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

Men's high jump at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Men's high jump victory ceremony
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	5–7 August
Competitors	35 from 27 nations
Winning height	2.38
Medalists
Ivan Ukhov  Russia Erik Kynard, Jr.  United States Derek Drouin  Canada Robert Grabarz  Great Britain Mutaz Essa Barshim  Qatar

Official Video Highlights

The Men's high jump competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 5–7 August.

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 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 the those who did make 2.29.

In the final, six athletes did not even 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, Jr. cleared the next height 2.33. Somehow between jumps, Ivan Ukhov had taken off his singlet and it had gotten 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 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 finishing in 6th, the three way tie left 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. He missed, keeping the silver, Ukhov clearly taking the gold.

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.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Sunday, 5 August 2012	19:05	Qualifications
Tuesday, 7 August 2012	19:00	Finals

Records

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

World record	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.45 m	Salamanca, Spain	27 July 1993
Olympic record	Charles Austin (USA)	2.39 m	Atlanta, United States	28 July 1996
2012 World leading	Ivan Ukhov (RUS)	2.39 m	Cheboksary, Russia	5 July 2012

Results

Qualification

Qual. rule: qualification standard 2.32m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	2.16	2.21	2.26	2.29	Result	Note
1	B	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	–	o	o	o	2.29	q
2	B	Ivan Ukhov	Russia	o	o	xo	o	2.29	q
3	A	Erik Kynard, Jr.	United States	o	o	o	xo	2.29	q
3	B	Jesse Williams	United States	o	o	o	xo	2.29	q
5	B	Andriy Protsenko	Ukraine	o	xo	xo	xo	2.29	q
6	A	Derek Drouin	Canada	o	xxo	xo	xxo	2.29	q
7	B	Jamie Nieto	United States	o	o	o	xxx	2.26	q
8	A	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar	o	o	xo	xx-	2.26	q
8	A	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	o	o	xo	xx-	2.26	q
8	A	Mickael Hanany	France	o	o	xo	xxx	2.26	q
8	A	Andrey Silnov	Russia	o	o	xo	xxx	2.26	q
12	A	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	o	o	xxo	xxx	2.26	q
12	B	Michael Mason	Canada	o	o	xxo	xxx	2.26	q
12	B	Wanner Miller	Colombia	o	o	xxo	xxx	2.26	q
15	A	Aleksandr Shustov	Russia	o	xo	xxo	xxx	2.26
16	B	Trevor Barry	Bahamas	o	o	xxx		2.21
16	B	Guilherme Cobbo	Brazil	o	o	xxx		2.21
16	A	Dmytro Dem'yanyuk	Ukraine	o	o	xxx		2.21
16	A	Osku Torro	Finland	o	o	xxx		2.21
20	B	Víctor Moya	Cuba	xo	o	xx-	x	2.21
21	B	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	o	xo	xxx		2.21
21	B	Diego Ferrín	Ecuador	o	xo	xxx		2.21
21	B	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy	o	xo	xxx		2.21
21	A	Zhang Guowei	China	o	xo	xxx		2.21
25	A	Konstadínos Baniótis	Greece	o	xxo	xxx		2.21
25	B	Rožle Prezelj	Slovenia	o	xxo	xxx		2.21
27	B	Raivydas Stanys	Lithuania	o	xxx			2.16
28	A	Majed Aldin Ghazal	Syria	xo	xxx			2.16
28	B	Viktor Ninov	Bulgaria	xo	xxx			2.16
30	A	Michal Kabelka	Slovakia	xxo	xxx			2.16
30	A	Hup Wei Lee	Malaysia	xxo	xxx			2.16
30	A	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	xxo	–	xxx		2.16
—	A	Andrei Churyla	Belarus	xxx				NM
—	A	Darvin Edwards	Saint Lucia	xxx				NM
—	B	Dragutin Topic	Serbia	xxx				NM

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.33	2.36	2.38	2.40	Result	Note
	Ivan Ukhov	Russia	o	o	xo	o	o	o	x	2.38
	Erik Kynard, Jr.	United States	o	xo	o	o	x-	x-	x	2.33
	Derek Drouin	Canada	o	o	o	xxx				2.29
	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	-	o	o	xxx				2.29
	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar	o	o	o	xxx				2.29
6	Jamie Nieto	United States	o	o	xo	xx-	x			2.29
7	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	xo	o	xo	xxx				2.29
8	Michael Mason	Canada	o	o	xxo	xxx				2.29
9	Wanner Miller	Colombia	o	o	xxx					2.25
9	Jesse Williams	United States	o	o	xxx					2.25
9	Andriy Protsenko	Ukraine	o	o	xxx					2.25
12	Andrey Silnov	Russia	o	xo	xxx					2.25
13	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	o	xxx						2.20
14	Mickael Hanany	France	xo	xxx						2.20