2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	59 athletes from 36 countries
Competition phase	17./19. August 2008
Medalist
gold	Andrei Silnow ( RUS )
silver	Germaine Mason ( GBR )
bronze	Yaroslav Rybakov ( RUS )

The high jump at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held on August 17 and 19, 2008. Forty athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Russian Andrei Silnow . He won ahead of the British Germaine Mason and Jaroslaw Rybakow , also from Russia.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 2004	Stefan Holm ( Sweden )	2.36 m	Athens 2004
World Champion 2007	Donald Thomas ( Bahamas )	2.35 m	Osaka 2007
European champion 2006	Andrei Silnow ( Russia )	2.36 m	Gothenburg 2006
Pan American Champion 2007	Víctor Moya ( Cuba )	2.32 m	Rio de Janeiro 2007
Central America and Caribbean champions 2008	Víctor Moya ( Cuba )	2.25 m	Cali 2008
South America Champion 2007	Jessé de Lima ( Brazil )	2.24 m	São Paulo 2007
Asian champion 2007	Lee Hup Wei ( Malaysia )	2.24 m	Amman 2007
Africa Champion 2008	Kabelo Kgosiemang ( Botswana )	2.34 m	Addis Ababa 2008
Oceania Champion 2008	David Birati ( Kiribati )	1.92 m	Saipan 2008

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

qualification

August 17, 2008, 8:20 pm

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.32 m. Due to the development of the heights skipped by the participants in the qualification, not a single jumper even approached the required qualification height. The twelve best starters from both qualification groups reached the final (highlighted in light green). After all, 2.25 m were necessary to participate in the finals with at most one failed attempt in the series.

Group A

The Serbian Dragutin Topić is eleventh in his qualifying group and is eliminated

space	Surname	nation	2.10 m	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.25 m	2.29 m	height	annotation
1	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	-	O	O	O	O	2.29
	Germaine Mason	Great Britain	-	O	O	O	O
3	Raúl Spank	Germany	-	O	O	xo	O	2.29
4th	Stefan Holm	Sweden	-	-	O	O	xo	2.29
5	Rožle Prezelj	Slovenia	-	O	O	O	xxx	2.25
	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	-	O	O	O	xxx
7th	Andra Manson	United States	-	xo	xo	O	xxx	2.25
8th	Andrea Bettinelli	Italy	-	O	O	xo	xxx	2.25
	Mickael Hanany	France	0	O	O	xo	xxx
	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	-	O	O	xo	xxx
11	Dragutin Topić	Serbia	-	O	xo	xo	xxx	2.25
12	Nikita Palli	Israel	O	O	O	xxx		2.20
	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	-	O	O	xxx
14th	Michał Bienik	Poland	-	xo	O	xxx		2.20
	Majd Eddin Ghazal	Syria	O	xo	O	xxx		2.20	NRe
16	Dusty Jonas	United States	O	O	xo	xxx		2.20
17th	Peter Horák	Slovakia	O	xo	xxx			2.15
	Gerardo Martínez	Mexico	O	xo	xxx
19th	Konstandinos Baniotis	Greece	xo	xxx				2.10
20th	Oleksandr Nartov	Ukraine	xxo	xxx				2.10

Group B

Kyriakos Ioannou from Cyprus is out seventh in his qualifying group

space	Surname	nation	2.10 m	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.25 m	2.29 m	height	annotation
1	Jesse de Lima	Brazil	-	O	O	O	O	2.29
	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	O	O	O	O	O
3	Martyn Bernard	Great Britain	-	O	O	O	xo	2.29
	Andrei Silnow	Russia	-	O	O	O	xo
5	Filippo Campioli	Italy	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.25
6th	Tom Parsons	Great Britain	-	O	xo	O	xxx	2.25
7th	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	-	xo	xo	xo	xxx	2.25
8th	Michael Mason	Canada	-	O	O	xxo	xxx	2.25
	Jesse Williams	United States	-	O	O	xxo	xxx
10	Dmytro Demjanjuk	Ukraine	O	O	O	xxx		2.20
11	Linus Thornblad	Sweden	-	O	xo	xxx		2.20
12	James Grayman	Antigua and Barbuda	xo	xxo	xo	xxx		2.20
13	Javier Bermejo	Spain	O	O	xxo	xxx		2.20
	Kabelo Kgosiemang	Botswana	-	O	xxo	xxx
	Alessandro Talotti	Italy	O	O	xxo	xxx
16	Lee Hup Wei	Malaysia	O	xo	xxo	xxx		2.20
17th	Yuri Krymarenko	Ukraine	O	xo	xxx			2.15
18th	Naoyuki Daigo	Japan	xxo	xxo	xxx			2.15
19th	Sergey Zasimovich	Ukraine	xo	xxx				2.10
ogV	Huang Haiqiang	People's Republic of China	xxx						without height

final

August 19, 2008, 7:10 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final. Since nobody had even approached the level of qualification, the top twelve high jumpers from both qualification groups reached this final battle. Three British, two Russians, two Czechs and one participant each from Brazil, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Slovenia were represented.

There was no clear favorite. Among the medal candidates included the reigning world champion Donald Thomas of the Bahamas, the Russian World Cup -Second 2007 and 2005 Yaroslav Rybakov, the Swede Stefan Holm, Olympic champion in 2004 , third in the European Championships in 2006 and World Cup -Vierter of 2007. Even the World Cup - Third last year, Kyriakos Ioannou from Cyprus, the two Czechs Tomáš Janků as World Cup fifth in 2007 and Vice European Champion in 2006 and Jaroslav Bába as World Cup fifth in 2005, World Cup eighth in 2007 and Olympic third in 2004 and Andrei, the Russian European Champion in 2006 Silnow entered this competition with good chances for a medal. World champion Thomas, however, already failed in the qualification.

At the fifth height of 2.32 m, eight athletes were still competing. However, only six of them had jumped the previous 2.29 m. The two British Germaine Mason and Martyn Bernard saved their two remaining attempts after each one failed jump over 2.29 m. Martyn Bernard was unsuccessful and finished ninth, while Mason mastered the new height with his first jump. Silnow and Holm were also successful with their first jumps and were thus at the top of the field according to the failed attempt rule. Rybakow and the German Raúl Spank jumped 2.32 m in their third attempts and were together in fourth place. The two Czechs Bába and Janků played poker after each unsuccessful attempt and saved their further jumps for the next heights.

Now 2.34 m was laid. Silnow, Mason and Rybakow were each successful on the first attempt. Holm and Bába refrained from jumping after one failed jump, whereby the Czech only had one attempt, because he had already cracked once at 2.32 m and then bet on the coming heights. Janků was eliminated after he was unsuccessful with his two remaining jumps, and thus finished seventh. Spank also tore twice, but had one more try, which he took to the next height. According to the failed attempt rule, Silnow was now alone ahead, followed by Mason with one failed jump and Rybakow with two failed attempts.

At 2.36 m it was tight for all remaining jumpers. Only Silnow managed the height effortlessly in the first round. All other participants dropped out here. Michael Mason won the silver and Jaroslaw Rybakow the bronze medal. Both had crossed 2.34 m. With each 2.32 m skipped, Stefan Holm was fourth ahead of Raúl Spank. Jaroslav Bába, who had managed 2.29 m, took sixth place. Andrei Silnow, who was determined to be the Olympic champion, had 2.42 m hung up, but he tried three times in vain.

space	Surname	nation	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.25 m	2.29 m	2.32 m	2.34 m	2.36 m	2.42 m	Bottom line	annotation
1	Andrei Silnow	Russia	-	O	O	O	O	O	O	xxx	2.36
2	Michael Mason	Great Britain	-	O	O	x-	O	O	xxx		2.34	PBe
3	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	-	O	O	O	xxo	O	xxx		2.34
4th	Stefan Holm	Sweden	-	O	O	O	O	x-	xx		2.32
5	Raúl Spank	Germany	O	O	O	O	xxo	x	xx		2.32	PB
6th	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	O	O	O	O	x-	x-	x		2.29
7th	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	O	O	O	xo	x-	xx			2.29
8th	Tom Parsons	Great Britain	O	O	O	xxx					2.25
9	Martyn Bernard	Great Britain	O	O	xo	x-	xx				2.25
10	Filippo Campioli	Italy	O	O	xxx						2.20
	Jesse de Lima	Brazil	-	O	xxx
12	Rožle Prezelj	Slovenia	O	xxo	xxx						2.20

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  Olympic champion Andrei Silnow, Russia

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  Bronze medalist Yaroslav Rybakov, also from Russia

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  The Swedish Olympic champion from 2004 Stefan Holm comes fourth this time

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  Fifth place for the German Raúl Spank

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  The Czech Jaroslav Bába takes sixth place

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  The British Tom Parsons is Olympic eight

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  Martyn Bernard, also from Great Britain, comes in ninth place

Web links

• SportsReference high jump , accessed June 7, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 7, 2018

Video

• Athletics - Men's High Jump Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 19, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 7, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 7, 2018
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 7, 2018
3. ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 7, 2018 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 7, 2018
5. ↑ IAAF, Men High Jump , accessed June 7, 2018