2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's high jump

The men's high jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships is being held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 20 and 22 August 2023.

Summary

Including the fabled win at home in 2019, Mutaz Barsham came in as a three time defending champion. He had also famously shared the 2020 Olympic gold with Gianmarco Tamberi who was also here.

Returning silver medalist Woo Sang-hyeok had a perfect round going to 2.29m. JuVaughn Harrison was also perfect and maintained that status to the next height of 2.33m putting him into the lead. Woo could go no higher, but five others did get over, all but Tobias Potye on their first attempt, leaving Potye in fifth. For Luis Enrique Zayas, it was a new personal best. The next height was . After watching everyone miss their first attempt, Tamberi cleared it cleanly to take the lead. On his second attempt, Harrison also cleared cleanly. When the remaining competitors failed, Barshim with one earlier miss took bronze over Zayas who had three. Both Tamberi and Harrison took attempts at 2.38m but neither could negotiate it on this night. That one miss at 2.36m costing Harrison the gold, leaving it to Tamberi.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record2.45 mSalamanca, Spain27 July 1993Championship record2.41 mMoscow, Russia15 August 2013World Leading2.36 mChorzów, Poland16 July 2023African 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 qualify automatically for entry was 2.32 m.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Date Time Round20 August 10:35 Qualification22 August 19:58 Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: 2.30 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).

Rank Group Name Nationality 2.14 2.18 2.22 2.25 2.28 2.30 Mark Notes 1 A JuVaughn Harrison – o o o o 2.28 q 1 B Mutaz Barsham – – o o o 2.28 q 1 A Ryoichi Akamatsu o o o o o 2.28 q 4 A Woo Sang-hyeok o o o xo o 2.28 q 5 A Oleh Doroshchuk o o o xo xo 2.28 q, 6 B Andrii Protsenko o xo o xxo xo 2.28 q 6 A Marco Fassinotti xo xo o xo xo 2.28 q, 8 B Tobias Potye o o o o xxo 2.28 q 9 A Gianmarco Tamberi – – o xo xxo 2.28 q 10 B Brandon Starc o xo xo o xxo 2.28 q 11 A Shelby McEwen xo o xxo o xxo 2.28 q, 12 B Luis Enrique Zayas – xxo o xxo xxo 2.28 q 12 B Norbert Kobielski o o xxo xxo xxo 2.28 q, 14 B Edgar Rivera o o o o xxx 2.25 15 A Thomas Carmoy o xxo xo o xxx 2.25 16 B Fernando Ferreira o xxo xxo o xxx 2.25 16 A Donald Thomas xo xo xxo o xxx 2.25 18 B Naoto Hasegawa o o xxo xxo xxx 2.25 19 B Hamish Kerr - o o xxx 2.22 20 A Douwe Amels xo o o xxx 2.22 20 B Sarvesh Anil Kushare o xo o xxx 2.22 22 A Romaine Beckford o xxo o xxx 2.22 23 A Alperen Acet o o xo xxx 2.22 23 B o o xo xxx 2.22 25 B Luis Castro xo xo xo xxx 2.22 26 B Stefano Sottile o o xxo xxx 2.22 27 B Django Lovett xo o xo x- xx 2.22 28 A Dmytro Nikitin o o xxx 2.18 28 A Erik Portillo o o xxx 2.18 28 A Tihomir Ivanov o o xxx 2.18 31 B Tomohiro Shinno xo o xxx 2.18 32 A o xxx 2.14 32 A o xxx 2.14 32 A Joel Baden o xxx 2.14 32 B Vernon Turner o – xxx 2.14 B Carlos Layoy xxx

Final The final was started on 22 August at 19:58.

Rank Name Nationality 2.20 2.25 2.29 2.33 2.36 2.38 2.40 Mark Notes Gianmarco Tamberi - xo o o o xx- x 2.36 = JuVaughn Harrison - o o o xo xxx 2.36 = Mutaz Barsham - xo o o xxx 2.33 4 Luis Enrique Zayas xo xo xo o xxx 2.33 5 Tobias Potye o xo o xo xxx 2.33 6 Woo Sang-hyeok o o o x- xx 2.29 7 Shelby McEwen o xo xxo xx- x 2.29 8 Ryoichi Akamatsu o o xxx 2.25 8 Brandon Starc o o xxx 2.25 10 Norbert Kobielski o xo xxx 2.25 11 Andrii Protsenko o xxo xxx 2.25 12 Marco Fassinotti xo xxx 2.20 13 Oleh Doroshchuk xxo xxx 2.20

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