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

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.

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

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

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