Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games – Men's high jump

Men's high jump
at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Men's high jump ; at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Venue	Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh
Dates	17 and 18 July 1970
Medalists

The men's high jump event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 17 and 18 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland.^[1]

Medallists

Medallists
Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lawrie Peckham Australia	John Hawkins Canada	Sheikh Faye Gambia

Athletes eliminated before final
Rank	Name	Nationality	Height
13	Crawford Fairbrother	Scotland	1.93
13	Phil Taylor	England	1.93
15	Cosmos Julien	Mauritius	1.83
15	Raymond Anthony	Grenada	1.83
	Granville Buckley	Antigua and Barbuda	DNS
	L. Turnquest	Bahamas	DNS

Final results
Rank	Name	Nationality	Height
	Lawrie Peckham	Australia	2.14
	John Hawkins	Canada	2.12
	Sheikh Faye	Gambia	2.10
4	Bhim Singh	India	2.06
5	Rick Cuttell	Canada	2.06
6	Anthony Holbrook-Smith	Ghana	2.06
7	David Wilson	Scotland	2.04
8	Mike Campbell	England	2.01
9	Nor Azhar Abdul Hamid	Singapore	1.98
10	Leon Hall	England	1.96
11	Samuel Igun	Nigeria	1.96
12	Henry Jackson	Jamaica	1.88

Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 mile walk	men
Field events
High jump		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
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

High jump at the Commonwealth Games
Men's	1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Women's	1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022