Athletics at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Men's high jump

Athletics at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Track events
100 yd	men	women
220 yd	men	women
440 yd	men
880 yd	men
1 mile	men
3 miles	men
6 miles	men
80 m hurdles		women
120 yd hurdles	men
440 yd hurdles	men
4 × 110 yd relay	men	women
4 × 440 yd relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
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Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ernest Haisley Jamaica	Chilla Porter Australia	Robert Kotei Ghana

Qualifying height: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)^[2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
?	Chilla Porter	Australia	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
?	Ken Money	Canada	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
?	Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam	Ceylon	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
?	Gordon Miller	England	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
?	Robert Kotei	Ghana	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
?	Ernest Haisley	Jamaica	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
?	Joseph Leresae	Kenya	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
?	Julius Chigbolou	Nigeria	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
?	Crawford Fairbrother	Scotland	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
?	Learie Scipio	Trinidad and Tobago	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
?	Patrick Etolu	Uganda	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
12	Colin Ridgway	Australia	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
12	R. Garber	Ghana	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
12	Vincent Gabriel	Nigeria	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
12	Oladipo Okuwobi	Nigeria	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
16	Charles Vandyck	Ghana	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
16	Colin Clarkson	Sierra Leone	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
18	Dave Wilson	England	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
18	John Kitching	England	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
20	Joseph Tokana	Fiji	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
20	Saranjit Singh	India	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
20	Omoruyi Odobo	Nigeria	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
20	Godrey Roberts	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
20	Desmond Luke	Sierra Leone	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
20	Kevin Phillips	Wales	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
26	Terence Morgan	Wales	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
27	Cosmos Julien	Mauritius	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
	Paul Foreman	Jamaica	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Ernest Haisley	Jamaica	6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
	Chilla Porter	Australia	6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
	Robert Kotei	Ghana	6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
4	Joseph Leresae	Kenya	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
4	Julius Chigbolou	Nigeria	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
4	Patrick Etolu	Uganda	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
7	Crawford Fairbrother	Scotland	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
8	Ken Money	Canada	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
9	Learie Scipio	Trinidad and Tobago	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
10	Gordon Miller	England	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
11	Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam	Ceylon	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)

^ "Results". thecgf.com. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Many splendid performances in track and field events". The Manchester Guardian. 21 July 1958. p. 8. Retrieved 2 October 2020.

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