2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump
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The men's high jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

event at the 2009 World Championships
2009 World Championships in Athletics
The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics were held in Berlin, Germany from 15–23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon and racewalking events started and finished at the Brandenburg Gate....

 in Berlin, Germany was held between 19 August and 21 August 2009.

The 2008 Olympic gold and silver medallists, Andrey Silnov
Andrey Silnov
Andrey Alexandrovich Silnov is a Russian high jumper and the 2008 Olympic champion. Born in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, he is 1.98 m and weighs 83 kg ....

 and Germaine Mason
Germaine Mason
Germaine Mason is a Jamaican-born athlete competing in high jump. In 2006 he switched sporting allegiance, and now represents Great Britain. He attended Wolmer's School in Kingston...

, did not compete at the Championships and the reigning world champion, Donald Thomas
Donald Thomas (athlete)
Donald Thomas is a Bahamian high jumper.Thomas took up the sport in early 2006, having previously played basketball at Lindenwood University...

 had been in poor form that season. The Russian
Russia at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
Russia competes at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August. A team of over 100 athletes was announced in preparation for the competition, one of the largest squads in the competition. Selected athletes have achieved one of the competition's qualifying standards...

 duo, Yaroslav Rybakov
Yaroslav Rybakov
Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov is a Russian high jumper.He is the 2002 European Champion high jumper, and at the 2005 World Championships he shared the silver medal with Victor Moya of Cuba....

 and world leader Ivan Ukhov
Ivan Ukhov
Ivan Sergeyevich Ukhov is a Russian high jumper. He won gold medals at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships. He was also the silver medallist at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and the winner of the high jump at the inaugural 2010...

, were the most favoured athletes. The 2005 world champion Yuriy Krymarenko
Yuriy Krymarenko
Yuriy Krymarenko is a Ukrainian high jumper. His personal best performance is 2.33 m.Krymarenko won a gold medal in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, clearing the height of 2.32 m which was the lowest winning result for men's high jump in a long time. The favorites of the contest, most...

 and Olympic medallist Kyriakos Ioannou
Kyriakos Ioannou
Kyriakos Ioannou is a Cypriot high jumper.His personal best jump and Cypriot national record is 2.35 metres, achieved at the 2007 World Championships held in Osaka where he won the bronze medal. He became the first World Championships medalist from Cyprus...

 had performed sub-par prior to the competition. Andrey Tereshin
Andrey Tereshin
Andrey Tereshin is a male high jumper from Russia.His personal best is 2.34 metres, though he has jumped 2.36 metres indoor in February 2006 in Moscow.-Achievements:-References:...

, Jaroslav Bába
Jaroslav Bába
Jaroslav Bába is a Czech high jumper.At the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships he jumped 2.25 metres and won a joint bronze medal along with Germaine Mason and Ştefan Vasilache...

 and host representative Raúl Spank
Raúl Spank
Raúl Roland Spank is a German athlete from Dresden who specialises in the high jump.He competed on the world stage for the first time at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Marrakesh. He finished in seventh in the final, jumping a personal best of 2.11 metres...

 rounded out the likely medal candidates. In the qualification round, the two past champions (Thomas and Krymarenko) failed to make the qualifying mark of 2.30 m. All the favourites progressed, with Kyriakos Ioannou topping the rankings, while Mickael Hanany
Mickaël Hanany
Mickaël Hanany is a French high jumper.He finished seventh at the 2002 World Junior Championships. He also competed at the 2002 European Indoor Championships, the 2005 World Championships and the 2006 European Championships without reaching the final round.His personal best jump is 2.32 metres,...

 and Botswanan
Botswana at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
Botswana competes at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August in Berlin.-Team selection:Track and road eventsField and combined events-Men:Track and road eventsField and combined events-Women:Track and road events...

 Kabelo Kgosiemang
Kabelo Kgosiemang
Kabelo Kgosiemang is a male high jumper from Botswana. He won the 2006 African Championships in Athletics with a personal best jump of 2.30 metres, the best result since Abderrahmane Hammad won with 2.34 m in 2000....

 jumped season's best to make the final.

The final, held on 21 August, was delayed by 90 minutes due to heavy rainfall in Berlin, and this produced much lower results compared to the qualification for a majority of the jumpers. No medalling athlete reached the qualifying mark of 2.30 m that they had two days previously. Ivan Ukhov
Ivan Ukhov
Ivan Sergeyevich Ukhov is a Russian high jumper. He won gold medals at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships. He was also the silver medallist at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and the winner of the high jump at the inaugural 2010...

, who had a season's best of 2.40 m, finished with a best of 2.23 m, and Andra Manson
Andra Manson
Andra Manson is a male high jumper from the United States. His personal best jump is 2.35 metres, achieved in April 2009 in Austin. He has 2.33 on the indoor track, from February 2007 in Fayetteville....

 similarly failed to match expectations. Only Rybakov, Ioannou, Spank and Sylwester Bednarek
Sylwester Bednarek
Sylwester Bednarek is a Polish high jumper.He was born in Głowno. His best achievement so far is the bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin...

 passed the 2.28 m height. Rybakov and Ioannou passed 2.32 m on their first attempts, while the other two athletes took two jumps for the height which were personal bests. These turned out to be the final passes of the competition and Rybakov beat Ioannou to the gold by having one less failed attempt in the competition, while Spank and Bednarek shared the bronze honours.

This was Rybakov's first gold after three silvers in past world championships. Ioannou was Cyprus
Cyprus at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
Cyprus competes at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics from 15–23 August in Berlin.-Team selection:Track and road eventsField and combined events-Men:Field and combined events-Women:Track and road events...

' only medallist from the championships that year. Joint-third Bednarek was a surprise medallist given that this was his first senior outdoor competition and he had started the season with a best of 2.26 m. The winning result of 2.32 m was the lowest winning result in the history of high jumping finals in the World Championships in Athletics, shared with the finals of 1983 and 2005.

Medalists

Gold
Silver
Bronze

Records

World record 2.45 Salamanca
Salamanca
Salamanca is a city in western Spain, in the community of Castile and León. Because it is known for its beautiful buildings and urban environment, the Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. It is the most important university city in Spain and is known for its contributions to...

, Spain
Spain
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27 July 1993
Championship record 2.40 Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

22 August 1993
World Leading 2.35 Austin
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

4 April 2009
African record 2.38 Oudtshoorn, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

5 March 2005
Asian record 2.39 Eberstadt
Eberstadt
Eberstadt is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is best known for its winegrowing and its yearly international high jump meeting .-External links:*...

, West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

10 June 1984
North American record 2.45 Salamanca, Spain 27 July 1993
South American record 2.33 Pereira
Pereira, Colombia
Pereira is the capital city of the Colombian department of Risaralda. It stands in the center of the western region of the country, located in a small valley that descends from a part of the western Andes mountain chain. Its strategic location in the coffee producing area makes the city an urban...

, Colombia
Colombia
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17 October 1994
European record 2.42 Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

30 June 1987
Oceanian record 2.36 Melbourne
Melbourne
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, Australia
Australia
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2 March 1997

Qualification standards

A standard B standard
2.31m 2.28m

Schedule

Date Time Round
August 19, 2009 11:10 Qualification
August 21, 2009 19:15 Final

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 2.30 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.
Rank Group Name Nationality 2.102.152.202.242.272.30 Result Notes
A Kyriakos Ioannou
Kyriakos Ioannou
Kyriakos Ioannou is a Cypriot high jumper.His personal best jump and Cypriot national record is 2.35 metres, achieved at the 2007 World Championships held in Osaka where he won the bronze medal. He became the first World Championships medalist from Cyprus...

 
o o xxo o o 2.30 Q, SB
B Linus Thörnblad
Linus Thörnblad
Linus Thörnblad is a Swedish athlete competing in high jump. He won the bronze medal at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships.Thörnblad started high jumping at age 16 jumping 2.06 m his first year. Two years later he jumped 2.30 m....

 
o o o o xo 2.30 Q
A Kabelo Kgosiemang
Kabelo Kgosiemang
Kabelo Kgosiemang is a male high jumper from Botswana. He won the 2006 African Championships in Athletics with a personal best jump of 2.30 metres, the best result since Abderrahmane Hammad won with 2.34 m in 2000....

 
o o o xo xo 2.30 Q, SB
B Raúl Spank
Raúl Spank
Raúl Roland Spank is a German athlete from Dresden who specialises in the high jump.He competed on the world stage for the first time at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Marrakesh. He finished in seventh in the final, jumping a personal best of 2.11 metres...

 
- o xo xxo xo 2.30 Q
B Andra Manson
Andra Manson
Andra Manson is a male high jumper from the United States. His personal best jump is 2.35 metres, achieved in April 2009 in Austin. He has 2.33 on the indoor track, from February 2007 in Fayetteville....

 
o o xxo xxo xo 2.30 Q
A Yaroslav Rybakov
Yaroslav Rybakov
Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov is a Russian high jumper.He is the 2002 European Champion high jumper, and at the 2005 World Championships he shared the silver medal with Victor Moya of Cuba....

 
- o o o xxo 2.30 Q
B Ivan Ukhov
Ivan Ukhov
Ivan Sergeyevich Ukhov is a Russian high jumper. He won gold medals at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships. He was also the silver medallist at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and the winner of the high jump at the inaugural 2010...

 
o o o o xxo 2.30 Q
B Mickaël Hanany
Mickaël Hanany
Mickaël Hanany is a French high jumper.He finished seventh at the 2002 World Junior Championships. He also competed at the 2002 European Indoor Championships, the 2005 World Championships and the 2006 European Championships without reaching the final round.His personal best jump is 2.32 metres,...

 
o o xxo o xxo 2.30 Q, SB
A Giulio Ciotti
Giulio Ciotti
Giulio Ciotti is an Italian high jumper. He is the twin brother of Nicola Ciotti.-Career:He won the silver medal from the 2001 Mediterranean Games, finished seventh at the 2006 World Indoor Championships and tenth at the 2006 European Championships...

 
o o o o xxx 2.27 q
A Martijn Nuyens  o o o o o xxx 2.27 q
A Keith Moffatt
Keith Moffatt (athlete)
Keith Moffatt is an American high jumper.He holds a personal best jump of 2.30 metres.-Career Highlights:*2006 & 2009 USA Outdoor runner-up*3rd at 2005 USA Outdoors*2003 Junior Pan Am Games gold medalist*2004 NCAA DII Champion...

 
o o o o xxx 2.27 q
12 A Jaroslav Bába
Jaroslav Bába
Jaroslav Bába is a Czech high jumper.At the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships he jumped 2.25 metres and won a joint bronze medal along with Germaine Mason and Ştefan Vasilache...

 
- o xo o xxx 2.27 q
12 B Sylwester Bednarek
Sylwester Bednarek
Sylwester Bednarek is a Polish high jumper.He was born in Głowno. His best achievement so far is the bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin...

 
o xo o o o xxx 2.27 q
14 B Jessé de Lima
Jessé de Lima
Jessé Farias de Lima is a Brazilian high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.32 metres, achieved in September 2008 in Lausanne. This is the current Brazilian record.-Achievements:-References:...

 
o o xxo o xxx 2.27
15 B Donald Thomas
Donald Thomas (athlete)
Donald Thomas is a Bahamian high jumper.Thomas took up the sport in early 2006, having previously played basketball at Lindenwood University...

 
o o o o xo xxx 2.27
16 A Konstadínos Baniótis
Konstadinos Baniotis
Konstadinos Baniotis is a Greek high jumper.He finished sixth at the 2009 European Indoor Championships, sixth at the 2009 European Team Championships , seventh at the 2009 World Athletics Final, eighth at the 2010 European Championships, while he took the 4th place in the 2011 European Indoor...

 
o o o xxx 2.24
17 A Trevor Barry
Trevor Barry
Trevor Barry is a male high jumper from the Bahamas. His personal best high jump is 2.32 metres, achieved in the final at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea on 1 September 2011....

 
xo o o xxx 2.24
18 A Andrey Tereshin
Andrey Tereshin
Andrey Tereshin is a male high jumper from Russia.His personal best is 2.34 metres, though he has jumped 2.36 metres indoor in February 2006 in Moscow.-Achievements:-References:...

 
o o xo xxx 2.24
18 B Yuriy Krymarenko
Yuriy Krymarenko
Yuriy Krymarenko is a Ukrainian high jumper. His personal best performance is 2.33 m.Krymarenko won a gold medal in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, clearing the height of 2.32 m which was the lowest winning result for men's high jump in a long time. The favorites of the contest, most...

 
o o o xo xxx 2.24
20 B Oskari Frösén
Oskari Frösén
Oskari Frösén is a Finnish high jumper, who won a total of five national titles in the men's high jump event....

 
- o - xxo xx- x 2.24
21 A Tora Harris
Tora Harris
Tora Harris is an American high jumper.He won bronze medals at the 2001 Summer Universiade and the 2006 IAAF World Cup.His personal best jump is 2.33 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Indianapolis.-Achievements:-References:*...

 
o xxo xxo x- xx 2.24
22 B Javier Bermejo  o o o xx- x 2.20
22 B Naoyuki Daigo
Naoyuki Daigo
is a male high jumper from Japan. His personal best jump is 2.33 metres, achieved in July 2006 in Kobe.-Achievements:-References:...

 
- o o xxx 2.20
22 B Viktor Shapoval
Viktor Shapoval
Viktor Shapoval is a Ukrainian high jumper.He competed at the 2009 European Indoor Championships and the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final.His personal best jump is 2.34 metres, achieved in September 2009 in Berdychiv.-References:...

 
o o o xxx 2.20
25 A Andriy Protsenko
Andriy Protsenko
Andriy Protsenko is a Ukrainian high jumper.He won the silver medal at the 2007 European Junior Championships, and the bronze medal at the 2009 European U23 Championships...

 
o xo o xxx 2.20
26 A Grzegorz Sposób
Grzegorz Sposób
Grzegorz Sposób is a Polish high jumper. He finished sixth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris with a jump of 2.29 metres. The next year he competed in the 2004 Olympics, but failed to qualify from his pool....

 
o o xo xxx 2.20
27 B Peter Horák
Peter Horák
Peter Horák is a Slovak high jumper.-Achievements:-References:...

 
o o xxo xxx 2.20
28 B Artsiom Zaitsau 
o xx 2.15
28 B Majed Aldin Gazal  o o xxx 2.15 SB
30 A Dragutin Topić
Dragutin Topic
-Career:He is a World junior record holder with 2.37 when he won World Junior Championships 1990, three weeks before his win at European Championships. In the same year Topić received the golden badge award for best athlete of Yugoslavia. Topic has set five national records, and claimed four...

 
xxo xxx 2.15
} || A ||align=left| Sergey Zasimovich
Sergey Zasimovich
Sergey Sergeyevich Zasimovich is a Kazakhstani high jumper.He was born in Karagandinskaya. He won the silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games, and finished twelfth at the 2005 Asian Championships. He competed at the 2007 World Championships and the 2008 World Indoor Championships without reaching the...

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Key: Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best

Final

Rank Name Nationality 2.182.232.282.322.35 Result Notes
Yaroslav Rybakov
Yaroslav Rybakov
Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov is a Russian high jumper.He is the 2002 European Champion high jumper, and at the 2005 World Championships he shared the silver medal with Victor Moya of Cuba....

 
o o xo o xxx 2.32
Kyriakos Ioannou
Kyriakos Ioannou
Kyriakos Ioannou is a Cypriot high jumper.His personal best jump and Cypriot national record is 2.35 metres, achieved at the 2007 World Championships held in Osaka where he won the bronze medal. He became the first World Championships medalist from Cyprus...

 
o o xxo o xxx 2.32 SB
Sylwester Bednarek
Sylwester Bednarek
Sylwester Bednarek is a Polish high jumper.He was born in Głowno. His best achievement so far is the bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin...

 
xo o xo xo xxx 2.32 PB
Raúl Spank
Raúl Spank
Raúl Roland Spank is a German athlete from Dresden who specialises in the high jump.He competed on the world stage for the first time at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Marrakesh. He finished in seventh in the final, jumping a personal best of 2.11 metres...

 
o o xxo xo xxx 2.32 PB
Jaroslav Bába
Jaroslav Bába
Jaroslav Bába is a Czech high jumper.At the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships he jumped 2.25 metres and won a joint bronze medal along with Germaine Mason and Ştefan Vasilache...

 
o o xxx 2.23
Mickaël Hanany
Mickaël Hanany
Mickaël Hanany is a French high jumper.He finished seventh at the 2002 World Junior Championships. He also competed at the 2002 European Indoor Championships, the 2005 World Championships and the 2006 European Championships without reaching the final round.His personal best jump is 2.32 metres,...

 
o o xxx 2.23
Martijn Nuyens  o o xxx 2.23
Linus Thörnblad
Linus Thörnblad
Linus Thörnblad is a Swedish athlete competing in high jump. He won the bronze medal at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships.Thörnblad started high jumping at age 16 jumping 2.06 m his first year. Two years later he jumped 2.30 m....

 
o o xxx 2.23
Andra Manson
Andra Manson
Andra Manson is a male high jumper from the United States. His personal best jump is 2.35 metres, achieved in April 2009 in Austin. He has 2.33 on the indoor track, from February 2007 in Fayetteville....

 
xo o xxx 2.23
10 Ivan Ukhov
Ivan Ukhov
Ivan Sergeyevich Ukhov is a Russian high jumper. He won gold medals at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships. He was also the silver medallist at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and the winner of the high jump at the inaugural 2010...

 
o xo xxx 2.23
11 Giulio Ciotti
Giulio Ciotti
Giulio Ciotti is an Italian high jumper. He is the twin brother of Nicola Ciotti.-Career:He won the silver medal from the 2001 Mediterranean Games, finished seventh at the 2006 World Indoor Championships and tenth at the 2006 European Championships...

 
xo xxo xxx 2.23
11 Keith Moffatt
Keith Moffatt (athlete)
Keith Moffatt is an American high jumper.He holds a personal best jump of 2.30 metres.-Career Highlights:*2006 & 2009 USA Outdoor runner-up*3rd at 2005 USA Outdoors*2003 Junior Pan Am Games gold medalist*2004 NCAA DII Champion...

 
xo xxo xxx 2.23
13 Kabelo Kgosiemang
Kabelo Kgosiemang
Kabelo Kgosiemang is a male high jumper from Botswana. He won the 2006 African Championships in Athletics with a personal best jump of 2.30 metres, the best result since Abderrahmane Hammad won with 2.34 m in 2000....

xxo xxx 2.18


Key: PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best
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