2022 World Athletics Championships – Men's high jump

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Men's high jump
at the 2022 World Championships
Venue Hayward Field
Dates15 July (qualification)
18 July (final)
Competitors32 from 22 nations
Winning height2.37
Medalists
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Silver medal icon.svg  
Bronze medal icon.svg  
  2019
2023  

The men's high jump at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, on 15 and 18 July. [1]

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Summary

Eleven athletes cleared 2.28m, so it turned out a clean round to 2.25m was good enough to get 13 (12 plus ties) into the final. In the final ten survived 2.27m, only five got over 2.30m. Defending champion, co-Olympic Champion Mutaz Essa Barshim, Woo Sang-hyeok and Shelby McEwen all had perfect rounds going and thus were tied for first place. Co-Olympic Champion Gianmarco Tamberi cleared on his last attempt to hold on to the fifth spot. At 2.33m Woo missed, Andriy Protsenko made it on his first attempt to take the lead, for the 30 seconds it took for Barshim to be called and also clear, with a clean round, to take the lead back. Tamberi cleared on his second attempt to take over third place while McEwen missed twice and saved his last remaining attempt for the next height. At 2.35m, Woo and Protsenko missed, Barshim remained perfect and McEwen bowed out. Woo made it on his second attempt to keep the competition alive, Protsenko and Tamberi missed. Protsenko elected to save his final attempt for 2.37m, Tamberi missed and was out. At 2.37 m (7 ft 9+14 in), Woo then Protsenko missed, leaving Protsenko with the bronze. Barshim cleared it again leaving Woo no other choices but to pass. And after Woo missed at 2.39m made the calculated gamble. If Woo made his final attempt, Barshim could lose gold at the last second, or at least be pressured to make one of the top 10 jumps in history (which he has done on 5 occasions). Woo failed, taking silver. A perfect round and gold already in hand, Barshim took one attempt at 2.42m and called it a day.

Preview

Records

Before the competition records were as follows: [2]

World record Flag of Cuba.svg  Javier Sotomayor  (CUB)2.45 m Salamanca, Spain 27 July 1993
Championship record Flag of Ukraine.svg  Bohdan Bondarenko  (UKR)2.41 m Moscow, Russia 15 August 2013
World LeadingANA flag (2017).svg  Ilya Ivanyuk  (ANA)2.34 m Moscow, Russia 7 June 2022
African Record Flag of South Africa.svg  Jacques Freitag  (RSA)2.38 m Oudtshoorn, South Africa 5 March 2005
Asian Record Flag of Qatar.svg  Mutaz Essa Barshim  (QAT)2.43 m Brussels, Belgium 5 September 2014
North, Central American and Caribbean record Flag of Cuba.svg  Javier Sotomayor  (CUB)2.45 mSalamanca, Spain27 July 1993
South American Record Flag of Colombia.svg  Gilmar Mayo  (COL)2.33 m Pereira, Colombia 17 October 1994
European Record Flag of Sweden.svg  Patrik Sjöberg  (SWE)2.42 m Stockholm, Sweden 30 June 1987
Oceanian record Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Tim Forsyth  (AUS)2.36 m Melbourne, Australia 2 March 1997
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Brandon Starc  (AUS) Eberstadt, Germany 26 August 2018

Qualification standard

The standard to automatically qualify for entry was 2.33 m, with a qualification period from 28 June 2021 to 26 June 2022, for a quota number of 32 athletes. [3]

Only 6 high jumpers reached 2.33 m during the qualification period (2021-2022), indoors and outdoors (Barshim, Tamberi, Woo, Starc, Harrison and McEwen). 2 jumpers were selected by finishing position at designated competitions (Ferreira and Kerr, area champions). The final entries were made by completing to 32 athletes, including the defending world champion Mutaz Essa Barshim (wild card), and the Diamond League winner Gianmarco Tamberi, (wild card), both defending Olympic Champions in Tokyo 2020.

Neither the 2022 world leader, Ilya Ivanyuk, nor Russian or Belarusian athletes, as Maksim Nedasekau, 3rd in Ranking, were admitted, even under ANA status.

Naoto Tobe, qualified by ranking, withdrawn. [3] Even if regularly entered, Brandon Starc preferred to focus on the following 2022 Commonwealth Games.

World athletics ranking

Before the 2022 World Championships:

  1. Gianmarco Tamberi ITA 1404 points, High Jump [incl. High Jump indoor]
  2. Woo Sang-hyeok KOR 1376 pts High Jump [High Jump ind.]
  3. Maksim Nedasekau BLR 1354 pts High Jump
  4. Django Lovett CAN 1334 pts High Jump
  5. Ilya Ivanyuk ANA 1318 pts High Jump
  6. JuVaughn Harrison USA 1305 pts High Jump [High Jump ind.]
  7. Mikhail Akimenko RUS 1295 pts High Jump [High Jump ind.]
  8. Andriy Protsenko UKR 1294 pts High Jump
  9. Hamish Kerr NZL 1292 pts High Jump [High Jump ind.]
  10. Brandon Starc AUS 1291 pts High Jump
  11. Shelby McEwen USA 1270 pts High Jump
  12. Norbert Kobielski POL 1261 pts High Jump [High Jump ind.]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC-7), is as follows: [4]

DateTimeRound
15 July10:10 Qualification
18 July17:45 Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: 2.30 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q). [5] Only 29 athletes are entered on the quota number of 32: Brandon Starc [6] and defending South American champion Fernando Ferreira did not finally enter.

RankGroupNameNationality2.172.212.252.282.30MarkNotes
1A Woo Sang-hyeok Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea  (KOR)oooo2.28q
1A Django Lovett Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)oooo2.28q, =SB
1A Andriy Protsenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR)oooo2.28q
1A Mutaz Essa Barshim Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar  (QAT)ooo2.28q
5B Luis Enrique Zayas Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba  (CUB)oxooo2.28q
6A Tomohiro Shinno Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)oxoxoo2.28q
7B JuVaughn Harrison Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)oooxo2.28q
8B Yonathan Kapitolnik Flag of Israel.svg  Israel  (ISR)oxooxo2.28q
9A Shelby McEwen Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)oooxxo2.28q
9B Joel Baden Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)oooxxo2.28q, SB
11B Gianmarco Tamberi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)ooxxoxxo2.28q
12B Edgar Rivera Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico  (MEX)oooxxx2.25q
12B Mateusz Przybylko Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)oooxxx2.25q
14B Hamish Kerr Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand  (NZL)oxooxxx2.25
15B Oleh Doroshchuk Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR)ooxoxxx2.25
16A Marco Fassinotti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)xoxoxoxxx2.25
17A Thomas Carmoy Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium  (BEL)oxoxxoxxx2.25
18B Thiago Moura Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil  (BRA)oxxoxxoxxx2.25
19A Tobias Potye Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)ooxxx2.21
19B Ryoichi Akamatsu Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)ooxxx2.21
21A Carlos Layoy Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina  (ARG)oxoxxx2.21=SB
22A Loïc Gasch Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland  (SUI)xoxoxxx2.21
23B Donald Thomas Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas  (BAH)oxxoxxx2.21
23B Joel Clarke-Khan Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)oxxoxxx2.21
25B Darius Carbin Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)oxxx2.17
26A Yual Reath Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)xxoxxx2.17
A Nauraj Singh Randhawa Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia  (MAS)xxxNM
A Norbert Kobielski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)xrNM
A Majd Eddin Ghazal Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958-1971), Flag of Syria (1980-2024).svg  Syria  (SYR) DNS

Final

The final started on 18 July at 17:45. [7] [8]

RankNameNationality2.192.242.272.302.332.352.372.392.42MarkNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Mutaz Essa Barshim Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar  (QAT)oooooox2.37 WL
Silver medal icon.svg Woo Sang-hyeok Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea  (KOR)ooooxxoxox-xx2.35=NR
Bronze medal icon.svg Andriy Protsenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine  (UKR)xooxxoooxx-x2.33 SB
4 Gianmarco Tamberi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)oooxxoxoxxx2.33 SB
5 Shelby McEwen Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)ooooxx-x2.30
6 Django Lovett Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada  (CAN)oooxxx2.27
6 Luis Enrique Zayas Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba  (CUB)oooxxx2.27
8 Tomohiro Shinno Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)xoxooxxx2.27
9 JuVaughn Harrison Flag of the United States.svg  United States  (USA)ooxxoxxx2.27
10 Joel Baden Flag of Australia.svg  Australia  (AUS)oxoxoxxx2.27
11 Yonathan Kapitolnik Flag of Israel.svg  Israel  (ISR)ooxxx2.24
12 Mateusz Przybylko Flag of Germany.svg  Germany  (GER)oxxoxxx2.24
13 Edgar Rivera Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico  (MEX)xoxxx2.19

References

  1. High Jump Men − Preview, IAAF, 9 July 2022
  2. "High Jump Men − Records". IAAF . Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Road To | World Athletics". www.worldathletics.org.
  4. "High Jump Men − Timetable". WA . Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  5. "Qualification start list" (PDF).
  6. "Starc withdraws from World Athletics Championships". www.athletics.com.au.
  7. Final Start List
  8. RESULTS High Jump Men - Final