Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

• All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

All distances shown are in meters.

• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• DQ denotes disqualification.
• NR denotes national record.
• AR denotes area/continental record.
• OR denotes Olympic record.
• WR denotes world record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season best

Qualification

Held on Friday, 22 September 2000.

The qualifying height was 2.30m. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the highest jumps until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Qualification: 2.30 m (Q) or best 12 performances (q)[2]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	2.15	2.20	2.24	2.29	Result	Notes
1	A	Stefan Holm	Sweden	–	o	o	o	2.27	q
1	A	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel	o	o	o	o	2.27	q
1	B	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	–	o	o	o	2.27	q
1	B	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	–	o	o	o	2.27	q
5	A	Sergey Kliugin	Russia	–	xo	o	o	2.27	q
6	B	Nathan Leeper	United States	–	o	xxo	o	2.27	q
7	A	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	–	o	o	xo	2.27	q
7	B	Kwaku Boateng	Canada	o	–	o	xo	2.27	q
7	B	Sergii Dymchenko	Ukraine	o	o	o	xo	2.27	q
7	B	Staffan Strand	Sweden	–	o	o	xo	2.27	q
7	B	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	–	o	–	xo	2.27	q
12	B	Kenny Evans	United States	o	xo	o	xo	2.27	q
13	A	Mark Boswell	Canada	–	o	xo	xxo	2.27	q
14	A	Elvir Krehmić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	o	o	o	xxx	2.24
14	A	Tim Forsyth	Australia	o	o	o	xxx	2.24
16	A	Christian Rhoden	Germany	o	o	xo	xxx	2.24
16	A	Andriy Sokolovskyy	Ukraine	o	o	xo	xxx	2.24
16	A	Mika Polku	Finland	o	o	xo	xxx	2.24
19	A	Yuriy Pakhlyayev	Kazakhstan	o	o	xxo	xxx	2.24
20	A	Charles Austin	United States	–	o	x–	xx	2.20
21	B	Lee Jin-taek	South Korea	x–	o	xxx		2.20
21	B	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia	xo	o	xx–	x	2.20
23	B	Wilbert Pennings	Netherlands	–	xo	–	xxx	2.20
23	B	Brendan Reilly	Ireland	–	xo	xxx		2.20
23	B	Gilmar Mayo	Colombia	o	xo	xxx		2.20
26	B	Toni Huikuri	Finland	o	xxo	xxx		2.20
27	A	Benjamin Challenger	Great Britain	o	xxx			2.15
27	A	Ruslan Glyvynskyy	Ukraine	o	xxx			2.15
27	A	Takahisa Yoshida	Japan	o	xxx			2.15
27	A	Stevan Zorić	Yugoslavia	o	xxx			2.15
27	B	Pyotr Brayko	Russia	o	xxx			2.15
27	B	Glenn Howard	New Zealand	o	xxx			2.15
33	A	Jean-Claude Rabbath	Lebanon	xo	xxx			2.15
34	A	Aleksei Lelin	Belarus	xxo	xxx			2.15
	B	Hugo Muñoz	Peru	xxx				NM
	B	Labros Papakostas	Greece					DNS

Final

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Silver medallist Javier Sotomayor

Rank	Name	Nationality	2.20	2.25	2.29	2.32	2.35	Result	Notes
	Sergey Kliugin	Russia	o	–	o	xo	o	2.35	SB
	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	–	o	–	o	xxx	2.32	SB
	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	o	o	xo	o	xxx	2.32
4	Stefan Holm	Sweden	o	o	xxo	o	xxx	2.32
5	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel	o	o	o	xxo	xxx	2.32
6	Mark Boswell	Canada	xo	o	–	xxo	xxx	2.32
6	Staffan Strand	Sweden	–	xo	o	xxo	xxx	2.32
8	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	o	o	o	xxx		2.29
9	Sergii Dymchenko	Ukraine	o	xo	o	xxx		2.29
10	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	o	o	xxo	xxx		2.29
11	Nathan Leeper	United States	o	o	xxx			2.25
12	Kwaku Boateng	Canada	xo	xo	xxx			2.25
13	Kenny Evans	United States	xo	xxx				2.20

Source: Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics available at https://web.archive.org/web/20080522105330/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm