# 2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump

The men's high jump at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 13–15 August.
With 18 over 2.26 m (7 ft 4+3⁄4 in), it took a first attempt clearance and one miss to make it into the final.
In the final, three remained perfect to 2.35 m (7 ft 8+1⁄2 in), with Mutaz Essa Barshim just one miss behind, while Donald Thomas passed his personal best. But Barshim seized the lead with a first attempt clearance at 2.38 m (7 ft 9+1⁄2 in). Thomas and home team favorite Ivan Ukhov couldn't make the height, while Derek Drouin set a Canadian national record clearing on his second attempt. World leader Bohdan Bondarenko confidently passed the height knowing it would require him to equal his world leading jump from the previous month and to break Javier Sotomayor's championship record. On his second attempt at 2.41 m (7 ft 10+3⁄4 in), he made it to take the lead. Drouin took his three attempts and settled for bronze. Already above his personal best, Barshim passed to 2.44 m (8 ft 0 in), 1 cm below the world record, to try for the win but couldn't get it. Bondarenko watched, then took three attempts at Sotomayor's world record.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
| World record | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.45 | Salamanca, Spain | 27 July 1993 |
| Championship record | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.40 | Stuttgart, Germany | 22 August 1993 |
| World leading | Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) | 2.41 | Lausanne, Switzerland | 4 July 2013 |
| African record | Jacques Freitag (RSA) | 2.38 | Oudtshoorn, South Africa | 5 March 2005 |
| Asian record | Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) | 2.40 | Eugene, United States | 1 June 2013 |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | 2.45 | Salamanca, Spain | 27 July 1993 |
| South American record | Gilmar Mayo (COL) | 2.33A | Pereira, Colombia | 17 October 1994 |
| European record | Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) | 2.42 | Stockholm, Sweden | 30 June 1987 |
| Oceanian record | Tim Forsyth (AUS) | 2.36 | Melbourne, Australia | 2 March 1997 |

## Qualification standards

| A result | B result |
| 2.31 | 2.28 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| 13 August 2013 | 09:50 | Qualification |
| 15 August 2013 | 19:00 | Final |
All times are local times (UTC+4)

## Results

| KEY: | Q | Qualified | q | 12 best performers | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |

### Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 2.31 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.
| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | 2.17 | 2.22 | 2.26 | 2.29 | Mark | Notes |
| 1 | A | Robert Grabarz | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | o | o | o | o | 2.29 | q |
| 1 | A | Aleksandr Shustov | Russia (RUS) | o | o | o | o | 2.29 | q |
| 1 | B | Bohdan Bondarenko | Ukraine (UKR) | – | o | – | o | 2.29 | q |
| 1 | B | Ivan Ukhov | Russia (RUS) | o | o | o | o | 2.29 | q |
| 5 | A | Donald Thomas | Bahamas (BAH) | o | o | xxo | o | 2.29 | q |
| 6 | A | Mutaz Essa Barshim | Qatar (QAT) | o | o | o | xxo | 2.29 | q |
| 6 | B | Zhang Guowei | China (CHN) | o | o | o | xxo | 2.29 | q |
| 8 | B | Derek Drouin | Canada (CAN) | o | o | xo | xxo | 2.29 | q |
| 9 | B | Ryan Ingraham | Bahamas (BAH) | o | o | o | xxx | 2.26 | q |
| 9 | A | Konstadinos Baniotis | Greece (GRE) | o | o | o | xo | 2.26 | q |
| 11 | A | Erik Kynard | United States (USA) | o | xo | o | xxx | 2.26 | q |
| 11 | A | Kabelo Kgosiemang | Botswana (BOT) | xo | o | o | xxx | 2.26 | q |
| 13 | B | Adónios Mástoras | Greece (GRE) | xxo | o | o | xxx | 2.26 | |
| 14 | B | Mickaël Hanany | France (FRA) | o | o | xo | xxx | 2.26 | |
| 14 | A | Jaroslav Bába | Czech Republic (CZE) | o | o | xo | xxx | 2.26 | |
| 16 | A | Mihai Donisan | Romania (ROM) | o | xo | xo | xxx | 2.26 | |
| 16 | B | Dusty Jonas | United States (USA) | xo | o | xo | xxx | 2.26 | |
| 16 | B | Silvano Chesani | Italy (ITA) | xo | o | xo | xxx | 2.26 | |
| 19 | B | Yuriy Krymarenko | Ukraine (UKR) | o | o | xxx | | 2.22 | |
| 19 | A | Wang Yu | China (CHN) | o | o | xxx | | 2.22 | |
| 21 | B | Majed Al-Din Ghazal | Syria (SYR) | xo | o | xxx | | 2.22 | SB |
| 22 | B | Edgar Rivera | Mexico (MEX) | o | xo | xxx | | 2.22 | |
| 23 | B | Jesse Williams | United States (USA) | o | xxo | xxx | | 2.22 | |
| 23 | A | Andriy Protsenko | Ukraine (UKR) | o | xxo | xxx | | 2.22 | |
| 25 | A | Rožle Prezelj | Slovenia (SLO) | o | xxx | | | 2.17 | |
| 25 | A | Michael Mason | Canada (CAN) | o | xxx | | | 2.17 | |
| 25 | A | Douwe Amels | Netherlands (NED) | o | xxx | | | 2.17 | |
| 25 | A | Diego Ferrín | Ecuador (ECU) | o | xR | | | 2.17 | |
| 25 | B | Ali Mohd Younes Idriss | Sudan (SUD) | o | xxx | | | 2.17 | |
| 25 | B | Aleksey Dmitrik | Russia (RUS) | o | xxx | | | 2.17 | |
| 25 | B | Szymon Kiecana | Poland (POL) | o | xxx | | | 2.17 | |
| 25 | B | Brandon Starc | Australia (AUS) | o | xxx | | | 2.17 | |
| | A | Bi Xiaoliang | China (CHN) | xxx | | | | NM | |
| | A | Keith Moffatt | United States (USA) | xxx | | | | NM | |

### Final

The final was started at 19:00.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 2.20 | 2.25 | 2.29 | 2.32 | 2.35 | 2.38 | 2.41 | 2.44 | 2.46 | Mark | Notes |
| | Bohdan Bondarenko | Ukraine (UKR) | – | – | o | – | o | – | xo | – | xxx | 2.41 | CR, =NR |
| | Mutaz Essa Barshim | Qatar (QAT) | o | o | o | xo | o | o | x- | xx | | 2.38 | |
| | Derek Drouin | Canada (CAN) | o | o | o | o | o | xo | xxx | | | 2.38 | NR |
| 4 | Erik Kynard | United States (USA) | o | o | o | xo | xxx | | | | | 2.32 | |
| 5 | Donald Thomas | Bahamas (BAH) | xo | o | o | xo | – | xxx | | | | 2.32 | SB |
| 6 | Robert Grabarz | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | o | o | xo | xxx | | | | | | 2.29 | |
| 7 | Zhang Guowei | China (CHN) | o | xxo | xo | xxx | | | | | | 2.29 | |
| 8 | Kabelo Kgosiemang | Botswana (BOT) | o | o | xxx | | | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 8 | Ryan Ingraham | Bahamas (BAH) | o | o | xxx | | | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 8 | Konstadinos Baniotis | Greece (GRE) | o | o | xxx | | | | | | | 2.25 | |
| DQ | Ivan Ukhov | Russia (RUS) | o | o | o | o | o | xxx | | | | 2.35 | SB |
| DQ | Aleksandr Shustov | Russia (RUS) | o | o | xo | xxo | xxx | | | | | 2.32 | SB |
When the event took place, Ukhov and Shustov placed 4th and 7th respectively. However, in 2019 and 2020 these athletes had their results disqualified after receiving retrospective anti-doping bans.