ( Cuba )	2.21 m	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Fabrício Romero ( Brazil )	2.22 m	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian champion 2003	Wang Zhouzhou ( People's Republic of China )	2.23 m	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Kabelo Mmono ( Botswana )	2.17 m	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Grant Knaggs ( New Zealand )	1.99 m	Christchurch 2002

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 Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
• All heights are given in meters (m).

qualification

August 20, 2004, 8:20 pm

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.28 m. Since exactly twelve jumpers jumped this height (highlighted in light blue), the final field was not filled any further.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	2.10	2.15	2.20	2.25	2.28	height	annotation
1	Mark Boswell	Canada	-	-	O	O	O	2.28
	Jamie Nieto	United States	-	-	O	O	O
3	Andrij Sokolowskyj	Ukraine	-	O	O	xo	O	2.28
4th	Alessandro Talotti	Italy	-	O	xo	xxo	O	2.28
5	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	-	O	O	O	x o	2.28
6th	Dragutin Topić	Serbia and Montenegro	-	O	xo	O	x o	2.28
7th	Henadzy Maroz	Belarus	-	O	O	O	xxx	2.25
8th	Ștefan Vasilache	Romania	-	O	xo	O	xxx	2.25
9	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	O	O	O	x o	xxx	2.25
10	Grzegorz Sposób	Poland	-	O	O	xxx		2.20
	Manjula Kumara	Sri Lanka	-	O	O	xxx
12	Linus Thornblad	Sweden	O	xxo	O	xxx		2.20
13	Roman Fricke	Germany	-	O	x o	xxx		2.20
	Oskari Frösén	Finland	O	O	x o	xxx
15th	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	O	xo	x o	xxx		2.20
16	László Boros	Hungary	xo	O	xxx			2.15
17th	Tora Harris	United States	-	x o	xxx			2.15
18th	Alfredo Deza	Peru	O	xxx				2.10
ogV	Adrian O'Dwyer	Ireland	xxx						without height

Group B

The Belarusian Aleksej Lesnitschij was subsequently disqualified for doping abuse . Lesnitschij had not made a valid attempt and was therefore not even counted, but the substance clenbuterol was detected during the doping control . He was then banned from the games and banned for two years.

space	Surname	nation	2.10	2.15	2.20	2.25	2.28	height	annotation
1	Stefan Holm	Sweden	-	-	O	O	O	2.28
2	Lisvany Pérez	Cuba	O	xo	O	O	O	2.28
	Svatoslav tone	Czech Republic	O	O	xo	O	O
4th	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	-	O	O	xo	x o	2.28
5	Matt Hemingway	United States	-	-	O	O	xx o	2.28
6th	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	-	O	xo	xo	xx o	2.28
7th	Nicola Ciotti	Italy	-	O	O	O	xxx	2.25
8th	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	-	xo	O	O	xxx	2.25
9	Jesse de Lima	Brazil	-	O	xxo	O	xxx	2.25
10	Staffan beach	Sweden	-	-	O	x o	xxx	2.25
11	Jacques Friday	South Africa	-	O	O	xxx		2.20
	Rožle Prezelj	Slovenia	-	O	O	xxx
13	Pyotr Brajko	Russia	-	O	x o	x-		2.20
	Jean-Claude Rabbath	Lebanon	O	O	x o	xxx
	Robert Wolski	Poland	-	O	x o	xxx
16	Marko Alekseyev	Estonia	O	O	xxx			2.15
	Javier Bermejo	Spain	O	O	xxx
18th	Liu Yang	People's Republic of China	xx o	xxx				2.10
DOP	Alexey Lesnichy	Belarus	-	xxx				ogV	no amount / disqualified due to doping

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  Kyriakos Ioannou from Cyprus was eliminated as ninth in his qualifying group

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  As tenth in his qualifying group, the Pole Grzegorz Sposób did not reach the final

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  The Slovenian Rožle Prezelj finished eleventh in his qualifying group and was eliminated

final

August 22, 2004, 7:30 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, all of whom had made it to the qualification level. Two Russians, two Czechs and two US Americans fought for the medals with one participant each from Italy, Canada, Cuba, Sweden, Serbia and Montenegro and the Ukraine.

The favorite was the Swede Stefan Holm, who had remained undefeated in seventeen previous competitions. His biggest rival, the South African world champion Jacques Freitag, failed to qualify due to an injury. So remained as competitors, especially the Canadian World Championship -Third Mark Boswell and the two Russians Vyacheslav Voronin as WM -Second 2001 and Yaroslav Rybakov, WM -Dritter 2001 and European Champion 2002 .

From the fourth height of 2.32 m, only six athletes were in competition. Here Rybakov and the Ukrainian Andrij Sokolowskyj failed. Next, the lath was placed at 2.34 m. The US jumper Matt Hemingway took the lead, he had mastered the height in the first attempt. The Czech Jaroslav Bába also mastered 2.34 m with his first jump, but he had more failed attempts beforehand. In third place was the American Jamie Nieto, who needed two attempts. Holm was fourth, he had torn twice. But the Swede was the only participant to cross the following height of 2.36 m, which he succeeded in doing with his first attempt. Stefan Holm fully lived up to his role as a favorite and won the Olympic gold medal. His three competitors failed. Thus Matt Hemingway remained the silver medal, Jaroslav Bába won bronze. Jamie Nieto finished fourth with 2.34 m, the same height as the two medalists before him. Andrij Sokolowskyj and Jaroslaw Rybakow finished fifth and sixth with a jump of 2.32 m.

Stefan Holm was the first Swedish Olympic champion in the high jump . Jaroslav Bába won the first Czech medal in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.32	2.34	2.36	Bottom line	annotation
1	Stefan Holm	Sweden	O	O	O	xo	xxo	O	2.36
2	Matt Hemingway	United States	O	O	-	O	O	xxx	2.34
3	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	O	O	O	xxo	O	xxx	2.34
4th	Jamie Nieto	United States	O	xo	-	O	x o	xxx	2.34
5	Andrij Sokolowskyj	Ukraine	O	O	O	O	xxx		2.32
6th	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	O	xo	O	x o	xxx		2.32
7th	Mark Boswell	Canada	O	-	O	xxx			2.29
8th	Svatoslav tone	Czech Republic	O	xo	x o	xx-	x		2.29
9	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	O	-	xx o	xxx			2.29
10	Dragutin Topić	Serbia and Montenegro	xo	-	xx o	-	xxx		2.29
11	Lisvany Pérez	Cuba	O	x o	xxx				2.25
12	Alessandro Talotti	Italy	O	xx o	-	xxx			2.25

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  Olympic champion Stefan Holm, Sweden

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  Bronze medalist Jaroslav Bába, Czech Republic

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  The Olympic sixth Yaroslav Rybakow from Russia

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  Dragutin Topić from Serbia and Montenegro was tenth in the Olympics

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed April 27, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 27, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on April 27, 2018

Video

• 2004 Olympics, Mens High Jump , posted on youtube.com on May 6, 2009, accessed April 27, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 676 , accessed on April 27, 2018
2. ↑ Report on N24 from August 30, 2004 , accessed on April 27, 2018