The men's high jump at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 11 and 13 August.

[1] After winning Olympic gold, then setting the world decathlon best in the high jump, defending champion Derek Drouin (CAN) could not return due to a nagging injury.

Olympic silver medalist Mutaz Essa Barshim (BHR) was perfect through the automatic qualifier in the preliminaries and up to 2.29 m in the final.

Danil Lysenko, competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete and Majd Eddin Ghazal (SYR), who trains in war ravaged Damascus both cleared with one miss.

[4] The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows:[5] The qualification round took place on 11 August, in two groups, both starting at 11:15.