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Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump
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The men's high jump event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, 22 September and Sunday, 24 September.[1] Thirty-five athletes from 24 nations competed.[2] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The high jump has been ever present since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896. The event was won by Sergey Klyugin of Russia, the nation's first medal and victory in the men's high jump in the nation's first appearance after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Javier Sotomayor of Cuba was the eighth man to win a second medal in the event (and first to do so in non-consecutive Games, earning his first in 1992); he joined Valeriy Brumel and Jacek Wszoła as the most successful Olympic high jumpers in history with a gold and a silver—despite missing the 1984 and 1988 Games due to boycott and being hampered by injury in 1996. Abderrahmane Hammad's bronze was Algeria's first medal in the men's high jump.
Men's high jump at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad | ||||||||||
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![]() Silver medallist Javier Sotomayor | ||||||||||
Venue | Stadium Australia | |||||||||
Dates | 22 September 2000 (qualifying) 24 September 2000 (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 35 from 24 nations | |||||||||
Winning height | 2.35 | |||||||||
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