1999 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump

Events at the 1999 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
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
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

These are the official results of the Men's High Jump event at the 1999 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Seville, Spain. There were a total number of 31 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Monday 23 August 1999.

Medalists

Gold	Vyacheslav Voronin Russia (RUS)
Silver	Mark Boswell Canada (CAN)
Bronze	Martin Buß Germany (GER)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
21.08.1999 – 19:10h	21.08.1999 – 19:10h
Final Round
23.08.1999 – 19:25h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Qualifying round

• Held on Saturday 21 August 1999

RANK	GROUP A	HEIGHT
1.	Kwaku Boateng (CAN)	2.29 m
	Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS)
	Dragutin Topić (YUG)
4.	Charles Austin (USA)	2.29 m
5.	Martin Buß (GER)	2.29 m
6.	Staffan Strand (SWE)	2.29 m
7.	Wilbert Pennings (NED)	2.29 m
8.	Abderahmane Hammad (ALG)	2.29 m
9.	Gilmar Mayo (COL)	2.23 m
10.	Anthony Idiata (NGR)	2.20 m
	Konstantin Matusevich (ISR)
12.	Elvir Krehmić (BIH)	2.20 m
13.	Ben Challenger (GBR)	2.20 m
14.	Andriy Sokolovskyy (UKR)	2.15 m
15.	Lambros Papakostas (GRE)	2.15 m
—	Metin Dormushev (TUR)	NM

RANK	GROUP B	HEIGHT
1.	Mark Boswell (CAN)	2.29 m
	Stefan Holm (SWE)
3.	Lee Jin-Taek (KOR)	2.29 m
4.	Brendan Reilly (IRL)	2.26 m
	Steve Smith (GBR)
6.	Wolfgang Kreissig (GER)	2.26 m
7.	Tim Forsyth (AUS)	2.26 m
8.	Dejan Miloševic (SLO)	2.23 m
9.	Sergey Dymchenko (UKR)	2.23 m
10.	Jan Janku (CZE)	2.23 m
11.	Jean-Claude Rabbath (LIB)	2.20 m
12.	Sergey Klyugin (RUS)	2.20 m
13.	Henry Patterson (USA)	2.20 m
14.	Charles Clinger (USA)	2.15 m
15.	Takahiro Kimino (JPN)	2.15 m

Final

RANK	FINAL	HEIGHT
	Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS)	2.37 m
	Mark Boswell (CAN)	2.35 m
	Martin Buß (GER)	2.32 m
4.	Dragutin Topić (YUG)	2.32 m
5.	Staffan Strand (SWE)	2.29 m
6.	Kwaku Boateng (CAN)	2.29 m
	Lee Jin-Taek (KOR)
8.	Charles Austin (USA)	2.29 m
	Brendan Reilly (IRL)
10.	Wilbert Pennings (NED)	2.25 m
	Abderahmane Hammad (ALG)
	Stefan Holm (SWE)
—	Steve Smith (GBR)	NM

References

• IAAF
• trackandfieldnews