Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade
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	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Half marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's high jump event at the 1997 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Italy on 27 and 28 August.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lee Jin-taek  South Korea	Charles Lefrançois  Canada	Didier Detchénique  France

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	?	Sergey Klyugin	Russia	2.23
?	?	Gregory Walker	United States	2.20
?	?	Christian Rhoden	Germany	2.20
?	?	Lee Jin-taek	South Korea	2.20
?	?	Charles Lefrançois	Canada	2.20	[2]
?	?	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	2.20
?	?	Ben Challenger	Great Britain	2.20
?	?	Shane Lavy	United States	2.15
?	?	Ramon Kaju	Estonia	2.15
?	?	Ruslan Stipanov	Ukraine	2.15
?	?	Marcin Kaczocha	Poland	2.15
?	?	Didier Detchénique	France	2.15
?	?	Xu Yang	China	2.15
?	A	Ignacio Pérez	Spain	2.15	[3]
?	?	Kim Tae-hoi	South Korea	2.15
?	?	Abderrahmane Hammad	Algeria	2.10
16	?	Mustapha Raifak	France	2.10
?	?	Đorđe Niketić	Yugoslavia	2.10
?	?	Svatoslav Ton	Czech Republic	2.10
?	?	István Kovács	Hungary	2.10
?	?	Eduard Rajter	Hungary	2.10
?	?	César Ballesteros	Mexico	2.00
?	?	Szymon Kuźma	Poland	2.00
?	?	Kemal Güner	Turkey	2.00
?	?	José Barahona	Panama	1.90
?	?	Cheong Chi Fong	Macau	1.80

^[4]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Lee Jin-taek	South Korea	2.32
	Charles Lefrançois	Canada	2.32
	Didier Detchénique	France	2.28
4	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	2.26
5	Ramon Kaju	Estonia	2.23
5	Sergey Klyugin	Russia	2.23
7	Gregory Walker	United States	2.23
7	Shane Lavy	United States	2.23
9	Ruslan Stipanov	Ukraine	2.20
10	Christian Rhoden	Germany	2.20
11	Ben Challenger	Great Britain	2.10
12	Marcin Kaczocha	Poland	2.10