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)
	Medalist
	Derek Drouin ( CAN )
	Mutaz Essa Barshim ( QAT )
	Bohdan Bondarenko ( UKR )

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 ) Russia	2.38 m	London 2012
World Champion	Derek Drouin ( Canada ) Canada	2.34 m	Beijing 2015
European champion	Gianmarco Tamberi ( Italy ) Italy	2.32 m	Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean champions	JaCorian Duffield ( USA ) United States	2.25 m	San José 2015
South America champion	Fernando Carvalho Ferreira ( Brazil ) Brazil	2.22 m	Lima 2015
Asian champion	Takashi Etō ( Japan ) Japan	2.24 m	Wuhan 2015
African champions	Matthew Sawe ( Kenya ) Kenya	2.21 m	Durban 2016
Oceania Champion	John Dodds ( Australia ) Australia	2.15 m	Cairns 2015

Existing records

World record	Javier Sotomayor ( Cuba ) Cuba	2.45 m	Salamanca , Spain	July 27, 1993
Olympic record	Charles Austin ( USA ) United States	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.

space	Surname	nation	2.17 m	2.22 m	2.26 m	2.29 m	height	annotation
1	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar Qatar	O	O	O	O	2.29 m
1	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine Ukraine	-	O	-	O	2.29 m
3	Andrij Prozenko	Ukraine Ukraine	O	O	O	x o	2.29 m
4th	Trevor Barry	Bahamas Bahamas	O	O	xo	xx o	2.29 m
4th	Brandon Starc	Australia Australia	xo	O	O	xx o	2.29 m
6th	Luis Joel Castro	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico	O	O	O	xxx	2.26 m
6th	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus Republic Cyprus	O	O	O	xxx	2.26 m
8th	Chris Baker	United Kingdom Great Britain	xo	O	O	xxx	2.26 m
9	Ricky Robertson	United States United States	xo	O	x o	xxx	2.26 m
10	Michael Mason	Canada Canada	xo	O	x o	xxx	2.26 m
11	Woo Sang-hyeok	Korea South South Korea	O	O	xx o	xxx	2.26 m
12	Eike Onnen	Germany Germany	O	xxo	xx o	xxx	2.26 m
13	Wojciech Theiner	Poland Poland	O	O	xxx		2.22 m
14th	Andrei Churyla	Belarus Belarus	O	x o	xxx		2.22 m
15th	Wang Yu	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	xo	x o	xxx		2.22 m
16	Silvano Chessani	Italy Italy	O	xx o	xxx		2.22 m
17th	Konstandinos Baniotis	Greece Greece	xo	xx o	xxx		2.22 m
18th	Matúš Bubeník	Slovakia Slovakia	O	xxx			2.17 m
	Takashi Etō	Japan Japan	O	xxx
	Hsiang Chun-hsien	Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei	O	xxx
	Eugenio Rossi	San Marino San Marino	O	xxx
ogV	Dmitry Kroyter	Israel Israel	xxx			-		without height

2.26 m with two failed attempts was not enough for the Canadian Michael Mason to participate in the final
The German Eike Onnen jumped 2.26 m, but had four failed attempts and was eliminated
2.22 m for the Greek Konstandinos Baniotis were not enough to make it into the final
Dmitry Kroyter from Israel did not have a valid jump in qualifying

Group B

August 14, 2016, 8.30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	2.17 m	2.22 m	2.26 m	2.29 m	height
1	Derek Drouin	Canada Canada	O	O	O	O	2.29 m
1	Tikhomir Ivanov	Bulgaria Bulgaria	O	O	O	O	2.29 m
3	Robert Grabarz	United Kingdom Great Britain	-	O	xo	O	2.29 m
3	Erik Kynard	Canada Canada	O	O	xo	O	2.29 m
5	Majd Eddin Ghazal	Syria Syria	-	O	O	x o	2.29 m
6th	Donald Thomas	Bahamas Bahamas	O	O	xo	x o	2.29 m
7th	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic Czech Republic	O	O	O	xxx	2.29 m
7th	Dimitrios Chondrokoukis	Cyprus Republic Cyprus	O	O	O	xxx	2.29 m
9	Nauraj Singh Randhawa	Malaysia Malaysia	xo	O	x o	xxx
10	Dmytro Jakovenko	Ukraine Ukraine	O	xxo	x o	xxx	2.22 m
11	Bradley Adkins	United States United States	xxo	xo	x o	xxx	2.22 m
12	David Smith	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico	O	xo	xx o	xxx	2.22 m
13	Jamal Wilson	Bahamas Bahamas	O	O	xxx		2.22 m
13	Zhang Guowei	China People's Republic People's Republic of China	O	O	xxx		2.22 m
15th	Mateusz Przybylko	Germany Germany	xo	O	xxx		2.22 m
16	Arturo Chavez	Peru Peru	xxo	O	xxx		2.22 m
17th	Sylwester Bednarek	Poland Poland	O	x o	xxx		2.22 m
18th	Edgar Rivera	Mexico Mexico	O	xxx			2.17 m
18th	Talles Frederico Silva	Brazil Brazil	O	xxx			2.17 m
20th	Joel Baden	Australia Australia	x o	xxx			2.17 m
21st	Dmitry Nabokau	Belarus Belarus	xx o	xxx			2.17 m
21st	Yun Seung-hyun	Korea South South Korea	xx o	xxx			2.17 m

The Chinese Zhang Guowei jumped 2.22 m and was eliminated
The German Mateusz Przybylko did not reach the final with his 2.22 m
The Pole Sylwester Bednarek was eliminated with 2.22 m in the qualification

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
1	Derek Drouin	Canada Canada	O	O	O	O	O	O	x	2.38 m
2	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar Qatar	O	O	O	O	O	xxx		2.36 m
3	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine Ukraine	-	O	-	O	-	xx-	x	2.33 m
4th	Robert Grabarz	United Kingdom Great Britain	O	xo	O	O	xxx			2.33 m
4th	Andrij Prozenko	Ukraine Ukraine	O	O	xo	O	xxx			2.33 m
6th	Erik Kynard	United States United States	O	xo	O	xx o	xxx			2.33 m
7th	Majd Eddin Ghazal	Syria Syria	O	O	O	xxx				2.29 m
	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus Republic Cyprus	O	O	O	xxx				2.29 m
	Donald Thomas	Bahamas Bahamas	O	O	O	xxx				2.29 m
10	Tikhomir Ivanov	Bulgaria Bulgaria	O	xo	O	xxx				2.29 m
11	Trevor Barry	Bahamas Bahamas	O	O	xxx					2.25 m
12	Dimitrios Chondrokoukis	Cyprus Republic Cyprus	xo	O	xxx					2.25 m
13	Luis Joel Castro	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico	O	xx o	xxx					2.25 m
14th	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic Czech Republic	O	xxx						2.20 m
15th	Brandon Starc	Australia Australia	x o	xxx						2.20 m

Olympic Champion:
Derek Drouin, Canada
Silver medal winner:
Mutaz Essa Barshim from Qatar
Bronze medal winner:
Bohdan Bondarenko, Ukraine