Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump

Men's high jump at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 1
Medalists
Robert Shavlakadze Soviet Union   Valery Brumel Soviet Union   John Thomas United States

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's high jump field event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 1.

Results

All jumpers reaching 2.00 metres advanced to the finals. All heights are listed in metres.

Qualifying

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1.90	1.95	2.00	Notes
1	John Thomas	United States	2.00	p	p	o
2T	Viktor Bolshov	Soviet Union	2.00	o	p	o
2T	Stig Pettersson	Sweden	2.00	p	o	o
4T	Maurice Fournier	France	2.00	o	o	o
4T	Robert Kotei	Ghana	2.00	o	o	o
4T	Jiří Lanský	Czechoslovakia	2.00	o	o	o
4T	Kjell-Åke Nilsson	Sweden	2.00	o	o	o
4T	Sándor Noszály	Hungary	2.00	o	o	o
4T	Cornel Porumb	Romania	2.00	o	o	o
4T	Robert Shavlakadze	Soviet Union	2.00	o	o	o
11	Theo Püll	United Team of Germany	2.00	xo	o	o
12	Piotr Sobotta	Poland	2.00	o	xxo	o
13T	Valery Brumel	Soviet Union	2.00	o	p	xo
13T	Gordon Miller	Great Britain	2.00	p	o	xo
15T	Charlie Dumas	United States	2.00	o	o	xo
15T	Joe Faust	United States	2.00	o	o	xo
17	Mahamat Idriss	France	2.00	o	o	xxo
18	Kuniyoshi Sugioka	Japan	1.95	p	o	xxx
19T	René Maurer	Switzerland	1.95	o	o	xxx
19T	Werner Pfeil	United Team of Germany	1.95	o	o	xxx
19T	Eero Salminen	Finland	1.95	o	o	xxx
22T	Helmut Donner	Austria	1.95	xo	o	xxx
22T	Crawford Fairbrother	Great Britain	1.95	o	xo	xxx
24T	Jón Pétursson	Iceland	1.95	xo	o	xxx
24T	Peter Riebensahm	United Team of Germany	1.95	o	xo	xxx
26	Đorđe Majtan	Yugoslavia	1.95	p	xxo	xxx
27	Chilla Porter	Australia	1.95	o	xxo	xxx
28	Samuel Igun	Nigeria	1.90	o	xxx
29	Gurbachan Singh Randhawa	India	1.90	xxo	xxx
-	Mohamed Abdul Razzak	Iraq	-	xxx			NM
-	Sylvain Bitan	Tunisia	-	xxx			NM
-	Çetin Şahiner	Turkey	-	xxx			NM

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1.90	1.95	2.00	2.03	2.06	2.09	2.12	2.12	2.14	2.16	Notes
01 !	Robert Shavlakadze	Soviet Union	2.16	p	p	xo	o	o	o	o	o OR	o OR	xxo	OR
02 !	Valery Brumel	Soviet Union	2.16	p	o	p	o	o	xo	xxo	xo =OR	xo =OR	xxx	OR
03 !	John Thomas	United States	2.14	p	p	o	p	o	o	p	xo =OR	xxx
4	Viktor Bolshov	Soviet Union	2.14	p	o	p	o	o	o	o	xo =OR	xxx
5	Stig Pettersson	Sweden	2.09	o	p	o	p	xxo	xxo	xxx
6	Charlie Dumas	United States	2.03	p	p	o	o	p
7T	Jiří Lanský	Czechoslovakia	2.03	o	o	o	o	xxx
7T	Kjell-Åke Nilsson	Sweden	2.03	o	o	o	o	xxx
7T	Theo Püll	United Team of Germany	2.03	o	o	o	o	xxx
10	Robert Kotei	Ghana	2.03	o	p	o	xo	xxx
11	Cornel Porumb	Romania	2.03	o	o	o	xo	xxx
12	Mahamat Idriss	France	2.03	p	xo	xo	xo	xxx
13	Sándor Noszály	Hungary	2.03	o	o	xo	xxo	xxx
14	Maurice Fournier	France	2.00	p	o	o	xxx
15	Piotr Sobotta	Poland	2.00	o	o	o	xxx
16	Gordon Miller	Great Britain	2.00	o	o	xxo	xxx
17	Joe Faust	United States	1.95	o	o	xxx

Key: OR = Olympic record; =OR = equalled Olympic record NR = no mark; o = clear ; p = pass; x = fail

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's high jump, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-11.