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A plaque on Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria, commemorating Stefka Kostadinova's high jump world record of 2.08 m set on 31 May 1986. The first world record in the women's high jump was recognised by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in 1922.
In July, she broke the world record in high jump by jumping 2.10 m at the Wanda Diamond League in Paris. The previous record (2.09 m) was one of the longest-standing on the books, set by Stefka Kostadinova at the 1987 World Championships. [98] On 24 October 2024, World Athletics officially ratified her world record. [99]
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 world 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.
She won the event with 2.05 m and equalled Chaunté Lowe's world leading jump. [38] She raised the bar at 2.10 m, what would be a world record, but failed to break it. [38] At the end of the year, Vlašić was crowned European Athlete and IAAF World Athlete of the year, succeeding to Marta Domínguez (Europe) and Sanya Richards-Ross (World). [39]
Earlier this year, she upped her personal best to 2.02m (6-7.5), one of only 33 women in history to jump that high, and the second-best mark in the world in 2021.
The championship records for the event are 2.41 m for men, set by Bohdan Bondarenko in 2013, and 2.09 m for women, set by Stefka Kostadinova in 1987. Additionally, Kostadinova's championship record was also the only time the world record has been broken at the world championships.
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
The women's vault record has been advanced 9 times indoors by three different women, each ratified as a world record. The last record to be set indoors was in 2004. Sergey Bubka 's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect.