Men's high jump at the 2013 World Championships | |||||||
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Venue | Luzhniki Stadium | ||||||
Dates | 13 August (qualification) 15 August (final) | ||||||
Competitors | 34 from 22 nations | ||||||
Winning height | 2.41 m (7 ft 10+3⁄4 in) | ||||||
Medalists | |||||||
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Events at the 2013 World Championships | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
5000 m | men | women |
10,000 m | men | women |
100 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | women |
3000 m steeplechase | men | women |
4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | women |
20 km walk | men | women |
50 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | women |
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | women |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | women |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Combined events | ||
Heptathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
The men's high jump at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 13–15 August. [1]
With 18 over 2.26 m (7 ft 4+3⁄4 in), it took a first attempt clearance and one miss to make it into the final.
In the final, three remained perfect to 2.35 m (7 ft 8+1⁄2 in), with Mutaz Essa Barshim just one miss behind, while Donald Thomas passed his personal best. But Barshim seized the lead with a first attempt clearance at 2.38 m (7 ft 9+1⁄2 in). Thomas and home team favorite Ivan Ukhov couldn't make the height, while Derek Drouin set a Canadian national record clearing on his second attempt. World leader Bohdan Bondarenko confidently passed the height knowing it would require him to equal his world leading jump from the previous month and to break Javier Sotomayor's championship record. On his second attempt at 2.41 m (7 ft 10+3⁄4 in), he made it to take the lead. Drouin took his three attempts and settled for bronze. Already above his personal best, Barshim passed to 2.44 m (8 ft 0 in), 1 cm below the world record, to try for the win but couldn't get it. Bondarenko watched, then took three attempts at Sotomayor's world record. [2]
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows: [3]
World record | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.45 | Salamanca, Spain | 27 July 1993 |
Championship record | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.40 | Stuttgart, Germany | 22 August 1993 |
World leading | Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) | 2.41 | Lausanne, Switzerland | 4 July 2013 |
African record | Jacques Freitag (RSA) | 2.38 | Oudtshoorn, South Africa | 5 March 2005 |
Asian record | Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) | 2.40 | Eugene, United States | 1 June 2013 |
North, Central American and Caribbean record | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.45 | Salamanca, Spain | 27 July 1993 |
South American record | Gilmar Mayo (COL) | 2.33A | Pereira, Colombia | 17 October 1994 |
European record | Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) | 2.42 | Stockholm, Sweden | 30 June 1987 |
Oceanian record | Tim Forsyth (AUS) | 2.36 | Melbourne, Australia | 2 March 1997 |
A result [4] | B result |
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2.31 | 2.28 |
Date | Time | Round |
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13 August 2013 | 09:50 | Qualification |
15 August 2013 | 19:00 | Final |
All times are local times (UTC+4)
KEY: | Q | Qualified | q | 12 best performers | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 2.31 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final. [5]
The final was started at 19:00. [6]
Rank | Name | Nationality | 2.20 | 2.25 | 2.29 | 2.32 | 2.35 | 2.38 | 2.41 | 2.44 | 2.46 | Mark | Notes |
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Bohdan Bondarenko | Ukraine (UKR) | – | – | o | – | o | – | xo | – | xxx | 2.41 | CR , = NR | |
Mutaz Essa Barshim | Qatar (QAT) | o | o | o | xo | o | o | x- | xx | 2.38 | |||
Derek Drouin | Canada (CAN) | o | o | o | o | o | xo | xxx | 2.38 | NR | |||
4 | Ivan Ukhov | Russia (RUS) | o | o | o | o | o | xxx | 2.35 | SB | |||
5 | Erik Kynard | United States (USA) | o | o | o | xo | xxx | 2.32 | |||||
6 | Donald Thomas | Bahamas (BAH) | xo | o | o | xo | – | xxx | 2.32 | SB | |||
7 | Aleksandr Shustov | Russia (RUS) | o | o | xo | xxo | xxx | 2.32 | SB | ||||
8 | Robert Grabarz | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | o | o | xo | xxx | 2.29 | ||||||
9 | Zhang Guowei | China (CHN) | o | xxo | xo | xxx | 2.29 | ||||||
10 | Kabelo Kgosiemang | Botswana (BOT) | o | o | xxx | 2.25 | |||||||
10 | Ryan Ingraham | Bahamas (BAH) | o | o | xxx | 2.25 | |||||||
10 | Konstadinos Baniotis | Greece (GRE) | o | o | xxx | 2.25 |
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