The men's high jump

High jump

The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

 at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships

2011 IPC Athletics World Championships

The 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships was held in Christchurch, New Zealand from January 21 to 30, 2011. Athletes with a disability competed, and the Championships was a qualifying event for the London 2012 Paralympic Games....

was held at the QEII Stadium

Queen Elizabeth II Park

Queen Elizabeth II Park is a multi-use stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand. The stadium has a capacity of 25,000 people. It was built in 1973, to host the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in which a temporary 15000 seat western stand was erected for the event taking capacity to 35000...

 on 27-29 January.

Medalists

Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
F13	Ihar Fartunau Ihar Fartunau Ihar Fartunau is a Paralympian athlete from Belarus competing mainly in category P13 pentathlon events.He competed in the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States...	Ivan Kytsenko Ivan Kytsenko Ivan Kytsenko is a Paralympian athlete from Ukraine competing mainly in category F12 long and triple jump events.Ivan has competed and medaled in three paralympics starting in Sydney in 2000 where he won a silver in the F13 long jump but missed out on the pentathlon...	Braedon Samuel Dolfo
F42	Weizhong Guo	Iliesa Delana	Xiaowen Li
F46	Maciej Lepiato	Hongjie Chen
		Jeff Skiba Jeff Skiba Jeff Skiba is a police officer and a Paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category P44 pentathlon events.-Early life:...

F13

The Men's high jump, F13 was held on January 28

• Classification F13 - visual impairment
  • F13: visual acuity
    Visual acuity
    Visual acuity is acuteness or clearness of vision, which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal focus within the eye and the sensitivity of the interpretative faculty of the brain....
    
     ranges from 2/60 to 6/60 and/or visual field
    Visual field
    The term visual field is sometimes used as a synonym to field of view, though they do not designate the same thing. The visual field is the "spatial array of visual sensations available to observation in introspectionist psychological experiments", while 'field of view' "refers to the physical...
    
     over 5 degrees and less than 20 degrees.

The event also included athletes with a F12 classification - visual impairment

• F12: may recognise the shape of a hand and have a visual acuity of 2/60 and/or visual field of less than 5 degrees.

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.55	1.60	1.65	1.70	1.75	1.80	1.83	1.86	1.89	1.92	Result	Notes
	Ihar Fartunau Ihar Fartunau Ihar Fartunau is a Paralympian athlete from Belarus competing mainly in category P13 pentathlon events.He competed in the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States...		-	-	-	o	o	o	o	o	o	xo	1.92
	Ivan Kytsenko Ivan Kytsenko Ivan Kytsenko is a Paralympian athlete from Ukraine competing mainly in category F12 long and triple jump events.Ivan has competed and medaled in three paralympics starting in Sydney in 2000 where he won a silver in the F13 long jump but missed out on the pentathlon...		-	o	o	o	o	o	o	xxo	o	xx-	1.89	CR
	Braedon Samuel Dolfo		-	-	o	o	o	xo	o	xxx			1.83	SB
	Siarhei Burdukou		-	o	o	o	xxx						1.70
	Brandon King		xxx										NM

Key: CR = Championship Record, SB = Season Best, NM = No Mark

F42

The Men's high jump, F42 was held on January 29

• F42 = single above knee amputation or equivalent impairments.

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.45	1.50	1.55	1.60	1.65	1.70	1.73	1.76	1.79	Result	Notes
	Weizhong Guo		-	-	o	o	xxo	o	o	o		1.76	SB
	Iliesa Delana		o	o	o	o	o	o	o	xxx		1.73	AR
	Xiaowen Li		-	o	o	o	o	xo	xxx			1.70
	Lukasz Maciej Mamczarz		-	-	xo	xo	xxx					1.60
	Marcel Jaroslawski		o	o	xxx							1.50
	Dennis Wliszczak Dennis Wliszczak Dennis Wliszczak is a paralympic athlete from Austria competing mainly in category F42 high jump events.Dennis competed in the high jump in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens winning the bronze medal.-References:...		o	o	xxx							1.50
	Sanjay Kumar		xo	xo	xxx							1.50

Key: SB = Seasonal best, AR = Area Record

F46

The Men's high jump, F46 was held on January 27

F46 = single above or below elbow amputation, or equivalent impairment.

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.70	1.75	1.80	1.85	1.90	1.93	1.96	1.99	2.02	Result	Notes
	Maciej Lepiato		-	-	o	-	o	-	o	o	o	2.02	AR
	Hongjie Chen		-	-	-	o	-	o	o	xxx		1.96	SB
	Jeff Skiba Jeff Skiba Jeff Skiba is a police officer and a Paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category P44 pentathlon events.-Early life:...		-	-	-	o	-	o	o	xxx		1.96	SB
	Reinhold Boetzel Reinhold Boetzel Reinhold Boetzel is a paralympic athlete from Germany competing mainly in category F46 high jump and long jump events.Despite competing in the high jump and long jump events at both the 2000 and 2004 Summer Paralympics it was as part of the German 4x100m rely team in the T46 class in 2000 that...		-	o	o	o	xxx					1.85	SB
	Toru Suzuki		-	-	o	-	xxx					1.80
	Junfeng Shang		xo	o	xxx							1.75	SB

Key: AR = Area Record, SB = Seasonal best