2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - High Jump (Men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 44 athletes from 27 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estádio Nilton Santos | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 14, 2016 (qualification) August 16, 2016 (final) |
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The men's high jump at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 14 and 16, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 44 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Canadian Derek Drouin , who won before Mutaz Essa Barshim from Qatar. Bronze went to the Ukrainian Bohdan Bondarenko .
Eike Onnen and Mateusz Przybylko started for Germany . Both failed in qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion | Iwan Uchow ( Russia ) | 2.38 m | London 2012 |
World Champion | Derek Drouin ( Canada ) | 2.34 m | Beijing 2015 |
European champion | Gianmarco Tamberi ( Italy ) | 2.32 m | Amsterdam 2016 |
North / Central America / Caribbean champions | JaCorian Duffield ( USA ) | 2.25 m | San José 2015 |
South America champion | Fernando Carvalho Ferreira ( Brazil ) | 2.22 m | Lima 2015 |
Asian champion | Takashi Etō ( Japan ) | 2.24 m | Wuhan 2015 |
African champions | Matthew Sawe ( Kenya ) | 2.21 m | Durban 2016 |
Oceania Champion | John Dodds ( Australia ) | 2.15 m | Cairns 2015 |
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 |
Note: All times are based on Rio local time ( UTC-3 ).
qualification
The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualifying height required for direct entry into the final was 2.31 m. When it became clear that a lower height would be sufficient for participation in the finals, no high jumper even attempted the 2.31 m. So the final field was filled with the following twelve best jumpers from both groups. After all, 2.26 m skipped without any previous unsuccessful attempt was sufficient to make it to the final. Fifteen athletes qualified for the final due to the same number of unsuccessful attempts - highlighted in light green.
Group A
August 14, 2016, 8.30 p.m.
Group B
August 14, 2016, 8.30 p.m.
final
August 16, 2016, 8:30 p.m.
Fifteen athletes had qualified for the final, none of them had even approached the required level of qualification. Two athletes each from the Bahamas, Ukraine and Cyprus as well as one athlete each from Australia, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Qatar, Syria, Puerto Rico, the Czech Republic and the USA competed for the medals.
The favorites were primarily Canadian world champion Derek Drouin, Ukrainian world champion from 2013 , vice world champion from 2015 and European champion from 2014 Bohdan Bondarenko as well as Olympic third from 2012 , vice world champion from 2013 and world championship fourth from 2015 Mutaz Essa Barshim from Qatar. The Chinese Zhang Guowei, vice world champion together with Bondarenko in 2015, was surprisingly already eliminated in the qualification. The Russian athletes, some of whom were also among the favorites, were excluded from these games by the IAAF due to the state doping in Russia , unless they could prove that they had undergone the prescribed doping controls. There was no Russian athlete here in the high jump .
Ten of the fifteen finalists were still in the race after jumping 2.29 m. Drouin, the Ukrainians Bondarenko and Andrij Prozenko, Barshim and the Briton Robert Grabarz conquered the next height of 2.33 m in the first attempt. The US jumper Erik Kynard needed three attempts, four of the remaining athletes were eliminated. So now six athletes fought for the medals. Bondarenko, Barshim and Drouin had made no attempt to fail. Grabarz and Prozenko had one missed each and Kynard three misses.
At 2.36 m the competition was over for Prozenko, Grabarz and Kynard, they each tore three times. As with earlier heights, Bondarenko skipped the 2.36 m, Drouin and Barshim mastered it in the first attempt. Now the bar was 2.38 m. Drouin and Barshim were tied at the top with a jump of 2.36 m. Bondarenko was third with 2.33 m, but still had every chance to be in the fight for the Olympic victory with a successful jump over the next height. The other placements were already determined. Robert Grabarz and Andrij Prozenko were fourth together, Erik Kynard was sixth. They all jumped eight feet.
The jumpers started in the order Bondarenko, Drouin and Barshim for their jumps over 2.38 m. Bondarenko tore in the first attempt, Drouin crossed the bar. Barshim also had a failed attempt. In the second attempt, Bondarenko and Barshim tore again. Bondarenko took his last attempt to the next height, Barshim was also unsuccessful the third time. He was sure of bronze, but could still win the silver medal, depending on Bondarenko's performance.
Now 2.40 m were laid, which exceeded the existing Olympic record of the American Charles Austin from 1996 by one centimeter. Bondarenko and Drouin tore the bar. Bohdan Bondarenko was eliminated and won bronze with 2.33 m, Mutaz Essa Barshim won the silver medal. Derek Drouin, who refrained from further attempts, was now also Olympic champion after his world champion title.
With this silver medal, Mutaz Essa Barshim is the most successful participant in Qatar at the Olympic Games. So far there have been four bronze medals in eight participations by Qatari athletes. Barshim is so far the only athlete from this country with two Olympic medals.
Bohdan Bondarenko won the first medal in the high jump for Ukraine.
space | Surname | nation | 2.20 m | 2.25 m | 2.29 m | 2.33 m | 2.36 m | 2.38 m | 2.40 m | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Derek Drouin | Canada | O | O | O | O | O | O | x | 2.38 m | |
2 | Mutaz Essa Barshim | Qatar | O | O | O | O | O | xxx | 2.36 m | ||
3 | Bohdan Bondarenko | Ukraine | - | O | - | O | - | xx- | x | 2.33 m | |
4th | Robert Grabarz | Great Britain | O | xo | O | O | xxx | 2.33 m | |||
Andrij Prozenko | Ukraine | O | O | xo | O | xxx | 2.33 m | ||||
6th | Erik Kynard | United States | O | xo | O | xx o | xxx | 2.33 m | |||
7th | Majd Eddin Ghazal | Syria | O | O | O | xxx | 2.29 m | ||||
Kyriakos Ioannou | Cyprus | O | O | O | xxx | 2.29 m | |||||
Donald Thomas | Bahamas | O | O | O | xxx | 2.29 m | |||||
10 | Tikhomir Ivanov | Bulgaria | O | xo | O | xxx | 2.29 m | ||||
11 | Trevor Barry | Bahamas | O | O | xxx | 2.25 m | |||||
12 | Dimitrios Chondrokoukis | Cyprus | xo | O | xxx | 2.25 m | |||||
13 | Luis Joel Castro | Puerto Rico | O | xx o | xxx | 2.25 m | |||||
14th | Jaroslav Bába | Czech Republic | O | xxx | 2.20 m | ||||||
15th | Brandon Starc | Australia | x o | xxx | 2.20 m |
Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, official report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 6, 2018
- Result of the high jump men on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English), accessed on October 6, 2018
- Sports-Reference, result of the high jump men (English), accessed on October 6, 2018
Video
- High Jump Final, Rio 2016 Replay on youtube.com, published August 21, 2016, accessed October 6, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 676 , accessed on October 6, 2018