2025 World Athletics Championships – Men's high jump

Men's high jump at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
Venue	National Stadium
Location	Tokyo, Japan
Dates	14 September (qualification) 16 September (final)
Winning height	2.36 m
Medalists
Hamish Kerr    New Zealand   Woo Sang-hyeok    South Korea   Jan Štefela    Czech Republic

Events at the 2025 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
	mixed
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
35 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
World Team event
	World Team

The men's high jump at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 14 and 16 September 2025.

Before the competition records were as follows:^[1]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.45 m	Salamanca, Spain	27 July 1993
Championship record	Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)	2.41 m	Moscow, Russia	15 August 2013
World Leading	Danil Lysenko (RUS)	2.35 m	Brest, Belarus	13 July 2025
African Record	Jacques Freitag (RSA)	2.38 m	Oudtshoorn, South Africa	5 March 2005
Asian Record	Mutaz Barsham (QAT)	2.43 m	Brussels, Belgium	5 September 2014
European Record	Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)	2.42 m	Stockholm, Sweden	30 June 1987
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Javier Sotomayor (CUB)	2.45 m	Salamanca, Spain	27 July 1993
Oceanian record	Tim Forsyth (AUS)	2.36 m	Melbourne, Australia	2 March 1997
	Brandon Starc (AUS)		Eberstadt, Germany	26 August 2018
	Hamish Kerr (NZ)		Paris, France	10 August 2024
South American Record	Gilmar Mayo (COL)	2.33 m	Pereira, Colombia	17 October 1994

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 2.33 m.^[2]

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows:

All athletes over 2.30 m ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) advanced to the final.

Place	Athlete	Nation	2.16	2.21	2.25	2.28	2.30	Mark	Notes
1	Oleh Doroshchuk	Ukraine	o	o	o			2.25 m	q
2	Hamish Kerr	New Zealand	o	o	xo			2.25 m	q
3	Tyus Wilson	United States	o	o	xxo			2.25 m	q
4	Thomas Carmoy	Belgium	xo	xxo	xxo			2.25 m	q
5	Romaine Beckford	Jamaica	xxo	xxo	xxo			2.25 m	q
6	Fu Chao-hsuan	Chinese Taipei	o	o	xxx			2.21 m
6	Jonathan Kapitolnik	Israel	o	o	xxx			2.21 m
6	Tomohiro Shinno	Japan	o	o	xxx			2.21 m
9	Erick Portillo	Mexico	o	xo	xxx			2.21 m
10	Shelby Mcewen	United States	o	xxo	xxx			2.21 m
10	Donald Thomas	Bahamas	o	xxo	xxx			2.21 m
12	Manuel Lando	Italy	o	xxx				2.16 m
12	Stefano Sottile	Italy	o	xxx				2.16 m
14	Vadym Kravchuk	Ukraine	xo	xxx				2.16 m
14	Brandon Starc	Australia	xo	xxx				2.16 m
16	Roman Anastasios	Australia	xxo	xxx				2.16 m
—	Luis Castro Rivera	Puerto Rico	xxx					NM
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Place	Athlete	Nation	2.16	2.21	2.25	2.28	2.30	Mark	Notes
1	Ryoichi Akamatsu	Japan	o	o	o			2.25 m	q
2	Woo Sang-hyeok	South Korea	xo	o	o			2.25 m	q
3	Yuto Seko	Japan	xo	xxo	o			2.25 m	q
4	JuVaughn Harrison	United States	o	o	xo			2.25 m	q
4	Yual Reath	Australia	o	o	xo			2.25 m	q, SB
4	Jan Štefela	Czech Republic	o	o	xo			2.25 m	q
7	Sarvesh Kushare	India	xo	xo	xo			2.25 m	q
7	Matteo Sioli	Italy	o	xxo	xo			2.25 m	q
9	Edgar Rivera	Mexico	o	o	xxx			2.21 m
10	Dmytro Nikitin	Ukraine	xo	xxo	xxx			2.21 m
11	Juozas Baikštys	Lithuania	o	xxx				2.16 m
11	Tihomir Ivanov	Bulgaria	o	xxx				2.16 m
11	Tobias Potye	Germany	o	xxx				2.16 m
11	Raymond Richards	Jamaica	o	xxx				2.16 m
11	Gianmarco Tamberi	Italy	o	xxx				2.16 m
16	Mateusz Kołodziejski	Poland	xo	xxx				2.16 m
16	Thiago Moura	Brazil	xo	xxx				2.16 m
—	Brian Raats	South Africa	xxx					NM
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Place	Athlete	Nation	2.20	2.24	2.28	2.31	2.34	2.36	2.38	Mark	Notes
	Hamish Kerr	New Zealand	o	o	o	xxo	xxo	o	x	2.36 m	WL
	Woo Sang-hyeok	South Korea	o	o	xo	xo	xxo	x–	xx	2.34 m	SB
	Jan Štefela	Czech Republic	o	o	xxo	xo	xxx			2.31 m
4	Oleh Doroshchuk	Ukraine	o	o	o	xxo	xxx			2.31 m
5	JuVaughn Harrison	United States	o	o	o	xxx				2.28 m	SB
6	Sarvesh Kushare	India	o	xo	xxo	xxx				2.28 m	PB
6	Tyus Wilson	United States	xo	o	xxo	xxx				2.28 m	SB
8	Matteo Sioli	Italy	o	xo	xxx					2.24 m
8	Ryoichi Akamatsu	Japan	o	xo	xxx					2.24 m
10	Yuto Seko	Japan	xo	xxx						2.20 m
11	Yual Reath	Australia	xxo	xxx						2.20 m
11	Thomas Carmoy	Belgium	xxo	xxx						2.20 m
—	Romaine Beckford	Jamaica	xxx							NM
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