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 practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat for landing. In the modern era, athletes run towards the bar and use the Fosbury Flop method of jumping, leaping head first with their back to the bar. Since ancient times, competitors have introduced increasingly 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 1⁄4 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 10 1⁄4 in) since 1987, also the longest-held record in the event.
Contents
1 Rules
2 History
3 Technical aspects
3.1 Step by step
3.2 Approach
3.3 Take-off
3.4 Flight
4 Training
4.1 Sprinting
4.2 Weight lifting
4.3 Plyometrics
5 All-time top 25
5.1 Men (absolute)
5.1.1 Notes
5.2 Women (absolute)
5.2.1 Notes
6 Olympic medalists
6.1 Men
6.2 Women
7 World Championships medalists
7.1 Men
7.2 Women
8 World Indoor Championships medalists
8.1 Men
8.2 Women
9 Athletes with most medals
9.1 Men
9.2 Women
10 Season's bests
10.1 Men
10.2 Women
11 Height differentials
11.1 Men
11.2 Women
12 Female two metres club
13 National records
13.1 Men
13.2 Women
14 See also
15 Notes and references
16 External links
Rules
Yelena Slesarenko hitting the bar while using the Fosbury Flop technique
The rules for the high jump are set internationally by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). 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. Most competitions state that 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. Tie-breakers are used for any place in which scoring occurs. If two or more jumpers tie for one of these places, 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 later years, soon then after, 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 change, beginning with the Irish-American Michael Sweeney's Eastern cut-off. By taking off like the scissors and extending his spine and flattening out over the bar, Sweeney raised the world record to 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 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 7 3⁄4 in).
American and Soviet jumpers were the most successful 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 efficient and highest clearance (of the bar) up to that time. Straddle-jumper, Charles Dumas, was the first to clear 7 feet (2.13 m), in 1956, American John Thomas pushed the world mark to 2.23 m (7 ft 3 3⁄4 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 5 3⁄4 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 1⁄2 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 1⁄2 in) in 1977 and then 2.35 m (7 ft 8 1⁄2 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 7 1⁄4 in), 0.59 metres (1 ft 11 in) over his head (a feat equalled 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 former world record holder Patrik Sjöberg; and female jumpers Iolanda Balaş of Romania, Ulrike Meyfarth of Germany and Italy's Sara Simeoni.
Technical aspects
Step by step
The most important aspect to put of all pieces of the jump together is the body mechanics the jumper uses to jump. Technique and form has evolved greatly over the history of high jump. The popularity of a style depend upon the time period as listed here:
Beginnings (1790 - 1875) --> two legged lift over bar / Basic Scissors (1875 - 1892) --> standing jump and straight run-up / Eastern Cut-off scissors (1892 - 1912) --> scissors with rotation / Western Roll (1912 - 1930) --> early straddle technique / Straddle (1930 - 1960) --> basic straddle technique / Dive Straddle (1960 - 1978) --> advanced straddle technique / Fosbury Flop (1968 - current) --> the currently most common technique used /
The Fosbury Flop is currently deemed as the most efficient way for competitors of the event to propel themselves over the bar. Still depending on the individual athletes specific strengths and weaknesses there are variations on the separate pieces that make up the jump.
Approach
For a Fosbury flop depending on the athletes jump foot they will start on the right of left of the mat. Placing their jump foot furthest away from the high jump mat. The athlete will have an eight to ten step approach in total, the last five steps being a curve with three or five steps before on a straight. The athlete will want to mark their approach to attempt to find as much consistency as possible.
The approach run 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.
The straight run will build the momentum and set the tone for the athletes jump. The athlete will start by pushing off with the take off foot with slow powerful steps then begin to quicken and accelerate them. The athlete should be tall and running up right by the end of their three or five steps.
On the first step of the curve the athletes take off foot will be landing, they will want to continue accelerating and curving focusing the body towards the opposite back corner of the high jump mat. While staying tall, erect, and leaning away from the mat the athlete should make sure that their final two steps are flat footed, rolling from the heel to toe as well as being the quickest steps.
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. This allows for horizontal momentum to turn into vertical momentum, propelling the jumper off the ground and over the bar. 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. This allows the correct angle to force their hips to rotate during take-off, which allows their center of gravity to pass under the bar.[3]
Take-off
The take off can have slight variations depending on what feels most natural to the athlete. The double arm take off and the single arm take off. With most things in common, for both the athlete should make sure not to take off at the center of the bar. The plant foot should be the foot furthest away from the bar, angled towards the opposite back corner of the matt, and driving the non take off leg knee up. Keeping in mind this is a vertical jump pushing all force straight up. This will be accompanied with a one or two arm swing while driving the knee.
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 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.
Flight
The athlete's non take off leg knee will naturally turn their body placing them in the air with their back to the bar. The athlete will then drive their shoulders to the back of their feet arching their body over the bar. The athlete can look over their right should then judge appropriately when to kick both feet over their head causing their body to miss the bar and land on the mat. [5][6]
Spanish jumper Ruth Beitia approaching the bar from an angle
Training
In high jump, it helps if the athlete is tall, has long legs, and limited weight on their body. They must have a strong lower body and flexibility will help a lot as well. High jumpers tend to go through very vigorous training methods to achieve this ideal body frame.
Sprinting
High jumpers must have a fast approach so it is crucial to work on speed and also speed endurance. Many high jump competitions may take hours and athletes must make sure they have the endurance to last the entire competition. Common sprint endurance workouts for high jumpers include 200-, 400-, and 800-meter training. Other speed endurance training methods such as hill training or a ladder workout may also be used.
Weight lifting
It is crucial for high jumpers to have strong lower bodies and cores, as the bar progressively gets higher, the strength of an athlete's legs (along with speed and technique) will help propel them over the bar. Squats, deadlifts, and core exercises will help a high jumper to achieve these goals. It is important, however, for a high jumper to keep a slim figure as any unnecessary weight makes it difficult to jump higher.
Plyometrics
Arguably the most important training for a high jumper is plyometric training. Because high jump is such a technical event, any mistake in the technique could either lead to failure, injury, or both. To prevent these from happening, high jumpers tend to focus heavily on plyometrics. This includes hurdle jumps, flexibility training, skips, or scissor kick training. Plyometric workouts tend to be performed at the beginning of the workout. [7][8]
All-time top 25
See also: Men's high jump world record progression, Women's high jump world record progression, and Men's high jump indoor world record progression
As of July 2018.[9][10][11][12]
Key
set prior to IAAF acceptance of indoor events as equivalent with outdoor events (in 2000)
Men (absolute)
Rank Mark Athlete Date Place Ref
1 2.45 m (8 ft 1⁄4 in) Javier Sotomayor (CUB) 27 July 1993 Salamanca
2 2.43 m (7 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) 5 September 2014 Brussels [13]
3 2.42 m (7 ft 11 1⁄4 in) Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) 30 June 1987 Stockholm
Carlo Thränhardt (FRG) 26 February 1988 Berlin (indoor)
Ivan Ukhov (RUS) 25 February 2014 Prague (indoor) [14]
Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) 14 June 2014 New York City [15]
7 2.41 m (7 ft 10 3⁄4 in) Igor Paklin (URS) 4 September 1985 Kobe
8 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Rudolf Povarnitsyn (URS) 11 August 1985 Donetsk
Sorin Matei (ROM) 20 June 1990 Bratislava
Hollis Conway (USA) 10 March 1991 Seville (indoor)
Charles Austin (USA) 7 August 1991 Zürich
Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) 5 August 2000 London
Stefan Holm (SWE) 6 March 2005 Madrid (indoor)
Aleksey Dmitrik (RUS) 8 February 2014 Arnstadt (indoor)
Derek Drouin (CAN) [16] 25 April 2014 Des Moines
Andriy Protsenko (UKR) 3 July 2014 Lausanne [17]
Danil Lysenko (ANA) 20 July 2018 Fontvieille [18]
18 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) Zhu Jianhua (CHN) 10 June 1984 Eberstadt
Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) 24 February 1985 Cologne (indoor)
Ralf Sonn (GER) 1 March 1991 Berlin (indoor)
Gianmarco Tamberi (ITA) 15 July 2016 Fontvieille [19]
22 2.38 m (7 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS) 6 September 1987 Rome
Sergey Malchenko (URS) 4 September 1988 Banska Bystrica
Dragutin Topić (SCG) 1 August 1993 Belgrade
Steve Smith (GBR) 4 February 1994 Wuppertal (indoor)
Wolf-Hendrik Beyer (GER) 10 March 1994 Weinheim (indoor)
Troy Kemp (BAH) 12 July 1995 Nice
Artur Partyka (POL) 18 August 1996 Eberstadt
Matt Hemingway (USA) 4 March 2000 Atlanta (indoor)
Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) 15 February 2005 Stockholm (indoor)
Jacques Freitag (RSA) 5 March 2005 Oudtshoorn
Andriy Sokolovskyy (UKR) 8 July 2005 Rome
Andrey Silnov (RUS) 25 July 2005 London
Linus Thörnblad (SWE) 25 February 2007 Gothenburg (indoor)
Zhang Guowei (CHN) 30 May 2015 Eugene
Notes
Below is a list of all other jumps equal or superior to 2.40 m:
Javier Sotomayor also jumped 2.44 (1989), 2.43 (1988 & 1989i), 2.42 (1994), 2.41 (1993i & 1994) and 2.40 (1989, 1991, 1993, 2 × 1994i, 1994 & 1995).
Mutaz Essa Barshim also jumped 2.42 (2014 & 2015i), 2.41 (2014, 2015i & 2015) and 2.40 (2015i, 2016, 2017 & 2018).
Ivan Ukhov also jumped 2.41 (2014i & 2014) and 2.40 (2009i & 2014i).
Bohdan Bondarenko also jumped 2.41 (2013) and 2.40 (2014).
Patrik Sjöberg also jumped 2.41 (1987i) and 2.40 (1987i).
Carlo Thränhardt also jumped 2.40 (1987i).
Women (absolute)
Rank Mark Athlete Date Place Ref
1 2.09 m (6 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) 30 August 1987 Rome
2 2.08 m (6 ft 9 3⁄4 in) Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) 6 February 2006 Arnstadt (indoor)
Blanka Vlasic (CRO) 31 August 2009 Zagreb
4 2.07 m (6 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Lyudmila Andonova (BUL) 20 July 1984 Berlin
Heike Henkel (GER) 8 February 1992 Karlsruhe (indoor)
Anna Chicherova (RUS) 22 July 2011 Cheboksary
7 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Hestrie Cloete (RSA) 31 August 2003 Saint-Denis
Yelena Slesarenko (RUS) 28 August 2004 Athens
Ariane Friedrich (GER) 14 June 2009 Berlin
Mariya Lasitskene (ANA) 6 July 2017 Lausanne [20]
20 June 2019 Ostrava [21]
11 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Tamara Bykova (URS) 22 June 1984 Kyiv
Inha Babakova (UKR) 15 September 1995 Tokyo
Tia Hellebaut (BEL) 23 August 2008 Beijing
Chaunté Lowe (USA) 26 June 2010 Des Moines
15 2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄4 in) Silvia Costa (CUB) 9 September 1989 Barcelona
Alina Astafei (GER) 3 March 1995 Berlin (indoor)
Venelina Veneva-Mateeva (BUL) 2 June 2002 Kalamata
Antonietta Di Martino (ITA) 9 February 2011 Banská Bystrica (indoor)
Irina Gordeeva (RUS) 19 August 2012 Eberstadt
Brigetta Barrett (USA) 22 June 2013 Des Moines
Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR) 30 September 2019 Doha [22]
22 2.03 m (6 ft 7 3⁄4 in) Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) 21 August 1983 London
Louise Ritter (USA) 8 July 1988 Austin
Tatyana Motkova (RUS) 30 May 1995 Bratislava
Niki Bakoyianni (GRE) 3 August 1996 Atlanta
Monica Iagar (ROU) 23 January 1999 Bucharest (indoor)
Marina Kuptsova (RUS) 2 March 2002 Vienna (indoor)
Svetlana Shkolina (RUS) 11 August 2012 London
Notes
Below is a list of all other jumps equal or superior to 2.05 m:
Stefka Kostadinova also jumped 2.08 (1986), 2.07 (1986, 1987 & 1988), 2.06 (1985, 1986, 1987 & 1988i) and 2.05 (1986, 1987i, 1987, 1988, 1992i, 1992, 1993 & 1996).
Blanka Vlašić also jumped 2.07 (2007), 2.06 (2007, 2008 & 2010i) and 2.05 (2007, 2008i, 2008, 2009i, 2009 & 2010).
Kajsa Bergqvist also jumped 2.06 (2003) and 2.05 (2002 & 2006).
Anna Chicherova also jumped 2.06 (2012i) and 2.05 (2011 & 2012).
Heike Henkel also jumped 2.05 (1991).
Hestrie Cloete also jumped 2.05 (2003).
Ariane Friedrich also jumped 2.05 (2009i).
Mariya Lasitskene also jumped 2.05 (2017 & 2020i).
Olympic medalists
Men
Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
details Ellery Harding Clark
United States James Connolly
United States none awarded
Robert Garrett
United States
1900 Paris
details Irving Baxter
United States Patrick Leahy
Great Britain Lajos Gönczy
Hungary
1904 St. Louis
details Samuel Jones
United States Garrett Serviss
United States Paul Weinstein
Germany
1908 London
details Harry Porter
United States Géo André
France
none awarded
Con Leahy
Great Britain
István Somodi
Hungary
1912 Stockholm
details Alma Richards
United States Hans Liesche
Germany George Horine
United States
1920 Antwerp
details Richmond Landon
United States Harold Muller
United States Bo Ekelund
Sweden
1924 Paris
details Harold Osborn
United States Leroy Brown
United States Pierre Lewden
France
1928 Amsterdam
details Bob King
United States Benjamin Hedges
United States Claude Ménard
France
1932 Los Angeles
details Duncan McNaughton
Canada Bob Van Osdel
United States Simeon Toribio
Philippines
1936 Berlin
details Cornelius Johnson
United States Dave Albritton
United States Delos Thurber
United States
1948 London
details John Winter
Australia Bjørn Paulson
Norway George Stanich
United States
1952 Helsinki
details Walt Davis
United States Ken Wiesner
United States José da Conceição
Brazil
1956 Melbourne
details Charles Dumas
United States Chilla Porter
Australia Igor Kashkarov
Soviet Union
1960 Rome
details Robert Shavlakadze
Soviet Union Valeriy Brumel
Soviet Union John Thomas
United States
1964 Tokyo
details Valeriy Brumel
Soviet Union John Thomas
United States John Rambo
United States
1968 Mexico City
details Dick Fosbury
United States Ed Caruthers
United States Valentin Gavrilov
Soviet Union
1972 Munich
details Jüri Tarmak
Soviet Union Stefan Junge
East Germany Dwight Stones
United States
1976 Montreal
details Jacek Wszoła
Poland Greg Joy
Canada Dwight Stones
United States
1980 Moscow
details Gerd Wessig
East Germany Jacek Wszoła
Poland Jörg Freimuth
East Germany
1984 Los Angeles
details Dietmar Mögenburg
West Germany Patrik Sjöberg
Sweden Zhu Jianhua
China
1988 Seoul
details Hennadiy Avdyeyenko
Soviet Union Hollis Conway
United States Rudolf Povarnitsyn
Soviet Union
Patrik Sjöberg
Sweden
1992 Barcelona
details Javier Sotomayor
Cuba Patrik Sjöberg
Sweden Hollis Conway
United States
Tim Forsyth
Australia
Artur Partyka
Poland
1996 Atlanta
details Charles Austin
United States Artur Partyka
Poland Steve Smith
Great Britain
2000 Sydney
details Sergey Klyugin
Russia Javier Sotomayor
Cuba Abderahmane Hammad
Algeria
2004 Athens
details Stefan Holm
Sweden Matt Hemingway
United States Jaroslav Bába
Czech Republic
2008 Beijing
details Andrey Silnov
Russia Germaine Mason
Great Britain Yaroslav Rybakov
Russia
2012 London
details Not awarded Erik Kynard
United States Mutaz Essa Barshim
Qatar
Derek Drouin
Canada
Robert Grabarz
Great Britain
2016 Rio de Janeiro
details Derek Drouin
Canada Mutaz Essa Barshim
Qatar Bohdan Bondarenko
Ukraine
Women
Games Gold Silver Bronze
1928 Amsterdam
details Ethel Catherwood
Canada Lien Gisolf
Netherlands Mildred Wiley
United States
1932 Los Angeles
details Jean Shiley
United States Babe Didrikson
United States Eva Dawes
Canada
1936 Berlin
details Ibolya Csák
Hungary Dorothy Odam
Great Britain Elfriede Kaun
Germany
1948 London
details Alice Coachman
United States Dorothy Tyler
Great Britain Micheline Ostermeyer
France
1952 Helsinki
details Esther Brand
South Africa Sheile Lerwill
Great Britain Aleksandra Chudina
Soviet Union
1956 Melbourne
details Mildred McDaniel
United States Thelma Hopkins
Great Britain none awarded
Mariya Pisareva
Soviet Union
1960 Rome
details Iolanda Balaș
Romania Jarosława Jóźwiakowska
Poland none awarded
Dorothy Shirley
Great Britain
1964 Tokyo
details Iolanda Balaș
Romania Michele Brown
Australia Taisia Chenchik
Soviet Union
1968 Mexico City
details Miloslava Rezková
Czechoslovakia Antonina Okorokova
Soviet Union Valentina Kozyr
Soviet Union
1972 Munich
details Ulrike Meyfarth
West Germany Yordanka Blagoeva
Bulgaria Ilona Gusenbauer
Austria
1976 Montreal
details Rosemarie Ackermann
East Germany Sara Simeoni
Italy Yordanka Blagoeva
Bulgaria
1980 Moscow
details Sara Simeoni
Italy Urszula Kielan
Poland Jutta Kirst
East Germany
1984 Los Angeles
details Ulrike Meyfarth
West Germany Sara Simeoni
Italy Joni Huntley
United States
1988 Seoul
details Louise Ritter
United States Stefka Kostadinova
Bulgaria Tamara Bykova
Soviet Union
1992 Barcelona
details Heike Henkel
Germany Alina Astafei
Romania Ioamnet Quintero
Cuba
1996 Atlanta
details Stefka Kostadinova
Bulgaria Niki Bakoyianni
Greece Inha Babakova
Ukraine
2000 Sydney
details Yelena Yelesina
Russia Hestrie Cloete
South Africa Kajsa Bergqvist
Sweden
Oana Pantelimon
Romania
2004 Athens
details Yelena Slesarenko
Russia Hestrie Cloete
South Africa Vita Styopina
Ukraine
2008 Beijing
details Tia Hellebaut
Belgium Blanka Vlašić
Croatia Chaunté Howard
United States
2012 London
details Anna Chicherova
Russia Brigetta Barrett
United States Svetlana Shkolina
Russia
2016 Rio de Janeiro
details Ruth Beitia
Spain Mirela Demireva
Bulgaria Blanka Vlašić
Croatia
World Championships medalists
Men
Championships Gold Silver Bronze
1983 Helsinki
details Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS) Tyke Peacock (USA) Zhu Jianhua (CHN)
1987 Rome
details Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)
Igor Paklin (URS) none awarded
1991 Tokyo
details Charles Austin (USA) Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Hollis Conway (USA)
1993 Stuttgart
details Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Artur Partyka (POL) Steve Smith (GBR)
1995 Gothenburg
details Troy Kemp (BAH) Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Artur Partyka (POL)
1997 Athens
details Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Artur Partyka (POL) Tim Forsyth (AUS)
1999 Seville
details Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) Mark Boswell (CAN) Martin Buß (GER)
2001 Edmonton
details Martin Buß (GER) Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS)
Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) none awarded
2003 Saint-Denis
details Jacques Freitag (RSA) Stefan Holm (SWE) Mark Boswell (CAN)
2005 Helsinki
details Yuriy Krymarenko (UKR) Víctor Moya (CUB)
Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) none awarded
2007 Osaka
details Donald Thomas (BAH) Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) Kyriakos Ioannou (CYP)
2009 Berlin
details Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) Kyriakos Ioannou (CYP) Sylwester Bednarek (POL)
Raúl Spank (GER)
2011 Daegu
details Jesse Williams (USA) Aleksey Dmitrik (RUS) Trevor Barry (BAH)
2013 Moscow
details Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Derek Drouin (CAN)
2015 Beijing
details Derek Drouin (CAN) Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)
Zhang Guowei (CHN) none awarded
2017 London
details Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Danil Lysenko (ANA) Majd Eddin Ghazal (SYR)
2019 Doha
details Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Mikhail Akimenko (ANA) Ilya Ivanyuk (ANA)
Women
Championships Gold Silver Bronze
1983 Helsinki
details Tamara Bykova (URS) Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) Louise Ritter (USA)
1987 Rome
details Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Tamara Bykova (URS) Susanne Beyer (GDR)
1991 Tokyo
details Heike Henkel (GER) Yelena Yelesina (URS) Inha Babakova (URS)
1993 Stuttgart
details Ioamnet Quintero (CUB) Silvia Costa (CUB) Sigrid Kirchmann (AUT)
1995 Gothenburg
details Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Alina Astafei (GER) Inha Babakova (UKR)
1997 Athens
details Hanne Haugland (NOR) Inha Babakova (UKR)
Olga Kaliturina (RUS) none awarded
1999 Seville
details Inha Babakova (UKR) Yelena Yelesina (RUS) Svetlana Lapina (RUS)
2001 Edmonton
details Hestrie Cloete (RSA) Inha Babakova (UKR) Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE)
2003 Saint-Denis
details Hestrie Cloete (RSA) Marina Kuptsova (RUS) Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE)
2005 Helsinki
details Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) Chaunté Howard (USA) Emma Green (SWE)
2007 Osaka
details Blanka Vlašić (CRO) Anna Chicherova (RUS)
Antonietta Di Martino (ITA) none awarded
2009 Berlin
details Blanka Vlašić (CRO) Anna Chicherova (RUS) Ariane Friedrich (GER)
2011 Daegu
details Anna Chicherova (RUS) Blanka Vlašić (CRO) Antonietta Di Martino (ITA)
2013 Moscow
details Svetlana Shkolina (RUS) Brigetta Barrett (USA) Anna Chicherova (RUS)
Ruth Beitia (ESP)
2015 Beijing
details Mariya Kuchina (RUS) Blanka Vlašić (CRO) Anna Chicherova (RUS)
2017 London
details Mariya Lasitskene (ANA) Yuliya Levchenko (UKR) Kamila Lićwinko (POL)
2019 Doha
details Mariya Lasitskene (ANA) Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR) Vashti Cunningham (USA)
World Indoor Championships medalists
Men
Games Gold Silver Bronze
1985 Paris[A] Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Othmane Belfaa (ALG)
1987 Indianapolis
details Igor Paklin (URS) Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS) Ján Zvara (TCH)
1989 Budapest
details Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)
1991 Seville
details Hollis Conway (USA) Artur Partyka (POL) Javier Sotomayor (CUB)
Aleksey Yemelin (URS)
1993 Toronto
details Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) Steve Smith (GBR)
1995 Barcelona
details Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Labros Papakostas (GRE) Tony Barton (USA)
1997 Paris
details Charles Austin (USA) Labros Papakostas (GRE) Dragutin Topić (FRY)
1999 Maebashi
details Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) Charles Austin (USA)
2001 Lisbon
details Stefan Holm (SWE) Andriy Sokolovskyy (UKR) Staffan Strand (SWE)
2003 Birmingham
details Stefan Holm (SWE) Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) Henadz Maroz (BLR)
2004 Budapest
details Stefan Holm (SWE) Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) Ștefan Vasilache (ROU)
Germaine Mason (JAM)
Jaroslav Bába (CZE)
2006 Moscow
details Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) Andrey Tereshin (RUS) Linus Thörnblad (SWE)
2008 Valencia
details Stefan Holm (SWE) Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) Kyriakos Ioannou (CYP)
| Andra Manson (USA)
2010 Doha
details Ivan Ukhov (RUS) Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) Dusty Jonas (USA)
2012 Istanbul
details Dimitrios Chondrokoukis (GRE) Andrey Silnov (RUS) Ivan Ukhov (RUS)
2014 Sopot
details Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Ivan Ukhov (RUS) Andriy Protsenko (UKR)
2016 Portland
details Gianmarco Tamberi (ITA) Robert Grabarz (GBR) Erik Kynard (USA)
2018 Birmingham
details Danil Lysenko (ANA) Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Mateusz Przybylko (GER)
Women
Games Gold Silver Bronze
1985 Paris[A] Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Susanne Lorentzon (SWE) Debbie Brill (CAN)
Danuta Bułkowska (POL)
Silvia Costa (CUB)
1987 Indianapolis
details Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Susanne Beyer (GDR) Emilia Dragieva (BUL)
1989 Budapest
details Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Tamara Bykova (URS) Heike Redetzky (FRG)
1991 Seville
details Heike Henkel (GER) Tamara Bykova (URS) Heike Balck (GER)
1993 Toronto
details Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Heike Henkel (GER) Inha Babakova (UKR)
1995 Barcelona
details Alina Astafei (GER) Britta Bilač (SLO) Heike Henkel (GER)
1997 Paris
details Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Inha Babakova (UKR) Hanne Haugland (NOR)
1999 Maebashi
details Khristina Kalcheva (BUL) Zuzana Hlavoňová (CZE) Tisha Waller (USA)
2001 Lisbon
details Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) Inha Babakova (UKR) Venelina Veneva (BUL)
2003 Birmingham
details Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) Yelena Yelesina (RUS) Anna Chicherova (RUS)
2004 Budapest
details Yelena Slesarenko (RUS) Anna Chicherova (RUS) Blanka Vlašić (CRO)
2006 Moscow
details Yelena Slesarenko (RUS) Blanka Vlašić (CRO) Ruth Beitia (ESP)
2008 Valencia
details Blanka Vlašić (CRO) Yelena Slesarenko (RUS) Vita Palamar (UKR)
2010 Doha
details Blanka Vlašić (CRO) Ruth Beitia (ESP) Chaunté Lowe (USA)
2012 Istanbul
details Chaunté Lowe (USA) Antonietta Di Martino (ITA)
Anna Chicherova (RUS)
Ebba Jungmark (SWE) none awarded
2014 Sopot
details Mariya Kuchina (RUS)
Kamila Lićwinko (POL) none awarded Ruth Beitia (ESP)
2016 Portland
details Vashti Cunningham (USA) Ruth Beitia (ESP) Kamila Lićwinko (POL)
2018 Birmingham
details Mariya Lasitskene (ANA) Vashti Cunningham (USA) Alessia Trost (ITA)
A Known as the World Indoor Games
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
3 wins: Mariya Lasitskene (RUS) - World Champion in 2015, 2017 & 2019
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
Mariya Lasitskene (RUS) - - - 3 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 - - - 8 2 0
Ruth Beitia (ESP) 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 3 0 0 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 5 4
Blanka Vlašić (CRO) 0 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 4 2
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
Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 - - - 5 2 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 2 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 - - - 4 4 3
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
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 Mark Athlete Place
1970 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in) Ni Zhiqin (CHN) Changsha
1971 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in) Pat Matzdorf (USA) Berkeley
1972 2.25 m (7 ft 4 1⁄2 in) Jüri Tarmak (URS) Moscow
1973 2.30 m (7 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Dwight Stones (USA) Munich
1974 2.28 m (7 ft 5 3⁄4 in) Dwight Stones (USA) Oslo
1975 2.28 m (7 ft 5 3⁄4 in) Dwight Stones (USA) New York
1976 2.32 m (7 ft 7 1⁄4 in) Dwight Stones (USA) Philadelphia
1977 2.33 m (7 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) Richmond
1978 2.35 m (7 ft 8 1⁄2 in) i Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) Milan
1979 2.32 m (7 ft 7 1⁄4 in) Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) Ottawa
1980 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Gerd Wessig (GDR) Moscow
1981 2.33 m (7 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Aleksey Demyanyuk (URS) Leningrad
1982 2.33 m (7 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Zhu Jianhua (CHN) Delhi
1983 2.38 m (7 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Zhu Jianhua (CHN) Shanghai
1984 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) Zhu Jianhua (CHN) Eberstadt
1985 2.41 m (7 ft 10 3⁄4 in) Igor Paklin (URS) Kobe
1986 2.38 m (7 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Igor Paklin (URS) Rieti
1987 2.42 m (7 ft 11 1⁄4 in) Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) Stockholm
1988 2.43 m (7 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Salamanca
1989 2.44 m (8 ft 0 in) Javier Sotomayor (CUB) San Juan
1990 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Sorin Matei (ROM) Bratislava
1991 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Javier Sotomayor (CUB)
Charles Austin (USA)
Hollis Conway (USA) Saint-Denis
Zürich
Sevilla
1992 2.38 m (7 ft 9 1⁄2 in) i Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) Genova
1993 2.45 m (8 ft 1⁄4 in) Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Salamanca
1994 2.42 m (7 ft 11 1⁄4 in) Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Seville
1995 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 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 9 1⁄4 in) Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Athens
1998 2.37 m (7 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Maracaibo
1999 2.37 m (7 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) Seville
2000 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) London
2001 2.37 m (7 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) Eberstadt
2002 2.37 m (7 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Jacques Freitag (RSA) Durban
2003 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Aleksander Walerianczyk (POL) Bydgoszcz
2004 2.37 m (7 ft 9 1⁄4 in) i Stefan Holm (SWE) Stockholm
2005 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) i Stefan Holm (SWE) Madrid
2006 2.37 m (7 ft 9 1⁄4 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 9 1⁄2 in) Andrey Silnov (RUS)
Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS) London
Moscow
2009 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) i Ivan Ukhov (RUS) Pireás
2010 2.38 m (7 ft 9 1⁄2 in) i Ivan Ukhov (RUS) Banská Bystrica
2011 2.38 m (7 ft 9 1⁄2 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 10 3⁄4 in) Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) Lausanne
2014 2.43 m (7 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Brussels
2015 2.41 m (7 ft 10 3⁄4 in) Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Athlone
Eugene
2016 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Opole
2017 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Birmingham
2018 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Doha
Székesfehérvár
2019 2.37 m (7 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) Doha
2020 2.33 m (7 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Darryl Sullivan (USA) i
Tom Gale (GBR) i
Jamal Wilson (BAH) i
Luis Zayas (CUB) i
Ilya Ivanyuk (RUS) i
Maksim Nedasekau (BLR) Blacksburg
Hustopeče
Banská Bystrica
Banská Bystrica
Moscow
Minsk
Women
Year Mark Athlete Place
1970 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) Antonina Lazareva (URS) Kyiv
1971 1.92 m (6 ft 3 1⁄2 in) Ilona Gusenbauer (AUT) Vienna
1972 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄4 in) Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL) Zagreb
1973 1.92 m (6 ft 3 1⁄2 in) Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL) Warsaw
1974 1.95 m (6 ft 4 3⁄4 in) Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) Rome
1975 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄4 in) Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) Nice
1976 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) Dresden
1977 2.00 m (6 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) Berlin
1978 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Sara Simeoni (ITA) Brescia
1979 1.99 m (6 ft 6 1⁄4 in) Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) Turin
1980 1.98 m (6 ft 5 3⁄4 in) Sara Simeoni (ITA) Turin
1981 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Pam Spencer (USA) Brussels
1982 2.02 m (6 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) Athens
1983 2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄4 in) Tamara Bykova (URS) Pisa
Budapest
1984 2.07 m (6 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Lyudmila Andonova (BUL) Berlin
1985 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Moscow
1986 2.08 m (6 ft 9 3⁄4 in) Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Sofia
1987 2.09 m (6 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Rome
1988 2.07 m (6 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Sofia
1989 2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄4 in) Silvia Costa (CUB)
Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Barcelona
Pireás
1990 2.02 m (6 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Yelena Yelesina (URS) Seattle
1991 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Heike Henkel (GER) Tokyo
1992 2.07 m (6 ft 9 1⁄4 in) i Heike Henkel (GER) Karlsruhe
1993 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Fukuoka
1994 2.02 m (6 ft 7 1⁄2 in) i Alina Astafei (GER) Berlin
1995 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Inga Babakova (UKR) Tokyo
1996 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Atlanta
1997 2.02 m (6 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)
Inga Babakova (UKR) Osaka; Paris-Bercy
Fukuoka
1998 2.03 m (6 ft 7 3⁄4 in) Venelina Veneva (BUL) Kalamata
1999 2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄4 in) Hestrie Cloete (RSA) Monaco
2000 2.02 m (6 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Monica Iagăr (ROM) Villeneuve d'Ascq
2001 2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄4 in) Venelina Veneva (BUL) Kalamáta
2002 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 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 7 3⁄4 in) Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) Sheffield
2006 2.08 m (6 ft 9 3⁄4 in) i Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) Arnstadt
2007 2.07 m (6 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Blanka Vlašić (CRO) Stockholm
2008 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Blanka Vlašić (CRO) Istanbul
Madrid
2009 2.08 m (6 ft 9 3⁄4 in) Blanka Vlašić (CRO) Zagreb
2010 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) i Blanka Vlašić (CRO) Arnstadt
2011 2.07 m (6 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Anna Chicherova (RUS) Cheboksary
2012 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) i Anna Chicherova (RUS) Arnstadt
2013 2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄4 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
Zürich
2015 2.03 m (6 ft 7 3⁄4 in) Anna Chicherova (RUS) Lausanne
2016 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Chaunté Lowe (USA) Eugene
2017 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Mariya Lasitskene (ANA) Lausanne
2018 2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄4 in) Mariya Lasitskene (ANA) Paris
London
2019 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Mariya Lasitskene (ANA) Ostrava
2020 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) i Mariya Lasitskene (ANA) Moscow
Height differentials
All time lists of athletes with the highest recorded jumps above their own height.[23][24]
Men
Rank Differential Athlete Height Mark
1 0.59 m (1 ft 11 in) Franklin Jacobs 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) 2.32 m (7 ft 7 1⁄4 in)
Stefan Holm 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄4 in) 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in)
3 0.58 m (1 ft 10 3⁄4 in) Rick Noji 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) 2.31 m (7 ft 6 3⁄4 in)
Anton Riepl 1.75 m (5 ft 8 3⁄4 in) 2.33 m (7 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Linus Thörnblad 1.80 m (5 ft 10 3⁄4 in) 2.38 m (7 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
6 0.57 m (1 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Hollis Conway 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in)
7 0.56 m (1 ft 10 in) Takahiro Kimino 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄4 in) 2.32 m (7 ft 7 1⁄4 in)
Sorin Matei 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄4 in) 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in)
Charles Austin 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄4 in) 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in)
Aleksey Dmitrik 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄4 in) 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in)
11 0.55 m (1 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Hari Shankar Roy 1.70 m (5 ft 6 3⁄4 in) 2.25 m (7 ft 4 1⁄2 in)
Robert Wolski 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄4 in) 2.31 m (7 ft 6 3⁄4 in)
Marcello Benvenuti 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 2.33 m (7 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Milton Ottey 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 2.33 m (7 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Women
Rank Differential Athlete Height Mark
1 0.35 m (1 ft 1 3⁄4 in) Antonietta Di Martino 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in) 2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄4 in)
2 0.33 m (1 ft 3⁄4 in) Niki Bakoyianni 1.70 m (5 ft 6 3⁄4 in) 2.03 m (6 ft 7 3⁄4 in)
Kajsa Bergqvist 1.75 m (5 ft 8 3⁄4 in) 2.08 m (6 ft 9 3⁄4 in)
4 0.32 m (1 ft 1⁄2 in) Emilia Dragieva 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) 2.00 m (6 ft 6 1⁄2 in)
Yolanda Henry 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) 2.00 m (6 ft 6 1⁄2 in)
6 0.31 m (1 ft 0 in) Marie Collonvillé 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄4 in)
Inika McPherson 1.65 m (5 ft 4 3⁄4 in) 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
8 0.30 m (11 3⁄4 in) Cindy Holmes 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Jessica Ennis 1.65 m (5 ft 4 3⁄4 in) 1.95 m (6 ft 4 3⁄4 in)
Antonella Bevilacqua 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in) 1.99 m (6 ft 6 1⁄4 in)
Lyudmila Andonova 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) 2.07 m (6 ft 9 1⁄4 in)
Female two metres club
As of July 2019, 73 different female athletes had ever been able to jump 2.00 m (6 ft 6 1⁄2 in).[10][12]
# Nations Athletes
16 Russia Anna Chicherova 2.07, Elena Slesarenko 2.06, Mariya Lasitskene 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, Svetlana Lapina 2.00
Ekaterina Savchenko 2.00, Larisa Kositsyna 2.00, Viktoriya Klyugina 2.00, Viktoriya Seryogina 2.00, Yuliya Lyakhova 2.00
9 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, Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch 2.00
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, Vashti Cunningham 2.00
7 Ukraine Inha Babakova 2.05, Yaroslava Mahuchikh 2.04, Vita Styopina 2.02, Yuliya Levchenko 2.02, Iryna Mykhalchenko 2.01, Vita Palamar 2.01, Lyudmila Avdeyenko 2.00
6 Bulgaria Stefka Kostadinova 2.09, Lyudmila Andonova 2.07, Venelina Veneva-Mateeva 2.04, Emilia Dragieva 2.00, Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva 2.00, Mirela Demireva 2.00
4 Italy Antonietta Di Martino 2.04, Elena Vallortigara 2.02, Sara Simeoni 2.01, Alessia Trost 2.00
3 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
Belgium Tia Hellebaut 2.05, Nafissatou Thiam 2.01
Belarus Tatyana Shevchik 2.00, Karyna Taranda 2.00
1 Croatia Blanka Vlašić 2.08
Greece Niki Bakogianni 2.03
Romania Monica Iagar 2.03
Spain Ruth Beitia 2.02
Poland Kamila Lićwinko 2.02
Kazakhstan Olga Turchak 2.01
Norway Hanne Haugland 2.01
Lithuania Airinė Palšytė 2.01
Yugoslavia Biljana Petrović 2.00
Czech Republic Zuzana Hlavoňová 2.00
Slovenia Britta Bilač 2.00
Hungary Dóra Győrffy 2.00
National records
Men
Nation Mark Athlete Date Place Ref
Cuba 2.45 m (8 ft 1⁄4 in) Javier Sotomayor 27 July 1993 Salamanca
Qatar 2.43 m (7 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Mutaz Essa Barshim 5 September 2014 Brussels [25]
Sweden 2.42 m (7 ft 11 1⁄4 in) Patrik Sjöberg 30 June 1987 Stockholm
Germany 2.42 m (7 ft 11 1⁄4 in) i Carlo Thränhardt 26 February 1988 Berlin
Russia 2.42 m (7 ft 11 1⁄4 in) i Ivan Ukhov 25 February 2014 Prague [26]
Ukraine 2.42 m (7 ft 11 1⁄4 in) Bohdan Bondarenko 14 June 2014 New York City [15]
Kyrgyzstan 2.41 m (7 ft 10 3⁄4 in) Igor Paklin 4 September 1985 Kobe
Romania 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Sorin Matei 20 June 1990 Bratislava
United States 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) i Hollis Conway 10 March 1991 Seville
2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Charles Austin 7 August 1991 Zürich
Canada 2.40 m (7 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Derek Drouin 25 April 2014 Des Moines [27]
China 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) Zhu Jianhua 11 June 1983 Beijing
Italy 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) Gianmarco Tamberi 15 July 2016 Fontvieille [19]
Serbia 2.38 m (7 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Dragutin Topic 1 August 1993 Belgrade
Bahamas 2.38 m (7 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Troy Kemp 12 July 1995 Nice
Poland 2.38 m (7 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Artur Partyka 18 August 1996 Eberstadt
South Africa 2.38 m (7 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Jacques Freitag 5 March 2005 Oudtshoorn
Azerbaijan 2.37 m (7 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Valeriy Sereda 2 September 1984 Rieti
United Kingdom 2.37 m (7 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Steve Smith 20 September 1992 Seoul
22 August 1993 Stuttgart
Robbie Grabarz 23 August 2012 Lausanne [28]
Kazakhstan 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Sergey Zasimovich 5 May 1984 Tashkent
Belgium 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Eddy Annys 26 May 1985 Ghent
Slovakia 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Jan Zvara 23 August 1987 Prague
Bermuda 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Clarence Saunders 1 February 1990 Auckland
Bulgaria 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Georgi Dakov 10 August 1990 Brussels
Greece 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Lambros Papakostas 21 July 1992 Athens
Australia 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Tim Forsyth 2 March 1997 Melbourne
Norway 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Steinar Hoen 1 July 1997 Oslo
Israel 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Konstantin Matusevich 5 February 2000 Perth
Czech Republic 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Jaroslav Baba 8 July 2005 Rome
Syria 2.36 m (7 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Majd Eddin Ghazal 18 May 2016 Beijing [29]
France 2.35 m (7 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Jean-Charles Gicquel 13 March 1994 Paris
Cyprus 2.35 m (7 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Kyriakos Ioannou 29 August 2007 Osaka
Japan 2.35 m (7 ft 8 1⁄2 in) i Naoto Tobe 2 February 2019 Karlsruhe [30]
Lithuania 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Rolandas Verkys 16 June 1991 Warsaw
Spain 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Arturo Ortiz 22 June 1991 Barcelona
Belarus 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Andrey Sankovich 15 May 1993 Gomel
South Korea 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Lee Jin-Taek 20 June 1997 Seoul
Algeria 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Abderrahmane Hammad 14 July 2000 Algiers
Jamaica 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Germaine Mason 9 August 2003 Santo Domingo
Botswana 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) Kabelo Kgosiemang 4 May 2008 Addis Ababa
Colombia 2.33 m (7 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Gilmar Mayo 17 October 1994 Pereira
Uzbekistan 2.32 m (7 ft 7 1⁄4 in) Gennadiy Belkov 29 May 1982 Tashkent
Brazil 2.32 m (7 ft 7 1⁄4 in) Jessé de Lima 2 September 2008 Lausanne
Slovenia 2.32 m (7 ft 7 1⁄4 in) Rožle Prezelj 17 June 2012 Maribor
Switzerland 2.31 m (7 ft 6 3⁄4 in) Roland Dalhäuser 7 June 1981 Eberstadt
Tajikistan 2.31 m (7 ft 6 3⁄4 in) Oleg Palaschevskiy 12 August 1990 Bryansk
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.31 m (7 ft 6 3⁄4 in) Elvir Krehmic 7 July 1998 Zagreb
Finland 2.31 m (7 ft 6 3⁄4 in) Mika Polku 22 July 2000 Hämeenkyrö
Toni Huikuri 11 June 2002 Bratislava
Saint Lucia 2.31 m (7 ft 6 3⁄4 in) Darvin Edwards 30 August 2011 Daegu
Peru 2.31 m (7 ft 6 3⁄4 in) A Arturo Chávez 11 June 2016 Mexico City [31]
Venezuela 2.31 m (7 ft 6 3⁄4 in) Eure Yáñez 23 June 2017 Luque [32]
Latvia 2.30 m (7 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Normunds Sietiņš 20 July 1992 Nurmijärvi
Estonia 2.30 m (7 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Marko Turban 5 June 1996 Rakvere
Netherlands 2.30 m (7 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Wilbert Pennings 7 August 1999 Eberstadt [33]
New Zealand 2.30 m (7 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Glenn Howard 12 March 2000 Christchurch
Hamish Kerr 26 June 2019 Townsville [34]
Ireland 2.30 m (7 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Adrian O'Dwyer 24 June 2004 Algiers
Mexico 2.30 m (7 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Gerardo Martinez 15 April 2007 Walnut
2.30 m (7 ft 6 1⁄2 in) i Edgar Rivera 9 February 2016 Brno [35]
4 February 2017 Hustopeče [36]
Malaysia 2.30 m (7 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Nauraj Singh Randhawa 27 April 2017 Singapore [37]
Turkey 2.30 m (7 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Alperen Acet 3 June 2018 Cluj-Napoca [38]
Kenya 2.30 m (7 ft 6 1⁄2 in) A Mathieu Sawe 6 June 2018 Nairobi
2.30 m (7 ft 6 1⁄2 in) 3 August 2018 Asaba [39]
Chinese Taipei 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in) Hsiang Chun-hsien 21 October 2015 Kaohsiung
Puerto Rico 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in) David Adley Smith II 23 April 2016 Auburn [40]
Luis Castro Rivera 28 May 2016 Sinn [41]
India 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in) Tejaswin Shankar 27 April 2018 Lubbock [42]
Austria 2.28 m (7 ft 5 3⁄4 in) Markus Einberger 18 May 1986 Schwechat
Iceland 2.28 m (7 ft 5 3⁄4 in) Einar Karl Hjartarson 20 February 2001 Reykjavík
Hungary 2.28 m (7 ft 5 3⁄4 in) László Boros 6 July 2005 Debrecen
Sudan 2.28 m (7 ft 5 3⁄4 in) i Mohamed Younes Idris 23 February 2014 Bordeaux [43]
2.28 m (7 ft 5 3⁄4 in) 27 May 2015 Namur [44]
Cameroon 2.28 m (7 ft 5 3⁄4 in) Fernand Djoumessi 19 June 2014 Bühl [45]
Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.28 m (7 ft 5 3⁄4 in) Jermaine Francis 1 August 2018 Barranquilla [46]
Lebanon 2.27 m (7 ft 5 1⁄4 in) Jean-Claude Rabbath 23 April 2004 Beirut
12 June 2004 Bucharest
Sri Lanka 2.27 m (7 ft 5 1⁄4 in) Manjula Kumara Wijesekara 23 July 2004 Colombo
4 September 2005 Incheon
Antigua and Barbuda 2.27 m (7 ft 5 1⁄4 in) James Grayman 7 July 2007 Pergine Valsugana
Denmark 2.27 m (7 ft 5 1⁄4 in) Janick Klausen 4 March 2011 Paris [47]
San Marino 2.27 m (7 ft 5 1⁄4 in) Eugenio Rossi 28 June 2015 Caprino Veronese [48]
Iran 2.26 m (7 ft 4 3⁄4 in) Keivan Ghanbarzadeh 20 April 2012 Shiraz [49]
22 June 2015 Bangkok [50]
2.26 m (7 ft 4 3⁄4 in) i 20 September 2017 Ashgabat [51]
Argentina 2.25 m (7 ft 4 1⁄2 in) A Fernando Pastoriza 23 July 1988 Mexico City
2.25 m (7 ft 4 1⁄2 in) Erasmo Jara 11 May 2002 Rosario
2.25 m (7 ft 4 1⁄2 in) A Carlos Layoy 6 June 2018 Cochabamba
Barbados 2.25 m (7 ft 4 1⁄2 in) Henderson Dottin 12 April 2008 El Paso
Moldova 2.25 m (7 ft 4 1⁄2 in) Radu Tucan 30 May 2008 Chişinău
Andrei Mîţîcov 28 May 2016 Tiraspol
Egypt 2.25 m (7 ft 4 1⁄2 in) Karim Samir Lotfy 27 June 2008 Eberstadt
Mali 2.25 m (7 ft 4 1⁄2 in) Abdoulaye Diarra 24 May 2015 Tourcoing [52]
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 [53]
Jordan 2.22 m (7 ft 3 1⁄4 in) Fakhredin Fouad 4 July 1991 Amman
Chile 2.22 m (7 ft 3 1⁄4 in) Felipe Apablaza 3 June 2001 Cochabamba
Burkina Faso 2.22 m (7 ft 3 1⁄4 in) Boubacar Séré 13 August 2006 Bambous
27 June 2007 Celle Ligure
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 [54]
Bahrain 2.19 m (7 ft 2 in) Salem Nasser Bakheet 10 October 2002 Busan
9 December 2006 Doha
Cayman Islands 2.19 m (7 ft 2 in) Omar Wright 13 May 2006 El Paso
Iraq 2.19 m (7 ft 2 in) Hussein Al-Ibraheemi 19 May 2017 Baku [55]
Chad 2.17 m (7 ft 1 1⁄4 in) Mahamat Idriss 10 April 1966 N'Djamena
Paul Ngadjadoum 29 March 1993 N'Djamena
Mathias Ngadjadoum 7 April 1996 N'Djamena
Guyana 2.17 m (7 ft 1 1⁄4 in) Robert Bynoe 17 April 1995 George Town
Trinidad and Tobago 2.17 m (7 ft 1 1⁄4 in) Kareem Roberts 25 June 2017 Port of Spain [56]
Armenia 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) A Karen Ardarian 14 July 1984 Yerevan
Gerasim Hayrapetian 15 June 1985
Edik Mesropian 15 October 1985
Democratic Republic of the Congo 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) Dieudonné Opata 18 July 1998 Pamplona
United Arab Emirates 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) Sayed Abbas Al-Alaoui 10 April 2013 Doha
Costa Rica 2.15 m (7 ft 1⁄2 in) Henry Linton 9 May 2009 San José
Indonesia 2.15 m (7 ft 1⁄2 in) Andre Dermawan 13 September 2012 Pekanbaru
Rizky Ghusyafa Pratama 26 August 2017 Bukit Jalil [57]
Zambia 2.15 m (7 ft 1⁄2 in) Shaddye Melu 9 April 2016 Spokane [58]
Republic of the Congo 2.14 m (7 ft 1⁄4 in) Henri Elendé 6 September 1964 Châtellerault
Jean-Claude Silao 1 June 1997 Dakar
Andorra 2.14 m (7 ft 1⁄4 in) Estéve Martín 26 June 1996 Barcelona
Liberia 2.14 m (7 ft 1⁄4 in) Jah Bennett 28 April 2007 Fresno
Benin 2.12 m (6 ft 11 1⁄4 in) Romain Akpo 10 September 2010 Abuja
Albania 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) Muhamet Abazi 6 July 1988 Tirana
Bangladesh 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) Sajib Hossain 5 May 2010 Dhaka [59]
Angola 2.10 m (6 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Orlando Bonifácio 9 May 1982 Luanda
Bolivia 2.10 m (6 ft 10 1⁄2 in) A Claudio Pinto 12 November 1989 La Paz
Aruba 2.10 m (6 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Pierre de Windt 24 September 2006 Breda
Fiji 2.09 m (6 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Antonio Rahiman 5 April 2003 Suva
Malakai Kaiwalu 8 July 2016 Suva [60]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2.09 m (6 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Zimbert Bramble 11 April 2015 Pittsburg [61]
Ivory Coast 2.08 m (6 ft 9 3⁄4 in) Moustapha N’Dir 28 May 1970 Dakar
Kouami N’Dri 5 May 1979 Abidjan
Macau 2.08 m (6 ft 9 3⁄4 in) Wong Chi Wai 19 May 2016 Taoyuan [62]
Pakistan 2.07 m (6 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Shehroz Khan 18 November 2018 Islamabad [63]
Central African Republic 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Fidèle Bakamba 3 April 1977 Ilé-Ifẹ̀
Burundi 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Jérôme Rutayisiré 17 August 1986 Gauvain
Cape Verde 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Stephane Varela 11 January 2014 Lisbon
Brunei 2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄4 in) Demingo Kapal 7 June 1992 B. S. Begawan
Cambodia 2.03 m (6 ft 7 3⁄4 in) Sin Sitha 5 August 1972 Aachen
Belize 2.03 m (6 ft 7 3⁄4 in) Joel Wade 17 August 1997 Belize City
Libya 2.03 m (6 ft 7 3⁄4 in) Fethi Abdulmounem Aboud 27 August 2008 Amman
Suriname 2.03 m (6 ft 7 3⁄4 in) Miguel van Assen 31 March 2013 Nassau
Myanmar 2.03 m (6 ft 7 3⁄4 in) Htin Linn 28 April 2016 Kallang [64]
Anguilla 2.00 m (6 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Theron Niles 6 July 2014 Basseterre
Nepal 1.98 m (6 ft 5 3⁄4 in) Surya Khatri 12 July 2015 Kathmandu [65]
Kosovo 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Erydit Rysha 29 May 2016 Bar
Kiribati 1.95 m (6 ft 4 3⁄4 in) David Birati 10 May 2015 Cairns [66]
Nicaragua 1.95 m (6 ft 4 3⁄4 in) Francisco Garth 21 January 2017 Managua [67]
Rwanda 1.93 m (6 ft 3 3⁄4 in) Ian Kagame 30 April 2016 Amherst
Afghanistan 1.90 m (6 ft 2 3⁄4 in) Abdoul Skour 1973 Kabul
Guam 1.90 m (6 ft 2 3⁄4 in) Raffy Cartaciano 7 May 2002 Tumon
Cook Islands 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄4 in) Turuariki George Baxter 25 September 2009 Nikao
American Samoa 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄4 in) Aaron Victorian 12 February 2010 San Jose
Malta 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) Edward Calleja 17 June 1998 Marsa
Comoros 1.85 m (6 ft 3⁄4 in) Mouhoussoine Soudjay 23 May 2015 Gagny
Bhutan 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Mipham Yoezer Gurung 7 July 2016 Thimphu [68]
Kinley Wangdy [68]
South Sudan 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) Dood Deng Akoi 13/14 June 2015 Khartoum
Women
Nation Mark Athlete Date Place Ref
Bulgaria 2.09 m (6 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Stefka Kostadinova 30 August 1987 Rome
Sweden 2.08 m (6 ft 9 3⁄4 in) i Kajsa Bergqvist 4 February 2006 Arnstadt
Croatia 2.08 m (6 ft 9 3⁄4 in) Blanka Vlašić 31 August 2009 Zagreb
Germany 2.07 m (6 ft 9 1⁄4 in) i Heike Henkel 8 February 1992 Karlsruhe
Russia 2.07 m (6 ft 9 1⁄4 in) Anna Chicherova 22 July 2011 Cheboksary
South Africa 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Hestrie Cloete 31 August 2003 Saint-Denis
Ukraine 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Inga Babakova 15 September 1995 Tokyo
Belgium 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Tia Hellebaut 3 March 2007 Birmingham
United States 2.05 m (6 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Chaunte Lowe 26 June 2010 Des Moines
Cuba 2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄4 in) Silvia Costa 9 September 1989 Barcelona
Italy 2.04 m (6 ft 8 1⁄4 in) i Antonietta Di Martino 9 February 2011 Banská Bystrica
Greece 2.03 m (6 ft 7 3⁄4 in) Niki Bakogianni 3 August 1996 Atlanta
Romania 2.03 m (6 ft 7 3⁄4 in) Monica Iagar 23 January 1999 Bucharest
Spain 2.02 m (6 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Ruth Beitia 4 August 2007 San Sebastián
Poland 2.02 m (6 ft 7 1⁄2 in) i Kamila Lićwinko 21 February 2015 Toruń [69]
Kazakhstan 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Olga Turchak 7 July 1986 Moscow
Norway 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) Hanne Haugland 13 August 1997 Zürich
Lithuania 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) i Airinė Palšytė 4 March 2017 Belgrade [70]
Yugoslavia 2.00 m (6 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Biljana Petrović 22 June 1990 Saint-Denis
Belarus 2.00 m (6 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Tatyana Shevchik 14 May 1993 Gomel
Slovenia 2.00 m (6 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Britta Bilač 14 August 1994 Helsinki
Czech Republic 2.00 m (6 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Zuzana Hlavoňová 5 June 2000 Prague
Hungary 2.00 m (6 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Dóra Győrffy 26 July 2001 Nyíregyháza
Australia 1.99 m (6 ft 6 1⁄4 in) Eleanor Patterson 28 February 2020 Wellington [71]
Uzbekistan 1.98 m (6 ft 5 3⁄4 in) Lyudmila Butuzova 10 June 1984 Sochi
Svetlana Radzivil 22 May 2008 Cottbus
Nadiya Dusanova 17 July 2008 Cottbus
Canada 1.98 m (6 ft 5 3⁄4 in) Debbie Brill 2 September 1984 Rieti
Saint Lucia 1.98 m (6 ft 5 3⁄4 in) Levern Spencer 8 May 2010 Athens
United Kingdom 1.98 m (6 ft 5 3⁄4 in) Katarina Johnson-Thompson 12 August 2016 Rio de Janeiro [72]
China 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Jin Ling 7 May 1989 Hamamatsu
Latvia 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Valentīna Gotovska 30 March 1992 Vilnius
Austria 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Sigrid Kirchmann 21 August 1993 Stuttgart
Moldova 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Olga Bolşova 5 September 1993 Rieti
Argentina 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Solange Witteveen 19 May 2001 Manaus
Dominican Republic 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Juana Rosario Arrendel 2 December 2002 San Salvador
France 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) i Mélanie Melfort 5 February 2003 Dortmund
18 February 2007 Aubière
Kyrgyzstan 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Tatyana Efimenko 11 July 2003 Rome
Mexico 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Romary Rifka 4 April 2004 Xalapa
Japan 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Miki Imai 15 September 2001 Yokohama
Estonia 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) Anna Iljuštšenko 9 August 2011 Viljandi
Ivory Coast 1.95 m (6 ft 4 3⁄4 in) Lucienne N'Da 28 June 1992 Belle Vue Maurel
Nigeria 1.95 m (6 ft 4 3⁄4 in) Doreen Amata 3 July 2008 Abuja
16 July 2011 Eberstadt [73]
1 September 2011 Daegu [74]
Ireland 1.95 m (6 ft 4 3⁄4 in) Deirdre Ryan 1 September 2011 Daegu
Montenegro 1.95 m (6 ft 4 3⁄4 in) Marija Vuković 24 July 2016 Berane [75]
Finland 1.95 m (6 ft 4 3⁄4 in) Ella Junnila 3 July 2019 Tampere [76]
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄4 in) Amra Temim 15 August 1987 Varaždin
Serbia 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄4 in) Amra Temim 16 September 1988 Thessaloniki
Denmark 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄4 in) Pia Zinck 8 August 1997 Athens [77]
Vietnam 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄4 in) Bui Thi Nhung 4 May 2005 Bangkok
Israel 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄4 in) i Danielle Frenkel 5 March 2011 Paris
Netherlands 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄4 in) Nadine Broersen 14 August 2014 Zürich [78]
Colombia 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄4 in) A María Fernanda Murillo 1 May 2019 Medellín [79]
Turkey 1.93 m (6 ft 3 3⁄4 in) Candeğer Oğuz 16 May 2004 Istanbul [80]
Jamaica 1.93 m (6 ft 3 3⁄4 in) Sheree Francis 15 May 2010 Spanish Town
Cyprus 1.93 m (6 ft 3 3⁄4 in) i Leontia Kallenou 13 March 2015 Fayetteville [81]
1.93 m (6 ft 3 3⁄4 in) 15 May 2015 Starkville [82]
Barbados 1.93 m (6 ft 3 3⁄4 in) i Akela Jones 27 February 2016 Ames [83]
Brazil 1.92 m (6 ft 3 1⁄2 in) Orlane dos Santos 11 August 1989 Bogotá
Seychelles 1.92 m (6 ft 3 1⁄2 in) A Lissa Labiche 9 May 2015 Potchefstroom [84]
Georgia 1.92 m (6 ft 3 1⁄2 in) Valentyna Liashenko 27 June 2015 Berdychiv
Antigua and Barbuda 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Priscilla Frederick 22 July 2015 Toronto [85]
Hong Kong 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Yeung Man Wai 30 April 2017 Taipei City [86]
Bahamas 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) i Saniel Atkinson Grier 24 January 2014 Nashville [87]
8 February 2014 Blacksburg [88]
Ghana 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) Abigail Kwarteng 5 May 2018 Lubbock [89]
Dominica 1.85 m (6 ft 3⁄4 in) i Thea LaFond 27 February 2014 Clemson [90]
1.85 m (6 ft 3⁄4 in) 3 April 2015 Gainesville [91]
Luxembourg 1.85 m (6 ft 3⁄4 in) Elodie Tshilumba 9 June 2017 Pierre-Bénite [92]
Singapore 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄4 in) Michelle Sng 19 March 2015 Laguna [93]
Puerto Rico 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Laura Agront 2 June 1984 San Juan
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) A Alysbeth Félix 25 June 2016 Cali [94]
Iran 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Sepideh Tavakkoli 28 September 2014 Incheon [95]
Uruguay 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Lorena Aires 10 March 2018 Montevideo [96]
Egypt 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Besnet Moussad Mohamed 13 April 2016 Cairo
Peru 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) A Candy Toche 22 June 2019 Cali [97]
Morocco 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄4 in) i Ghizlane Siba 13 December 2014 Manhattan [98]
Malaysia 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄4 in) Yap Sean Yee 19 March 2017 Kuala Lumpur [99]
Bermuda 1.80 m (5 ft 10 3⁄4 in) Zindzi Swan 14 May 2005 Atlanta
10 July 2005 Nassau
Sakari Famous 30 April 2016 Hamilton
Haiti 1.80 m (5 ft 10 3⁄4 in) Vanessa Jules 22 May 2015 Chula Vista
Ethiopia 1.80 m (5 ft 10 3⁄4 in) Ariyat Dibow Ubang 14 September 2015 Brazzaville [100]
Eswatini 1.80 m (5 ft 10 3⁄4 in) A Erika Seyama 11 March 2017 Pretoria
Indonesia 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄4 in) Nadia Anggraini 28 April 2016 Singapore [101]
Benin 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) i Odile Ahouanwanou 22 January 2017 Eaubonne [102]
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 14 July 2017 Marseille [103]
Anguilla 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) i Shinelle Proctor 31 May 2014 Fayetteville [104]
United States Virgin Islands 1.75 m (5 ft 8 3⁄4 in) Wanetta Kirby 6 June 2015 West Long Branch
11 July 2015 New York City
Iraq 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Mariyam Abdul Hameed 16–18 March 2017 Baghdad
21 May 2017 Bangkok
Lebanon 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Carine Bitchakjin 11 August 2000 Jamhour
Belize 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄4 in) i Katy Sealy 20 December 2015 London
Fiji 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄4 in) Shawntell Lockington 16 September 2017 Suva
Republic of the Congo 1.70 m (5 ft 6 3⁄4 in) Addo Ndala 16 June 1990 Quimper
Tania Matshoko 8 May 2016 Antony
Bahrain 1.70 m (5 ft 6 3⁄4 in) Mariam Mohamed Al-Ansari 17 December 2011 Doha [105]
9 March 2013 Manama
15 March 2015 Muscat
Curaçao 1.70 m (5 ft 6 3⁄4 in) Sharyaane Gijsbertha 1 April 2013 Nassau [106]
Suriname 1.66 m (5 ft 5 1⁄4 in) Deborah Gallon 5 May 2015 Paramaribo
British Virgin Islands 1.65 m (5 ft 4 3⁄4 in) Takola Creque 21 May 1994 Road Town
Chantel Malone 29 June 2008 Road Town
Z’Niah Hutchinson 7 March 2016 Tortola [107]
Guinea 1.65 m (5 ft 4 3⁄4 in) i Fatoumata Balley 7 January 2015 Nogent-sur-Oise [108]
Turks and Caicos Islands 1.65 m (5 ft 4 3⁄4 in) Sanadia Forbes 15 April 2017 Willemstad [109]
Malta 1.61 m (5 ft 3 1⁄4 in) Chloe Gambin 19 February 2011 Marsa
Liberia 1.60 m (5 ft 2 3⁄4 in) Otricia Borkuah 27/31 December 2013 Monrovia
Maya Neal 24 February 2017 Nashville
Oman 1.60 m (5 ft 2 3⁄4 in) Aliya Al-Mughairi 10 September 2017 Beirut
United Arab Emirates 1.59 m (5 ft 2 1⁄2 in) Alia Youssef Al-Hammadi 15 March 2015 Muscat
Equatorial Guinea 1.56 m (5 ft 1 1⁄4 in) Bibiana Olama 25/27 October 2012 Malabo
Kuwait 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) Sarah Nasser Al-Sabea 15 March 2015 Muscat
Mauritania 1.52 m (4 ft 11 3⁄4 in) i Badia Kamara 23 January 2012 Doha
Qatar 1.45 m (4 ft 9 in) i Fayza Abdulnaser Omar 26 February 2010 Doha
Kosovo 1.40 m (4 ft 7 in) Mimoza Sefedini 8 September 2013 Mitrovica
Merlinda Kryetziu 23 April 2017 Skopje
Bhutan 1.36 m (4 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Dawa Palden 8 July 2016 Thimphu [68]
American Samoa 1.35 m (4 ft 5 in) Jordan Mageo 20 February 2016 Claremont [110]
Afghanistan 1.11 m (3 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Asma Mohammadi 22 September 2016 Rjukan