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Athletics
High jump
Yelena Slesarenko failing 2007.jpg
Men's records
World Javier Sotomayor 2.45 m (8 ft 0​14 in) (1993)
Olympic Charles Austin 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) (1996)
Women's records
World Stefka Kostadinova 2.09 m (6 ft 10​14 in) (1987)
Olympic Yelena Slesarenko 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) (2004)

The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern most practised format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat for landing. At the elite level, athletes run towards the bar and use the Fosbury Flop method of jumping, leaping head first with their back to the bar. Performed since ancient times, competitors have introduced increasingly more effective techniques to arrive at the current form.

The discipline is, alongside the pole vault, one of two vertical clearance events to feature on the Olympic athletics programme. It is contested at the World Championships in Athletics and IAAF World Indoor Championships, and is a common occurrence at track and field meetings. The high jump was among the first events deemed acceptable for women, having been held at the 1928 Olympic Games.

Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) is the current men's record holder with a jump of 2.45 m (8 ft 0​14 in) set in 1993 – the longest standing record in the history of the men's high jump. Stefka Kostadinova (Bulgaria) has held the women's world record at 2.09 m (6 ft 10​14 in) since 1987, also the longest-held record in the event.

Rules

Canadian high jumper Nicole Forrester demonstrating the Fosbury flop

Jumpers must take off on one foot.

The rules for the high jump are set internationally by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). A jump is considered a failure if the bar is dislodged by the action of the jumper whilst jumping or the jumper touches the ground or breaks the plane of the near edge of the bar before clearance. The technique one uses for the jump must be almost flawless in order to have a chance of clearing a high bar.

Competitors may begin jumping at any height announced by the chief judge, or may pass, at their own discretion. Three consecutive missed jumps, at any height or combination of heights, will eliminate the jumper from competition.

The victory goes to the jumper who clears the greatest height during the final. If two or more jumpers tie for first place, the tie-breakers are: 1) The fewest misses at the height at which the tie occurred; and 2) The fewest misses throughout the competition.

If the event remains tied for first place (or a limited advancement position to a subsequent meet), the jumpers have a jump-off, beginning at the next greater height. Each jumper has one attempt. The bar is then alternately lowered and raised until only one jumper succeeds at a given height.[1]

History

Konstantinos Tsiklitiras during the standing high jump competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics

The first recorded high jump event took place in Scotland in the 19th century. Early jumpers used either an elaborate straight-on approach or a scissors technique. In the later years, the bar was approached diagonally, and the jumper threw first the inside leg and then the other over the bar in a scissoring motion. Around the turn of the 20th century, techniques began to modernise, starting with the Irish-American Michael Sweeney's Eastern cut-off. By taking off like the scissors, but extending his back and flattening out over the bar, Sweeney achieved a more economic clearance and raised the world record to 1.97 m (6 ft 5​12 in) in 1895.

Another American, George Horine, developed an even more efficient technique, the Western roll. In this style, the bar again is approached on a diagonal, but the inner leg is used for the take-off, while the outer leg is thrust up to lead the body sideways over the bar. Horine increased the world standard to 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) in 1912. His technique was predominant through the Berlin Olympics of 1936, in which the event was won by Cornelius Johnson at 2.03 m (6 ft 7​34 in).

American and Soviet jumpers held the playing field for the next four decades, and they pioneered the evolution of the straddle technique. Straddle jumpers took off as in the Western roll, but rotated their (belly-down) torso around the bar, obtaining the most economical clearance up to that time. Straddle-jumper Charles Dumas was the first to clear 7 feet (2.13 m) in 1956, and American John Thomas pushed the world mark to 2.23 m (7 ft 3​34 in) in 1960. Valeriy Brumel took over the event for the next four years. The elegant Soviet jumper radically sped up his approach run, took the record up to 2.28 m (7 ft 5​34 in), and won the Olympic gold medal in 1964, before a motorcycle accident ended his career.

Gold medal winner Ethel Catherwood of Canada scissors over the bar at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Her winning result was 1.59 m (5 ft 2​12 in).
Platt Adams during the standing high jump competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics

American coaches, including two-time NCAA champion Frank Costello of the University of Maryland, flocked to Russia to learn from Brumel and his coaches. However, it would be a solitary innovator at Oregon State University, Dick Fosbury, who would bring the high jump into the next century. Taking advantage of the raised, softer landing areas by then in use, Fosbury added a new twist to the outmoded Eastern Cut-off. He directed himself over the bar head and shoulders first, sliding over on his back and landing in a fashion which would likely have broken his neck in the old, sawdust landing pits. After he used this Fosbury flop to win the 1968 Olympic gold medal, the technique began to spread around the world, and soon floppers were dominating international high jump competitions. The last straddler to set a world record was Vladimir Yashchenko, who cleared 2.33 m (7 ft 7​12 in) in 1977 and then 2.35 m (7 ft 8​12 in) indoors in 1978.

Among renowned high jumpers following Fosbury's lead were Americans Dwight Stones and his rival, 1.73 metres (5 ft 8 in) tall Franklin Jacobs of Paterson, NJ, who cleared 2.32 m (7 ft 7​14 in), 0.59 metres (1 ft 11 in) over his head (a feat equaled 27 years later by Sweden's Stefan Holm); Chinese record-setters Ni-chi Chin and Zhu Jianhua; Germans Gerd Wessig and Dietmar Mögenburg; Swedish Olympic medalist and world record holder Patrik Sjöberg; and female jumpers Iolanda Balaş of Romania, Ulrike Meyfarth of Germany and Italy's Sara Simeoni.

Technical aspects

The approach

Spanish jumper Ruth Beitia approaching the bar from an angle

The approach of the high jump may actually be more important than the take-off. If a high jumper runs with bad timing or without enough aggression, clearing a high bar becomes more of a challenge. The approach requires a certain shape or curve, the right amount of speed, and the correct number of strides. The approach angle is also critical for optimal height.

Most great straddle jumpers have a run at angles of about 30 to 40 degrees. The length of the run is determined by the speed of the person's approach. A slower run requires about 8 strides. However, a faster high jumper might need about 13 strides. A greater run speed allows a greater part of the body's forward momentum to be converted upward .[2]

The J type approach, favored by Fosbury floppers, allows for horizontal speed, the ability to turn in the air (centripetal force), and good take-off position. The approach should be a hard controlled stride so that a person does not fall from creating an angle with speed. Athletes should run tall and lean on the curve, from the ankles and not the hips.[3]

The take-off

Unlike the classic straddle technique, where the take-off foot is "planted" in the same spot at every height, flop-style jumpers must adjust their take-off as the bar is raised. Their J approach run must be adjusted slightly so that their take-off spot is slightly further out from the bar in order to allow their hips to clear the bar while still maintaining enough momentum to carry their legs across the bar. Jumpers attempting to reach record heights commonly fail when most of their energy is directed into the vertical effort, and they brush the bar off the standards with the backs of their legs as they stall out in mid-air.

An effective approach shape can be derived from physics. For example, the rate of backward spin required as the jumper crosses the bar to facilitate shoulder clearance on the way up and foot clearance on the way down can be determined by computer simulation. This rotation rate can be back-calculated to determine the required angle of lean away from the bar at plant, based on how long the jumper is on the take-off foot. This information, together with the jumper's speed in the curve, can be used to calculate the radius of the curved part of the approach. This is a lot of work and requires measurements of running speed and time of take-off foot on the ground. However, one can work in the opposite direction by assuming an approach radius and watching the resulting backward rotation. This only works if some basic rules are followed in how one executes the approach and take-off.

Drills can be practiced to solidify the approach. One drill is to run in a straight line (the linear part of the approach) and then run two to three circles spiraling into one another. Another is to run or skip a circle of any size, two to three times in a row.[4] It is important to train to leap upwards without first leaning into the bar, allowing the momentum of the J approach to carry the body across the bar.

Winner declaration

In competition the winner is the person who cleared the highest height. In case of a tie, fewer failed attempts at that height are better: i.e., the jumper who makes a height on his or her first attempt is placed ahead of someone who clears the same height on the second or third attempt. If there still is a tie, all the failed attempts at lower heights are added up, and the one with the fewest total misses is declared the winner. If still tied, a playoff is held.[5] Starting height is the next higher height after the overjumped one. If all the competitors clear the height, the bar is raised 2 cm (0.79 in), and if they fail, the bar is lowered 2 cm. That continues until only one competitor succeeds in overjumping that height, and he or she is declared the winner.

  • In the table below, dashes indicate that a height was not attempted, crosses indicate failed attempts, and circles indicate a cleared height. Jumpers A and D cleared 1.99 m but failed at 2.01 m. A wins this competition having cleared the winning height with two attempts, while jumper D required three attempts. Similarly, B is ranked ahead of C, having cleared the decisive height (i.e., 1.97m) in the first attempt.
Athlete 1.91 m 1.93 m 1.95 m 1.97 m 1.99 m 2.01 m Height Rank
A - - XO XO XO XXX 1.99 1st
B O - O O XXX 1.97 3rd
C O - XO XO X-- XX 1.97 4th
D - XO O XXO XXO XXX 1.99 2nd
E - O - XXX 5th

All-time top 25 athletes

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Men (absolute)

Rank Mark Athlete Venue Date Ref
1 2.45 m (8 ft 0​14 in)  Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Salamanca 27 July 1993
2 2.43 m (7 ft 11​12 in)  Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Brussels 5 September 2014 [10]
3 2.42 m (7 ft 11​14 in)  Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) Stockholm 30 June 1987
 Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) New York City 14 June 2014 [11]
 Carlo Thränhardt (FRG) Berlin (indoor) 26 February 1988
 Ivan Ukhov (RUS) Prague (indoor) 25 February 2014 [12]
7 2.41 m (7 ft 10​34 in)  Igor Paklin (URS) Kobe 4 September 1985
8 2.40 m (7 ft 10​14 in)  Rudolf Povarnitsyn (URS) Donetsk 11 August 1985
 Sorin Matei (ROM) Bratislava 20 June 1990
 Charles Austin (USA) Zürich 7 August 1991
 Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) London 5 August 2000
 Derek Drouin (CAN) [13] Des Moines 25 April 2014
 Andriy Protsenko (UKR) Lausanne 3 July 2014 [14]
 Hollis Conway (USA) Seville (indoor) 10 March 1991
 Stefan Holm (SWE) Madrid (indoor) 6 March 2005
 Aleksey Dmitrik (RUS) Arnstadt (indoor) 8 February 2014
17 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in)  Zhu Jianhua (CHN) Eberstadt 10 June 1984
 Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) Cologne (indoor) 24 February 1985
 Ralf Sonn (GER) Berlin (indoor) 1 March 1991
20 2.38 m (7 ft 9​12 in)  Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS) Rome 6 September 1987
 Sergey Malchenko (URS) Banska Bystrica 4 September 1988
 Dragutin Topić (SCG) Beograd 1 August 1993
 Troy Kemp (BAH) Nice 12 July 1995
 Artur Partyka (POL) Eberstadt 18 August 1996
 Jacques Freitag (RSA) Oudtshoorn 5 March 2005
 Andriy Sokolovskyy (UKR) Rome 8 July 2005
 Andrey Silnov (RUS) London 25 July 2005
 Zhang Guowei (CHN) Eugene 30 May 2015
 Steve Smith (GBR) Wuppertal (indoor) 4 February 1994
 Wolf-Hendrik Beyer (GER) Weinheim (indoor) 10 March 1994
 Matt Hemingway (USA) Atlanta (indoor) 4 March 2000
 Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) Stockholm (indoor) 15 February 2005
 Linus Thornblad (SWE) Goteborg (indoor) 25 February 2007

Women (absolute)

Rank Mark Athlete Venue Date
1 2.09 m (6 ft 10​14 in)  Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Rome 30 August 1987
2 2.08 m (6 ft 9​34 in)  Blanka Vlasic (CRO) Zagreb 31 August 2009
 Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) Arnstadt (indoor) 6 February 2006
4 2.07 m (6 ft 9​14 in)  Lyudmila Andonova (BUL) Berlin 20 July 1984
 Anna Chicherova (RUS) Cheboksary 22 July 2011
 Heike Henkel (GER) Karlsruhe (indoor) 8 February 1992
7 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)  Hestrie Cloete (RSA) Paris 31 August 2003
 Yelena Slesarenko (RUS) Athens 28 August 2004
 Ariane Friedrich (GER) Berlin 14 June 2009
10 2.05 m (6 ft 8​12 in)  Tamara Bykova (URS) Kiev 22 June 1984
 Inha Babakova (UKR) Tokyo 15 September 1995
 Tia Hellebaut (BEL) Beijing 23 August 2008
 Chaunté Lowe (USA) Des Moines 26 June 2010
14 2.04 m (6 ft 8​14 in)  Silvia Costa (CUB) Barcelona 9 September 1989
 Venelina Veneva-Mateeva (BUL) Kalamata 2 June 2002
 Irina Gordeeva (RUS) Eberstadt 19 August 2012
 Brigetta Barrett (USA) Des Moines 22 June 2013
 Alina Astafei (GER) Berlin (indoor) 3 March 1995
 Antonietta Di Martino (ITA) Banská Bystrica (indoor) 9 February 2011
20 2.03 m (6 ft 7​34 in)  Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) London 21 August 1983
 Louise Ritter (USA) Austin 8 July 1988
 Tatyana Motkova (RUS) Bratislava 30 May 1995
 Niki Bakoyianni (GRE) Atlanta 3 August 1996
 Svetlana Shkolina (RUS) London 11 August 2012
 Monica Iagar (ROU) Bucharest (indoor) 23 January 1999
 Marina Kuptsova (RUS) Vienna (indoor) 2 March 2002

Olympic medalists

Men

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
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 Ellery Clark (USA)  James Connolly (USA) none awarded
 Robert Garrett (USA)
1900 Paris
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 Irving Baxter (USA)  Patrick Leahy (GBR)  Lajos Gönczy (HUN)
1904 St. Louis
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 Samuel Jones (USA)  Garrett Serviss (USA)  Paul Weinstein (GER)
1908 London
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 Harry Porter (USA)  Géo André (FRA)
none awarded
 Con Leahy (GBR)
 István Somodi (HUN)
1912 Stockholm
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 Alma Richards (USA)  Hans Liesche (GER)  George Horine (USA)
1920 Antwerp
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 Richmond Landon (USA)  Harold Muller (USA)  Bo Ekelund (SWE)
1924 Paris
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 Harold Osborn (USA)  Leroy Brown (USA)  Pierre Lewden (FRA)
1928 Amsterdam
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 Bob King (USA)  Benjamin Hedges (USA)  Claude Ménard (FRA)
1932 Los Angeles
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22x20px Duncan McNaughton (CAN)  Bob Van Osdel (USA)  Simeon Toribio (PHI)
1936 Berlin
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 Cornelius Johnson (USA)  Dave Albritton (USA)  Delos Thurber (USA)
1948 London
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 John Winter (AUS)  Bjørn Paulson (NOR)  George Stanich (USA)
1952 Helsinki
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 Walt Davis (USA)  Ken Wiesner (USA)  José da Conceição (BRA)
1956 Melbourne
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 Charles Dumas (USA)  Chilla Porter (AUS)  Igor Kashkarov (URS)
1960 Rome
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 Robert Shavlakadze (URS)  Valeriy Brumel (URS)  John Thomas (USA)
1964 Tokyo
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 Valeriy Brumel (URS)  John Thomas (USA)  John Rambo (USA)
1968 Mexico City
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 Dick Fosbury (USA)  Ed Caruthers (USA)  Valentin Gavrilov (URS)
1972 Munich
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 Jüri Tarmak (URS)  Stefan Junge (GDR)  Dwight Stones (USA)
1976 Montreal
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 Jacek Wszoła (POL)  Greg Joy (CAN)  Dwight Stones (USA)
1980 Moscow
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 Gerd Wessig (GDR)  Jacek Wszoła (POL)  Jörg Freimuth (GDR)
1984 Los Angeles
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 Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG)  Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)  Zhu Jianhua (CHN)
1988 Seoul
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 Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)  Hollis Conway (USA)  Rudolf Povarnitsyn (URS)
 Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)
1992 Barcelona
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 Javier Sotomayor (CUB)  Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)  Hollis Conway (USA)
 Tim Forsyth (AUS)
 Artur Partyka (POL)
1996 Atlanta
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 Charles Austin (USA)  Artur Partyka (POL)  Steve Smith (GBR)
2000 Sydney
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 Sergey Klyugin (RUS)  Javier Sotomayor (CUB)  Abderahmane Hammad (ALG)
2004 Athens
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 Stefan Holm (SWE)  Matt Hemingway (USA)  Jaroslav Bába (CZE)
2008 Beijing
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 Andrey Silnov (RUS)  Germaine Mason (GBR)  Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS)
2012 London
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 Ivan Ukhov (RUS)  Erik Kynard (USA)  Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)
 Derek Drouin (CAN)
 Robert Grabarz (GBR)

Women

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1928 Amsterdam
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22x20px Ethel Catherwood (CAN)  Lien Gisolf (NED)  Mildred Wiley (USA)
1932 Los Angeles
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 Jean Shiley (USA)  Babe Didrikson (USA) 22x20px Eva Dawes (CAN)
1936 Berlin
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 Ibolya Csák (HUN)  Dorothy Odam (GBR)  Elfriede Kaun (GER)
1948 London
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 Alice Coachman (USA)  Dorothy Tyler (GBR)  Micheline Ostermeyer (FRA)
1952 Helsinki
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22x20px Esther Brand (RSA)  Sheile Lerwill (GBR) 22x20px Aleksandra Chudina (URS)
1956 Melbourne
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 Mildred McDaniel (USA)  Thelma Hopkins (GBR) none awarded
 Mariya Pisareva (URS)
1960 Rome
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 Iolanda Balaş (ROU)  Jarosława Jóźwiakowska (POL) none awarded
 Dorothy Shirley (GBR)
1964 Tokyo
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 Iolanda Balaş (ROU)  Michele Brown (AUS)  Taisia Chenchik (URS)
1968 Mexico City
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 Miloslava Rezková (TCH)  Antonina Okorokova (URS)  Valentina Kozyr (URS)
1972 Munich
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 Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG)  Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL)  Ilona Gusenbauer (AUT)
1976 Montreal
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 Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR)  Sara Simeoni (ITA)  Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL)
1980 Moscow
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 Sara Simeoni (ITA)  Urszula Kielan (POL)  Jutta Kirst (GDR)
1984 Los Angeles
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 Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG)  Sara Simeoni (ITA)  Joni Huntley (USA)
1988 Seoul
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 Louise Ritter (USA)  Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)  Tamara Bykova (URS)
1992 Barcelona
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 Heike Henkel (GER)  Alina Astafei (ROU)  Ioamnet Quintero (CUB)
1996 Atlanta
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 Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)  Niki Bakoyianni (GRE)  Inha Babakova (UKR)
2000 Sydney
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 Yelena Yelesina (RUS)  Hestrie Cloete (RSA)  Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE)
 Oana Pantelimon (ROU)
2004 Athens
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 Yelena Slesarenko (RUS)  Hestrie Cloete (RSA)  Vita Styopina (UKR)
2008 Beijing
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 Tia Hellebaut (BEL)  Blanka Vlašić (CRO)  Anna Chicherova (RUS)
2012 London
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 Anna Chicherova (RUS)  Brigetta Barrett (USA)  Svetlana Shkolina (RUS)

World Championships medalists

Men

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1983 Helsinki  Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)  Tyke Peacock (USA)  Zhu Jianhua (CHN)
1987 Rome  Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)  Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)
 Igor Paklin (URS)
none awarded
1991 Tokyo  Charles Austin (USA)  Javier Sotomayor (CUB)  Hollis Conway (USA)
1993 Stuttgart  Javier Sotomayor (CUB)  Artur Partyka (POL)  Steve Smith (GBR)
1995 Gothenburg  Troy Kemp (BAH)  Javier Sotomayor (CUB)  Artur Partyka (POL)
1997 Athens  Javier Sotomayor (CUB)  Artur Partyka (POL)  Tim Forsyth (AUS)
1999 Seville  Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS)  Mark Boswell (CAN)  Martin Buß (GER)
2001 Edmonton  Martin Buß (GER)  Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS)
 Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS)
none awarded
2003 Saint-Denis  Jacques Freitag (RSA)  Stefan Holm (SWE)  Mark Boswell (CAN)
2005 Helsinki  Yuriy Krymarenko (UKR)  Víctor Moya (CUB)
 Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS)
none awarded
2007 Osaka  Donald Thomas (BAH)  Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS)  Kyriakos Ioannou (CYP)
2009 Berlin  Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS)  Kyriakos Ioannou (CYP)  Sylwester Bednarek (POL)
 Raúl Spank (GER)
2011 Daegu  Jesse Williams (USA)  Aleksey Dmitrik (RUS)  Trevor Barry (BAH)
2013 Moscow  Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)  Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)  Derek Drouin (CAN)
2015 Beijing  Derek Drouin (CAN)  Zhang Guowei (CHN)
 Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)
none awarded

Women

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1983 Helsinki  Tamara Bykova (URS)  Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG)  Louise Ritter (USA)
1987 Rome  Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)  Tamara Bykova (URS)  Susanne Beyer (GDR)
1991 Tokyo  Heike Henkel (GER)  Yelena Yelesina (URS)  Inha Babakova (URS)
1993 Stuttgart  Ioamnet Quintero (CUB)  Silvia Costa (CUB)  Sigrid Kirchmann (AUT)
1995 Gothenburg  Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)  Alina Astafei (GER)  Inha Babakova (UKR)
1997 Athens  Hanne Haugland (NOR)  Inha Babakova (UKR)
 Olga Kaliturina (RUS)
none awarded
1999 Seville  Inha Babakova (UKR)  Yelena Yelesina (RUS)  Svetlana Lapina (RUS)
2001 Edmonton  Hestrie Cloete (RSA)  Inha Babakova (UKR)  Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE)
2003 Saint-Denis  Hestrie Cloete (RSA)  Marina Kuptsova (RUS)  Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE)
2005 Helsinki  Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE)  Chaunte Howard (USA)  Emma Green (SWE)
2007 Osaka  Blanka Vlašić (CRO)  Anna Chicherova (RUS)
 Antonietta Di Martino (ITA)
none awarded
2009 Berlin  Blanka Vlašić (CRO)  Anna Chicherova (RUS)  Ariane Friedrich (GER)
2011 Daegu  Anna Chicherova (RUS)  Blanka Vlašić (CRO)  Antonietta Di Martino (ITA)
2013 Moscow  Svetlana Shkolina (RUS)  Brigetta Barrett (USA)  Anna Chicherova (RUS)
 Ruth Beitia (ESP)
2015 Beijing  Maria Kuchina (RUS)  Blanka Vlasic (CRO)  Anna Chicherova (RUS)

Athletes with most medals

Athletes who have won multiple titles at the two most important competitions, the Olympic Games and the World Championships:

  • 3 wins: Javier Sotomayor (CUB) - Olympic Champion in 1992, World Champion in 1993 & 1997
  • 3 wins: Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) - Olympic Champion in 1996, World Champion in 1987 & 1995
  • 2 wins: Gennadiy Avdeyenko (URS) - Olympic Champion in 1988, World Champion in 1983
  • 2 wins: Charles Austin (USA) - Olympic Champion in 1996, World Champion in 1991
  • 2 wins: Iolanda Balas (ROM) - Olympic Champion in 1960 & 1964
  • 2 wins: Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) - Olympic Champion in 1972 & 1984
  • 2 wins: Heike Henkel (GER) - Olympic Champion in 1992, World Champion in 1991
  • 2 wins: Hestrie Cloete (RSA) - World Champion in 2001 & 2003
  • 2 wins: Blanka Vlasic (CRO) - World Champion in 2007 & 2009
  • 2 wins: Anna Chicherova (RUS) - Olympic Champion in 2012, World Champion in 2011

Kostadinova and Sotomayor are the only high jumpers to have been Olympic Champion, World Champion and broken the world record.

Men

Athlete Olympic Games World Championships World Indoor Championships Continental Championships Continental Indoor Championships Universiade Regional Games
Mediterranean
Pan American
Asian
Total
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 Javier Sotomayor (CUB) 1 1 0 2 2 0 4 1 0 2 0 1 - - - 1 0 0 3 0 0 13 4 1
 Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 5 2 1 0 0 0 - - - 7 3 1
 Stefan Holm (SWE) 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 - - - 7 2 1
 Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 - - - 6 3 2
 Lee Jin-Taek (KOR) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 - - - 1 0 1 2 0 0 6 1 1
 Igor Paklin (URS) 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 - - - 4 1 0
 Valeriy Brumel (URS) 1 1 0 - - - - - - 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 - - - 4 1 0
 Zhu Jianhua (CHN) 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 - - - 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 2
 Charles Austin (USA) 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 - - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1
 Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) 0 0 1 1 3 0 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 - - - 3 8 2
 Dragutin Topić (SRB) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 4
 Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) 0 0 0 - - - - - - 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 - - - 3 0 0
 Gennadiy Avdeyenko (URS) 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - - - 2 2 1
 Hollis Conway (USA) 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 - - - 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 3

Women

Athlete Olympic Games World Championships World Indoor Championships Continental Championships Continental Indoor Championships Universiade Regional Games
Mediterranean
Pan American
Commonwealth
Total
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 Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) 1 1 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 - - - 13 2 0
 Sara Simeoni (ITA) 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 0 0 2 1 2 2 0 0 10 2 4
 Blanka Vlašić (CRO) 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 3 1
 Hestrie Cloete (RSA) 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 2 0
 Heike Henkel (FRG) 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 - - - 6 1 3
 Iolanda Balaş (ROM) 2 0 0 - - - - - - 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 - - - 6 1 0
 Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 - - - 5 1 4
 Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) 1 0 0 - - - - - - 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 - - - 5 1 0
 Anna Chicherova (RUS) 1 0 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 - - - 4 4 4
 Tamara Bykova (URS) 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 - - - 4 2 2
Alina Astafei
(Romania & Germany)
0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 - - - 4 3 2
 Tia Hellebaut (BEL) 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - - - 4 0 0
 Ruth Beitia (ESP) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 4
 Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 - - - 3 2 0
 Yelena Slesarenko (RUS) 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - - - 3 1 1
 Antonietta Di Martino (ITA) 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 1

Season's bests

As of June 5, 2015

  • "i" indicates indoor performance.

Height differentials

All time lists of athletes with the highest recorded jumps above their own height.[15][16]

Men

Rank Differential Athlete Height Mark
1 0.59 m (1 ft 11 in) Stefan Holm 1.81 m (5 ft 11​14 in) 2.40 m (7 ft 10​14 in)
Franklin Jacobs 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) 2.32 m (7 ft 7​14 in)
3 0.58 m (1 ft 10​34 in) Linus Thörnblad 1.80 m (5 ft 10​34 in) 2.38 m (7 ft 9​12 in)
Anton Riepl 1.75 m (5 ft 8​34 in) 2.33 m (7 ft 7​12 in)
Rick Noji 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) 2.31 m (7 ft 6​34 in)
6 0.57 m (1 ft 10​14 in) Hollis Conway 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 2.40 m (7 ft 10​14 in)
7 0.56 m (1 ft 10 in) Takahiro Kimino 1.76 m (5 ft 9​14 in) 2.32 m (7 ft 7​14 in)
Charles Austin 1.84 m (6 ft 0​14 in) 2.40 m (7 ft 10​14 in)
Sorin Matei 1.84 m (6 ft 0​14 in) 2.40 m (7 ft 10​14 in)
10 0.55 m (1 ft 9​12 in) Robert Wolski 1.84 m (6 ft 0​14 in) 2.31 m (7 ft 6​34 in)
Hari Shankar Roy 1.70 m (5 ft 6​34 in) 2.25 m (7 ft 4​12 in)
Marcello Benvenuti 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 2.33 m (7 ft 7​12 in)
Milton Ottey 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 2.33 m (7 ft 7​12 in)

Women

Rank Differential Athlete Height Mark
1 0.35 m (1 ft 1​34 in) Antonietta Di Martino 1.69 m (5 ft 6​12 in) 2.04 m (6 ft 8​14 in)
1 0.35 m (1 ft 1​34 in) Inika McPherson 1.65 m (5 ft 4​34 in) 2.00 m (6 ft 6​12 in)
2 0.33 m (1 ft 0​34 in) Kajsa Bergqvist 1.75 m (5 ft 8​34 in) 2.08 m (6 ft 9​34 in)
Niki Bakoyianni 1.70 m (5 ft 6​34 in) 2.03 m (6 ft 7​34 in)
4 0.32 m (1 ft 0​12 in) Yolanda Henry 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) 2.00 m (6 ft 6​12 in)
Emilia Dragieva 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) 2.00 m (6 ft 6​12 in)
6 0.31 m (1 ft 0 in) Marie Collonvillé 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) 1.94 m (6 ft 4​14 in)
7 0.30 m (0 ft 11​34 in) Jessica Ennis 1.65 m (5 ft 4​34 in) 1.95 m (6 ft 4​34 in)
Viktoriya Seryogina 1.70 m (5 ft 6​34 in) 2.00 m (6 ft 6​12 in)
Antonella Bevilacqua 1.69 m (5 ft 6​12 in) 1.99 m (6 ft 6​14 in)
Lyudmila Andonova 1.77 m (5 ft 9​12 in) 2.07 m (6 ft 9​14 in)
Cindy Holmes 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

Female two metres club

As of January 2014, 65 different female athletes had ever been able to jump 2.00 m (6 ft 6​12 in).[7][9] The following table shows the only ten countries from which more than one athlete has cleared that mark.

# Nations Athletes
16  Russia Anna Chicherova 2.07, Elena Slesarenko 2.06, Tamara Bykova 2.05, Irina Gordeeva 2.04, Marina Kuptsova 2.03,
Svetlana Shkolina 2.03, Tatyana Babashkina 2.03, Yelena Yelesina 2.02, Yelena Gulyayeva 2.01, Mariya Kuchina 2.01, Svetlana Lapina 2.00
Ekaterina Savchenko 2.00, Larisa Kositsyna 2.00, Viktoriya Klyugina 2.00, Viktoriya Seryogina 2.00, Yuliya Lyakhova 2.00
8  United States Chaunté Lowe 2.05, Brigetta Barrett 2.04, Louise Ritter 2.03, Amy Acuff 2.01, Tisha Waller 2.01,
Coleen Sommer 2.00, Jan Wohlschlag 2.00, Yolanda Henry 2.00
 Germany Heike Henkel 2.07, Ariane Friedrich 2.06, Alina Astafei 2.04, Ulrike Meyfarth 2.03, Gabriele Günz 2.01, Heike Balck 2.01,
Daniela Rath 2.00, Meike Kröger 2.00
5  Bulgaria Stefka Kostadinova 2.09, Lyudmila Andonova 2.07, Venelina Veneva-Mateeva 2.04, Emilia Dragieva 2.00, Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva 2.00
 Ukraine Inha Babakova 2.05, Vita Styopina 2.02, Iryna Mykhalchenko 2.01, Vita Palamar 2.01, Lyudmila Avdeyenko 2.00
3  Italy Antonietta Di Martino 2.04, Sara Simeoni 2.01, Alessia Trost 2.00 m
 South Africa Hestrie Cloete 2.06, Desiré Du Plessis 2.01, Charmaine Gale-Weavers 2.00
2  Sweden Kajsa Bergqvist 2.08, Emma Green Tregaro 2.01
 Cuba Silvia Costa 2.04, Ioamnet Quintero 2.01
 East Germany Susanne Beyer 2.02, Rosemarie Ackermann 2.00

National records

Updated October 2015.

Men

Nation Height Athlete Venue Date Ref
 Cuba 2.45 m (8 ft 0​14 in) Javier Sotomayor Salamanca 27 July 1993
 Qatar 2.43 m (7 ft 11​12 in) Mutaz Essa Barshim Brussels 5 September 2014 [17]
 Sweden 2.42 m (7 ft 11​14 in) Patrik Sjöberg Stockholm 30 June 1987
 Russia 2.42 m (7 ft 11​14 in) i Ivan Ukhov Prague 25 February 2014 [18]
 Germany 2.42 m (7 ft 11​14 in) i Carlo Thränhardt Berlin 26 February 1988
 Ukraine 2.42 m (7 ft 11​14 in) Bohdan Bondarenko New York City 14 June 2014 [11]
 Kyrgyzstan 2.41 m (7 ft 10​34 in) Igor Paklin Kobe 4 September 1985
 Romania 2.40 m (7 ft 10​14 in) Sorin Matei Bratislava 20 June 1990
 United States 2.40 m (7 ft 10​14 in) Charles Austin Zürich 7 August 1991
 Canada 2.40 m (7 ft 10​14 in) Derek Drouin Des Moines 25 April 2014 [19]
 China 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) Zhu Jianhua Beijing 1983-06-11
 Serbia 2.38 m (7 ft 9​12 in) Dragutin Topic Belgrad 1993-08-01
 Bahamas 2.38 m (7 ft 9​12 in) Troy Kemp Nice 1995-07-12
 Poland 2.38 m (7 ft 9​12 in) Artur Partyka Eberstadt 1996-08-18
 South Africa 2.38 m (7 ft 9​12 in) Jacques Freitag Oudtshoorn 2005-03-05
 Azerbaijan 2.37 m (7 ft 9​14 in) Valeriy Sereda Rieti 1984-09-02
 United Kingdom 2.37 m (7 ft 9​14 in) m Steve Smith Seoul 1992-09-20
Stuttgart 1993-08-22
Robbie Grabarz Lausanne 2012-08-23 [20]
 Italy 2.37 m (7 ft 9​14 in) Gianmarco Tamberi Eberstadt 2 August 2015 [21]
 Belgium 2.36 m (7 ft 8​34 in) Eddy Annys Ghent 1985-05-26
 Kazakhstan 2.36 m (7 ft 8​34 in) Sergey Zasimovich Tashkent 5 May 1984
 Slovakia 2.36 m (7 ft 8​34 in) Jan Zvara Prague 1987-08-23
 Czech Republic 2.36 m (7 ft 8​34 in) Jaroslav Baba Rome 2005-07-08
 Bermuda 2.36 m (7 ft 8​34 in) Clarence Saunders Auckland 1990-02-01
 Bulgaria 2.36 m (7 ft 8​34 in) Georgi Dakov Brussels 1990-08-10
 Greece 2.36 m (7 ft 8​34 in) Lambros Papakostas Athens 1992-07-21
 Australia 2.36 m (7 ft 8​34 in) Tim Forsyth Melbourne 1997-03-02
 Norway 2.36 m (7 ft 8​34 in) Steinar Hoen Oslo 1997-07-01
 Israel 2.36 m (7 ft 8​34 in) Konstantin Matusevich Perth 2000-02-05
 France 2.35 m (7 ft 8​12 in) Jean-Charles Gicquel Paris 1994-03-13
 Cyprus 2.35 m (7 ft 8​12 in) Kyriakos Ioannou Osaka 2007-08-29
 Lithuania 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Rolandas Verkys Warsaw 16 June 1991
 Spain 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Arturo Ortíz Barcelona 22 June 1991
 Belarus 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Andrey Sankovich Gomel 15 May 1993
 South Korea 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Lee Jin-Taek Seoul 20 June 1997
 Algeria 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Abderrahmane Hammad Algiers 14 July 2000
 Jamaica 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Germaine Mason Santo Domingo 9 August 2003
 Botswana 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Kabelo Kgosiemang Addis Ababa 4 May 2008
 Colombia 2.33 m (7 ft 7​12 in) Gilmar Mayo Pereira 17 October 1994
 Japan 2.33 m (7 ft 7​12 in) Naoyuki Daigo Kobe 2006-07-02
 Uzbekistan 2.32 m (7 ft 7​14 in) Gennadiy Belkov Tashkent 1982-05-29
 Slovenia 2.32 m (7 ft 7​14 in) Rožle Prezelj Maribor 2012-06-17
 Brazil 2.32 m (7 ft 7​14 in) Jessé de Lima Lausanne 2008-09-02
  Switzerland 2.31 m (7 ft 6​34 in) Roland Dalhäuser Eberstadt 1981-06-07
 Tajikistan 2.31 m (7 ft 6​34 in) Oleg Palaschevskiy Bryansk 1990-08-12
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.31 m (7 ft 6​34 in) Elvir Krehmic Zagreb 1998-07-07
 Saint Lucia 2.31 m (7 ft 6​34 in) Darvin Edwards Daegu 30 August 2011
 Finland 2.31 m (7 ft 6​34 in) Mika Polku Hämeenkyrö 22 July 2000
Toni Huikuri Bratislava 11 June 2002
 Syria 2.31 m (7 ft 6​34 in) Majededdin Ghazal Mungyeong 5 October 2015 [22]
 Netherlands 2.30 m (7 ft 6​12 in) Wilbert Pennings Eberstadt 7 August 1999 [23]
 Peru 2.30 m (7 ft 6​12 in) Hugo Munoz Lima 29 October 1995
 Estonia 2.30 m (7 ft 6​12 in) Marko Turban Rakvere 5 June 1996
 Latvia 2.30 m (7 ft 6​12 in) Normunds Sietiņš Nurmijärvi 20 July 1992
 Ireland 2.30 m (7 ft 6​12 in) Adrian O'Dwyer Algiers 24 June 2004
 Iceland 2.28 m (7 ft 5​34 in) Einar Karl Hjartarson Reykjavík 20 February 2001
 Cameroon 2.28 m (7 ft 5​34 in) Fernand Djoumessi Bühl 19 June 2014 [24]
 Hungary 2.28 m (7 ft 5​34 in) László Boros Debrecen 6 July 2005
 Austria 2.28 m (7 ft 5​34 in) Markus Einberger Schwechat 18 May 1986
 Sudan 2.28 m (7 ft 5​34 in) i Mohamed Younes Idris Bordeaux 23 February 2014 [25]
2.28 m (7 ft 5​34 in) Namur 27 May 2015 [26]
 Chinese Taipei 2.28 m (7 ft 5​34 in) Hsiang Chun-Hsien Gwangju 10 July 2015 [27]
 Antigua and Barbuda 2.27 m (7 ft 5​14 in) James Grayman Pergine Valsugana 7 July 2007
 Denmark 2.27 m (7 ft 5​14 in) Janick Klausen Paris 4 March 2011 [28]
 Malaysia 2.27 m (7 ft 5​14 in) Lee Hup Wei Beijing 25 May 2008
 Sri Lanka 2.27 m (7 ft 5​14 in) Manjula Kumara Wijesekara Colombo 23 July 2004
Incheon 4 September 2005
 Lebanon 2.27 m (7 ft 5​14 in) Jean-Claude Rabbath Beirut 23 April 2004
Bucharest 12 June 2004
 Venezuela 2.27 m (7 ft 5​14 in) Eure Yáñez São Paulo 4 May 2014 [29]
 San Marino 2.27 m (7 ft 5​14 in) Eugenio Rossi Caprino Veronese 28 June 2015 [30]
 Puerto Rico 2.26 m (7 ft 4​34 in) Luis Castro Garbsen 18 May 2014 [31]
São Paulo 3 August 2014 [32]
 Iran 2.26 m (7 ft 4​34 in) Keivan Ghanbarzadeh Shiraz 20 April 2012 [33]
Bangkok 22 June 2015 [34]
 Argentina 2.25 m (7 ft 4​12 in) Fernando Pastoriza Ciudad de México 23 July 1988
Erasmo Jara Rosário 11 May 2002
 Barbados 2.25 m (7 ft 4​12 in) Henderson Dottin El Paso 12 April 2008
 Egypt 2.25 m (7 ft 4​12 in) Karim Samir Lotfy Eberstadt 27 June 2008
 Kenya 2.25 m (7 ft 4​12 in) A Mathieu Kiplagat Sawe Nairobi 31 July 2015 [35]
 Ghana 2.24 m (7 ft 4 in) Awuku Boateng Kitchener 8 August 1996
 Chile 2.22 m (7 ft 3​14 in) Felipe Apablaza Cochabamba 3 June 2001
 Jordan 2.22 m (7 ft 3​14 in) Fakhredin Fouad Amman 4 July 1991
 Grenada 2.21 m (7 ft 3 in) Paul Caraballo Des Moines 26 April 1997
 Saudi Arabia 2.21 m (7 ft 3 in) Nawaf Ahmad Al-Yami Salzburg 15 June 2013
 Panama 2.21 m (7 ft 3 in) Alexander Bowen Jr. Albany 9 May 2015 [36]
 Cayman Islands 2.19 m (7 ft 2 in) Omar Wright El Paso 13 May 2006
 Guyana 2.17 m (7 ft 1​14 in) Robert Bynoe George Town 17 April 1995
 Mali 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) Abdoulaye Diarra Bamako 19 May 2013
 United Arab Emirates 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) Sayed Abbas Al-Alaoui Doha 10 April 2013
 Indonesia 2.15 m (7 ft 0​12 in) Andre Dermawan Pekanbaru 13 September 2012
 Trinidad and Tobago 2.15 m (7 ft 0​12 in) Daniel Kashef San Marcos 11 May 2014 [37]
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.15 m (7 ft 0​12 in) Jermaine Francis Cali 31 May 2015 [38]
 Andorra 2.14 m (7 ft 0​14 in) Estéve Martín Barcelona 26 June 1996
 Liberia 2.14 m (7 ft 0​14 in) Jah Bennett Fresno 28 April 2007
 Albania 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) Muhamet Abazi Tirana 6 July 1988
 Bangladesh 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) Sajib Hossain Dhaka 5 May 2010 [39]
 Angola 2.10 m (6 ft 10​12 in) Orlando Bonifácio Luanda 9 May 1982
 Aruba 2.10 m (6 ft 10​12 in) Pierre de Windt Breda 24 September 2006
 Bolivia 2.10 m (6 ft 10​12 in) Claudio Pinto La Paz 12 November 1989
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2.09 m (6 ft 10​14 in) Zimbert Bramble Pittsburg 11 April 2015 [40]
 Brunei 2.04 m (6 ft 8​14 in) Demingo Kapal B. S. Begawan 7 June 1992
 Belize 2.03 m (6 ft 7​34 in) Joel Wade Belize City 17 August 1997
 Libya 2.03 m (6 ft 7​34 in) Fethi Abdulmounem Aboud Amman 27 August 2008
 Suriname 2.03 m (6 ft 7​34 in) Miguel van Assen Nassau 31 March 2013
 Anguilla 2.00 m (6 ft 6​12 in) Theron Niles Basseterre 6 July 2014
 Kiribati 1.95 m (6 ft 4​34 in) David Birati Cairns 10 May 2015 [41]
 Guam 1.90 m (6 ft 2​34 in) Raffy Cartaciano Tumon 7 May 2002
 Malta 1.87 m (6 ft 1​12 in) Edward Calleja Marsa 17 June 1998

Women

Nation Height Athlete Venue Date Ref
 Bulgaria 2.09 m (6 ft 10​14 in) Stefka Kostadinova Rome 1987-08-30
 Sweden 2.08 m (6 ft 9​34 in) Kajsa Bergqvist Arnstadt 2006-02-04
 Croatia 2.08 m (6 ft 9​34 in) Blanka Vlašić Zagreb 2009-08-31
 Germany 2.07 m (6 ft 9​14 in) Heike Henkel Karlsruhe 1992-02-08
 Russia 2.07 m (6 ft 9​14 in) Anna Chicherova Cheboksary 2011-07-22
 South Africa 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Hestrie Cloete Paris 2003-08-31
 Ukraine 2.05 m (6 ft 8​12 in) Inga Babakova Tokyo 1995-09-15
 Belgium 2.05 m (6 ft 8​12 in) Tia Hellebaut Birmingham 2007-03-03
 United States 2.05 m (6 ft 8​12 in) Chaunte Lowe Des Moines 2010-06-26
 Cuba 2.04 m (6 ft 8​14 in) Silvia Costa Barcelona 1989-09-09
 Italy 2.04 m (6 ft 8​14 in) Antonietta Di Martino Banská Bystrica 2011-02-09
 Greece 2.03 m (6 ft 7​34 in) Niki Bakogianni Atlanta 1996-08-03
 Romania 2.03 m (6 ft 7​34 in) Monica Iagar Bucharest 1999-01-23
 Spain 2.02 m (6 ft 7​12 in) Ruth Beitia San Sebastián 2007-08-04
 Poland 2.02 m (6 ft 7​12 in) i Kamila Lićwinko Toruń 21 February 2015 [42]
 Kazakhstan 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Olga Turchak Moscow 7 July 1986
 Norway 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Hanne Haugland Zürich 13 August 1997
 Yugoslavia 2.00 m (6 ft 6​12 in) Biljana Petrović Saint-Denis 1990-06-22
 Belarus 2.00 m (6 ft 6​12 in) Tatyana Shevchik Gomel 1993-05-14
 Czech Republic 2.00 m (6 ft 6​12 in) Zuzana Hlavoňová Prague 2000-06-05
 Slovenia 2.00 m (6 ft 6​12 in) Britta Bilač Helsinki 1994-08-14
 Hungary 2.00 m (6 ft 6​12 in) Dóra Győrffy Nyíregyháza 2001-07-26
 Uzbekistan 1.98 m (6 ft 5​34 in) Lyudmila Butuzova Sochi 10 June 1984
Svetlana Radzivil Cottbus 22 May 2008
Nadiya Dusanova Cottbus 17 July 2008
 Canada 1.98 m (6 ft 5​34 in) Debbie Brill Rieti 1984-09-02
 Australia 1.98 m (6 ft 5​34 in) Alison Inverarity Ingolstadt 1989-02-12
 Saint Lucia 1.98 m (6 ft 5​34 in) Levern Spencer Athens, GA 2010-05-08
 Lithuania 1.98 m (6 ft 5​34 in) Airinė Palšytė Kaunas 27 July 2014 [43]
1.98 m (6 ft 5​34 in) Eberstadt 24 August 2014
1.98 m (6 ft 5​34 in) i Cottbus 27 January 2015 [44]
1.98 m (6 ft 5​34 in) i Klaipéda 20 February 2015
 China 1.97 m (6 ft 5​12 in) Jin Ling Hamamatsu 1989-05-07
 Latvia 1.97 m (6 ft 5​12 in) Valentīna Gotovska Vilnius 1992-30-03
 Austria 1.97 m (6 ft 5​12 in) Sigrid Kirchmann Stuttgart 1993-08-21
 Moldova 1.97 m (6 ft 5​12 in) Olga Bolşova Rieti 1993-09-05
 Argentina 1.97 m (6 ft 5​12 in) Solange Witteveen Manaus 2001-05-19
 Dominican Republic 1.97 m (6 ft 5​12 in) Juana Rosario Arrendel San Salvador 2002-12-02
 France 1.97 m (6 ft 5​12 in) i Mélanie Melfort Dortmund 5 February 2003
Aubière 18 February 2007
 Kyrgyzstan 1.97 m (6 ft 5​12 in) Tatyana Efimenko Rome 11 July 2003
 Mexico 1.97 m (6 ft 5​12 in) Romary Rifka Xalapa 4 April 2004
 United Kingdom 1.97 m (6 ft 5​12 in) i Katarina Johnson-Thompson Sheffield 14 February 2015 [45]
Isobel Pooley Birmingham 4 July 2015 [46]
 Estonia 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Anna Iljuštšenko Viljandi 9 August 2011
 Japan 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Miki Imai Yokohama 15 September 2001
 Ireland 1.95 m (6 ft 4​34 in) Deirdre Ryan Daegu 1 September 2011
 Israel 1.94 m (6 ft 4​14 in) i Danielle Frenkel Paris 5 March 2011
 Vietnam 1.94 m (6 ft 4​14 in) Bui Thi Nhung Bangkok 4 May 2005
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.94 m (6 ft 4​14 in) Amra Temim Varaždin 15 August 1987
 Serbia 1.94 m (6 ft 4​14 in) Amra Temim Thessaloniki 16 September 1988
 Netherlands 1.94 m (6 ft 4​14 in) Nadine Broersen Zürich 14 August 2014 [47]
 Colombia 1.93 m (6 ft 3​34 in) Caterine Ibargüen Cali 22 July 2005
 Turkey 1.93 m (6 ft 3​34 in)[48] Candeğer Oğuz Istanbul 16 May 2004
 Cyprus 1.93 m (6 ft 3​34 in) i Leontia Kallenou Fayetteville 13 March 2015 [49]
1.93 m (6 ft 3​34 in) Starkville 15 May 2015 [50]
 Brazil 1.92 m (6 ft 3​12 in) Orlane dos Santos Bogotá 11 August 1989
 Finland 1.92 m (6 ft 3​12 in) Hanna Mikkonen Tampere 12 June 2005
 Georgia 1.92 m (6 ft 3​12 in) Valentyna Liashenko Berdychiv 27 June 2015
 Seychelles 1.92 m (6 ft 3​12 in) A Lissa Labiche Potchefstroom 9 May 2015 [51]
 Antigua and Barbuda 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Priscilla Frederick Toronto 22 July 2015 [52]
 Barbados 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Akela Jones Toronto 22 July 2015 [52]
 Bahamas 1.87 m (6 ft 1​12 in) i Saniel Atkinson Grier Nashville 24 January 2014 [53]
Blacksburg 8 February 2014 [54]
 Dominica 1.85 m (6 ft 0​34 in) i Thea LaFond Clemson 27 February 2014 [55]
1.85 m (6 ft 0​34 in) Gainesville 3 April 2015 [56]
 Luxembourg 1.84 m (6 ft 0​14 in) i Elodie Tshilumba Kirchberg 7 February 2015 [57]
 Singapore 1.84 m (6 ft 0​14 in) Michelle Sng Laguna 19 March 2015 [58]
 Iran 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Sepideh Tavakkoli Incheon 28 September 2014 [59]
 Morocco 1.81 m (5 ft 11​14 in) i Ghizlane Siba Manhattan 13 December 2014 [60]
 Ethiopia 1.80 m (5 ft 10​34 in) Ariyat Dibow Ubang Brazzaville 14 September 2015 [61]
 Malaysia 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Yap Sean Yee Hanoi 27 June 2013
Shabana Khanum Jalal Din Bangkok 5 May 2005
 Anguilla 1.77 m (5 ft 9​12 in) Shinelle Proctor Fayetteville 31 May 2014 [62]
 Uruguay 1.76 m (5 ft 9​14 in) Lorena Aires Buenos Aires 27 March 2015 [63]
 Lebanon 1.72 m (5 ft 7​12 in) Carine Bitchakjin Jamhour 11 August 2000
 Curaçao 1.70 m (5 ft 6​34 in) Sharyaane Gijsbertha Nassau 1 April 2013 [64]
 Belize 1.70 m (5 ft 6​34 in) Kay de Vaughn Managua 25 September 2004
Katy Sealy Colchester 3 May 2015 [65]
 Bahrain 1.70 m (5 ft 6​34 in) Mariam Mohamed Al-Ansari Doha 17 December 2011 [66]
Manama 9 March 2013
Muscat 15 March 2015
 Guinea 1.65 m (5 ft 4​34 in) i Fatoumata Balley Nogent-sur-Oise 7 January 2015 [67]
 Malta 1.61 m (5 ft 3​14 in) Chloe Gambin Marsa 19 February 2011
 Suriname 1.60 m (5 ft 2​34 in) Deborah Galon Willemstad 10 March 2013
Nassau 1 April 2013 [64]
 Oman 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) Buthayna Ayed Al-Yacoobi Debrecen 11 July 2013

See also

Notes and references

  1. [1] iaaf rules
  2. Straddle Technique
  3. [2]
  4. [3]
  5. "How it works". iaaf.org. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  6. High Jump - men - senior - outdoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-25.
  7. 7.0 7.1 High Jump - women - senior - outdoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-25.
  8. High Jump - men - senior - indoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-25.
  9. 9.0 9.1 High Jump - women - senior - indoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-25.
  10. http://zeenews.india.com/sports/others/justin-gatlin-rolls-back-the-years-as-tyro-barshim-basks_1465688.html
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  12. [4]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-25.
  13. Note: Drouin jumped imperial 7'10 ½"
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  15. High Jump Differentials
  16. 50 cm club - Alltime list in jump above own height
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