2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)

sport	athletics
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	35 athletes from 27 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 5, 2012 (qualification) August 7, 2012 (final)
Medalist vacant Erik Kynard ( USA )   Mutaz Essa Barshim ( QAT ) Derek Drouin ( CAN ) Robert Grabarz ( GBR )

The men's high jump at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on August 5th and 7th, 2012 at the Olympic Stadium in London . 35 athletes took part.

Iwan Uchow was subsequently convicted of doping in February 2019 and banned for four years. Its results between July 16, 2012 and December 31, 2015 have been canceled. Thus, his Olympic victory was also revoked.

Silver went to the American Erik Kynard who won. The bronze medal was awarded to three athletes: Mutaz Essa Barshim from Qatar, Derek Drouin from Canada and Robert Grabarz from Great Britain.

Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Andrei Silnow ( Russia )	2.36 m	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Jesse Williams ( USA )	2.35 m	Daegu 2011
European champion	Robert Grabarz ( Great Britain )	2.31 m	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions	Trevor Barry ( Bahamas )	2.28 m	Mayagüez 2011
South America champion	Diego Ferrín ( Ecuador )	2.23 m	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Mutaz Essa Barshim ( Qatar )	2.35 m	Kobe 2011
African champions	Kabelo Kgosiemang ( Botswana )	2.25 m	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion	Raihau Maiau ( French Polynesia )	1.85 m	Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record	Javier Sotomayor ( Cuba )	2.45 m	Salamanca , Spain	July 27, 1993
Olympic record	Charles Austin ( USA )	2.39 m	Atlanta Final , USA	July 29, 1996

Remarks:

• All times in this article are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
• All heights are given in meters (m).

qualification

August 5, 2012, 7:05 pm

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification height was 2.32 m. Since no jumper even attempted this height because it became apparent that 2.29 m would be sufficient, the twelve best athletes from both groups together qualified for the final (highlighted in light green). Eventually fourteen athletes reached the final with a jumped 2.29 m.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	2.16	2.21	2.26	2.29	height	annotation
1	Erik Kynard	United States	O	O	xo	O	2.29
2	Derek Drouin	Canada	O	xxo	xo	xx o	2.29
3	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar	O	O	x o	xx-	2.26
3	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	O	O	x o	xx-	2.26
5	Mickael Hanany	France	O	O	x o	xxx	2.26
5	Andrei Silnow	Russia	O	O	x o	xxx	2.26
7th	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	O	O	xx o	xxx	2.26
8th	Alexandr Shustov	Russia	O	xo	xx o	xxx	2.26
9	Dmitro Demjanjuk	Ukraine	O	O	xxx		2.21
9	Osku Torro	Finland	O	O	xxx		2.21
11	Zhang Guowei	People's Republic of China	O	x o	xxx		2.21
12	Konstandinos Baniotis	Greece	O	xx o	xxx		2.21
13	Majd Eddin Ghazal	Syria	x o	xxx			2.16
14th	Michal Kabelka	Slovakia	xx o	xxx			2.16
14th	Lee Hup Wei	Malaysia	xx o	xxx			2.16
14th	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	xx o	-	xxx		2.16
ogV	Andrei Churyla	Belarus	xxx				-	without height
	Darvin Edwards	St. Lucia	xxx				-

Group B

space	Surname	nation	2.16	2.21	2.26	2.29	height	annotation
1	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	-	O	O	O	2.29
2	Ivan Uchow	Russia	O	O	xo	O	2.29
3	Jesse Williams	United States	O	O	O	x o	2.29
4th	Andrij Prozenko	Ukraine	O	xo	xo	x o	2.29
5	Jamie Nieto	United States	O	O	O	xxx	2.26
6th	Michael Mason	Canada	O	O	xx o	xxx	2.26
6th	Wanner Miller	Colombia	O	O	xx o	xxx	2.26
8th	Trevor Barry	Bahamas	O	O	xxx		2.21
8th	Guilherme Cobbo	Brazil	O	O	xxx		2.21
10	Víctor Moya	Cuba	xo	O	xx-	x	2.21
11	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	O	x o	xxx		2.21
11	Diego Ferrín	Ecuador	O	x o	xxx		2.21
11	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy	O	x o	xxx		2.21
14th	Rožle Prezelj	Slovenia	O	xx o	xxx		2.21
15th	Raivydas Stanys	Lithuania	O	xxx			2.16
16	Viktor Ninov	Bulgaria	x o	xxx			2.16
ogV	Dragutin Topić	Serbia	xxx				-	without height

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  With a skipped 2.26 m, the Russian Alexandr Schustow was eliminated in the qualification

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  2.21 m was not enough for the Greek Konstandinos Baniotis to reach the final

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  Donald Thomas of the Bahamas jumped 2.16 m and failed to qualify

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  The Czech Jaroslav Bába was eliminated with his 2.21 m in the qualification

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  The Italian Gianmarco Tamberi also failed to reach the final with a 2.21 m jump

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  The Slovenian Rožle Prezelj was at 2.21 m at the end and was eliminated

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  The 2.16 m skipped by the Lithuanian Raivydas Stanys were not enough to make it into the final

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  The Serb Dragutin Topić failed three times at his entry height and was eliminated

final

Award ceremony: in
front Erik Kynard (silver), left not yet on the podium Uchow (DSQ), in the back the bronze medalists Drouin, Grabarz and Barshim

August 7, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

14 athletes had qualified for the final: all three US Americans, two Canadians, two Russians, two Ukrainians and one participant each from France, Great Britain, Qatar, Columbia and Cyprus. None of them had even approached the required qualification level because it quickly became clear that 2.29 m would be sufficient for participation in the finals.

There was no clear favorite. Neither the 2008 Olympic champion Andrei Silnow from Russia nor the reigning world champion Jesse Williams from the USA had been able to convince in the run-up to the games. Iwan Uchow, Silnow's team-mate, had jumped the year’s best performance so far, but had not been able to win anything at major events so far.

Eight athletes were still in competition after the third height of 2.29 m. Without a previous attempt, the Canadian Derek Drouin, Mutaz Essa Barshim from Qatar and Robert Grabarz from Great Britain were in the lead. It was followed by the American Erik Kynard, who tore once at 2.25 m. Uchow and the US jumper Jamie Nieto followed with a failed attempt at 2.29 m. The Ukrainian Bohdan Bondarenko had two failed attempts, the Canadian Michael Masen had needed three attempts over 2.29 m without a previous failed jump. Neither Williams nor Silnow had mastered the 2.29 m and were already eliminated.

The bar was now set at 2.33 m. While Uchow and Kynard jumped the height in the first attempt and Nieto took his last attempt to the next height after two failed attempts, none of the other athletes could climb the height. After Nieto broke his last attempt at 2.36 m, it was clear that three bronze medals went to Drouin, Barshim and Grabarz, who each had 2.29 m with no previous unsuccessful attempts.

Only Uchow and Kynard were still in the race for gold. Uchow jumped 2.36 m in the first attempt, Kynard had a failed attempt and then left out. Uchow also mastered the 2.38 m that had now been placed in the first attempt, again after a failed attempt, Kynard saved his last remaining attempt for the new height of 2.40 m. Kynard was unsuccessful with his jump and Uchow also tore three times. With that, Kynard remained the silver medal with his 2.33 m, while Uchow was first with 2.38 m, the Olympic victory was stripped from him in January 2019. To Charles Austin's Olympic record of 1,996 he lacked only one centimeter.

Mutaz Essa Barshim won the first medal for Qatar in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.33	2.36	2.38	2.40	height	annotation
1	Ivan Uchow	Russia	O	O	xo	O	O	O	x	2.38	DSQ
2	Erik Kynard	United States	O	xo	O	O	x-	x-	x	2.33
3	Derek Drouin	Canada	O	O	O	xxx				2.29
	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	-	O	O	xxx				2.29
	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar	O	O	O	xxx				2.29
6th	Jamie Nieto	United States	O	O	x o	xx-	x			2.29
7th	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	xo	O	x o	xxx				2.29
8th	Michael Mason	Canada	O	O	xx o	xxx				2.29
9	Wanner Miller	Colombia	O	O	xxx					2.25
	Jesse Williams	United States	O	O	xxx					2.25
	Andrij Prozenko	Ukraine	O	O	xxx					2.25
12	Andrei Silnow	Russia	O	x o	xxx					2.25
13	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	O	xxx						2.20
14th	Mickael Hanany	France	x o	xxx						2.20

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  Disqualified in 2019:
  Iwan Uchow, Russia

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  Silver medal:
  Erik Kynard, USA

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  Bronze medal:
  Derek Drouin, Canada

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  Bronze medal:
  Mutaz Essa Barshim, Qatar

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  Bronze medal:
  Robert Grabarz Great Britain

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  The Ukrainian Bohdan Bondarenko finished seventh in the final

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  Canadian Olympic eighth Michael Mason

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  Ninth place for Jesse Williams, USA

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  The Ukrainian Andrij Prozenko also finished ninth

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  The Russian Andrei Silnow was twelfth in the Olympic Games

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  Kyriakos Ioannou from Cyprus came in thirteenth place

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  The Frenchman Mickael Hanany finished fourteen

Web links

• SportsReference Hochsprung , accessed on September 13, 2018
• Official report . accessed on September 13, 2018
• Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation , accessed on September 13, 2018

Video

• Ivan Ukhov (RUS) Wins High Jump Gold - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 8, 2012, accessed September 13, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CAS bans twelve Russian athletes around Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov. October 14, 2019, accessed January 2, 2019 . 
2. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 676 , accessed on September 13, 2018