2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's high jump
# 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's high jump

The men's high jump at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place at Arena Birmingham in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on 1 March 2018.

The reigning outdoor world champion, Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar, led the field of eleven entries that year with his jump of 2.38 m (7 ft 9+1⁄2 in), set while winning the Asian indoor title. The previous world indoor champion, Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi, was not present to defend his title, though both minor medallists were present in Great Britain's Robert Grabarz and American Erik Kynard.

With the pits back to back in the center of the arena and no events on the track, the men shared center stage with the women's high jump.

## Summary

In a straight final format, the overall performance of the field was low, with six of the eleven athletes failing to clear more than the opening height of 2.20 m (7 ft 2+1⁄2 in) (Grabarz and former world champion Donald Thomas being the most prominent casualties). Poland's Sylwester Bednarek failed at the third height of 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in), leaving just Barshim, Kynard, Mateusz Przybylko and Danil Lysenko in contention. Lysenko and Barshim led with clean scorecards up to the height of 2.33 m (7 ft 7+1⁄2 in). Kynard and Przybylko both failed to achieve that height and the German athlete secured the bronze on countback – his first senior international medal. Lysenko and Barshim each failed their first two attempts at 2.36 m (7 ft 8+3⁄4 in) and after a third failure by Barshim, Lysenko cleared the height on his final attempt to become world champion. It was the first world title for the Russian, competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete here, and reversed the positions the two had shared at the 2017 World Championships final the previous summer.

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships :

| World indoor record | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.43 | Budapest, Hungary | 4 March 1989 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Championship record | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.43 | Budapest, Hungary | 4 March 1989 |
| World Leading | Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) | 2.38 | Tehran, Iran | 1 February 2018 |

## Results

The final was started at 18:45.

| Rank | Name | Nationality | 2.20 | 2.25 | 2.29 | 2.33 | 2.36 | Mark |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Danil Lysenko | Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) | o | o | o | o | xxo | 2.36 |
| | Mutaz Essa Barshim | Qatar (QAT) | o | o | o | o | xxx | 2.33 |
| | Mateusz Przybylko | Germany (GER) | xo | xxo | xo | xxx | | 2.29 |
| 4 | Erik Kynard | United States (USA) | o | o | xxo | xxx | | 2.29 |
| 5 | Sylwester Bednarek | Poland (POL) | xo | o | xxx | | | 2.25 |
| 6 | Maksim Nedasekau | Belarus (BLR) | o | xxx | | | | 2.20 |
| 6 | Donald Thomas | Bahamas (BAH) | o | xxx | | | | 2.20 |
| 6 | Wang Yu | China (CHN) | o | xxx | | | | 2.20 |
| 9 | Tihomir Ivanov | Bulgaria (BUL) | xxo | xxx | | | | 2.20 |
| 9 | Jamal Wilson | Bahamas (BAH) | xxo | xxx | | | | 2.20 |
| 9 | Robbie Grabarz | Great Britain (GBR) | xxo | xxx | | | | 2.20 |
