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Men's High Jump

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Host City: Athina, Greece
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Athens Olympic Sports Complex Spiros Loues, Maroussi
Date Started: August 20, 2004
Date Finished: August 22, 2004

Gold: SWE Stefan Holm
Silver: USA Matt Hemingway
Bronze: CZE Jaroslav Bába

Summary

The favorite was Sweden’s Stefan Holm. He had been runner-up at the 2002 Europeans and 2003 Worlds, but had won the 2004 World Indoor, and had won 17 consecutive meets leading up to Athina. The 2003 World Champion, Jacques Freitag (RSA), went out in qualifying due to an ankle injury. Four jumpers cleared 2.34 (7-8) with Matt Hemingway (USA) and Jaroslav Bába (CZE) leading with first-attempt clearances. But at 2.36 (7-8¾), only Holm was successful and the gold medal was his. Hemingway won silver over Bába because of Bába two misses at 2.32 (7-7¼).

Final Standings

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Rank Athlete Age Team NOC Medal
1 Stefan Holm 28 Sweden SWE Gold
2 Matt Hemingway 31 United States USA Silver
3 Jaroslav Bába 19 Czech Republic CZE Bronze
4 Jamie Nieto 27 United States USA
5 Andriy Sokolovskiy 26 Ukraine UKR
6 Yaroslav Rybakov 23 Russia RUS
7 Mark Boswell 26 Canada CAN
8 Svatoslav Ton 25 Czech Republic CZE
9 Vyacheslav Voronin 30 Russia RUS
10 Dragutin Topić 33 Serbia and Montenegro SCG
11 Lisvany Pérez 22 Cuba CUB
12 Alessandro Talotti 23 Italy ITA
13T QR Gennady Moroz 26 Belarus BLR
13T QR Nicola Ciotti 24 Italy ITA
15T QR Abderrahmane Hammad 27 Algeria ALG
15T QR Ştefan Vasilache 25 Romania ROU
17 QR Jessé de Lima 23 Brazil BRA
18T QR Kyriakos Ioannou 20 Cyprus CYP
18T QR Staffan Strand 28 Sweden SWE
20T QR Grzegorz Sposób 28 Poland POL
20T QR Jacques Freitag 22 South Africa RSA
20T QR Rožle Prezelj 24 Slovenia SLO
20T QR Manjula Kumara Wijesekera 20 Sri Lanka SRI
24 QR Linus Thörnblad 19 Sweden SWE
25T QR Oskari Frösén 28 Finland FIN
25T QR Roman Fricke 27 Germany GER
25T QR Jean-Claude Rabbath 27 Lebanon LIB
25T QR Robert Wolski 21 Poland POL
25T QR Pyotr Brayko 27 Russia RUS
30 QR Tomáš Janků 29 Czech Republic CZE
31T QR Javier Bermejo 25 Spain ESP
31T QR Marko Aleksejev 25 Estonia EST
33 QR László Boros 22 Hungary HUN
34 QR Tora Harris 25 United States USA
35 QR Alfredo Deza 24 Peru PER
36 QR Liu Yang 18 China CHN
AC QR Aleksey Lesnichy 26 Belarus BLR
AC QR Adrian O'Dwyer 20 Ireland IRL