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

Men's high jump at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Pictogram for athletics
Venue	Stadium Australia
Date	22 September 2000 (qualifications) 24 September 2000 (finals)
Competitors	34 from 24 nations
Winning height	2.35
Medalists
Sergey Klyugin  Russia Javier Sotomayor  Cuba Abderrahmane Hammad  Algeria

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.

The high jump has been ever present since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896.

Medalists

Gold	Sergey Kliugin  Russia
Silver	Javier Sotomayor  Cuba
Bronze	Abderrahmane Hammad  Algeria

Schedule

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

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
22.09.2000 – 19:25h	22.09.2000 – 19:25h
Final Round
24.09.2000 – 18:10h

Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.45 m	27 July 1993	Salamanca, Spain
Olympic Record	Charles Austin (USA)	2.39 m	28 July 1996	Atlanta, United States

Results

All distances shown are in meters.

• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• DQ denotes disqualification.
• NR denotes national record.
• AR denotes area/continental record.
• OR denotes Olympic record.
• WR denotes world record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season best

Qualifying

Held on Friday, 22 September 2000.

The qualifying height was 2.30m. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the highest jumps until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Group A

Place	Overall	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Qual	Record
1	T1	Stefan Holm	Sweden	2.27	q
1	T1	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel	2.27	q
3	5	Sergey Kliugin	Russia	2.27	q
4	T7	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	2.27	q
5	13	Mark Boswell	Canada	2.27	q
6	T14	Tim Forsyth	Australia	2.24
6	T14	Elvir Krehmić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.24
8	T16	Mika Polku	Finland	2.24
8	T16	Christian Rhoden	Germany	2.24
8	T16	Andriy Sokolovskyy	Ukraine	2.24
11	19	Yuriy Pakhlyayev	Kazakhstan	2.24
12	20	Charles Austin	United States	2.20
13	T27	Benjamin Challenger	Great Britain	2.15
13	T27	Ruslan Hlivinskiy	Ukraine	2.15
13	T27	Takahisa Yoshida	Japan	2.15
13	T27	Stevan Zoric	FR Yugoslavia	2.15
17	33	Jean Claude Rabbath	Lebanon	2.15
18	34	Aleksey Lelin	Belarus	2.15

Group B

Place	Overall	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Qual	Record
1	T1	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	2.27	q
1	T1	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	2.27	q
3	6	Nathan Leeper	United States	2.27	q
4	T7	Kwaku Boateng	Canada	2.27	q
4	T7	Sergii Dymchenko	Ukraine	2.27	q
4	T7	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	2.27	q
4	T7	Staffan Strand	Sweden	2.27	q
8	12	Kenny Evans	United States	2.27	q
9	T21	Lee Jin-Taek	South Korea	2.20
9	T21	Dragutin Topic	FR Yugoslavia	2.20
11	T23	Gilmar Mayo	Colombia	2.20
11	T23	Wilbert Pennings	Netherlands	2.20
11	T23	Brendan Reilly	Ireland	2.20
14	26	Toni Huikuri	Finland	2.20
15	T27	Pyotr Brayko	Russia	2.15
15	T27	Glenn Howard	New Zealand	2.15
		Hugo Muñoz	Peru	NM
		Labros Papakostas	Greece	DNS

Overall Qualifying results

Place	Athlete	Nation	Group	Mark	Qual	Record
1	Stefan Holm	Sweden	A	2.27	q
	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel	A	2.27	q
	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	B	2.27	q
	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	B	2.27	q
5	Sergey Kliugin	Russia	A	2.27	q
6	Nathan Leeper	United States	B	2.27	q
7	Kwaku Boateng	Canada	B	2.27	q
	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	A	2.27	q
	Staffan Strand	Sweden	B	2.27	q
	Sergii Dymchenko	Ukraine	B	2.27	q
	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	B	2.27	q
12	Kenny Evans	United States	B	2.27	q
13	Mark Boswell	Canada	B	2.27	q
14	Elvir Krehmić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	A	2.24
	Tim Forsyth	Australia	A	2.24
16	Christian Rhoden	Germany	A	2.24
	Andriy Sokolovskyy	Ukraine	A	2.24
	Mika Polku	Finland	A	2.24
19	Yuriy Pakhlyayev	Kazakhstan	A	2.24
20	Charles Austin	United States	A	2.20
21	Lee Jin-Taek	South Korea	B	2.20
	Dragutin Topic	FR Yugoslavia	B	2.20
23	Wilbert Pennings	Netherlands	B	2.20
	Brendan Reilly	Ireland	B	2.20
	Gilmar Mayo	Colombia	B	2.20
26	Toni Huikuri	Finland	B	2.20
27	Stevan Zoric	FR Yugoslavia	A	2.15
	Glenn Howard	New Zealand	B	2.15
	Ruslan Glyvynskyy	Ukraine	A	2.15
	Pyotr Brayko	Russia	B	2.15
	Benjamin Challenger	Great Britain	A	2.15
	Takahisa Yoshida	Japan	A	2.15
33	Jean Claude Rabbath	Lebanon	A	2.15
34	Aleksei Lelin	Belarus	A	2.15
	Hugo Muñoz	Peru	B	NM
	Labros Papakostas	Greece	B	DNS

Final

Silver medallist Javier Sotomayor

Place	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Notes
	Sergey Kliugin	Russia	2.35	SB
	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	2.32	SB
	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	2.32
4	Stefan Holm	Sweden	2.32
5	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel	2.32
6	Mark Boswell	Canada	2.32
	Staffan Strand	Sweden	2.32
8	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	2.29
9	Sergii Dymchenko	Ukraine	2.29
10	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	2.29
11	Nathan Leeper	United States	2.25
12	Kwaku Boateng	Canada	2.25
13	Kenny Evans	United States	2.20

External links

Source: Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics available at https://web.archive.org/web/20080522105330/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm