Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump
The men's high jump competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–22 August.
Competition format
The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. Athletes start with a qualifying round. Jumping in turn, each athlete attempts to achieve the qualifying height. If they fail at three jumps in a row, they are eliminated. After a successful jump, they receive three more attempts to achieve the next height. Once all jumps have been completed, all athletes who have achieved the qualifying height go through to the final. If fewer than 12 athletes achieve the qualifying standard, the best 12 athletes go through. Cleared heights reset for the final, which followed the same format until all athletes fail three consecutive jumps.Schedule
All times are Greece Standard Time| Date | Time | Round |
| Friday, 20 August 2004 | 20:00 | Qualification |
| Sunday, 22 August 2004 | 19:30 | Final |
Records
, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.No new records were set during the competition.
Results
Qualifying round
Rule: Qualifying standard 2.28 or at least best 12 qualified.| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | 2.10 | 2.15 | 2.20 | 2.25 | 2.28 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | B | Stefan Holm | - | - | o | o | o | 2.28 | Q | |
| 1 | A | Jamie Nieto | - | - | o | o | o | 2.28 | Q | |
| 1 | A | Mark Boswell | - | - | o | o | o | 2.28 | Q, SB | |
| 4 | A | Andriy Sokolovskyy | - | o | o | xo | o | 2.28 | Q | |
| 4 | B | Lisvany Pérez | o | xo | o | o | o | 2.28 | Q, PB | |
| 4 | B | Svatoslav Ton | o | o | xo | o | o | 2.28 | Q | |
| 7 | A | Alessandro Talotti | - | o | xo | xxo | o | 2.28 | Q | |
| 8 | A | Yaroslav Rybakov | - | o | o | o | xo | 2.28 | Q | |
| 9 | A | Dragutin Topić | - | o | xo | o | xo | 2.28 | Q, =SB | |
| 9 | B | Jaroslav Bába | - | o | o | xo | xo | 2.28 | Q | |
| 11 | B | Matt Hemingway | - | - | o | o | xxo | 2.28 | Q | |
| 12 | B | Vyacheslav Voronin | - | o | xo | xo | xxo | 2.28 | Q | |
| 13 | A | Hennazdy Maroz | - | o | o | o | xxx | 2.25 | ||
| 13 | B | Nicola Ciotti | - | o | o | o | xxx | 2.25 | ||
| 15 | A | Ştefan Vasilache | - | o | xo | o | xxx | 2.25 | ||
| 15 | B | Abderrahmane Hammad | - | xo | o | o | xxx | 2.25 | SB | |
| 17 | B | Jessé de Lima | - | o | xxo | o | xxx | 2.25 | ||
| 18 | B | Staffan Strand | - | - | o | xo | xxx | 2.25 | ||
| 18 | A | Kyriakos Ioannou | o | o | o | xo | xxx | 2.25 | ||
| 20 | A | Grzegorz Sposób | - | o | o | xxx | 2.20 | |||
| 20 | B | Rožle Prezelj | - | o | o | xxx | 2.20 | |||
| 20 | B | Jacques Freitag | - | o | o | xxx | 2.20 | |||
| 20 | A | Manjula Kumara Wijesekara | - | o | o | xxx | 2.20 | |||
| 24 | A | Linus Thörnblad | o | xxo | o | xxx | 2.20 | |||
| 25 | A | Oskari Frösén | o | o | xo | xxx | 2.20 | |||
| 25 | A | Roman Fricke | - | o | xo | xxx | 2.20 | |||
| 25 | B | Jean-Claude Rabbath | o | o | xo | xxx | 2.20 | |||
| 25 | B | Robert Wolski | - | o | xo | xxx | 2.20 | |||
| 25 | B | Pyotr Brayko | - | o | xo | x- | 2.20 | |||
| 30 | A | Tomáš Janků | o | xo | xo | xxx | 2.20 | |||
| 31 | B | Marko Aleksejev | o | o | xxx | 2.15 | ||||
| 31 | B | Javier Bermejo | o | o | xxx | 2.15 | ||||
| 33 | A | László Boros | xo | o | xxx | 2.15 | ||||
| 34 | A | Tora Harris | - | xo | xxx | 2.15 | ||||
| 35 | A | Alfredo Deza | o | xxx | 2.10 | |||||
| 36 | B | Liu Yang | xxo | x | 2.10 | |||||
| A | Adrian O'Dwyer | xxx | ' | |||||||
| B | Aleksey Lesnichiy | - | xxx | - | - | - | ' |
- Aleksey Lesnichiy was disqualified after failing an anti-doping test.
Final