Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

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Men's high jump
at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Clearing the bar in the men's high jump final Sydney 2000.jpg
Silver medallist Javier Sotomayor
Venue Stadium Australia
Dates22 September 2000 (qualifying)
24 September 2000 (final)
Competitors35 from 24 nations
Winning height2.35
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Sergey Klyugin
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Silver medal icon.svg Javier Sotomayor
Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba
Bronze medal icon.svg Abderrahmane Hammad
Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria
  1996
2004  

The men's high jump event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, 22 September and Sunday, 24 September. [1] Thirty-five athletes from 24 nations competed. [2] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The high jump has been ever present since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896. The event was won by Sergey Klyugin of Russia, the nation's first medal and victory in the men's high jump in the nation's first appearance after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Javier Sotomayor of Cuba was the eighth man to win a second medal in the event (and first to do so in non-consecutive Games, earning his first in 1992); he joined Valeriy Brumel and Jacek Wszoła as the most successful Olympic high jumpers in history with a gold and a silver—despite missing the 1984 and 1988 Games due to boycott and being hampered by injury in 1996. Abderrahmane Hammad's bronze was Algeria's first medal in the men's high jump.

Background

This was the 24th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1996 Games were gold medalist Charles Austin of the United States, fourth-place finisher (and 1992 finalist) Dragutin Topić of Yugoslavia, seventh-place finisher Tim Forsyth of Australia, eighth-place finisher Lee Jin-taek of South Korea, ninth-place finisher Wolfgang Kreißig of Germany, and twelfth-place finisher (and 1992 gold medalist) Javier Sotomayor of Cuba. Sotomayor, healthy again after being limited in 1992 due to an ankle injury, had been suspended after testing positive for cocaine but was reinstated before the Games. He and Austin were medal contenders (both hoping to become the first man to win two gold medals in the high jump), but the favorite was world champion Vyacheslav Voronin of Russia. [2]

Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, New Zealand, and Russia each made their debut in the event. The United States made its 23rd appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had jumped 2.28 metres or higher during the qualification period. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had jumped 2.25 metres or higher could be entered. [3]

Competition format

The competition used the two-round format introduced in 1912. There were two distinct rounds of jumping with results cleared between rounds. Jumpers were eliminated if they had three consecutive failures, whether at a single height or between multiple heights if they attempted to advance before clearing a height.

The qualifying round had the bar set at 2.15 metres, 2.20 metres, 2.24 metres, 2.27 metres, and 2.30 metres. All jumpers clearing 2.30 metres in the qualifying round advanced to the final. If fewer than 12 jumpers could achieve it, the top 12 (including ties) would advance to the final.

The final had jumps at 2.20 metres, 2.25 metres, 2.29 metres, 2.32 metres, and 2.35 metres. [2] [4]

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics.

World recordFlag of Cuba.svg  Javier Sotomayor  (CUB)2.45 Salamanca, Spain 27 July 1993
Olympic recordFlag of the United States.svg  Charles Austin  (USA)2.39 Atlanta, United States 28 July 1996

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Schedule

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

DateTimeRound
Friday, 22 September 200019:25Qualifying
Sunday, 24 September 200018:10Final

Results

Key

All distances shown are in meters.

Qualifying

The qualifying round was held on Friday, 22 September 2000. The qualifying height was 2.30 metres. The remaining spaces in the final were filled by the highest jumps until there were at least 12 qualifiers. After only 13 athletes clear 2.27 metres, no jumpers attempted 2.30 metres and all 13 advanced.

Qualification: 2.30 m (Q) or best 12 performances (q) [5]

RankGroupAthleteNation2.152.202.242.27HeightNotes
1A Stefan Holm Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden ooo2.27q
A Konstantin Matusevich Flag of Israel.svg  Israel oooo2.27q
B Wolfgang Kreissig Flag of Germany.svg  Germany ooo2.27q
B Vyacheslav Voronin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia ooo2.27q
5A Sergey Kliugin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia xooo2.27q
6B Nathan Leeper Flag of the United States.svg  United States oxxoo2.27q
7A Abderrahmane Hammad Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria ooxo2.27q
B Kwaku Boateng Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada ooxo2.27q
B Sergii Dymchenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine oooxo2.27q
B Staffan Strand Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden ooxo2.27q
B Javier Sotomayor Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba oxo2.27q
12B Kenny Evans Flag of the United States.svg  United States oxooxo2.27q
13A Mark Boswell Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada oxoxxo2.27q
14A Elvir Krehmić Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina oooxxx2.24
A Tim Forsyth Flag of Australia.svg  Australia oooxxx2.24
16A Christian Rhoden Flag of Germany.svg  Germany ooxoxxx2.24
A Andriy Sokolovskyy Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine ooxoxxx2.24
A Mika Polku Flag of Finland.svg  Finland ooxoxxx2.24
19A Yuriy Pakhlyayev Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan ooxxoxxx2.24
20A Charles Austin Flag of the United States.svg  United States ox–xx2.20
21B Lee Jin-taek Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea x–oxxx2.20
B Dragutin Topić Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg  FR Yugoslavia xooxx–x2.20
23B Wilbert Pennings Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands xoxxx2.20
B Brendan Reilly Flag of Ireland (3-2).svg  Ireland xoxxx2.20
B Gilmar Mayo Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia oxoxxx2.20
26B Toni Huikuri Flag of Finland.svg  Finland oxxoxxx2.20
27A Benjamin Challenger Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain oxxx2.15
A Ruslan Glyvynskyy Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine oxxx2.15
A Takahisa Yoshida Flag of Japan.svg  Japan oxxx2.15
A Stevan Zorić Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg  FR Yugoslavia oxxx2.15
B Pyotr Brayko Flag of Russia.svg  Russia oxxx2.15
B Glenn Howard Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand oxxx2.15
33A Jean-Claude Rabbath Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon xoxxx2.15
34A Aleksei Lelin Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus xxoxxx2.15
B Hugo Muñoz Flag of Peru.svg  Peru xxxNo mark
B Labros Papakostas Flag of Greece.svg  Greece DNS

Final

[6]

RankAthleteNation2.202.252.292.322.35HeightNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Sergey Kliugin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia ooxoo2.35SB
Silver medal icon.svg Javier Sotomayor Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba ooxxx2.32SB
Bronze medal icon.svg Abderrahmane Hammad Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria ooxooxxx2.32
4 Stefan Holm Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden ooxxooxxx2.32
5 Konstantin Matusevich Flag of Israel.svg  Israel oooxxoxxx2.32
6 Mark Boswell Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada xooxxoxxx2.32
Staffan Strand Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden xooxxoxxx2.32
8 Wolfgang Kreissig Flag of Germany.svg  Germany oooxxx2.29
9 Sergii Dymchenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine oxooxxx2.29
10 Vyacheslav Voronin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia ooxxoxxx2.29
11 Nathan Leeper Flag of the United States.svg  United States ooxxx2.25
12 Kwaku Boateng Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada xoxoxxx2.25
13 Kenny Evans Flag of the United States.svg  United States xoxxx2.20

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