Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

Men's high jump at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	20–22 August
Competitors	38 from 27 nations
Winning height	2.36
Medalists
Stefan Holm   Sweden   Matt Hemingway   United States   Jaroslav Bába   Czech Republic

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men
Wheelchair races

The men's high jump competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–22 August.^[1]

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. Athletes start with a qualifying round. Jumping in turn, each athlete attempts to achieve the qualifying height. If they fail at three jumps in a row, they are eliminated. After a successful jump, they receive three more attempts to achieve the next height. Once all jumps have been completed, all athletes who have achieved the qualifying height go through to the final. If fewer than 12 athletes achieve the qualifying standard, the best 12 athletes go through. Cleared heights reset for the final, which followed the same format until all athletes fail three consecutive jumps.^[2]

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 20 August 2004	20:00	Qualification
Sunday, 22 August 2004	19:30	Final

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 1992
Olympic record	Charles Austin (USA)	2.39 m	Atlanta, United States	28 July 1996

No new records were set during the competition.

Results

Qualifying round

Rule: Qualifying standard 2.28 (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	2.10	2.15	2.20	2.25	2.28	Result	Notes
1	B	Stefan Holm	Sweden	-	-	o	o	o	2.28	Q
1	A	Jamie Nieto	United States	-	-	o	o	o	2.28	Q
1	A	Mark Boswell	Canada	-	-	o	o	o	2.28	Q, SB
4	A	Andriy Sokolovskyy	Ukraine	-	o	o	xo	o	2.28	Q
4	B	Lisvany Pérez	Cuba	o	xo	o	o	o	2.28	Q, PB
4	B	Svatoslav Ton	Czech Republic	o	o	xo	o	o	2.28	Q
7	A	Alessandro Talotti	Italy	-	o	xo	xxo	o	2.28	Q
8	A	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	-	o	o	o	xo	2.28	Q
9	A	Dragutin Topić	Serbia and Montenegro	-	o	xo	o	xo	2.28	Q, =SB
9	B	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	-	o	o	xo	xo	2.28	Q
11	B	Matt Hemingway	United States	-	-	o	o	xxo	2.28	Q
12	B	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	-	o	xo	xo	xxo	2.28	Q
13	A	Hennazdy Maroz	Belarus	-	o	o	o	xxx	2.25
13	B	Nicola Ciotti	Italy	-	o	o	o	xxx	2.25
15	A	Ştefan Vasilache	Romania	-	o	xo	o	xxx	2.25
15	B	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	-	xo	o	o	xxx	2.25	SB
17	B	Jessé de Lima	Brazil	-	o	xxo	o	xxx	2.25
18	B	Staffan Strand	Sweden	-	-	o	xo	xxx	2.25
18	A	Kyriakos Ioannou	Cyprus	o	o	o	xo	xxx	2.25
20	A	Grzegorz Sposób	Poland	-	o	o	xxx		2.20
20	B	Rožle Prezelj	Slovenia	-	o	o	xxx		2.20
20	B	Jacques Freitag	South Africa	-	o	o	xxx		2.20
20	A	Manjula Kumara Wijesekara	Sri Lanka	-	o	o	xxx		2.20
24	A	Linus Thörnblad	Sweden	o	xxo	o	xxx		2.20
25	A	Oskari Frösén	Finland	o	o	xo	xxx		2.20
25	A	Roman Fricke	Germany	-	o	xo	xxx		2.20
25	B	Jean-Claude Rabbath	Lebanon	o	o	xo	xxx		2.20
25	B	Robert Wolski	Poland	-	o	xo	xxx		2.20
25	B	Pyotr Brayko	Russia	-	o	xo	x-		2.20
30	A	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	o	xo	xo	xxx		2.20
31	B	Marko Aleksejev	Estonia	o	o	xxx			2.15
31	B	Javier Bermejo	Spain	o	o	xxx			2.15
33	A	László Boros	Hungary	xo	o	xxx			2.15
34	A	Tora Harris	United States	-	xo	xxx			2.15
35	A	Alfredo Deza	Peru	o	xxx				2.10
36	B	Liu Yang	China	xxo	x				2.10
37	A	Adrian O'Dwyer	Ireland	xxx					NM
38	B	Aleksey Lesnichiy	Belarus	-	-	-	-	-	DSQ

• Aleksey Lesnichiy was disqualified after failing an anti-doping test.^[3]

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.32	2.34	2.36	Result	Notes
	Stefan Holm	Sweden	o	o	o	xo	xxo	o	2.36	=PB
	Matt Hemingway	United States	o	o	-	o	o	xxx	2.34	SB
	Jaroslav Bába	Czech Republic	o	o	o	xxo	o	xxx	2.34	PB
4	Jamie Nieto	United States	o	xo	-	o	xo	xxx	2.34	PB
5	Andriy Sokolovskyy	Ukraine	o	o	o	o	xxx		2.32
6	Yaroslav Rybakov	Russia	o	xo	o	xo	xxx		2.32	=SB
7	Mark Boswell	Canada	o	-	o	xxx			2.29	SB
8	Svatoslav Ton	Czech Republic	o	xo	xo	xx-	x		2.29
9	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	o	-	xxo	xxx			2.29
10	Dragutin Topic	Serbia and Montenegro	xo	-	xxo	-	xxx		2.29
11	Lisvany Pérez	Cuba	o	xo	xxx				2.25
12	Alessandro Talotti	Italy	o	xxo	-	xxx			2.25

References

1. "Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics". Athens 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
2. "Athletics at the 2004 Athens Summer Games: Men's High Jump". Athens 2004. Sports Reference. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
3. "IOC sanctions high jumper Aleksey Lesnichiy for failing anti-doping test". Olympics. 24 August 2004. Retrieved 13 February 2015.

External links

• Official Olympic Report