The men's high jump at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha from 1 to 4 October.
Summary When Qatari officials put together the bid to host these championships, Doha born Mutaz Essa Barshim was a 23 year old with a World Junior Championship, Olympic bronze and World Championship silver medal. In addition, he was defending champion.
The finals pared down to 7 over 2.30m. At 2.33m, Mikhail Akimenko got over on his first attempt to maintain a clean round and Maksim Nedasekau also was over on his first attempt. Shudder, Barshim, who had a clean series going so far, missed along with five others (veteran Gianmarco Tamberi saved attempts after missing 2.30m once). On the second attempt, everyone missed again. Tamberi eliminated, that trend started the third round of attempts as Luis Zayas and Michael Mason missed and were eliminated. Then it was Barshim's last attempt. He got over it and sighs of relief could be heard all over Qatar. Next up, Brandon Starc missed, then Ilya Ivanyuk also made it to leave four over 2.33m, with Akimenko holding the advantage.
Moving up to 2.35m, Nedasekau missed, then Barshim, Akimenko and Ivanyuk all made it on their first attempts. Akimenko still had a clean series. With three earlier misses, vs two each for Barshim and Ivanyuk, Nedasekau could see he was off the podium and passed. At , Nedasekau missed. Next up, on his first attempt, Barshim made it, and no else was able to clear the height.
Records Before the competition records were as follows:
World record2.45 mSalamanca, Spain27 July 1993Championship record2.41 mMoscow, Russia15 August 2013World Leading2.35 mMinsk, Belarus9 September 2019African Record2.38 mOudtshoorn, South Africa5 March 2005Asian Record2.43 mBrussels, Belgium5 September 2014North, Central American and Caribbean record2.45 mSalamanca, Spain27 July 1993South American Record2.33 mPereira, Colombia17 October 1994European Record2.42 mStockholm, Sweden30 June 1987Oceanian record2.36 mMelbourne, Australia2 March 1997Eberstadt, Germany26 August 2018
Qualification standard The standard to automatically qualify for entry was 2.30 m. for a quota number of 32 athletes.
Only 24 high jumpers reached 2.30 m during the qualification period (2018-2019), indoors and outdoors. The final entries were made by completing to 31 athletes, including the defending world champion Mutaz Essa Barshim (wild card, only 2.27 m before the competition) and 1 Best country athlete, Lee Hup Wei.
The qualifiers with less than 2.30 m are: Douwe Amels, 2.28 m (q) Adrijus Glebauskas, 2.28 m (q) Luis Castro, 2.28 m (q) Mathew Sawe, ACh, 2.28 m (Q) Keenon Laine, 2.28 m indoor (q) [2.26] (2018) Lee Hup Wei, BCA, 2.27 m in Kuala Lumpur (31 Mar 2019) Ryo Sato, 2.27 m (q)
Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows: Date Time Round1 October 16:50 Qualification4 October 20:15 Final
Results Qualification Qualification: 2.31 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).
Rank Group Name Nationality 2.17 2.22 2.26 2.29 Mark Notes1 B Mikhail Akimenko o o o o 2.29 A Mutaz Essa Barshim o o o o 2.29 , A Ilya Ivanyuk o o o o 2.29 4 A Brandon Starc o o xo o 2.29 A Luis Zayas o o xo o 2.29 6 B Michael Mason o o o xo 2.29 7 B Wang Yu o o xo xo 2.29 8 B Jeron Robinson o o xxo xo 2.29 9 B Lee Hup Wei o o o xxo 2.29 , 10 B Gianmarco Tamberi o o xo xxo 2.29 11 A Luis Castro o o xo xxx 2.26 A Maksim Nedasekau o o xo xxx 2.26 13 A Shelby McEwen xxo o xo xxx 2.26 14 B Naoto Tobe o o xxo xxx 2.26 B Andriy Protsenko o o xxo xxx 2.26 16 A Tihomir Ivanov o xo xxo xxx 2.26 A Stefano Sottile xo o xxo xxx 2.26 18 B Dzmitry Nabokau o xxo xxo xxx 2.26 19 B Douwe Amels o o xxx 2.22 A Donald Thomas o o xxx 2.22 21 A Adrijus Glebauskas o xo xxx 2.22 22 A Ryo Sato xxo xo xxx 2.22 23 A Django Lovett o xxo xxx 2.22 B Hamish Kerr o xxo xr 2.22 25 B Takashi Eto o xxx 2.17 B Joel Baden o xxx 2.17 B Keenon Laine o xxx 2.17 A Majdeddin Ghazal o xxx 2.17 29 B Mathew Sawe xo xxx 2.17 30 B Mateusz Przybylko xxo xxx 2.17 A Bohdan Bondarenko xr
Final The final was started on 4 October at 20:15.
Rank Name Nationality 2.19 2.24 2.27 2.30 2.33 2.35 2.37 Mark Notes Mutaz Essa Barshim o o o o xxo o o 2.37 Mikhail Akimenko o o o o o o xxx 2.35 Ilya Ivanyuk o o o o xxo o xxx 2.35 4 Maksim Nedasekau o xo xo xo o x– xx 2.33 5 Luis Zayas o o o o xxx 2.30 6 Brandon Starc o xo xxo o xxx 2.30 7 Michael Mason o o o xxo xxx 2.30 8 Lee Hup Wei o o xo xxx 2.27 8 Gianmarco Tamberi o o xo x–xx 2.27 10 Wang Yu o o xxx 2.24 11 Jeron Robinson xo o xxx 2.24 12 Luis Castro o xxx 2.19
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