The men's high jump at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 11 and 13 August.Start list

Summary After winning Olympic gold, then setting the world decathlon best in the high jump, defending champion Derek Drouin (CAN) could not return due to a nagging injury. Olympic silver medalist Mutaz Essa Barshim (BHR) was perfect through the automatic qualifier in the preliminaries and up to 2.29 m in the final. Danil Lysenko, competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete and Majd Eddin Ghazal (SYR), who trains in war ravaged Damascus both cleared with one miss. Both Edgar Rivera (MEX) and Mateusz Przybylko (GER) cleared on their final attempt to stay alive, while returning silver medalist and Olympic bronze medalist Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) passed the height.

At 2.32 m Barshim remained perfect, while Lysenko also cleared on his first attempt. Nobody else was able to clear, leaving Ghazal with the bronze. At Barshim again remained perfect, while Lysenko couldn't get over a new personal best, leaving him with silver, Barshim a perfectly clean competition to the gold medal. Barshim moved the bar up to 2.40 m when he finally missed three times.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

Record Athlete Date LocationWorld2.45Javier Sotomayor27 Jul 1993Salamanca, SpainChampionship2.41Bohdan BondarenkoMoscow, RussiaWorld leading2.38Mutaz Essa Barshim15 Jun 2017Oslo, NorwayAfrican2.38Jacques Freitag5 Mar 2005Oudtshoorn, South AfricaAsian2.43Mutaz Essa Barshim5 Sep 2014Brussels, BelgiumNACAC2.45Javier Sotomayor27 Jul 1993Salamanca, SpainSouth American2.33Gilmar Mayo17 Oct 1994Pereira, ColombiaEuropean2.42Patrik Sjöberg30 Jun 1987Stockholm, SwedenBohdan Bondarenko14 Jun 2014New York City, United StatesOceanian2.36Tim Forsyth2 Mar 1997Melbourne, Australia

No records were set at the competition.

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 2.30 metres.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows: Date Time Round11 August 11:15 Qualification13 August 19:00 Final

Results Qualification The qualification round took place on 11 August, in two groups, both starting at 11:15. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 2.31 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows: Rank Group Name Nationality 2.17 2.22 2.26 2.29 2.31 Mark Notes 1 A Mutaz Essa Barshim – o o o o 2.31 2 A Bohdan Bondarenko – o – xo o 3 B Danil Lysenko o o o o xo 4 A Tihomir Ivanov o o xo xo xo , B Mateusz Przybylko o o xo xo xo 6 A Robbie Grabarz – o o xo xxo , 7 A Ilya Ivanyuk o o o o xxx 2.29 B Majd Eddin Ghazal o o o o xxx A Bryan McBride o o o o xxx 10 A Eike Onnen xo xo o o xxx 11 A Edgar Rivera o o xxo o xxx 12 A Wang Yu o xo o xo xxx 13 B Andriy Protsenko xo o xo xo xxx 2.29 14 B Gianmarco Tamberi o xo xo xo xxx 15 A Talles Frederico Silva o o xxo xo xxx 16 A Ricky Robertson o o xo xxo xxx 17 B Fernando Ferreira xo xo xo xxo xxx 18 B Michael Mason o o o xxx 2.26 19 B Eure Yáñez xo xxo o xxx 20 A Sylwester Bednarek o o xo xxx A Nauraj Singh Randhawa o o xo xxx 22 B Takashi Eto o xo xxx 2.22 A Donald Thomas o xo xxx 24 B Zhang Guowei xo xo xxx 25 B Woo Sang-hyeok xo xxo xxx 26 B Jeron Robinson xo xxx 2.17 B Erik Kynard xr

Final The final took place on 13 August at 19:00. The results were as follows:

Rank Name Nationality 2.20 2.25 2.29 2.32 2.35 2.40 Mark Notes Mutaz Essa Barshim o o o o o xxx 2.35 Danil Lysenko o o xo o xxx 2.32 Majd Eddin Ghazal o o xo xxx 2.29 Edgar Rivera o o xxo xxx 2.29 Mateusz Przybylko o xo xxo xxx 2.29 Robbie Grabarz o o xxx 2.25 Ilya Ivanyuk o o xxx 2.25 Bryan McBride o xo xxx 2.25 Bohdan Bondarenko – xxo – xxx 2.25 Eike Onnen xxo xxx 2.20 Tihomir Ivanov xr Wang Yu

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