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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The men's high jump event at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was held on 19 July at the Cardiff Arms Park in Cardiff, Wales.^[1]

Medalists[]

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

Results[]

Qualification[]

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
?		Nigeria	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
?	Crawford Fairbrother	Scotland	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	Q
?		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		Nigeria	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
16		Ghana	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
16		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		Fiji	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
20		India	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
20		Nigeria	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
20		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		Wales	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
26		Wales	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
27		Mauritius	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
	Paul Foreman	Jamaica	DNS

Final[]

^[2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	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		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		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)

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