2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump

Men's high jump2017 World Championships
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	11 August (qualification) 13 August (final)
Competitors	29 from 19 nations

Events at the 2017 World Championships
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 will be held at the Olympic Stadium on 11 and 13 August.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.45	Salamanca, Spain	27 July 1993
Championship record	Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)	2.41	Moscow, Russia	15 August 2013
World leading	Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)	2.38	Oslo, Norway	15 June 2017
African record	Jacques Freitag (RSA)	2.38	Oudtshoorn, South Africa	5 March 2005
Asian record	Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)	2.43	Brussels, Belgium	5 September 2014
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.45	Salamanca, Spain	27 July 1993
South American record	Gilmar Mayo (COL)	2.33A	Pereira, Colombia	17 October 1994
European record	Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)	2.42	Stockholm, Sweden	30 June 1987
	Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)		New York City, United States	14 June 2014
Oceanian record	Tim Forsyth (AUS)	2.36	Melbourne, Australia	2 March 1997

Qualification standards

Entry standards
2.30 m

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
11 August 2017	11:15	Qualification
13 August 2017	19:00	Final

All times are local times (UTC+1)