Men's high jump at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships
Venue	Kasarani Stadium
Dates	21 August
Competitors	14 from 13 nations
Winning height	2.26 m
Medalists
Yonathan Kapitolnik    Israel   Massimiliano Luiu    Italy   Mateusz Kołodziejski    Poland
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Events at the 2021 World U20 Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
5000 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
10000 m 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
v t e

The men's high jump at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships was held at the Kasarani Stadium on 21 August.^[1]

Standing records prior to the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships
World U20 Record	Dragutin Topić (YUG)	2.37	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	12 August 1990
	Steve Smith (GBR)		Seoul, South Korea	20 September 1992
Championship Record	Dragutin Topić (YUG)	2.37	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	12 August 1990
	Steve Smith (GBR)		Seoul, South Korea	20 September 1992
World U20 Leading	Wu Guobiao (CHN)	2.27	Nanjing, China	15 May 2021

The final was held on 21 August at 15:55.^[2][3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	2.00	2.06	2.10	2.14	2.17	2.19	2.21	2.26	2.31	Mark	Notes
	Yonathan Kapitolnik	Israel	–	o	o	o	o	o	–	o	xxx	2.26	PB
	Massimiliano Luiu	Italy	o	o	o	o	o	xxx				2.17	PB
	Mateusz Kołodziejski	Poland	o	o	o	o	xxo	xxx				2.17
4	Omamuyovwi Best Erhire	Nigeria	–	o	o	o	xxx					2.14
5	Brian Raats	South Africa	–	xo	xo	xxo	xxx					2.14
6	Roman Petruk	Ukraine	–	xo	o	xxx						2.10
7	Jakub Bělík	Czech Republic	o	xxo	o	xxx						2.10
8	David Aya	Nigeria	xo	o	xo	xxx						2.10
9	Martin Mlinarić	Croatia	o	o	xxx							2.06
	Sid Markus Imani Varland	Kenya	o	o	xxx							2.06	PB
11	Sandro Jeršin Tomassini	Slovenia	xo	o	xxx							2.06
12	Kristján Viggó Sigfinnsson	Iceland	–	xo	x-	xx						2.06	PB
13	Sámuel Hodossy-Takács	Hungary	o	xxx								2.00
	Aiden Grout	Canada	–	xxx								NM