1950 European Athletics Championships – Men's high jump

1950 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 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
50 km 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

The men's high jump at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Brussels, Belgium, at Heysel Stadium on 25 and 27 August 1950.^[1]

Gold	Alan Paterson  Great Britain
Silver	Arne Åhman  Sweden
Bronze	Claude Bénard  France

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Alan Paterson	Great Britain	1.96
	Arne Åhman	Sweden	1.93
	Claude Bénard	France	1.93
4	Hans Wahli	Switzerland	1.90
5	Gösta Svensson	Sweden	1.90
6	Georges Damitio	France	1.90
7	Jacques Delelienne	Belgium	1.85
8	Yuriy Ilyasov	Soviet Union	1.85
9	Mihajlo Dimitrijević	Yugoslavia	1.85
10	Walter Herssens	Belgium	1.85

25 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Jacques Delelienne	Belgium	1.90	Q
	Arne Åhman	Sweden	1.90	Q
	Georges Damitio	France	1.90	Q
	Alan Paterson	Great Britain	1.90	Q
	Hans Wahli	Switzerland	1.90	Q
	Gösta Svensson	Sweden	1.85	Q
	Claude Bénard	France	1.85	Q
	Walter Herssens	Belgium	1.85	Q
	Mihajlo Dimitrijević	Yugoslavia	1.85	Q
	Yuriy Ilyasov	Soviet Union	1.85	Q
	Ronald Pavitt	Great Britain	1.80

According to an unofficial count, 11 athletes from 7 countries participated in the event.