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

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
?	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

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	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)

References

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