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 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 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.
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
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 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 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 |
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| 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
Men (absolute)
| 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 | [10] |
| 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 | [11] | ||
 Carlo Thränhardt (FRG) | Berlin (indoor) | 26 February 1988 | |||
 Ivan Ukhov (RUS) | Prague (indoor) | 25 February 2014 | [12] | ||
| 7 | 2.41 m (7 ft 103⁄4 in) |  Igor Paklin (URS) | Kobe | 4 September 1985 | |
| 8 | 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) [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 91⁄2 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 | |||
 Gianmarco Tamberi (ITA) | Hustopece (indoor) | 13 February 2016 |
Women (absolute)
| 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 Vlasic (CRO) | Zagreb | 31 August 2009 |
| Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) | Arnstadt (indoor) | 6 February 2006 | ||
| 4 | 2.07 m (6 ft 91⁄4 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 81⁄2 in) | Tamara Bykova (URS) | Kiev | 22 June 1984 |
| 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 | ||
| 14 | 2.04 m (6 ft 81⁄4 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 73⁄4 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
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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 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 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 |
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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
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- "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).[7][9] The following table shows the only ten countries from which more than one athlete has cleared that mark.
National records
Updated April 2016.
Men
| Nation | Height | Athlete | Date | Venue | Ref | ||||||
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| Cuba |
2.45 m (8 ft 01⁄4 in) | Javier Sotomayor | 27 July 1993 | Salamanca | |||||||
| Qatar |
2.43 m (7 ft 111⁄2 in) | Mutaz Essa Barshim | 5 September 2014 | Brussels | [17] | ||||||
| Sweden |
2.42 m (7 ft 111⁄4 in) | Patrik Sjöberg | 30 June 1987 | Stockholm | |||||||
| Russia |
2.42 m (7 ft 111⁄4 in) i | Ivan Ukhov | 25 February 2014 | Prague | [18] | ||||||
| Germany |
2.42 m (7 ft 111⁄4 in) i | Carlo Thränhardt | 26 February 1988 | Berlin | |||||||
| Ukraine |
2.42 m (7 ft 111⁄4 in) | Bohdan Bondarenko | 14 June 2014 | New York City | [11] | ||||||
 Kyrgyzstan |
2.41 m (7 ft 103⁄4 in) | Igor Paklin | 4 September 1985 | Kobe | |||||||
| Romania |
2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) | Sorin Matei | 20 June 1990 | Bratislava | |||||||
| United States |
2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) | Charles Austin | 7 August 1991 | Zürich | |||||||
| Canada |
2.40 m (7 ft 101⁄4 in) | Derek Drouin | 25 April 2014 | Des Moines | [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 | 1 August 1993 | Belgrad | |||||||
| Bahamas |
2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) | Troy Kemp | 12 July 1995 | Nice | |||||||
| Poland |
2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) | Artur Partyka | 18 August 1996 | Eberstadt | |||||||
| South Africa |
2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) | Jacques Freitag | Oudtshoorn | 2005-03-05 | |||||||
| Italy |
2.38 m (7 ft 91⁄2 in) i | Gianmarco Tamberi | Hustopeče | 13 February 2016 | [20] | ||||||
 Azerbaijan |
2.37 m (7 ft 91⁄4 in) | Valeriy Sereda | Rieti | 2 September 1984 | |||||||
| United Kingdom |
2.37 m (7 ft 91⁄4 in) m | Steve Smith | 20 September 1992 | Seoul | |||||||
| 22 August 1993 | Stuttgart | ||||||||||
| Robbie Grabarz | 23 August 2012 | Lausanne | [21] | ||||||||
| Belgium |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Eddy Annys | Ghent | 1985-05-26 | |||||||
 Kazakhstan |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Sergey Zasimovich | Tashkent | 5 May 1984 | |||||||
 Slovakia |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Jan Zvara | 23 August 1987 | Prague | |||||||
 Czech Republic |
2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in) | Jaroslav Baba | 8 July 2005 | Rome | |||||||
 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 | 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 | 4 May 2008 | Addis Ababa | |||||||
 Colombia |
2.33 m (7 ft 71⁄2 in) | Gilmar Mayo | 17 October 1994 | Pereira | |||||||
 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 | |||||||
 Saint Lucia |
2.31 m (7 ft 63⁄4 in) | Darvin Edwards | 30 August 2011 | Daegu | |||||||
 Finland |
rowspan=22.31 m (7 ft 63⁄4 in) | Mika Polku | 22 July 2000 | Hämeenkyrö | |||||||
| Toni Huikuri | 11 June 2002 | Bratislava | |||||||||
 Syria |
2.31 m (7 ft 63⁄4 in) | Majededdin Ghazal | 5 October 2015 | Mungyeong | [22] | ||||||
 Netherlands |
2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) | Wilbert Pennings | 7 August 1999 | Eberstadt | [23] | ||||||
 Peru |
2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) | Hugo Munoz | Lima | 29 October 1995 | |||||||
 Estonia |
2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) | Marko Turban | Rakvere | 5 June 1996 | |||||||
 Latvia |
2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) | Normunds Sietiņš | 20 July 1992 | Nurmijärvi | |||||||
 Ireland |
2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) | Adrian O'Dwyer | 24 June 2004 | Algiers | |||||||
 Mexico |
2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) | Gerardo Martinez | 15 April 2007 | Walnut | |||||||
| 2.30 m (7 ft 61⁄2 in) i | Edgar Rivera | 9 February 2016 | Brno | [24] | |||||||
 Puerto Rico |
2.29 m (7 ft 6 in) | David Smith | 23 April 2016 | Auburn | [25] | ||||||
 Iceland |
2.28 m (7 ft 53⁄4 in) | Einar Karl Hjartarson | 20 February 2001 | Reykjavík | |||||||
 Cameroon |
2.28 m (7 ft 53⁄4 in) | Fernand Djoumessi | 19 June 2014 | Bühl | [26] | ||||||
 Hungary |
2.28 m (7 ft 53⁄4 in) | László Boros | Debrecen | 6 July 2005 | |||||||
 Austria |
2.28 m (7 ft 53⁄4 in) | Markus Einberger | Schwechat | 18 May 1986 | |||||||
 Sudan |
2.28 m (7 ft 53⁄4 in) i | Mohamed Younes Idris | 23 February 2014 | Bordeaux | [27] | ||||||
| 2.28 m (7 ft 53⁄4 in) | 27 May 2015 | Namur | [28] | ||||||||
 Chinese Taipei |
2.28 m (7 ft 53⁄4 in) | Hsiang Chun-Hsien | Gwangju | 10 July 2015 | [29] | ||||||
 Antigua and Barbuda |
2.27 m (7 ft 51⁄4 in) | James Grayman | Pergine Valsugana | 7 July 2007 | |||||||
 Denmark |
2.27 m (7 ft 51⁄4 in) | Janick Klausen | 4 March 2011 | Paris | [30] | ||||||
 Malaysia |
2.27 m (7 ft 51⁄4 in) | Lee Hup Wei | 25 May 2008 | Beijing | |||||||
 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 | 4 May 2014 | São Paulo | [31] | ||||||
 San Marino |
2.27 m (7 ft 51⁄4 in) | Eugenio Rossi | 28 June 2015 | Caprino Veronese | [32] | ||||||
 Iran |
2.26 m (7 ft 43⁄4 in) | Keivan Ghanbarzadeh | 20 April 2012 | Shiraz | [33] | ||||||
| Bangkok | 22 June 2015 | [34] | |||||||||
 Argentina |
2.25 m (7 ft 41⁄2 in) | Fernando Pastoriza | Ciudad de México | 23 July 1988 | |||||||
| Erasmo Jara | Rosário | 11 May 2002 | |||||||||
 Barbados |
2.25 m (7 ft 41⁄2 in) | Henderson Dottin | El Paso | 12 April 2008 | |||||||
 Egypt |
2.25 m (7 ft 41⁄2 in) | Karim Samir Lotfy | Eberstadt | 27 June 2008 | |||||||
 Kenya |
2.25 m (7 ft 41⁄2 in) A | Mathieu Kiplagat Sawe | Nairobi | 31 July 2015 | [35] | ||||||
 Ghana |
2.24 m (7 ft 4 in) | Awuku Boateng | 8 August 1996 | Kitchener | |||||||
 Portugal |
2.24 m (7 ft 4 in) i | Paulo Conceição | 6 March 2016 | Pombal | [36] | ||||||
 Chile |
2.22 m (7 ft 31⁄4 in) | Felipe Apablaza | 3 June 2001 | Cochabamba | |||||||
 Jordan |
2.22 m (7 ft 31⁄4 in) | Fakhredin Fouad | 4 July 1991 | Amman | |||||||
 Grenada |
2.21 m (7 ft 3 in) | Paul Caraballo | 26 April 1997 | Des Moines | |||||||
 Saudi Arabia |
2.21 m (7 ft 3 in) | Nawaf Ahmad Al-Yami | 15 June 2013 | Salzburg | |||||||
 Panama |
2.21 m (7 ft 3 in) | Alexander Bowen Jr. | 9 May 2015 | Albany | [37] | ||||||
 Cayman Islands |
2.19 m (7 ft 2 in) | Omar Wright | 13 May 2006 | El Paso | |||||||
 Guyana |
2.17 m (7 ft 11⁄4 in) | Robert Bynoe | George Town | 17 April 1995 | |||||||
 Mali |
2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) | Abdoulaye Diarra | 19 May 2013 | Bamako | |||||||
 United Arab Emirates |
2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) | Sayed Abbas Al-Alaoui | 10 April 2013 | Doha | |||||||
 Indonesia |
2.15 m (7 ft 01⁄2 in) | Andre Dermawan | 13 September 2012 | Pekanbaru | |||||||
 Trinidad and Tobago |
2.15 m (7 ft 01⁄2 in) | Daniel Kashef | 11 May 2014 | San Marcos | [38] | ||||||
 Saint Kitts and Nevis |
2.15 m (7 ft 01⁄2 in) | Jermaine Francis | 31 May 2015 | Cali | [39] | ||||||
 Andorra |
2.14 m (7 ft 01⁄4 in) | Estéve Martín | 26 June 1996 | Barcelona | |||||||
 Liberia |
2.14 m (7 ft 01⁄4 in) | Jah Bennett | 28 April 2007 | Fresno | |||||||
 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 | [40] | ||||||
 Angola |
2.10 m (6 ft 101⁄2 in) | Orlando Bonifácio | 9 May 1982 | Luanda | |||||||
 Aruba |
2.10 m (6 ft 101⁄2 in) | Pierre de Windt | 24 September 2006 | Breda | |||||||
 Bolivia |
2.10 m (6 ft 101⁄2 in) | Claudio Pinto | 12 November 1989 | La Paz | |||||||
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
2.09 m (6 ft 101⁄4 in) | Zimbert Bramble | 11 April 2015 | Pittsburg | [41] | ||||||
 Brunei |
2.04 m (6 ft 81⁄4 in) | Demingo Kapal | B. S. Begawan | 7 June 1992 | |||||||
 Belize |
2.03 m (6 ft 73⁄4 in) | Joel Wade | Belize City | 17 August 1997 | |||||||
 Libya |
2.03 m (6 ft 73⁄4 in) | Fethi Abdulmounem Aboud | Amman | 27 August 2008 | |||||||
 Suriname |
2.03 m (6 ft 73⁄4 in) | Miguel van Assen | Nassau | 31 March 2013 | |||||||
 Anguilla |
2.00 m (6 ft 61⁄2 in) | Theron Niles | 6 July 2014 | Basseterre | |||||||
 Kiribati |
1.95 m (6 ft 43⁄4 in) | David Birati | 10 May 2015 | Cairns | [42] | ||||||
 Guam |
1.90 m (6 ft 23⁄4 in) | Raffy Cartaciano | 7 May 2002 | Tumon | |||||||
 Malta |
1.87 m (6 ft 11⁄2 in) | Edward Calleja | 17 June 1998 | Marsa |  Comoros |
1.85 m (6 ft 03⁄4 in) | Mouhoussoine Soudjay | 23 May 2015 | Gagny |
Women
| Nation | Height | Athlete | Date | Venue | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria |
2.09 m (6 ft 101⁄4 in) | Stefka Kostadinova | 30 August 1987 | Rome | |
| Sweden |
2.08 m (6 ft 93⁄4 in) i | Kajsa Bergqvist | 4 February 2006 | Arnstadt | |
| Croatia |
2.08 m (6 ft 93⁄4 in) | Blanka Vlašić | 31 August 2009 | Zagreb | |
| Germany |
2.07 m (6 ft 91⁄4 in) i | Heike Henkel | 8 February 1992 | Karlsruhe | |
| 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 | [43] |
| 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 | [44] |
| 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 | [45] | ||
| 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 | [46] |
| Isobel Pooley | Birmingham | 4 July 2015 | [47] | ||
| 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 | |
 Nigeria |
1.95 m (6 ft 43⁄4 in) | Doreen Amata | Abuja | 3 July 2008 | |
| Eberstadt | 16 July 2011 | [48] | |||
| Daegu | 1 September 2011 | [49] | |||
| 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 | 16 September 1988 | Thessaloniki | |
| Denmark |
1.94 m (6 ft 41⁄4 in) | Pia Zinck | 8 August 1997 | Athens | [50] |
| Netherlands |
1.94 m (6 ft 41⁄4 in) | Nadine Broersen | 14 August 2014 | Zürich | [51] |
| Colombia |
1.93 m (6 ft 33⁄4 in) | Caterine Ibargüen | 22 July 2005 | Cali | |
 Turkey |
1.93 m (6 ft 33⁄4 in)[52] | Candeğer Oğuz | 16 May 2004 | Istanbul | |
| Cyprus |
1.93 m (6 ft 33⁄4 in) i | Leontia Kallenou | 13 March 2015 | Fayetteville | [53] |
| 1.93 m (6 ft 33⁄4 in) | 15 May 2015 | Starkville | [54] | ||
| Barbados |
1.93 m (6 ft 33⁄4 in) i | Akela Jones | Ames | 27 February 2016 | [55] |
| 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 | |
 Georgia |
1.92 m (6 ft 31⁄2 in) | Valentyna Liashenko | Berdychiv | 27 June 2015 | |
 Seychelles |
1.92 m (6 ft 31⁄2 in) A | Lissa Labiche | Potchefstroom | 9 May 2015 | [56] |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | Priscilla Frederick | Toronto | 22 July 2015 | [57] |
| Bahamas |
1.87 m (6 ft 11⁄2 in) i | Saniel Atkinson Grier | Nashville | 24 January 2014 | [58] |
| Blacksburg | 8 February 2014 | [59] | |||
 Dominica |
1.85 m (6 ft 03⁄4 in) i | Thea LaFond | Clemson | 27 February 2014 | [60] |
| 1.85 m (6 ft 03⁄4 in) | Gainesville | 3 April 2015 | [61] | ||
 Luxembourg |
1.84 m (6 ft 01⁄4 in) i | Elodie Tshilumba | Kirchberg | 7 February 2015 | [62] |
 Singapore |
1.84 m (6 ft 01⁄4 in) | Michelle Sng | Laguna | 19 March 2015 | [63] |
| Iran |
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | Sepideh Tavakkoli | Incheon | 28 September 2014 | [64] |
 Morocco |
1.81 m (5 ft 111⁄4 in) i | Ghizlane Siba | 13 December 2014 | Manhattan | [65] |
 Hong Kong |
1.81 m (5 ft 111⁄4 in) | Yeung Man Wai | 19 March 2016 | Hong Kong | [66] |
 Ethiopia |
1.80 m (5 ft 103⁄4 in) | Ariyat Dibow Ubang | 14 September 2015 | Brazzaville | [67] |
| Malaysia |
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Yap Sean Yee | 27 June 2013 | Hanoi | |
| Shabana Khanum Jalal Din | 5 May 2005 | Bangkok | |||
| Anguilla |
1.77 m (5 ft 91⁄2 in) i | Shinelle Proctor | 31 May 2014 | Fayetteville | [68] |
 Uruguay |
1.76 m (5 ft 91⁄4 in) | Lorena Aires | 27 March 2015 | Buenos Aires | [69] |
 United States Virgin Islands |
1.75 m (5 ft 83⁄4 in) | Wanetta Kirby | 6 June 2015 | West Long Branch | |
| 11 July 2015 | New York City | ||||
| Lebanon |
1.72 m (5 ft 71⁄2 in) | Carine Bitchakjin | 11 August 2000 | Jamhour | |
 Curaçao |
1.70 m (5 ft 63⁄4 in) | Sharyaane Gijsbertha | 1 April 2013 | Nassau | [70] |
| Belize |
1.70 m (5 ft 63⁄4 in) | Kay de Vaughn | 25 September 2004 | Managua | |
| Katy Sealy | 3 May 2015 | Colchester | [71] | ||
 Bahrain |
1.70 m (5 ft 63⁄4 in) | Mariam Mohamed Al-Ansari | 17 December 2011 | Doha | [72] |
| 9 March 2013 | Manama | ||||
| 15 March 2015 | Muscat | ||||
 Guinea |
1.65 m (5 ft 43⁄4 in) i | Fatoumata Balley | 7 January 2015 | Nogent-sur-Oise | [73] |
| Malta |
1.61 m (5 ft 31⁄4 in) | Chloe Gambin | 19 February 2011 | Marsa | |
| Suriname |
1.60 m (5 ft 23⁄4 in) | Deborah Galon | 10 March 2013 | Willemstad | |
| 1 April 2013 | Nassau | [70] | |||
| United Arab Emirates |
1.59 m (5 ft 21⁄2 in) | Alia Youssef Al-Hammadi | 15 March 2015 | Muscat | |
 Equatorial Guinea |
1.56 m (5 ft 11⁄4 in) | Bibiana Olama | 25/27 October 2012 | Malabo | |
 Kuwait |
1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) | Sarah Nasser Al-Sabea | 15 March 2015 | Muscat | |
 Oman |
1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) | Buthayna Ayed Al-Yacoobi | 11 July 2013 | Debrecen |
See also
- List of high jump national champions (men)
- List of high jump national champions (women)
- Standing high jump
Notes and references
- The Complete Book of Track and Field, by Tom McNab
- The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 2000
- ↑ iaaf rules
- ↑ Straddle Technique
- ↑
- ↑
- ↑ "How it works". iaaf.org. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ High Jump - men - senior - outdoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-25.
- 1 2 High Jump - women - senior - outdoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-25.
- ↑ High Jump - men - senior - indoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-25.
- 1 2 High Jump - women - senior - indoor. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-01-25.
- ↑ "Justin Gatlin rolls back the years as tyro Barshim basks". zeenews.india.com. 6 September 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
- 1 2 "High Jump Results". IAAF. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- ↑ . IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-25.
- ↑ Note: Drouin jumped imperial 7'10 ½"
- ↑ "High Jump Results". Diamond League - Lausanne. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ High Jump Differentials
- ↑ 50 cm club - Alltime list in jump above own height
- ↑ "High Jump Results". IAAF. 5 September 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
- ↑ Phil Minshull (24 February 2014). "Ukhov stock continue to rise as the russian jumps 2.42 in Prague". IAAF. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ↑ "Derek Drouin sets Canadian record in high jump, clears 2.40 metres". www.montreal.ctvnews.ca. 15 August 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ↑ Steven Mills (14 February 2016). "Tamberi clears world-leading 2.38m in Hustopece - indoor round-up". IAAF. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
- ↑ "High Jump Results". IAAF. 23 August 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- ↑ "Records broken at the 2015 Military World Games". korea2015mwg.org. 8 October 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ↑ "Athlete profile for Wilbert Pennings". IAAF. 29 October 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
- ↑ "Barber, Holzdeppe and Lavillenie in Eugene – global update". athleticsweekly.com. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
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