Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

Men's high jump at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	14–16 August
Competitors	44 from 28 nations
Winning height	2.38
Medalists
Derek Drouin  Canada Mutaz Essa Barshim  Qatar Bohdan Bondarenko  Ukraine

The men's high jump competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium between 14–16 August.

Summary

The 2012 Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov was absent as a result of the Russian team's ban for doping. Another major absence, due to injury, was Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi who ranked second in the world and had won the 2016 World Indoor Championships. The top ranked athlete with 2.40 m was Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim, who won 2012 Olympic bronze and had previously jumped 2.43m in competition in 2014, the second highest height in history to be cleared in the high jump. Derek Drouin of Canada, who shared the 2012 Olympic bronze medal with Barshim, was ranked third in the world in 2016 and was the winner at the 2015 World Championships. The 2015 minor medallists Bohdan Bondarenko and Zhang Guowei, American Olympic medallist Erik Kynard, and 31-year-old Donald Thomas of the Bahamas (ranked fourth), also qualified for the event.

Of the fifteen men who qualified for the final, five failed to clear 2.29 m, the height they had cleared in order to qualify. Five athletes remained clean through 2.29 m. At 2.33 m, four competitors were excised. Barshim, Drouin, and Bondarenko remained clean at 2.33 m; though Robert Grabarz and Andriy Protsenko also cleared 2.33 m on their first attempts, both men had a single miss at earlier heights and were tied for fourth. Erik Kynard was relegated to sixth place after taking three attempts to get over 2.33 m. Barshim and Drouin remained perfect at 2.36 m; Grabarz, Protsenko and Kynard were unable to advance while Bondarenko boldly passed any attempts to clear 2.36 m. Drouin was able to clear 2.38 m (7 ft 9+1⁄2 in) on his first attempt. Though Bashim had cleared 5cm higher in previous competitions, he was unable to clear 2.38m after three attempts. Bondarenko failed twice to clear 2.38 m (7 ft 9+1⁄2 in) and, following Barshim's second failure, Bondarenko elected to pass his third attempt at 2.38 m (7 ft 9+1⁄2 in) and attempted to clear 2.40m instead. When Bondarenko failed to clear 2.40 m, Drouin attempted but failed to clear 2.40 m. However, as the only competitor remaining, Drouin opted not to make any further attempts and was confirmed as the winner and gold medalist. Barshim received the silver medal. As the other three competitors had failed to pass 2.36m, Bondarenko received the bronze.

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 had three consecutive failed attempts, either at one height, or over two (or even three) heights if they chose to pass after one or two failures at one height. Athletes who successfully jumped the qualifying height moved on to 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 recorded three consecutive failed attempts, save for the victor who could opt not to make any more attempts.

Schedule

All times are Brasilia Time (UTC-3)

Date	Time	Round
Sunday, 14 August 2016	20:30	Qualifications
Tuesday, 16 August 2016	20:30	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, Georgia, United States	28 July 1996
2016 World leading	Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)	2.40 m	Opole, Poland	11 June 2016

Results

Qualifying round

Qualification rule: Qualifying performance 2.31 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	2.17	2.22	2.26	2.29	Result	Note
1	A	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar	o	o	o	o	2.29	q
1	A	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	-	o	-	o	2.29	q
1	B	Derek Drouin	Canada	o	o	o	o	2.29	q
1	B	Tihomir Ivanov	Bulgaria	o	o	o	o	2.29	q, SB
5	B	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	-	o	xo	o	2.29	q
5	B	Erik Kynard	United States	o	o	xo	o	2.29	q
7	B	Majededdin Ghazal	Syria	-	o	o	xo	2.29	q
7	A	Andriy Protsenko	Ukraine	o	o	o	xo	2.29	q
9	B	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	o	o	xo	xo	2.29	q
10	A	Trevor Barry	Bahamas	o	o	xo	xxo	2.29	q, SB
10	A	Brandon Starc	Australia	xo	o	o	xxo	2.29	q, SB
12	B	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	o	o	o	xxx	2.26	q
12	A	Luis Castro	Puerto Rico	o	o	o	xxx	2.26	q
12	B	Dimitrios Chondrokoukis	Cyprus	o	o	o	xxx	2.26	q, SB
12	A	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	o	o	o	xxx	2.26	q
16	A	Chris Baker	Great Britain	xo	o	o	xxx	2.26
17	A	Ricky Robertson	United States	o	o	xo	xxx	2.26
18	A	Michael Mason	Canada	xo	o	xo	xxx	2.26
18	B	Nauraj Singh Randhawa	Malaysia	xo	o	xo	xxx	2.26
20	B	Dmytro Yakovenko	Ukraine	o	xxo	xo	xxx	2.26	SB
21	B	Bradley Adkins	United States	xxo	xo	xo	xxx	2.26
22	A	Woo Sang-hyeok	South Korea	o	o	xxo	xxx	2.26
23	B	David Smith	Puerto Rico	o	xo	xxo	xxx	2.26
24	A	Eike Onnen	Germany	o	xxo	xxo	xxx	2.26
25	A	Wojciech Theiner	Poland	o	o	xxx		2.22
25	B	Jamal Wilson	Bahamas	o	o	xxx		2.22
25	B	Zhang Guowei	China	o	o	xxx		2.22
28	B	Mateusz Przybylko	Germany	xo	o	xxx		2.22
29	B	Arturo Chávez	Peru	xxo	o	xxx		2.22
30	B	Sylwester Bednarek	Poland	o	xo	xxx		2.22
30	A	Andrei Churyla	Belarus	o	xo	xxx		2.22
32	A	Wang Yu	China	xo	xo	xxx		2.22
33	A	Silvano Chesani	Italy	o	xxo	xxx		2.22
34	A	Konstadinos Baniotis	Greece	xo	xxo	xxx		2.22
35	A	Matúš Bubeník	Slovakia	o	xxx			2.17
35	A	Takashi Eto	Japan	o	xxx			2.17
35	A	Hsiang Chun-Hsien	Chinese Taipei	o	xxx			2.17
35	B	Edgar Rivera	Mexico	o	xxx			2.17
35	A	Eugenio Rossi	San Marino	o	xxx			2.17
35	B	Talles Frederico Silva	Brazil	o	xxx			2.17
41	B	Joel Baden	Australia	xo	xxx			2.17
41	A	Dmitry Kroyter	Israel	xo	xxx			2.17
43	B	Dzmitry Nabokau	Belarus	xxo	xxx			2.17
43	B	Yun Seung-hyun	South Korea	xxo	xxx			2.17

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.33	2.36	2.38	2.40	Result	Note
	Derek Drouin	Canada	o	o	o	o	o	o	x	2.38
	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar	o	o	o	o	o	xxx		2.36
	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	–	o	–	o	–	xx–	x	2.33
4	Robert Grabarz	Great Britain	o	xo	o	o	xxx			2.33	=SB
	Andriy Protsenko	Ukraine	o	o	xo	o	xxx			2.33	SB
6	Erik Kynard	United States	o	xo	o	xxo	xxx			2.33
7	Majededdin Ghazal	Syria	o	o	o	xxx				2.29
	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	o	o	o	xxx				2.29
	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	o	o	o	xxx				2.29
10	Tihomir Ivanov	Bulgaria	o	xo	o	xxx				2.29	=PB
11	Trevor Barry	Bahamas	o	o	xxx					2.25
12	Dimitrios Chondrokoukis	Cyprus	xo	o	xxx					2.25
13	Luis Castro	Puerto Rico	o	xxo	xxx					2.25
14	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	o	xxx						2.20
15	Brandon Starc	Australia	xo	xxx						2.20