2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's high jump

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Men's high jump
at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Venue Arena Birmingham
Dates1 March
Competitors11 from 10 nations
Winning height2.36
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   ANA flag (2017).svg  Authorised Neutral Athletes
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
  2016
2022  

The men's high jump at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place at Arena Birmingham in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on 1 March 2018. [1] [2]

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The reigning outdoor world champion, Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar, led the field of eleven entries that year with his jump of 2.38 m (7 ft 9+12 in), set while winning the Asian indoor title. The previous world indoor champion, Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi, was not present to defend his title, though both minor medallists were present in Great Britain's Robert Grabarz and American Erik Kynard.

With the pits back to back in the center of the arena and no events on the track, the men shared center stage with the women's high jump.

Summary

In a straight final format, the overall performance of the field was low, with six of the eleven athletes failing to clear more than the opening height of 2.20 m (7 ft 2+12 in) (Grabarz and former world champion Donald Thomas being the most prominent casualties). Poland's Sylwester Bednarek failed at the third height of 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in), leaving just Barshim, Kynard, Mateusz Przybylko and Danil Lysenko in contention. Lysenko and Barshim led with clean scorecards up to the height of 2.33 m (7 ft 7+12 in). Kynard and Przybylko both failed to achieve that height and the German athlete secured the bronze on countback – his first senior international medal. Lysenko and Barshim each failed their first two attempts at 2.36 m (7 ft 8+34 in) and after a third failure by Barshim, Lysenko cleared the height on his final attempt to become world champion. [3] It was the first world title for the Russian, competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete here, and reversed the positions the two had shared at the 2017 World Championships final the previous summer.

Records

Standing records prior to the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships
World indoor record Flag of Cuba.svg  Javier Sotomayor  (CUB)2.43 Budapest, Hungary 4 March 1989
Championship record Flag of Cuba.svg  Javier Sotomayor  (CUB)2.43Budapest, Hungary4 March 1989
World LeadingFlag of Qatar.svg  Mutaz Essa Barshim  (QAT)2.38 Tehran, Iran 1 February 2018

Results

The final was started at 18:45. [4]

RankNameNationality2.202.252.292.332.36MarkNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Danil Lysenko ANA flag (2017).svg  Authorised Neutral Athletes  (ANA)ooooxxo2.36
Silver medal icon.svg Mutaz Essa Barshim Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar  (QAT)ooooxxx2.33
Bronze medal icon.svg Mateusz Przybylko Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)xoxxoxoxxx2.29
4 Erik Kynard Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)ooxxoxxx2.29
5 Sylwester Bednarek Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)xooxxx2.25
6 Maksim Nedasekau Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus  (BLR)oxxx2.20
6 Donald Thomas Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas  (BAH)oxxx2.20
6 Wang Yu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China  (CHN)oxxx2.20
9 Tihomir Ivanov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria  (BUL)xxoxxx2.20
9 Jamal Wilson Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas  (BAH)xxoxxx2.20
9 Robbie Grabarz Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain  (GBR)xxoxxx2.20

References

  1. "IAAF World Indoor Championships Timetable". IAAF. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  2. Start list
  3. High Jump men IAAF World Indoor Championships GREAT BRITAIN & N.I. Birmingham, GREAT BRITAIN & N.I. 01 MAR 2018 - 04 MAR 2018. IAAF. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
  4. Final results