Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

Men's high jump at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing Olympic Stadium
Date	17 August 2008 (qualification) 19 August 2008 (final)
Competitors	40 from 28 nations
Winning distance	2.36
Medalists
Andrey Silnov  Russia Germaine Mason  Great Britain Yaroslav Rybakov  Russia

The men's high jump at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 17–19 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium.

The qualifying standards were 2.30 m (7.55 ft) (A standard) and 2.27 m (7.45 ft) (B standard).

Notably, reigning world champion Donald Thomas, who cleared 2.32 metres in Osaka 2007, finished only in twenty-first place, but failed to advance into the final round.

Records

Prior to this 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	27 July 1996

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

Results

Qualifying round

Qualification Criteria: Qualifying Performance 2.32 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	2.10	2.15	2.20	2.25	2.29	Result	Notes
1	A	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	-	o	o	o	o	2.29	q
	B	Jessé de Lima	Brazil	-	o	o	o	o	2.29	q
	B	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	o	o	o	o	o	2.29	q
	A	Germaine Mason	Great Britain	-	o	o	o	o	2.29	q
5	A	Raúl Spank	Germany	-	o	o	xo	o	2.29	q
6	B	Martyn Bernard	Great Britain	-	o	o	o	xo	2.29	q
	A	Stefan Holm	Sweden	-	o	o	o	xo	2.29	q
	B	Andrey Silnov	Russia	-	o	o	o	xo	2.29	q
9	B	Filippo Campioli	Italy	o	o	o	o	xxx	2.25	q
	A	Rožle Prezelj	Slovenia	-	o	o	o	xxx	2.25	q
	A	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	-	o	o	o	xxx	2.25	q
12	B	Tom Parsons	Great Britain	-	o	xo	o	xxx	2.25	q
13	A	Andra Manson	United States	-	xo	xo	o	xxx	2.25
14	A	Andrea Bettinelli	Italy	-	o	o	xo	xxx	2.25
	A	Mickael Hanany	France	o	o	o	xo	xxx	2.25
	A	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	-	o	o	xo	xxx	2.25
17	A	Dragutin Topić	Serbia	-	o	xo	xo	xxx	2.25
18	B	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	-	xo	xo	xo	xxx	2.25
19	B	Michael Mason	Canada	-	o	o	xxo	xxx	2.25
	B	Jesse Williams	United States	-	o	o	xxo	xxx	2.25
21	B	Dmytro Demyanyuk	Ukraine	o	o	o	xxx		2.20
	A	Niki Palli	Israel	o	o	o	xxx		2.20
	A	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	-	o	o	xxx		2.20
24	A	Michał Bieniek	Poland	-	xo	o	xxx		2.20
	A	Majed Aldin Gazal	Syria	o	xo	o	xxx		2.20	=NR
26	A	Dusty Jonas	United States	o	o	xo	xxx		2.20
	B	Linus Thörnblad	Sweden	-	o	xo	xxx		2.20
28	B	James Grayman	Antigua and Barbuda	xo	xxo	xo	xxx		2.20
29	B	Javier Bermejo	Spain	o	o	xxo	xxx		2.20
	B	Kabelo Kgosiemang	Botswana	-	o	xxo	xxx		2.20
	B	Alessandro Talotti	Italy	o	o	xxo	xxx		2.20
32	B	Lee Hup Wei	Malaysia	o	xo	xxo	xxx		2.20
33	A	Peter Horák	Slovakia	o	xo	xxx			2.15
	B	Yuriy Krymarenko	Ukraine	o	xo	xxx			2.15
	A	Gerardo Martínez	Mexico	o	xo	xxx			2.15
36	B	Naoyuki Daigo	Japan	xxo	xxo	xxx			2.15
37	A	Konstadínos Baniótis	Greece	xo	xxx				2.10
	B	Sergey Zasimovich	Kazakhstan	xo	xxx				2.10
39	A	Oleksandr Nartov	Ukraine	xxo	xxx				2.10
	B	Huang Haiqiang	China	xxx					NM

Final

The final was held on August 19.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	2.15	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.32	2.34	2.36	2.42	Result	Notes
	Andrey Silnov	Russia	–	o	o	o	o	o	o	xxx	2.36
	Germaine Mason	Great Britain	–	o	o	x–	o	o	xxx		2.34	PB
	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	–	o	o	o	xxo	o	xxx		2.34	SB
4	Stefan Holm	Sweden	–	o	o	o	o	x–	xx		2.32
5	Raúl Spank	Germany	o	o	o	o	xxo	xx–	x		2.32	PB
6	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	o	o	o	o	x–	x–	x		2.29
7	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	o	o	o	xo	x–	xx			2.29
8	Tom Parsons	Great Britain	o	o	o	xxx					2.25
9	Martyn Bernard	Great Britain	o	o	xo	x–	xx				2.25
10	Jessé de Lima	Brazil	o	o	xxx						2.20
	Filippo Campioli	Italy	–	o	xxx						2.20
12	Rožle Prezelj	Slovenia	o	xxo	xxx						2.20