Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

Men's high jump at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	10-11 August
Competitors	30 from 20 nations
Winning height	2.35
Medalists
Dietmar Mögenburg  West Germany Patrik Sjöberg  Sweden Zhu Jianhua  China

Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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
10,000 m	men
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
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races

These are the official results of the men's high jump event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. The event was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 10–11 August 1984.^[1]

Summary

Eight out of 16 event finalists at the 1980 Olympics were absent as a result of the Soviet-led boycott, including all three medalists (although bronze-winning East German jumper Jörg Freimuth had retired in 1982). Another major absence, due to the boycott, was Soviet Union's young Hennadiy Avdyeyenko who won the inaugural 1983 World Championship less than a year prior to the 1984 Olympics. Avdyeyenko later went on to win gold in 1988. Going into the competition, a clear favourite was China's Zhu Jianhua, who won bronze in the 1983 World Championships and who had set a new world record of 2.39 m on 10 June 1984, less than two months before the Games in Los Angeles.

Schedule

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Zhu Jianhua (CHN)	2.39 m	Eberstadt, West Germany	10 June 1984
Olympic record	Gerd Wessig (GDR)	2.36 m	Moscow, Soviet Union	1 August 1980

Results

Key

Qualifying round

Qualification rule: qualifying performance 2.24 m (Q) or twelve best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	2.05	2.10	2.15	2.18	2.21	2.24	Result	Note
1=	A	Milton Goode	United States	–	–	–	o	o	o	2.24	Q
1=	A	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	–	–	o	o	o	o	2.24	Q
1=	A	Zhu Jianhua	China	–	o	–	o	o	o	2.24	Q
1=	B	Liu Yunpeng	China	–	o	o	–	o	o	2.24	Q
1=	A	Doug Nordquist	United States	–	–	o	o	o	o	2.24	Q
1=	A	Milton Ottey	Canada	–	o	o	o	o	o	2.24	Q
1=	A	Dietmar Mögenburg	West Germany	–	–	o	–	o	o	2.24	Q
8	A	Dwight Stones	United States	–	–	o	o	xo	o	2.24	Q
9=	B	Cai Shu	China	–	o	o	–	o	xo	2.24	Q
9=	A	Erkki Niemi	Finland	–	o	o	o	o	xo	2.24	Q
11	A	Roland Dalhäuser	Switzerland	–	–	–	–	xxo	xo	2.24	Q
12	A	Carlo Thränhardt	West Germany	o	–	x–	–	o	xxo	2.24	Q
13=	B	John Atkinson	Australia	o	o	o	xo	o	xxx	2.21
13=	B	Thomas Eriksson	Sweden	–	o	o	xo	o	xxx	2.21
15=	A	Eddy Annys	Belgium	–	–	o	–	xo	xxx	2.21
15=	B	Geoff Parsons	Great Britain	–	–	o	–	xo	xxx	2.21
15=	A	Takao Sakamoto	Japan	–	o	o	o	xo	xxx	2.21
18	A	Gerd Nagel	West Germany	o	xo	o	o	xxx		2.18
19	B	Hrvoje Fižuleto	Yugoslavia	o	xxo	xo	o	xxx		2.18
20	B	Alain Metellus	Canada	–	o	o	xo	xxx		2.18
21	B	Nick Saunders	Bermuda	–	o	o	xxo	xxx		2.18
22=	B	Novica Čanović	Yugoslavia	–	–	o	–	xxx		2.15
22=	B	Dimitrios Kattis	Greece	–	–	o	xxx			2.15
24	A	Franck Verzy	France	–	o	xo	–	xxx		2.15
25	B	Desmond Morris	Jamaica	–	xo	xo	xxx			2.15
26=	B	Liu Chin-chiang	Chinese Taipei	o	xo	xxx				2.10
26=	B	Lam Tin Sau	Hong Kong	o	xo	xxx				2.10
28	B	Mutale Mulenga	Zambia	xo	xxx					2.05	NR
N/A	A	Stephen Wray	Bahamas	–	–	xxx				NM
N/A	B	Mark Naylor	Great Britain	–	xxx					NM

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	2.15	2.18	2.21	2.24	2.27	2.29	2.31	2.33	2.35	2.40	Result	Note
	Dietmar Mögenburg	West Germany	o	–	o	–	o	–	o	o	o	xxx	2.35
	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	–	–	o	–	xo	o	xo	xo	xxx		2.33
	Zhu Jianhua	China	o	–	o	–	o	–	o	x–	xx		2.31
4	Dwight Stones	United States	–	o	–	o	–	x–	o	xxx			2.31
5	Doug Nordquist	United States	–	o	–	o	o	o	xxx				2.29
6	Milton Ottey	Canada	o	–	o	xo	xo	o	xxx				2.29
7	Liu Yunpeng	China	o	–	o	o	xxo	xo	xxx				2.29
8	Cai Shu	China	o	–	xo	o	xo	x–	xx				2.27
9	Erkki Niemi	Finland	o	–	xo	xxo	xxx						2.24
10	Carlo Thränhardt	West Germany	xo	–	xx–								2.15
N/A	Roland Dalhäuser	Switzerland	–	–	xxx								NM
N/A	Milton Goode	United States	–	–	xxx								NM

See also

• Athletics at the Friendship Games – Men's high jump

References

External links

• Official Report
• Results
• Results