High jump
| Athletics High jump | |
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| Men's records | |
| World | Javier Sotomayor 2.45 m (8 ft 01⁄4 in) (1993) |
| Olympic | Charles Austin 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) (1996) |
| Women's records | |
| World | Stefka Kostadinova 2.09 m (6 ft 101⁄4 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 over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices. In its modern most practiced format, auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years. Over the centuries since, competitors have introduced increasingly more effective techniques to arrive at the current form.
Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) is the current men's record holder with a jump of 2.45 m (8 ft 01⁄4 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 101⁄4 in) since 1987, also the longest-held record in the event.
Rules
Jumpers must take off on one foot.
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, 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
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 latter, 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 51⁄2 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 73⁄4 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 33⁄4 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 53⁄4 in), and won the Olympic gold medal in 1964, before a motorcycle accident ended his career.
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 71⁄2 in) in 1977 and then 2.35 m (7 ft 81⁄2 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 71⁄4 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
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 from the ankles on the curve and not the hips.[3] 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.
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.
Declaring the winner
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/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 here, all the failed attempts at lower heights are added up, the one with the fewest number of total misses is declared the winner. If still tied a playoff is held. Starting height is the next larger 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, 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 ten athletes
Men (outdoor)
| Rank | Mark | Athlete | Venue | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.45 m (8 ft 01⁄4 in) |  Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | Salamanca | 27 July 1993 | |
| 2 | 2.43 m (7 ft 111⁄2 in) |  Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) | Brussels | 5 September 2014 | [9] |
| 3 | 2.42 m (7 ft 111⁄4 in) |  Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) | Stockholm | 30 June 1987 | |
 Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) | New York City | 14 June 2014 | [10] | ||
| 5 | 2.41 m (7 ft 103⁄4 in) |  Igor Paklin (URS) | Kobe | 4 September 1985 | |
 Ivan Ukhov (RUS) | Doha | 9 May 2014 | |||
| 7 | 2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 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) [11] | Des Moines | 25 April 2014 | |||
| Andriy Protsenko (UKR) | Lausanne | 3 July 2014 | [12] |
Women (outdoor)
| Rank | Mark | Athlete | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.09 m (6 ft 101⁄4 in) | .svg.png){kind=small} Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) | Rome | 30 August 1987 |
| 2 | 2.08 m (6 ft 93⁄4 in) |  Blanka Vlašić (CRO) | Zagreb | 31 August 2009 |
| 3 | 2.07 m (6 ft 91⁄4 in) | Lyudmila Andonova (BUL) | Berlin | 20 July 1984 |
| Anna Chicherova (RUS) | Cheboksary | 22 July 2011 | ||
| 5 | 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) | Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) | Eberstadt | 26 July 2003 |
 Hestrie Cloete (RSA) | Paris | 31 August 2003 | ||
| Yelena Slesarenko (RUS) | Athens | 28 August 2004 | ||
 Ariane Friedrich (GER) | Berlin | 14 June 2009 | ||
| 9 | 2.05 m (6 ft 81⁄2 in) | Tamara Bykova (URS) | Kiev | 22 June 1984 |
| Heike Henkel (GER) | Tokyo | 31 August 1991 | ||
| Inha Babakova (UKR) | Tokyo | 15 September 1995 | ||
.svg.png){kind=small} Tia Hellebaut (BEL) | Beijing | 23 August 2008 | ||
| Chaunté Lowe (USA) | Des Moines | 26 June 2010 |
Men (indoor)
| Rank | Mark | Athlete | Venue | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.43 m (7 ft 111⁄2 in) | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) | Budapest | 4 March 1989 | |
| 2 | 2.42 m (7 ft 111⁄4 in) | Carlo Thränhardt (FRG) | Berlin | 26 February 1988 | |
| Ivan Ukhov (RUS) | Prague | 25 February 2014 | [13] | ||
| 4 | 2.41 m (7 ft 103⁄4 in) | Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) | Piraeus | 1 February 1987 | |
| Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) | Athlone | 18 February 2015 | [14] | ||
| 6 | 2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) | Hollis Conway (USA) | Seville | 10 March 1991 | |
| Stefan Holm (SWE) | Madrid | 6 March 2005 | |||
| Aleksey Dmitrik (RUS) | Arnstadt | 8 February 2014 | |||
| 9 | 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) | Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) | Cologne | 24 February 1985 | |
| Ralf Sonn (GER) | Berlin | 1 March 1991 |
Women (indoor)
| Rank | Mark | Athlete | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.08 m (6 ft 93⁄4 in) | Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) | Arnstadt | 6 February 2006 |
| 2 | 2.07 m (6 ft 91⁄4 in) | Heike Henkel (GER) | Karlsruhe | 8 February 1992 |
| 3 | 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) | Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) | Athens | 20 February 1988 |
| Blanka Vlašić (CRO) | Arnstadt | 6 February 2010 | ||
| Anna Chicherova (RUS) | Arnstadt | 4 February 2012 | ||
| 6 | 2.05 m (6 ft 81⁄2 in) | Tia Hellebaut (BEL) | Birmingham | 3 March 2007 |
| Ariane Friedrich (GER) | Karlsruhe | 15 February 2009 | ||
| 8 | 2.04 m (6 ft 81⁄4 in) | Alina Astafei (GER) | Berlin | 3 March 1995 |
| Yelena Slesarenko (RUS) | Budapest | 7 March 2004 | ||
 Antonietta Di Martino (ITA) | Banská Bystrica | 9 February 2011 |
Olympic medalists
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World Championships medalists
Men
Women
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 |
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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 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Anna Chicherova (RUS) |
1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| 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
Men
| Year | Height | Athlete | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in) | Pat Matzdorf (USA) |
Berkeley |
| 1972 | 2.25 m (7 ft 41⁄2 in) | Jüri Tarmak (URS) |
Moscow |
| 1973 | 2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) | Dwight Stones (USA) |
Munich |
| 1974 | 2.28 m (7 ft 53⁄4 in) | Dwight Stones (USA) |
Oslo |
| 1975 | 2.28 m (7 ft 53⁄4 in) | Dwight Stones (USA) |
New York |
| 1976 | 2.32 m (7 ft 71⁄4 in) | Dwight Stones (USA) |
Philadelphia |
| 1977 | 2.33 m (7 ft 71⁄2 in) | Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) |
Richmond |
| 1978 | 2.35 m (7 ft 81⁄2 in) (i) | Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) |
Milano |
| 1979 | 2.32 m (7 ft 71⁄4 in) | Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) |
Ottawa |
| 1980 | 2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Gerd Wessig (GDR) |
Moscow |
| 1981 | 2.33 m (7 ft 71⁄2 in) | Aleksey Demyanyuk (URS) |
Leningrad |
| 1982 | 2.33 m (7 ft 71⁄2 in) | Zhu Jianhua (CHN) |
Delhi |
| 1983 | 2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) | Zhu Jianhua (CHN) |
Shanghai |
| 1984 | 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) | Zhu Jianhua (CHN) |
Eberstadt |
| 1985 | 2.41 m (7 ft 103⁄4 in) | Igor Paklin (URS) |
Kobe |
| 1986 | 2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) | Igor Paklin (URS) |
Rieti |
| 1987 | 2.42 m (7 ft 111⁄4 in) | Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) |
Stockholm |
| 1988 | 2.43 m (7 ft 111⁄2 in) | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) |
Salamanca |
| 1989 | 2.44 m (8 ft 0 in) | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) |
San Juan |
| 1990 | 2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) | Sorin Matei (ROM) |
Bratislava |
| 1991 | 2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Charles Austin (USA) Hollis Conway (USA) |
Saint-Denis Zürich Sevilla |
| 1992 | 2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) (i) | Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) |
Genova |
| 1993 | 2.45 m (8 ft 01⁄4 in) | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) |
Salamanca |
| 1994 | 2.42 m (7 ft 111⁄4 in) | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) |
Seville |
| 1995 | 2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) |
Mar del Plata |
| 1996 | 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) | Charles Austin (USA) |
Atlanta |
| 1997 | 2.37 m (7 ft 91⁄4 in) | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) |
Athens |
| 1998 | 2.37 m (7 ft 91⁄4 in) | Javier Sotomayor (CUB) |
Maracaibo |
| 1999 | 2.37 m (7 ft 91⁄4 in) | Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) |
Seville |
| 2000 | 2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) | Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) |
London |
| 2001 | 2.37 m (7 ft 91⁄4 in) | Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) |
Eberstadt |
| 2002 | 2.37 m (7 ft 91⁄4 in) | Jacques Freitag (RSA) |
Durban |
| 2003 | 2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) |  Aleksander Walerianczyk (POL) |
Bydgoszcz |
| 2004 | 2.37 m (7 ft 91⁄4 in) (i) | Stefan Holm (SWE) |
Stockholm |
| 2005 | 2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) (i) | Stefan Holm (SWE) |
Madrid |
| 2006 | 2.37 m (7 ft 91⁄4 in) | Andrey Silnov (RUS) Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) Ivan Ukhov (RUS) |
Monaco Arnstadt;Moscow Arnstadt |
| 2007 | 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) (i) | Ivan Ukhov (RUS) |
Moscow |
| 2008 | 2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) | Andrey Silnov (RUS) Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) |
London Moscow |
| 2009 | 2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) (i) | Ivan Ukhov (RUS) |
Pireás |
| 2010 | 2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) (i) | Ivan Ukhov (RUS) |
Banská Bystrica |
| 2011 | 2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) (i) | Ivan Ukhov (RUS) |
Hustopece; Banská Bystrica; Paris-Bercy |
| 2012 | 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) | Ivan Ukhov (RUS) Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) |
Cheboksary Lausanne |
| 2013 | 2.41 m (7 ft 103⁄4 in) | Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) |
Lausanne |
| 2014 | 2.43 m (7 ft 111⁄2 in) | Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) |
Bruxelles |
Women
| Year | Height | Athlete | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 1.87 m (6 ft 11⁄2 in) | Antonina Lazareva (URS) |
Kiev |
| 1971 | 1.92 m (6 ft 31⁄2 in) |  Ilona Gusenbauer (AUT) |
Vienna |
| 1972 | 1.94 m (6 ft 41⁄4 in) | Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL) |
Zagreb |
| 1973 | 1.92 m (6 ft 31⁄2 in) | Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL) |
Warsaw |
| 1974 | 1.95 m (6 ft 43⁄4 in) | Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) |
Rome |
| 1975 | 1.94 m (6 ft 41⁄4 in) | Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) |
Nice |
| 1976 | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) |
Dresden |
| 1977 | 2.00 m (6 ft 61⁄2 in) | Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) |
Berlin |
| 1978 | 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) | Sara Simeoni (ITA) |
Brescia |
| 1979 | 1.99 m (6 ft 61⁄4 in) | Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) |
Turin |
| 1980 | 1.98 m (6 ft 53⁄4 in) | Sara Simeoni (ITA) |
Turin |
| 1981 | 1.97 m (6 ft 51⁄2 in) | Pam Spencer (USA) |
Brussels |
| 1982 | 2.02 m (6 ft 71⁄2 in) | Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) |
Athens |
| 1983 | 2.04 m (6 ft 81⁄4 in) | Tamara Bykova (URS) |
Pisa;Budapest |
| 1984 | 2.07 m (6 ft 91⁄4 in) | Lyudmila Andonova (BUL) |
Berlin |
| 1985 | 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) | Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) |
Moscow |
| 1986 | 2.08 m (6 ft 93⁄4 in) | Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) |
Sofia |
| 1987 | 2.09 m (6 ft 101⁄4 in) | Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) |
Rome |
| 1988 | 2.07 m (6 ft 91⁄4 in) | Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) |
Sofia |
| 1989 | 2.04 m (6 ft 81⁄4 in) | Silvia Costa (CUB) Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) |
Barcelona;Pireás |
| 1990 | 2.02 m (6 ft 71⁄2 in) | Yelena Yelesina (URS) |
Seattle |
| 1991 | 2.05 m (6 ft 81⁄2 in) | Heike Henkel (GER) |
Tokyo |
| 1992 | 2.07 m (6 ft 91⁄4 in) (i) | Heike Henkel (GER) |
Karlsruhe |
| 1993 | 2.05 m (6 ft 81⁄2 in) | Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) |
Fukuoka |
| 1994 | 2.02 m (6 ft 71⁄2 in) (i) | Alina Astafei (GER) |
Berlin |
| 1995 | 2.05 m (6 ft 81⁄2 in) | Inga Babakova (UKR) |
Tokyo |
| 1996 | 2.05 m (6 ft 81⁄2 in) | Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) |
Atlanta |
| 1997 | 2.02 m (6 ft 71⁄2 in) | Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Inga Babakova (UKR) |
Osaka;Paris-Bercy Fukuoka |
| 1998 | 2.03 m (6 ft 73⁄4 in) | Venelina Veneva (BUL) |
Kalamata |
| 1999 | 2.04 m (6 ft 81⁄4 in) | Hestrie Cloete (RSA) |
Monaco |
| 2000 | 2.02 m (6 ft 71⁄2 in) | Monica Iagăr (ROM) |
Villeneuve d'Ascq |
| 2001 | 2.04 m (6 ft 81⁄4 in) | Venelina Veneva (BUL) |
Kalamáta |
| 2002 | 2.05 m (6 ft 81⁄2 in) | Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) |
Poznań |
| 2003 | 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) | Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) Hestrie Cloete (RSA) |
Eberstadt Saint-Denis |
| 2004 | 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) | Yelena Slesarenko (RUS) |
Athens |
| 2005 | 2.03 m (6 ft 73⁄4 in) | Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) |
Sheffield |
| 2006 | 2.08 m (6 ft 93⁄4 in) (i) | Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) |
Arnstadt |
| 2007 | 2.07 m (6 ft 91⁄4 in) | Blanka Vlašić (CRO) |
Stockholm |
| 2008 | 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) | Blanka Vlašić (CRO) |
Istanbul Madrid |
| 2009 | 2.08 m (6 ft 93⁄4 in) | Blanka Vlašić (CRO) |
Zagreb |
| 2010 | 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) (i) | Blanka Vlašić (CRO) |
Arnstadt |
| 2011 | 2.07 m (6 ft 91⁄4 in) | Anna Chicherova (RUS) |
Cheboksary |
| 2012 | 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) (i) | Anna Chicherova (RUS) |
Arnstadt |
| 2013 | 2.04 m (6 ft 81⁄4 in) | Brigetta Barrett (USA) |
Des Moines |
| 2014 | 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) | Maria Kuchina (RUS) (i) Anna Chicherova (RUS) Ruth Beitia (ESP) |
Stockholm Eugene Zurich |
- "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 111⁄4 in) | 2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) |
| Franklin Jacobs | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | 2.32 m (7 ft 71⁄4 in) | ||
| 3 | 0.58 m (1 ft 103⁄4 in) | Linus Thörnblad | 1.80 m (5 ft 103⁄4 in) | 2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) |
| Anton Riepl | 1.75 m (5 ft 83⁄4 in) | 2.33 m (7 ft 71⁄2 in) | ||
| Rick Noji | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | 2.31 m (7 ft 63⁄4 in) | ||
| 6 | 0.57 m (1 ft 101⁄4 in) | Hollis Conway | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | 2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) |
| 7 | 0.56 m (1 ft 10 in) | Takahiro Kimino | 1.76 m (5 ft 91⁄4 in) | 2.32 m (7 ft 71⁄4 in) |
| Charles Austin | 1.84 m (6 ft 01⁄4 in) | 2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) | ||
| Sorin Matei | 1.84 m (6 ft 01⁄4 in) | 2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) | ||
| 10 | 0.55 m (1 ft 91⁄2 in) | Robert Wolski | 1.84 m (6 ft 01⁄4 in) | 2.31 m (7 ft 63⁄4 in) |
| Hari Shankar Roy | 1.70 m (5 ft 63⁄4 in) | 2.25 m (7 ft 41⁄2 in) | ||
| Marcello Benvenuti | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | 2.33 m (7 ft 71⁄2 in) | ||
| Milton Ottey | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | 2.33 m (7 ft 71⁄2 in) |
Women
| Rank | Differential | Athlete | Height | Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.35 m (1 ft 13⁄4 in) | Antonietta Di Martino | 1.69 m (5 ft 61⁄2 in) | 2.04 m (6 ft 81⁄4 in) |
| 1 | 0.35 m (1 ft 13⁄4 in) | Inika McPherson | 1.65 m (5 ft 43⁄4 in) | 2.00 m (6 ft 61⁄2 in) |
| 2 | 0.33 m (1 ft 03⁄4 in) | Kajsa Bergqvist | 1.75 m (5 ft 83⁄4 in) | 2.08 m (6 ft 93⁄4 in) |
| Niki Bakoyianni | 1.70 m (5 ft 63⁄4 in) | 2.03 m (6 ft 73⁄4 in) | ||
| 4 | 0.32 m (1 ft 01⁄2 in) | Yolanda Henry | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | 2.00 m (6 ft 61⁄2 in) |
| Emilia Dragieva | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | 2.00 m (6 ft 61⁄2 in) | ||
| 6 | 0.31 m (1 ft 0 in) | Marie Collonvillé | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | 1.94 m (6 ft 41⁄4 in) |
| 7 | 0.30 m (0 ft 113⁄4 in) | Jessica Ennis | 1.65 m (5 ft 43⁄4 in) | 1.95 m (6 ft 43⁄4 in) |
| Viktoriya Seryogina | 1.70 m (5 ft 63⁄4 in) | 2.00 m (6 ft 61⁄2 in) | ||
| Antonella Bevilacqua | 1.69 m (5 ft 61⁄2 in) | 1.99 m (6 ft 61⁄4 in) | ||
| Lyudmila Andonova | 1.77 m (5 ft 91⁄2 in) | 2.07 m (6 ft 91⁄4 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 61⁄2 in).[6][8] The following table shows the only ten countries from which more than one athlete has cleared that mark.
National records
Updated March 2015.
Men
| Nation | Height | Athlete | Venue | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cuba |
2.45 m (8 ft 01⁄4 in) | Javier Sotomayor | Salamanca | 27 July 1993 | |
| Qatar |
2.43 m (7 ft 111⁄2 in) | Mutaz Essa Barshim | Brussels | 5 September 2014 | [17] |
| Sweden |
2.42 m (7 ft 111⁄4 in) | Patrik Sjöberg | Stockholm | 30 June 1987 | |
| Russia |
2.42 m (7 ft 111⁄4 in) i | Ivan Ukhov | Prague | 25 February 2014 | [18] |
| Germany |
2.42 m (7 ft 111⁄4 in) i | Carlo Thränhardt | Berlin | 26 February 1988 | |
| Ukraine |
2.42 m (7 ft 111⁄4 in) | Bohdan Bondarenko | New York City | 14 June 2014 | [10] |
 Kyrgyzstan |
2.41 m (7 ft 103⁄4 in) | Igor Paklin | Kobe | 4 September 1985 | |
| Romania |
2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) | Sorin Matei | Bratislava | 20 June 1990 | |
| United States |
2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) | Charles Austin | Zürich | 7 August 1991 | |
| Canada |
2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 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 91⁄2 in) | Dragutin Topic | Belgrad | 1993-08-01 | |
 Bahamas |
2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) | Troy Kemp | Nice | 1995-07-12 | |
| Poland |
2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) | Artur Partyka | Eberstadt | 1996-08-18 | |
| South Africa |
2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) | Jacques Freitag | Oudtshoorn | 2005-03-05 | |
 Azerbaijan |
2.37 m (7 ft 91⁄4 in) | Valeriy Sereda | Rieti | 1984-09-02 | |
 United Kingdom |
2.37 m (7 ft 91⁄4 in) m | Steve Smith | Seoul | 1992-09-20 | |
| Stuttgart | 1993-08-22 | ||||
| Robbie Grabarz | Lausanne | 2012-08-23 | [20] | ||
| Belgium |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Eddy Annys | Ghent | 1985-05-26 | |
 Slovakia |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Jan Zvara | Prague | 1987-08-23 | |
 Czech Republic |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Jaroslav Baba | Rome | 2005-07-08 | |
 Bermuda |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Clarence Saunders | Auckland | 1990-02-01 | |
| Bulgaria |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Georgi Dakov | Brussels | 1990-08-10 | |
 Greece |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Lambros Papakostas | Athens | 1992-07-21 | |
 Australia |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Tim Forsyth | Melbourne | 1997-03-02 | |
 Norway |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Steinar Hoen | Oslo | 1997-07-01 | |
 Israel |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Konstantin Matusevich | Perth | 2000-02-05 | |
 France |
2.35 m (7 ft 81⁄2 in) | Jean-Charles Gicquel | Paris | 1994-03-13 | |
 Cyprus |
2.35 m (7 ft 81⁄2 in) | Kyriakos Ioannou | Osaka | 2007-08-29 | |
 Lithuania |
2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) | Rolandas Verkys | Warsaw | 1991-06-16 | |
| Spain |
2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) | Arturo Ortíz | Barcelona | 1991-06-22 | |
 Belarus |
2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) | Andrey Sankovich | Gomel | 1993-05-15 | |
| South Korea |
2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) | Lee Jin-Taek | Seoul | 1997-06-20 | |
 Algeria |
2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) | Abderrahmane Hammad | Algiers | 2000-07-14 | |
 Jamaica |
2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) | Germaine Mason | Santo Domingo | 2003-08-09 | |
 Botswana |
2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) | Kabelo Kgosiemang | Addis Ababa | 2008-05-04 | |
| Italy |
2.33 m (7 ft 71⁄2 in) | Marcello Benvenuti | Verona | 1989-09-12 | |
 Colombia |
2.33 m (7 ft 71⁄2 in) | Gilmar Mayo | Pereira | 1994-10-17 | |
 Japan |
2.33 m (7 ft 71⁄2 in) | Naoyuki Daigo | Kobe | 2006-07-02 | |
 Uzbekistan |
2.32 m (7 ft 71⁄4 in) | Gennadiy Belkov | Tashkent | 1982-05-29 | |
 Slovenia |
2.32 m (7 ft 71⁄4 in) | Rožle Prezelj | Maribor | 2012-06-17 | |
 Brazil |
2.32 m (7 ft 71⁄4 in) | Jessé de Lima | Lausanne | 2008-09-02 | |
 Switzerland |
2.31 m (7 ft 63⁄4 in) | Roland Dalhäuser | Eberstadt | 1981-06-07 | |
 Tajikistan |
2.31 m (7 ft 63⁄4 in) | Oleg Palaschevskiy | Bryansk | 1990-08-12 | |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
2.31 m (7 ft 63⁄4 in) | Elvir Krehmic | Zagreb | 1998-07-07 | |
 Finland |
2.31 m (7 ft 63⁄4 in) | Mika Polku | Hämeenkyrö | 2000-07-22 | |
| Toni Huikuri | Bratislava | 2002-06-11 | |||
 Netherlands |
2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) | Wilbert Pennings | Eberstadt | 7 August 1999 | [21] |
 Peru |
2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) | Hugo Munoz | Lima | 1995-10-29 | |
 Estonia |
2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) | Marko Turban | Rakvere | 1996-06-05 | |
 Latvia |
2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) | Normunds Sietiņš | Nurmijärvi | 1992-07-20 | |
 Ireland |
2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) | Adrian O'Dwyer | Algiers | 24 June 2004 | |
 Iceland |
2.28 m (7 ft 53⁄4 in) | Einar Karl Hjartarson | Reykjavík | 20 February 2001 | |
 Cameroon |
2.28 m (7 ft 53⁄4 in) | Fernand Djoumessi | Bühl | 19 June 2014 | [22] |
 Hungary |
2.28 m (7 ft 53⁄4 in) | László Boros | Debrecen | 6 July 2005 | |
 Antigua and Barbuda |
2.27 m (7 ft 51⁄4 in) | James Grayman | Pergine Valsugana | 7 July 2007 | |
 Malaysia |
2.27 m (7 ft 51⁄4 in) | Lee Hup Wei | Beijing | 25 May 2008 | |
 Sri Lanka |
2.27 m (7 ft 51⁄4 in) | Manjula Kumara Wijesekara | Colombo | 23 July 2004 | |
| Incheon | 4 September 2005 | ||||
 Lebanon |
2.27 m (7 ft 51⁄4 in) | Jean-Claude Rabbath | Beirut | 23 April 2004 | |
| Bucharest | 12 June 2004 | ||||
 Venezuela |
2.27 m (7 ft 51⁄4 in) | Eure Yáñez | São Paulo | 4 May 2014 | [23] |
 Sudan |
2.26 m (7 ft 43⁄4 in) | Mohamed Younes Idris | Abidjan | 26 April 2014 | [24] |
 Puerto Rico |
2.26 m (7 ft 43⁄4 in) | Luis Castro | Garbsen | 18 May 2014 | [25] |
| São Paulo | 3 August 2014 | [26] | |||
 Egypt |
2.25 m (7 ft 41⁄2 in) | Karim Samir Lotfy | Eberstadt | 27 June 2008 | |
 San Marino |
2.24 m (7 ft 4 in) | Eugenio Rossi | Tbilisi | 21 June 2014 | [27] |
 Saudi Arabia |
2.21 m (7 ft 3 in) | Nawaf Ahmad Al-Yami | Salzburg | 15 June 2013 | |
 Panama |
2.18 m (7 ft 13⁄4 in) | Alexander Bowen Jr. | Boston | 1 March 2015 | [28] |
 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 | |
 Trinidad and Tobago |
2.15 m (7 ft 01⁄2 in) | Daniel Kashef | San Marcos | 11 May 2014 | [29] |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis |
2.12 m (6 ft 111⁄4 in) | Adolphus Jones | Veracruz | 24 November 2014 | [30] |
 Albania |
2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) | Muhamet Abazi | Tirana | 6 July 1988 | |
 Suriname |
2.03 m (6 ft 73⁄4 in) | Miguel van Assen | Nassau | 31 March 2013 | |
Women
| Nation | Height | Athlete | Venue | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria |
2.09 m (6 ft 101⁄4 in) | Stefka Kostadinova | Rome | 1987-08-30 | |
| Sweden |
2.08 m (6 ft 93⁄4 in) | Kajsa Bergqvist | Arnstadt | 2006-02-04 | |
| Croatia |
2.08 m (6 ft 93⁄4 in) | Blanka Vlašić | Zagreb | 2009-08-31 | |
| Germany |
2.07 m (6 ft 91⁄4 in) | Heike Henkel | Karlsruhe | 1992-02-08 | |
| Russia |
2.07 m (6 ft 91⁄4 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 81⁄2 in) | Inga Babakova | Tokyo | 1995-09-15 | |
| Belgium |
2.05 m (6 ft 81⁄2 in) | Tia Hellebaut | Birmingham | 2007-03-03 | |
| United States |
2.05 m (6 ft 81⁄2 in) | Chaunte Lowe | Des Moines | 2010-06-26 | |
| Cuba |
2.04 m (6 ft 81⁄4 in) | Silvia Costa | Barcelona | 1989-09-09 | |
| Italy |
2.04 m (6 ft 81⁄4 in) | Antonietta Di Martino | Banská Bystrica | 2011-02-09 | |
| Greece |
2.03 m (6 ft 73⁄4 in) | Niki Bakogianni | Atlanta | 1996-08-03 | |
| Romania |
2.03 m (6 ft 73⁄4 in) | Monica Iagar | Bucharest | 1999-01-23 | |
| Spain |
2.02 m (6 ft 71⁄2 in) | Ruth Beitia | San Sebastián | 2007-08-04 | |
| Poland |
2.02 m (6 ft 71⁄2 in) i | Kamila Lićwinko | Toruń | 21 February 2015 | [31] |
 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 61⁄2 in) | Biljana Petrović | Saint-Denis | 1990-06-22 | |
| Belarus |
2.00 m (6 ft 61⁄2 in) | Tatyana Shevchik | Gomel | 1993-05-14 | |
| Czech Republic |
2.00 m (6 ft 61⁄2 in) | Zuzana Hlavoňová | Prague | 2000-06-05 | |
| Slovenia |
2.00 m (6 ft 61⁄2 in) | Britta Bilač | Helsinki | 1994-08-14 | |
| Hungary |
2.00 m (6 ft 61⁄2 in) | Dóra Győrffy | Nyíregyháza | 2001-07-26 | |
| Uzbekistan |
1.98 m (6 ft 53⁄4 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 53⁄4 in) | Debbie Brill | Rieti | 1984-09-02 | |
| Australia |
1.98 m (6 ft 53⁄4 in) | Alison Inverarity | Ingolstadt | 1989-02-12 | |
 Saint Lucia |
1.98 m (6 ft 53⁄4 in) | Levern Spencer | Athens, GA | 2010-05-08 | |
| Lithuania |
1.98 m (6 ft 53⁄4 in) | Airinė Palšytė | Kaunas | 27 July 2014 | [32] |
| 1.98 m (6 ft 53⁄4 in) | Eberstadt | 24 August 2014 | |||
| 1.98 m (6 ft 53⁄4 in) i | Cottbus | 27 January 2015 | [33] | ||
| 1.98 m (6 ft 53⁄4 in) i | Klaipéda | 20 February 2015 | |||
| China |
1.97 m (6 ft 51⁄2 in) | Jin Ling | Hamamatsu | 1989-05-07 | |
| Latvia |
1.97 m (6 ft 51⁄2 in) | Valentīna Gotovska | Vilnius | 1992-30-03 | |
| Austria |
1.97 m (6 ft 51⁄2 in) | Sigrid Kirchmann | Stuttgart | 1993-08-21 | |
 Moldova |
1.97 m (6 ft 51⁄2 in) | Olga Bolşova | Rieti | 1993-09-05 | |
 Argentina |
1.97 m (6 ft 51⁄2 in) | Solange Witteveen | Manaus | 2001-05-19 | |
 Dominican Republic |
1.97 m (6 ft 51⁄2 in) | Juana Rosario Arrendel | San Salvador | 2002-12-02 | |
| France |
1.97 m (6 ft 51⁄2 in) i | Mélanie Melfort | Dortmund | 5 February 2003 | |
| Aubière | 18 February 2007 | ||||
| Kyrgyzstan |
1.97 m (6 ft 51⁄2 in) | Tatyana Efimenko | Rome | 11 July 2003 | |
 Mexico |
1.97 m (6 ft 51⁄2 in) | Romary Rifka | Xalapa | 4 April 2004 | |
| United Kingdom |
1.97 m (6 ft 51⁄2 in) i | Katarina Johnson-Thompson | Sheffield | 14 February 2015 | [34] |
| 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 43⁄4 in) | Deirdre Ryan | Daegu | 1 September 2011 | |
| Israel |
1.94 m (6 ft 41⁄4 in) i | Danielle Frenkel | Paris | 5 March 2011 | |
 Vietnam |
1.94 m (6 ft 41⁄4 in) | Bui Thi Nhung | Bangkok | 4 May 2005 | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
1.94 m (6 ft 41⁄4 in) | Amra Temim | Varaždin | 15 August 1987 | |
| Serbia |
1.94 m (6 ft 41⁄4 in) | Amra Temim | Thessaloniki | 16 September 1988 | |
| Netherlands |
1.94 m (6 ft 41⁄4 in) | Nadine Broersen | Zürich | 14 August 2014 | [35] |
| Colombia |
1.93 m (6 ft 33⁄4 in) | Caterine Ibargüen | Cali | 22 July 2005 | |
 Turkey |
1.93 m (6 ft 33⁄4 in)[36] | Candeğer Oğuz | Istanbul | 16 May 2004 | |
| Cyprus |
1.93 m (6 ft 33⁄4 in) i | Leontia Kallenou | Fayetteville | 13 March 2015 | [37] |
| Brazil |
1.92 m (6 ft 31⁄2 in) | Orlane dos Santos | Bogotá | 11 August 1989 | |
| Finland |
1.92 m (6 ft 31⁄2 in) | Hanna Mikkonen | Tampere | 12 June 2005 | |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | Priscilla Frederick | Princeton | 18 April 2015 | [38] |
| Bahamas |
1.87 m (6 ft 11⁄2 in) i | Saniel Atkinson Grier | Nashville | 24 January 2014 | [39] |
| Blacksburg | 8 February 2014 | [40] | |||
 Georgia |
1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) i | Valentyna Liashenko | Lviv | 17 January 2015 | [41] |
 Dominica |
1.85 m (6 ft 03⁄4 in) i | Thea LaFond | Clemson | 27 February 2014 | [42] |
| 1.85 m (6 ft 03⁄4 in) | Gainesville | 3 April 2015 | [43] | ||
 Luxembourg |
1.84 m (6 ft 01⁄4 in) i | Elodie Tshilumba | Kirchberg | 7 February 2015 | [44] |
 Singapore |
1.84 m (6 ft 01⁄4 in) | Michelle Sng | Laguna | 19 March 2015 | [45] |
 Iran |
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | Sepideh Tavakkoli | Incheon | 28 September 2014 | [46] |
 Morocco |
1.81 m (5 ft 111⁄4 in) i | Ghizlane Siba | Manhattan | 13 December 2014 | [47] |
| Malaysia |
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Yap Sean Yee | Hanoi | 27 June 2013 | |
| Shabana Khanum Jalal Din | Bangkok | 5 May 2005 | |||
 Ethiopia |
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Ariyat Dibow Ubang | Marrakech | 12 August 2014 | [48] |
 Anguilla |
1.77 m (5 ft 91⁄2 in) | Shinelle Proctor | Fayetteville | 31 May 2014 | [49] |
| Lebanon |
1.72 m (5 ft 71⁄2 in) | Carine Bitchakjin | Jamhour | 11 August 2000 | |
 Curaçao |
1.70 m (5 ft 63⁄4 in) | Sharyaane Gijsbertha | Nassau | 1 April 2013 | [50] |
 Guinea |
1.65 m (5 ft 43⁄4 in) i | Fatoumata Balley | Nogent-sur-Oise | 7 January 2015 | [51] |
| Suriname |
1.60 m (5 ft 23⁄4 in) | Deborah Galon | Willemstad | 10 March 2013 | |
| Nassau | 1 April 2013 | [50] | |||
 Oman |
1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) | Buthayna Ayed Al-Yacoobi | Debrecen | 11 July 2013 |
See also
- List of high jump national champions (men)
- List of high jump national champions (women)
- Standing high jump
References
- The Complete Book of Track and Field, by Tom McNab
- The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 2000
- ↑ iaaf rules
- ↑ Straddle Technique
- ↑
- ↑
- ↑ High Jump - men - senior - outdoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-25.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 High Jump - women - senior - outdoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-25.
- ↑ High Jump - men - senior - indoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-25.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 High Jump - women - senior - indoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-25.
- ↑ http://zeenews.india.com/sports/others/justin-gatlin-rolls-back-the-years-as-tyro-barshim-basks_1465688.html
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "High Jump Results". IAAF. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- ↑ Note: Drouin jumped imperial 7'10 ½"
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