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, on 15 and 18 July.

Summary

Eleven athletes cleared 2.28m, so it turned out a clean round to 2.25m was good enough to get 13 (12 plus ties) into the final. In the final ten survived 2.27m, only five got over 2.30m. Defending champion, co-Olympic Champion

Mutaz Essa Barshim Mutaz Essa Barshim ( ar, معتز عيسى برشم, Muʿtazz ʿĪsā Baršim; born 24 June 1991) is a Qatari track and field athlete who competes in the high jump and is the current Olympic Champion (2020). He is also the current World Champio ...

Woo Sang-hyeok Woo Sang-hyeok ( ko, 우상혁 ; born 23 April 1996) is a South Korean athlete specialising in the high jump. He represented South Korea at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, finished fourth in Tokyo. He became World Indoor Champion at the 2022 ...

and

Shelby McEwen Shelby McEwen (born April 6, 1996) is an American track and field athlete who competes in the high jump.https://www.tidesports.com/high-jumper-shelby-mcewen-takes-different-path-to-success/ In 2019, he jumped 2.31 m indoor and then 2.30 m out ...

all had perfect rounds going and thus were tied for first place. Co-Olympic Champion

Gianmarco Tamberi Gianmarco Tamberi (born 1 June 1992) is an Italian high jumper, current Olympic champion (2020 Summer Olympics) and World indoor champion (2016). He won the 2021 Diamond League crown, becoming the first ever Italian to do so, and repeated this ...

cleared on his last attempt to hold on to the fifth spot. At 2.33m Woo missed,

Andriy Protsenko Andriy Oleksiyovych Protsenko ( uk, Андрій Олексійович Проценко; born 20 May 1988) is a Ukrainian high jumper. He is the 2022 World bronze medallist, 2014 World Indoor bronze medallist and European silver medallist. Care ...

made it on his first attempt to take the lead, for the 30 seconds it took for Barshim to be called and also clear, with a clean round, to take the lead back. Tamberi cleared on his second attempt to take over third place while McEwen missed twice and saved his last remaining attempt for the next height. At 2.35m, Woo and Protsenko missed, Barshim remained perfect and McEwen bowed out. Woo made it on his second attempt to keep the competition alive, Protsenko and Tamberi missed. Protsenko elected to save his final attempt for 2.37m, Tamberi missed and was out. At , Woo then Protsenko missed, leaving Protsenko with the bronze. Barshim cleared it again leaving Woo no other choices but to pass. And after Woo missed at 2.39m made the calculated gamble. If Woo made his final attempt, Barshim could lose gold at the last second, or at least be pressured to make one of the top 10 jumps in history (which he has done on 5 occasions). Woo failed, taking silver. A perfect round and gold already in hand, Barshim took one attempt at 2.42m and called it a day.

Preview

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:

Qualification standard

The standard to automatically qualify for entry was 2.33 m, with a qualification period from 28 June 2021 to 26 June 2022, for a quota number of 32 athletes. Only 6 high jumpers reached 2.33 m during the qualification period (2021-2022), indoors and outdoors (Barshim, Tamberi,

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, Starc,

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and

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). 2 jumpers were selected by finishing position at designated competitions ( Ferreira and

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, area champions). The final entries were made by completing to 32 athletes, including the defending world champion

( wild card), and the

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winner

, ( wild card), both defending Olympic Champions in Tokyo 2020. Neither the 2022 world leader,

Ilya Ivanyuk Ilya Dmitriyevich Ivanyuk (russian: Илья Дмитриевич Иванюк; born 9 March 1993) is a Russian athlete specialising in the high jump. He competed at the 2017 World Championships as an authorised neutral athlete finishing sixt ...

, nor Russian or Belarusian athletes, as

Maksim Nedasekau Maksim Yuryevich Nedasekau ( be, Максім Юр’евіч Недасекаў; born 21 January 1998) is a Belarusian athlete specialising in the high jump. He was the bronze medallist at the 2020 Olympic Games. He also won the gold medals at th ...

, 3rd in Ranking, were admitted, even under ANA status. Naoto Tobe, qualified by ranking, withdrawn. Even if regularly entered,

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preferred to focus on the following

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World athletics ranking

Before the 2022 World Championships: #

ITA 1404 points, High Jump ncl. High Jump indoor#

KOR 1376 pts High Jump igh Jump ind.#

BLR 1354 pts High Jump #

Django Lovett Django Lovett (born 6 July 1992) is a Canadian male track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. He was the bronze medallist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, setting a personal best of . Lovett represented Canada at the 2020 Summer Olym ...

CAN 1334 pts High Jump #

ANA 1318 pts High Jump #

JuVaughn Harrison JuVaughn Krishna Harrison (né Blake; born April 30, 1999) is an American high jumper and long jumper. He won the silver medal in the high jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. Career Youth Harrison attended Columbia high school in Hun ...

USA 1305 pts High Jump igh Jump ind.#

Mikhail Akimenko Mikhail Sergeyevich Akimenko (russian: Михаи́л Сергее́вич Акиме́нко; born 6 December 1995) is a Russian high jumper. He won the title, with a personal best of 2.24 m, at the 2014 World Junior Championships. He ju ...

RUS 1295 pts High Jump igh Jump ind.#

UKR 1294 pts High Jump # Hamish Kerr NZL 1292 pts High Jump igh Jump ind.#

AUS 1291 pts High Jump #

USA 1270 pts High Jump # Norbert Kobielski POL 1261 pts High Jump igh Jump ind.

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time ( UTC-7), is as follows:

Results

Qualification taking the L

Qualification: 2.30 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q). Only 29 athletes are entered on the quota number of 32:

and defending South American champion Fernando Ferreira did not finally enter.

Final

The final started on 18 July at 17:45.Final Start List
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References

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High jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

High jump at the World Athletics Championships