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2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump

Men's high jump
at the 2017 World Championships
Venue Olympic Stadium
Dates 11 August (qualification)
13 August (final)
Competitors 27 from 19 nations
Winning time 2.35
Medalists
gold medal     Qatar
silver medal     Authorised Neutral Athletes
bronze medal     Syria
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Events at the
2017 World Championships
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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 women
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 women
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

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

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 Majededdin 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 2.35 m (7 ft 812 in) 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.

Before the competition, selected records were as follows:

No new records were set at the competition.

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 2.30 metres.

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows:

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:


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