Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

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Men's high jump
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Men's high jump victory ceremony.jpg
Men's high jump victory ceremony — Ivan Ukhov was consequently stripped his gold medal for doping
Venue Olympic Stadium
Date5–7 August
Competitors35 from 27 nations
Winning height2.33
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Erik Kynard Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg Derek Drouin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Silver medal icon.svg Robert Grabarz Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg Mutaz Essa Barshim Flag of Qatar (3-2).svg  Qatar
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Official video highlights

The men's high jump competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom was held at the Olympic Stadium on 5–7 August. [1] Thirty-five athletes from 27 nations competed. [2] The event was won by Ivan Ukhov of Russia, the nation's second consecutive and third overall victory in the men's high jump. On February 1, 2019, Ukhov was stripped of the gold medal by the Court of Arbitration in Sport for doping offenses. [3] Erik Kynard's silver returned the United States to the men's high jump podium after a one-Games absence. A three-way tie for third resulted in bronze medals for Derek Drouin (Canada's first medal in the event since hosting in Montreal 1976), Robert Grabarz (Great Britain's second consecutive podium appearance), and Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar's first medal in the event, first medal in athletics since 1992, and fourth overall Olympic medal). In 2021, the medals were reallocated; Kynard received the gold medal, while Drouin, Grabarz and Barshim were all promoted to the silver. [4]

Summary

In the qualifying round, nobody needed to take an attempt at the automatic qualifying mark because they were at a tie for the 12th qualifying position at 2.26 metres, with no misses before that height. Because there were two pits going on at the same time, they continued to 2.29 and half the field missed, two heights below the auto-qualifier. All the medalists came from those who made 2.29.

In the final, six athletes did not make it back to the qualifying height, including reigning world champion Jesse Williams and defending champion Andrey Silnov. Derek Drouin, Robert Grabarz and Mutaz Essa Barshim were clean through 2.29 and were in a three-way tie for first place. Erik Kynard cleared the next height at 2.33. Somehow between jumps, Ivan Ukhov had taken off his singlet and it got lost. As time clicked down, he pinned his number to a T-shirt and quickly took his jump at that height. It was successful, to move him into a tie for first place. After the other three had failed, Jamie Nieto made a strategic decision to take an all or nothing jump at 2.36. It was a close attempt, but he missed it.

Nieto finished in 6th, with a three-way tie for the bronze medal. Kynard missed at 2.36, but Ukhov, again in his singlet, cleared. With silver guaranteed, Kynard passed to 2.38 to try to win. He missed but Ukhov again cleared. Kynard again passed to 2.40 to try to win but he missed, keeping the silver, and Ukhov took the gold.

On 1 February 2019, it was announced on that all of Ivan Ukhov's results from 16 July 2012 to 31 December 2015 were being disqualified for doping. [5]

Background

This was the 27th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 2008 Games were gold medalist Andrey Silnov of Russia, sixth-place finisher Jaroslav Bába of the Czech Republic, and twelfth-place finisher Rožle Prezelj of Slovenia. Dragutin Topić of Serbia was competing in his sixth Games. "This event had no clear favorite." Jesse Williams of the United States was the reigning world champion, but had struggled at the U.S. trials. Silnov had finished second at the Russian trials to Ivan Ukhov. [2]

Ecuador and Saint Lucia each made their debut in the event. The United States made its 26th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified athletes in the men's high jump event if all athletes met the A standard, or 1 athlete if they met the B standard. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The qualifying height standards could be obtained in various meets during the qualifying period that had the approval of the IAAF. Both outdoor and indoor meets were eligible. The A standard for the 2012 men's high jump was 2.31 metres; the B standard was 2.28 metres. The qualifying period for was from 1 May 2011 to 8 July 2012. NOCs could also have an athlete enter the high jump through a universality place. NOCs could enter one male athlete in an athletics event, regardless of height, if they had no male athletes meeting the qualifying A or B standards in any men's athletic event. [6] [7] [8]

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete had three attempts at each height and was eliminated if they failed to clear any height. Athletes who successfully jumped the qualifying height moved on the final. If fewer than 12 reached that height, the best 12 moved on. Cleared heights reset for the final, which followed the same three-attempts-per-height format until all athletes reached a height they could not jump. [9]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

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 27 July 1996
2012 World leadingFlag of Russia.svg  Ivan Ukhov  (RUS)2.39 m Cheboksary, Russia 5 July 2012

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

DateTimeRound
Sunday, 5 August 201219:05Qualifying
Tuesday, 7 August 201219:00Final

Results

Key

Qualifying

Qual. rule: qualification standard 2.32m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q). [10] Only six athletes successfully cleared 2.29 metres, so none took attempts at 2.32 metres in the qualifying round.

RankGroupAthleteNation2.162.212.262.29HeightNote
1B Robert Grabarz Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain ooo2.29q
2B Ivan Ukhov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia ooxoo2.29q, DPG
3A Erik Kynard Flag of the United States.svg  United States oooxo2.29q
B Jesse Williams Flag of the United States.svg  United States oooxo2.29q
5B Andriy Protsenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine oxoxoxo2.29q
6A Derek Drouin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada oxxoxoxxo2.29q
7B Jamie Nieto Flag of the United States.svg  United States oooxxx2.26q
8A Mutaz Essa Barshim Flag of Qatar (3-2).svg  Qatar ooxoxx-2.26q
A Bohdan Bondarenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine ooxoxx-2.26q
A Mickael Hanany Flag of France.svg  France ooxoxxx2.26q
A Andrey Silnov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia ooxoxxx2.26q
12A Kyriakos Ioannou Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus ooxxoxxx2.26q
B Michael Mason Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada ooxxoxxx2.26q
B Wanner Miller Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia ooxxoxxx2.26q
15A Aleksandr Shustov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia oxoxxoxxx2.26
16B Trevor Barry Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas ooxxx2.21
B Guilherme Cobbo Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil ooxxx2.21
A Dmytro Dem'yanyuk Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine ooxxx2.21
A Osku Torro Flag of Finland.svg  Finland ooxxx2.21
20B Víctor Moya Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba xooxx-x2.21
21B Jaroslav Bába Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic oxoxxx2.21
B Diego Ferrín Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador oxoxxx2.21
B Gianmarco Tamberi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy oxoxxx2.21
A Zhang Guowei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China oxoxxx2.21
25A Konstadínos Baniótis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece oxxoxxx2.21
B Rožle Prezelj Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia oxxoxxx2.21
27B Raivydas Stanys Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania oxxx2.16
28A Majed Aldin Ghazal Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958-1971), Flag of Syria (1980-2024).svg  Syria xoxxx2.16
B Viktor Ninov Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria xoxxx2.16
30A Michal Kabelka Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia xxoxxx2.16
A Lee Hup Wei Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia xxoxxx2.16
A Donald Thomas Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas xxoxxx2.16
A Andrei Churyla Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus xxxNM
A Darvin Edwards Flag of Saint Lucia.svg  Saint Lucia xxxNM
B Dragutin Topić Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia xxxNM

Final

RankAthleteNation2.202.252.292.332.362.382.40HeightNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Erik Kynard Flag of the United States.svg  United States oxooox-x-x2.33
Silver medal icon.svg Derek Drouin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada oooxxx2.29
Robert Grabarz Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain ooxxx2.29
Mutaz Essa Barshim Flag of Qatar (3-2).svg  Qatar oooxxx2.29
5 Jamie Nieto Flag of the United States.svg  United States ooxoxx-x2.29
6 Bohdan Bondarenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine xooxoxxx2.29
7 Michael Mason Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada ooxxoxxx2.29
8 Wanner Miller Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia ooxxx2.25
Jesse Williams Flag of the United States.svg  United States ooxxx2.25
Andriy Protsenko Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine ooxxx2.25
11 Andrey Silnov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia oxoxxx2.25
12 Kyriakos Ioannou Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus oxxx2.20
13 Mickael Hanany Flag of France.svg  France xoxxx2.20
DSQ Ivan Ukhov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia ooxoooox2.38DSQ

References

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