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The 1993 record set at the Salamanca Invitational track meet was remarkable in that Sotomayor required only four jumps: he took his first jump at 2.32 m (7 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in), passed at 2.35 m (7 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), cleared 2.38 m (7 ft 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) on his first attempt, then had the bar raised to a record height of 2.45 m (8 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in ...
A plaque on Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria, commemorating Valeriy Brumel's high jump world record of 2.25 m set on 31 August 1961. The first world record in the men's high jump was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 1912. As of June, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 40 world records in the ...
He won the long jump and high jump events at the 2016 Rio Paralympics [5] and 2015 Parapan American Games. In 2015 he set two world records (2.07 and 2.12 m) and won the world title in the high jump in his disability class. [6] Townsend-Roberts cleared 2.14 m (7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in) at the 2019 Mt. SAC Relays to take his world record over 7 feet. [7]
His T63 world-record high jump mark of 1.97 meters (6 feet 5½ inches) would have narrowly missed scoring position at 10th. But doubt him at your own peril. Frech already has made a habit of ...
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 8 + 3 ⁄ 4 in).
Yaroslava Mahuchikh erased a mark that had stood for 37 years at a Diamond League meet in Paris, jumping 2.10 meters (6.88 feet) in one of the last big tuneups leading into the Olympics.
In 1987, she recorded a world-record-high jump of 7 feet 8 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (2.36 m). [15] Speaking of such high jump event, she said: "You have to figure the horse either has a lot of trust, or a lot of heart, because once the wall gets over six and a half feet, it looks more like the side of a building." [16]
August 7, 2021 at 9:08 AM TOKYO — Vashti Cunningham finished tied for sixth in the Olympic women's high jump, clearing 1.96 meters (6 feet, 4.3 inches) and failing to clear 1.98 meters.