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The Olympic records for the event are 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) for men, set by Charles Austin in 1996, and 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) for women, set by Yelena Slesarenko in 2004. Gerd Wessig is the only man to have set a world record in the Olympic high jump, having done so in 1980 with a mark of 2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in).
The rules set for the high jump by World Athletics (previously named the IAAF [1]) are Technical Rules TR26 and TR27 [2] (previously Rules 181 and 182 [1]). Jumpers must take off from one foot. A jump is considered a failure if the jumper dislodges the bar or touches the ground or any object behind the bar before clearance.
The men's high jump event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 30 July and 1 August 2021 at the Olympic Stadium. [1] 33 athletes from 24 nations competed; the total possible number depended on how many nations would use universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 32 qualifying through mark or ranking (no universality places were used in 2021).
The high jump at the World Championships in Athletics has been contested by both men and women since the inaugural edition in 1983. The competition format typically has one qualifying round contested by two groups of athletes, with all those clearing the qualifying height or placing in top twelve advancing to the final round. In the 2015 World ...
The record for the high jump stands at 2.47 m (8 ft 1 in), and was achieved by Captain Alberto Larraguibel Morales riding Huaso ex-Faithfull, at the Official International Event at Viña del Mar, Chile, on 5 February 1949. Puissance, (from French puissance), [2] is also a word meaning "power". The event has been contested once at the Olympic ...
The women's high jump event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 5 and 7 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. [ 1] Even though 32 athletes qualified through the qualification system for the Games, [ 2] only 31 took part in the competition. This was the 22nd appearance of the event, having appeared at every Olympics since women's ...
The Western roll was the catalyst for two changes in the rules of high jumping. The first was in high jump equipment. Until the 1930s, the high jump bar rested on two pegs that projected from the back of the uprights. Consequently, the jumper could hit the bar quite hard without dislodging it, by pressing it back against the uprights.
men. v. t. e. The men's high jump at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 17–19 August at the Beijing Olympic Stadium. [1] Forty athletes from 28 nations competed. [2] The event was won by Andrey Silnov of Russia, the nation's second victory (after 2000) in the men's high jump. Germaine Mason 's silver was Great Britain's first medal in the ...