Athletics at the 1959 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	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
Combined events
Pentathlon	men

The men's high jump event at the 1959 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Comunale di Torino in Turin on 4 and 5 September 1959.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Cornel Porumb  Romania	Vladimir Marjanović  Yugoslavia	Raycho Aleksandrov  Soviet Union Kazimierz Fabrykowski  Poland

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
?	?	Henri Grue	France	1.80	[3]
?	?	Ioannis Koinis	Greece	1.80
?	?	Maqbool Cheema	Pakistan	1.80
?	?	Brunello Martini	Italy	1.80
?	?	Kazimierz Fabrykowski	Poland	1.80
?	?	Gianpiero Cordovani	Italy	1.80
?	?	Raycho Aleksandrov	Soviet Union	1.80
?	?	Harald Lindemann	West Germany	1.80
?	?	Jean Van Slype	Belgium	1.80
?	?	Vladimir Marjanović	Yugoslavia	1.80
?	?	Zdeněk Matějka	Czechoslovakia	1.80
?	?	Cornel Porumb	Romania	1.80
?	?	Oladipo Okuwobi	Nigeria	1.80
?	?	Peter Riebensahm	West Germany	1.80
?	?	Per Olov Enquist	Sweden	1.80
?	?	Frank Myhre	Norway	1.80
?	?	Victor Bolshov	Soviet Union	1.80
?	?	Lopes	Portugal	1.80

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Cornel Porumb	Romania	2.01
	Vladimir Marjanović	Yugoslavia	1.96
	Raycho Aleksandrov	Soviet Union	1.96
	Kazimierz Fabrykowski	Poland	1.96
5	Per Olov Enquist	Sweden	1.96
6	Zdeněk Matějka	Czechoslovakia	1.96
7	Peter Riebensahm	West Germany	1.93
8	Ioannis Koinis	Greece	1.93
9	Frank Myhre	Norway	1.93
10	Gianpiero Cordovani	Italy	1.90
11	Henri Grue	France	1.90	[3]
12	Jean Van Slype	Belgium	1.85
12	Oladipo Okuwobi	Nigeria	1.85
14	Harald Lindemann	West Germany	1.85
15	Brunello Martini	Italy	1.85
16	Maqbool Cheema	Pakistan	1.80
	Victor Bolshov	Soviet Union	NM	[5]