2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump

Events at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men
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
10,000 m 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 event at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadium on 11 and 13 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Bohdan Bondarenko  Ukraine
Silver	Sylwester Bednarek  Poland
Bronze	Miguel Ángel Sancho  Spain

Results

Final

13 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	2.26
	Sylwester Bednarek	Poland	2.24
	Miguel Ángel Sancho	Spain	2.21
4	Sergey Mudrov	Russia	2.17
4	Ümit Tan	Turkey	2.17
6	Adónios Mástoras	Greece	2.17
7	Marco Fassinotti	Italy	2.13
8	Raymond Higgs	Bahamas	2.13
9	Matthew Owens	United Kingdom	2.13
10	Giuseppe Carollo	Italy	2.08
10	Naoto Tobe	Japan	2.08
10	Edgar Rivera	Mexico	2.08
10	Marius Dumitrace	Romania	2.08
14	Karim Lotfy	Egypt	2.08

Qualifications

11 July

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Raymond Higgs	Bahamas	2.14	q
1	Edgar Rivera	Mexico	2.14	q
1	Sylwester Bednarek	Poland	2.14	q
4	Matthew Owens	United Kingdom	2.14	q
5	Sergey Mudrov	Russia	2.14	q
6	Karim Lotfy	Egypt	2.14	q
6	Giuseppe Carollo	Italy	2.14	q
8	Naoto Tobe	Japan	2.14	q
9	Martinš Karabeško	Latvia	2.10
10	Erik Kynard	United States	2.10
11	Barry Pender	Ireland	2.05
12	Enrique Gimeno	Spain	2.00
13	Lakshmanan Yogaraj	India	NH

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Miguel Ángel Sancho	Spain	2.14	q
2	Marco Fassinotti	Italy	2.14	q
3	Bohdan Bondarenko	Ukraine	2.14	q
4	Marius Dumitrace	Romania	2.14	q
4	Ümit Tan	Turkey	2.14	q
6	Adónios Mástoras	Greece	2.14	q
7	Bartosz Krocz	Poland	2.10
7	Willem Voigt	South Africa	2.10
9	Dávid Fajoyomi	Hungary	2.10
10	Tino Martin	Germany	2.10
11	Ryan Fleck	United States	2.05
12	Shawn Swartz	Canada	NH
13	Miloš Petrovic	Serbia	NH

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 22 countries participated in the event.

•  Bahamas (1)
•  Canada (1)
•  Egypt (1)
•  Germany (1)
•  Greece (1)
•  Hungary (1)
•  India (1)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Italy (2)
•  Japan (1)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Poland (2)
•  Romania (1)
•  Russia (1)
•  Serbia (1)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Spain (2)
•  Turkey (1)
•  Ukraine (1)
•  United Kingdom (1)
•  United States (2)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2008 Bydgoszcz POL Jul 8-13, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015