Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

Men's high jump at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
File:Athletics pictogram.svg Pictogram for Athletics
Venue	Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc
Dates	31 July (qualifying) 2 August (final)
Competitors	43 from 27 nations
Winning height	2.34
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Javier Sotomayor File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Patrik Sjöberg File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Artur Partyka File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tim Forsyth File:Flag of Australia.svg Australia 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Hollis Conway File:Flag of the United States.svg United States

The men's high jump was an event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were 43 participating athletes from 27 nations. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The qualification mark was set at 2.29 metres (two + twelve athletes). The event was won by Javier Sotomayor of Cuba, the nation's first victory in the men's high jump. Patrik Sjöberg of Sweden earned silver, becoming the first man to win a third medal in the event, though he never won gold. Sweden was only the third country (after the United States and Soviet Union) to have three consecutive podium appearances. A three-way tie for third could not be resolved by countback, so bronze medals were awarded to Tim Forsyth (Australia's first medal in the event since 1956), Artur Partyka (Poland's first since 1980), and Hollis Conway (the United States reaching the podium in 20 of the 22 Olympic men's high jump competitions to date; Conway was the sixth man with two medals in the event).

Background

This was the 22nd appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1988 Games were silver medalist Hollis Conway of the United States, bronze medalist (and 1984 silver medalist) Patrik Sjöberg of Sweden, fifth-place finisher Clarence Saunders of Bermuda, sixth-place finisher (and 1984 gold medalist Dietmar Mögenburg of West Germany, seventh-place finishers Dalton Grant of Great Britain and Igor Paklin of the Soviet Union (now the Unified Team), and fourteenth-place finisher Arturo Ortiz of Spain. Javier Sotomayor of Cuba, the world record holder, had been prevented from competing in 1984 and 1988 by boycotts; he finally had an opportunity to compete at the Olympics, and was favored. Sjöberg, the two-time Olympic medalist, 1987 world champion, and world record holder before Sotomayor, was also a contender. So were Americans Conway and Charles Austin (the reigning world champion). The British Virgin Islands, Gabon, Jordan, Mauritius, Qatar, and the Seychelles each made their debut in the event; former Soviet republics appeared as the "Unified Team" and Yugoslav athletes competed as "Independent Olympic Participants". The United States made its 21st appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the boycotted 1980 Games.

Competition format

The competition used the two-round format introduced in 1912. There were two distinct rounds of jumping with results cleared between rounds. Jumpers were eliminated if they had three consecutive failures, whether at a single height or between multiple heights if they attempted to advance before clearing a height. The qualifying round had the bar set at 2.00 metres, 2.05 metres, 2.10 metres, 2.15 metres, 2.20 metres, 2.23 metres, 2.26 metres, and 2.29 metres. All jumpers clearing 2.29 metres in the qualifying round advanced to the final. If fewer than 12 jumpers could achieve it, the top 12 (including ties) would advance to the final. The final had jumps at 2.15 metres, 2.20 metres, 2.24 metres, 2.28 metres, 2.31 metres, 2.34 metres, 2.37 metres, and 2.39 metres.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics.

World record	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.44	San Juan, Puerto Rico	29 July 1989
Olympic record	File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)	2.38	Seoul, South Korea	25 September 1988

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 31 July 1992	18:10	Qualifying
Sunday, 2 August 1992	18:00	Final

Results

Key

• o = Height cleared
• x = Height failed
• – = Height passed
• r  = Retired
• SB = Season's best
• PB = Personal best
• NR = National record
• AR = Area record
• OR = Olympic record
• WR = World record
• WL = World lead
• NM = No mark
• DNS = Did not start
• DQ = Disqualified

Qualifying round

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 2.29 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final. With 14 athletes clearing 2.26 metres, many chose not to even attempt (or to take only one attempt) at 2.29 metres (knowing that as long as at least 3 men did so, all of those who had achieved 2.26 metres would advance).

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nation	2.00	2.05	2.10	2.15	2.20	2.23	2.26	2.29	Height	Notes
1	B	Marino Drake	File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba	–	–	–	o	–	xxo	xo	xo	2.29	Q
2	B	Steve Smith	File:Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg Great Britain	–	–	–	o	–	o	xo	xxo	2.29	Q
3	A	Javier Sotomayor	File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba	–	–	–	–	o	–	o	–	2.26	q
	B	Charles Austin	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States	–	–	–	–	o	–	o	x-	2.26	q
	B	Patrik Sjöberg	File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden	–	–	–	–	–	o	o	x-	2.26	q
	B	Dragutin Topić	File:Olympic flag.svg Independent Olympic Participants	–	–	–	–	o	–	o	–	2.26	q
7	B	Ralf Sonn	File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	–	–	–	o	xo	o	o	–	2.26	q
8	A	Sorin Matei	File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania	–	–	–	xo	o	xo	o	–	2.26	q
	B	Gustavo Adolfo Becker	File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain	–	–	–	xo	xo	–	o	–	2.26	q
10	A	Hollis Conway	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States	–	–	–	o	o	o	xo	–	2.26	q
	B	Troy Kemp	File:Flag of the Bahamas.svg Bahamas	–	–	–	–	o	–	xo	x-	2.26	q
12	A	Georgi Dakov	File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria	–	–	–	o	xo	xo	xo	–	2.26	q
13	A	Artur Partyka	File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland	–	–	o	–	o	–	xxo	–	2.26	q
14	A	Tim Forsyth	File:Flag of Australia.svg Australia	–	–	–	–	xo	o	xxo	–	2.26	q
15	A	Steinar Hoen	File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway	–	–	–	o	o	xo	xxx	—	2.23
16	A	Ian Thompson	File:Flag of the Bahamas.svg Bahamas	–	–	–	xo	o	xxo	xxx	—	2.23
	B	Brendan Reilly	File:Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg Great Britain	–	–	o	o	xo	xxo	xxx	—	2.23
18	A	Darrin Plab	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States	–	–	–	xxo	xo	xxo	xxx	—	2.23
19	A	Lee Jin-taek	File:Flag of South Korea (1984-1997).svg South Korea	–	–	–	–	o	–	xxx	—	2.20
	B	Lambros Papakostas	File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece	–	–	–	–	o	xxx	—		2.20
	B	Håkon Särnblom	File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway	–	–	o	o	o	–	xxx	—	2.20
22	B	Igor Paklin	File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team	–	–	–	–	xo	–	xxx	—	2.20
	B	Lochsley Thomson	File:Flag of Australia.svg Australia	–	–	o	–	xo	xxx	—		2.20
24	A	Yuriy Sergiyenko	File:Olympic flag.svg Unified Team	–	–	o	xo	xo	xxx	—		2.20
25	A	Wolf-Hendrik Beyer	File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	–	–	–	o	xxo	xxx	—		2.20
26	A	Xu Yang	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China	–	o	xo	o	xxo	xxx	—		2.20
27	A	Arturo Ortiz	File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain	–	–	–	o	–	xxx	—		2.15
	A	Dietmar Mögenburg	File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	–	–	–	o	xxx	—			2.15
29	A	Dalton Grant	File:Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg Great Britain	–	–	–	xo	xxx	—			2.15
	A	Stevan Zorić	File:Olympic flag.svg Independent Olympic Participants	–	–	–	xo	xxx	—			2.15
31	A	David Anderson	File:Flag of Australia.svg Australia	–	–	o	xxo	xxx	—			2.15
	A	Alex Zaliauskas	File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada	–	–	o	xxo	xxx	—			2.15
33	A	Khemraj Naiko	File:Flag of Mauritius.svg Mauritius	–	–	o	xxx	—				2.10
	A	Kosmas Mikhalopoulos	File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece	–	–	o	–	xxx	—			2.10
	A	Hossein Shahyan	File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran	–	–	o	xxx	—				2.10
	B	Danny Beauchamp	File:Flag of Seychelles (1977–1996).svg Seychelles	o	o	o	xxx	—				2.10
	B	Yacine Mousli	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	–	–	o	xxx	—				2.10
	B	Abdullah Mohamed Al-Sheib	File:Flag of Qatar (3-2).svg Qatar	–	o	o	xxx	—				2.10
39	A	Karl Scatliffe	File:Flag of the British Virgin Islands.svg British Virgin Islands	o	o	xo	xxx	—				2.10
	B	Cho Hyun-uk	File:Flag of South Korea (1984-1997).svg South Korea	–	–	xo	xxx	—				2.10
41	A	Hilaire Onwanlélé-Ozimo	File:Flag of Gabon.svg Gabon	–	o	xxx	—					2.05
42	B	Fakhredin Fouad	File:Flag of Jordan (3-2).svg Jordan	o	xo	xxx	—					2.05
—	B	Clarence Saunders	File:Flag of Bermuda (1910–1999).svg Bermuda	–	–	–	xxx	—				No mark

Final

The final was held on August 2, 1992.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	2.15	2.20	2.24	2.28	2.31	2.34	2.37	2.39	Height
1st place, gold medalist(s)	Javier Sotomayor	File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba	–	–	xo	–	o	o	xx-	x	2.34
2nd place, silver medalist(s)	Patrik Sjöberg	File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden	–	–	o	–	o	xo	xxx	—	2.34
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	Artur Partyka	File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland	o	–	xo	–	o	xo	xxx	—	2.34
	Tim Forsyth	File:Flag of Australia.svg Australia	–	o	o	–	xo	xo	xxx	—	2.34
	Hollis Conway	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States	–	o	–	xo	–	xo	xxx	—	2.34
6	Ralf Sonn	File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany	–	o	o	o	o	xx-	x	—	2.31
7	Troy Kemp	File:Flag of the Bahamas.svg Bahamas	–	o	–	xo	o	xxx	—		2.31
8	Marino Drake	File:Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg Cuba	–	o	–	o	xxx	—			2.28
	Charles Austin	File:Flag of the United States.svg United States	–	o	–	o	x-	xx	—		2.28
	Dragutin Topić	File:Olympic flag.svg Independent Olympic Participants	–	o	–	o	xx-	x	—		2.28
11	Gustavo Adolfo Becker	File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain	–	o	xo	o	xxx	—			2.28
12	Steve Smith	File:Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg Great Britain	o	–	o	xx-	x	—			2.24
13	Sorin Matei	File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania	–	–	xo	xxx	—				2.24
14	Georgi Dakov	File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria	o	o	xxo	xxx	—				2.24

See also

• 1990 Men's European Championships High Jump
• 1991 Men's World Championships High Jump
• 1993 Men's World Championships High Jump

External links

• Official Report
• Results