Men's high jump at the 2023 World Championships
Venue	National Athletics Centre
Dates	20 August (qualification) 22 August (final)
Competitors	36 from 26 nations
Winning height	2.36
Medalists
Gianmarco Tamberi    Italy   JuVaughn Harrison    United States   Mutaz Essa Barshim    Qatar

Events at the 2023 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
	mixed
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
35 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
World Team event
	World Team

The men's high jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships is being held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 21 and 23 August 2023.

Summary

Including the fabled win at home in 2019, Mutaz Essa Barshim came in as a three time defending champion. He had also famously shared the 2020 Olympic gold with Gianmarco Tamberi who was also here.

Returning silver medalist Woo Sang-hyeok had a perfect round going to 2.29m. JuVaughn Harrison was also perfect and maintained that status to the next height of 2.33m putting him into the lead. Woo could go no higher, but five others did get over, all but Tobias Potye on their first attempt, leaving Potye in fifth. For Luis Enrique Zayas, it was a new personal best. The next height was 2.36 m (7 ft 8+3⁄4 in). After watching everyone miss their first attempt, Tamberi cleared it cleanly to take the lead. On his second attempt, Harrison also cleared cleanly. When the remaining competitors failed, Barshim with one earlier miss took bronze over Zayas who had three. Both Tamberi and Harrison took attempts at 2.38m but neither could negotiate it on this night. That one miss at 2.36m costing Harrison the gold, leaving it to Tamberi.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[1]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.45 m	Salamanca, Spain	27 July 1993
Championship record	Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)	2.41 m	Moscow, Russia	15 August 2013
World Leading	Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)	2.36 m	Chorzów, Poland	16 July 2023
African Record	Jacques Freitag (RSA)	2.38 m	Oudtshoorn, South Africa	5 March 2005
Asian Record	Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)	2.43 m	Brussels, Belgium	5 September 2014
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.45 m	Salamanca, Spain	27 July 1993
South American Record	Gilmar Mayo (COL)	2.33 m	Pereira, Colombia	17 October 1994
European Record	Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)	2.42 m	Stockholm, Sweden	30 June 1987
Oceanian record	Tim Forsyth (AUS)	2.36 m	Melbourne, Australia	2 March 1997
	Brandon Starc (AUS)		Eberstadt, Germany	26 August 2018

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 2.32 m.^[2]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), is as follows:

Results

Qualification

Qualification: 2.30 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).^[3]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	2.14	2.18	2.22	2.25	2.28	2.30	Mark	Notes
1	A	JuVaughn Harrison	United States (USA)	–	o	o	o	o		2.28	q
1	B	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar (QAT)	–	–	o	o	o		2.28	q
1	A	Ryoichi Akamatsu	Japan (JPN)	o	o	o	o	o		2.28	q
4	A	Woo Sang-hyeok	South Korea (KOR)	o	o	o	xo	o		2.28	q
5	A	Oleh Doroshchuk	Ukraine (UKR)	o	o	o	xo	xo		2.28	q, PB
6	B	Andrii Protsenko	Ukraine (UKR)	o	xo	o	xxo	xo		2.28	q
6	A	Marco Fassinotti	Italy (ITA)	xo	xo	o	xo	xo		2.28	q, SB
8	B	Tobias Potye	Germany (GER)	o	o	o	o	xxo		2.28	q
9	A	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy (ITA)	–	–	o	xo	xxo		2.28	q
10	B	Brandon Starc	Australia (AUS)	o	xo	xo	o	xxo		2.28	q
11	A	Shelby McEwen	United States (USA)	xo	o	xxo	o	xxo		2.28	q, SB
12	B	Luis Enrique Zayas	Cuba (CUB)	–	xxo	o	xxo	xxo		2.28	q
12	B	Norbert Kobielski	Poland (POL)	o	o	xxo	xxo	xxo		2.28	q, SB
14	B	Edgar Rivera	Mexico (MEX)	o	o	o	o	xxx		2.25
15	A	Thomas Carmoy	Belgium (BEL)	o	xxo	xo	o	xxx		2.25
16	B	Fernando Ferreira	Brazil (BRA)	o	xxo	xxo	o	xxx		2.25	SB
16	A	Donald Thomas	Bahamas (BAH)	xo	xo	xxo	o	xxx		2.25
18	B	Naoto Hasegawa	Japan (JPN)	o	o	xxo	xxo	xxx		2.25	SB
19	B	Hamish Kerr	New Zealand (NZL)	-	o	o	xxx			2.22
20	A	Douwe Amels	Netherlands (NED)	xo	o	o	xxx			2.22
20	B	Sarvesh Anil Kushare	India (IND)	o	xo	o	xxx			2.22
22	A	Romaine Beckford	Jamaica (JAM)	o	xxo	o	xxx			2.22
23	A	Alperen Acet	Turkey (TUR)	o	o	xo	xxx			2.22
23	B	Slavko Stević	Serbia (SRB)	o	o	xo	xxx			2.22
25	B	Luis Castro	Puerto Rico (PUR)	xo	xo	xo	xxx			2.22
26	B	Stefano Sottile	Italy (ITA)	o	o	xxo	xxx			2.22
27	B	Django Lovett	Canada (CAN)	xo	o	xo	x-	xx		2.22	SB
28	A	Dmytro Nikitin	Ukraine (UKR)	o	o	xxx				2.18
28	A	Erik Portillo	Mexico (MEX)	o	o	xxx				2.18
28	A	Tihomir Ivanov	Bulgaria (BUL)	o	o	xxx				2.18
31	B	Tomohiro Shinno	Japan (JPN)	xo	o	xxx				2.18
32	A	Gergely Török	Hungary (HUN)	o	xxx					2.14
32	A	Hichem Bouhanoun	Algeria (ALG)	o	xxx					2.14
32	A	Joel Baden	Australia (AUS)	o	xxx					2.14
32	B	Vernon Turner	United States (USA)	o	–	xxx				2.14
–	B	Carlos Layoy	Argentina (ARG)	xxx						NM

Final

The final was started on 22 August at 19:58.^[4]

Rank	Name	Nationality	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.33	2.36	2.38	2.40	Mark	Notes
	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy (ITA)	-	xo	o	o	o	xx-	x	2.36	=WL
	JuVaughn Harrison	United States (USA)	-	o	o	o	xo	xxx		2.36	=WL
	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Qatar (QAT)	-	xo	o	o	xxx			2.33
4	Luis Enrique Zayas	Cuba (CUB)	xo	xo	xo	o	xxx			2.33	PB
5	Tobias Potye	Germany (GER)	o	xo	o	xo	xxx			2.33
6	Woo Sang-hyeok	South Korea (KOR)	o	o	o	x-	xx			2.29
7	Shelby McEwen	United States (USA)	o	xo	xxo	xx-	x			2.29	SB
8	Ryoichi Akamatsu	Japan (JPN)	o	o	xxx					2.25
8	Brandon Starc	Australia (AUS)	o	o	xxx					2.25
10	Norbert Kobielski	Poland (POL)	o	xo	xxx					2.25
11	Andrii Protsenko	Ukraine (UKR)	o	xxo	xxx					2.25
12	Marco Fassinotti	Italy (ITA)	xo	xxx						2.20
13	Oleh Doroshchuk	Ukraine (UKR)	xxo	xxx						2.20

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