Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump
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Men's high jump at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Beijing Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
Dates | 17 August 2008 (qualifying) 19 August 2008 (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 40 from 28 nations | |||||||||
Winning height | 2.36 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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The men's high jump at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 17–19 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium.[1] Forty athletes from 28 nations competed.[2] The event was won by Andrey Silnov of Russia, the nation's second victory (after 2000) in the men's high jump. Germaine Mason's silver was Great Britain's first medal in the event since 1996, and matched the nation's best-ever result. Silnov's countryman Yaroslav Rybakov won bronze, marking the first time since 1988 that a nation had two medalists in the men's high jump in the same Games. Reigning world champion Donald Thomas, who cleared 2.32 metres at Osaka 2007, finished in twenty-first place and failed to advance into the final round. For the first time (other than the boycotted 1980 Games), no American made the final.[2]
In June 2019, Silnov faced doping charges.[3] His doping ban was confirmed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on 7 April 2021 when he was banned for four years with all of his results from 8 July 2013 disqualified.[4] In 2023, Silnov was seen awarding athletes at a Russian domestic competition for which the World Anti-Doping Agency extended his ban for a further year.[5]