Report: men`s high jump final - IAAF World Championships London 2017
(IAAF News)

Heading into these championships, the conventional wisdom was that the men`s high jump title was Mutaz Essa Barshim`s to lose. Arriving undefeated in six competitions and armed with the seven of the eight best clearances in the world, the Qatari was among the clearest favourites in the British capital over these ten days of competition.