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

The men's high jump competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–22 August.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="SR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Thirty-eight athletes from 27 nations competed.<ref name=Olympedia/> The event was won by Stefan Holm of Sweden, the nation's first victory in the men's high jump and first medal in the event since Patrik Sjöberg won three in a row from 1984 to 1992. Matt Hemingway took silver, returning the United States to the podium after a one-Games absence. Jaroslav Bába's bronze was the first medal in the event for the Czech Republic.

Background

This was the 25th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 2000 Games were bronze medalist Abderrahmane Hammad of Algeria, fourth-place finisher Stefan Holm of Sweden, sixth-place finishers Mark Boswell of Canada and Staffan Strand of Sweden, and tenth-place finisher Vyacheslav Voronin of Russia. Dragutin Topić competed under for the fourth time, under his third flag (the Olympic flag as an Independent Olympic Participant in 1992, Yugoslavia in 1996 and 2000, and now Serbia and Montenegro). Holm was favored; he had placed second at the 2003 world championship (the winner, Jacques Freitag, was present in Athens but injured) and "had won 17 consecutive meets leading up to Athina."<ref name=Olympedia>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Cyprus, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, and Sri Lanka each made their debut in the event. The United States made its 24th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Qualification

The qualification period for Athletics was 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the men's high jump, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had jumped 2.30 metres or higher during the qualification period. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had jumped 2.27 metres or higher could be entered.<ref name=QualStandards>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Records

Template:As of, the existing world record, Olympic record, and world leading jump were as follows.

No new records were set during the competition.

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

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

Results

Qualifying round

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

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nation	2.10	2.15	2.20	2.25	2.28	Height	Notes
1	B	Stefan Holm	Template:FlagIOC	—	—	o	o	o	2.28	Template:Abbr
	A	Jamie Nieto	Template:FlagIOC	—	—	o	o	o	2.28	Template:Abbr
	A	Mark Boswell	Template:FlagIOC	—	—	o	o	o	2.28	Template:Abbr, Template:Abbr
4	A	Andriy Sokolovskyy	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	o	xo	o	2.28	Template:Abbr
	B	Lisvany Pérez	Template:FlagIOC	o	xo	o	o	o	2.28	Template:Abbr, Template:Abbr
	B	Svatoslav Ton	Template:FlagIOC	o	o	xo	o	o	2.28	Template:Abbr
7	A	Alessandro Talotti	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	xo	xxo	o	2.28	Template:Abbr
8	A	Yaroslav Rybakov	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	o	o	xo	2.28	Template:Abbr
9	A	Dragutin Topić	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	xo	o	xo	2.28	Template:Abbr, =Template:Abbr
	B	Jaroslav Bába	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	o	xo	xo	2.28	Template:Abbr
11	B	Matt Hemingway	Template:FlagIOC	—	–	o	o	xxo	2.28	Template:Abbr
12	B	Vyacheslav Voronin	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	xo	xo	xxo	2.28	Template:Abbr
13	A	Hennazdy Maroz	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	o	o	xxx	2.25
	B	Nicola Ciotti	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	o	o	xxx	2.25
15	A	Ştefan Vasilache	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	xo	o	xxx	2.25
	B	Abderrahmane Hammad	Template:FlagIOC	—	xo	o	o	xxx	2.25	Template:Abbr
17	B	Jessé de Lima	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	xxo	o	xxx	2.25
18	B	Staffan Strand	Template:FlagIOC	—	–	o	xo	xxx	2.25
	A	Kyriakos Ioannou	Template:FlagIOC	o	o	o	xo	xxx	2.25
20	A	Grzegorz Sposób	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	o	xxx	Template:N/a	2.20
	B	Rožle Prezelj	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	o	xxx	Template:N/a	2.20
	B	Jacques Freitag	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	o	xxx	Template:N/a	2.20
	A	Manjula Kumara Wijesekara	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	o	xxx	Template:N/a	2.20
24	A	Linus Thörnblad	Template:FlagIOC	o	xxo	o	xxx	Template:N/a	2.20
25	A	Oskari Frösén	Template:FlagIOC	o	o	xo	xxx	Template:N/a	2.20
	A	Roman Fricke	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	xo	xxx	Template:N/a	2.20
	B	Jean-Claude Rabbath	Template:FlagIOC	o	o	xo	xxx	Template:N/a	2.20
	B	Robert Wolski	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	xo	xxx	Template:N/a	2.20
	B	Pyotr Brayko	Template:FlagIOC	—	o	xo	x-	Template:N/a	2.20
30	A	Tomáš Janků	Template:FlagIOC	o	xo	xo	xxx	Template:N/a	2.20
31	B	Marko Aleksejev	Template:FlagIOC	o	o	xxx	colspan=2 Template:N/a	2.15
	B	Javier Bermejo	Template:FlagIOC	o	o	xxx	colspan=2 Template:N/a	2.15
33	A	László Boros	Template:FlagIOC	xo	o	xxx	colspan=2 Template:N/a	2.15
34	A	Tora Harris	Template:FlagIOC	—	xo	xxx	colspan=2 Template:N/a	2.15
35	A	Alfredo Deza	Template:FlagIOC	o	xxx	colspan=3 Template:N/a	2.10
36	B	Liu Yang	Template:FlagIOC	xxo	x	colspan=3 Template:N/a	2.10
—	A	Adrian O'Dwyer	Template:FlagIOC	xxx	colspan=4 Template:N/a	Template:Sort
—	B	Aleksey Lesnichiy	Template:FlagIOC	—	xxx	colspan=3 Template:N/a	Template:Sort	*

^* Aleksey Lesnichiy was disqualified after failing an anti-doping test.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.32	2.34	2.36	Height	Notes
Template:Gold01	Stefan Holm	Template:FlagIOC	o	o	o	xo	xxo	o	2.36	=Template:Abbr
Template:Silver02	Matt Hemingway	Template:FlagIOC	o	o	—	o	o	xxx	2.34	Template:Abbr
Template:Bronze03	Jaroslav Bába	Template:FlagIOC	o	o	o	xxo	o	xxx	2.34	Template:Abbr
4	Jamie Nieto	Template:FlagIOC	o	xo	—	o	xo	xxx	2.34	Template:Abbr
5	Andriy Sokolovskyy	Template:FlagIOC	o	o	o	o	xxx	Template:N/a	2.32
6	Yaroslav Rybakov	Template:FlagIOC	o	xo	o	xo	xxx	Template:N/a	2.32	=Template:Abbr
7	Mark Boswell	Template:FlagIOC	o	—	o	xxx	colspan=2 Template:N/a	2.29	Template:Abbr
8	Svatoslav Ton	Template:FlagIOC	o	xo	xo	xx-	x	Template:N/a	2.29
9	Vyacheslav Voronin	Template:FlagIOC	o	—	xxo	xxx	colspan=2 Template:N/a	2.29
10	Dragutin Topić	Template:FlagIOC	xo	—	xxo	—	xxx	Template:N/a	2.29
11	Lisvany Pérez	Template:FlagIOC	o	xo	xxx	colspan=3 Template:N/a	2.25
12	Alessandro Talotti	Template:FlagIOC	o	xxo	—	xxx	colspan=2 Template:N/a	2.25

External links

• Official Olympic Report

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