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The longest standing modern Olympic athletics record is Bob Beamon's achievement in the men's long jump at the 1968 Summer Olympics. [6] The jump, at 8.90 m (29 ft 2 in), also broke the existing world record by 55 cm (22 in), and stood as the world record for 23 years until Beamon's compatriot, Mike Powell, jumped farther in the 1991 World ...
The men's high jump has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's high jump was one of five events to feature on the first women's athletics programme in 1928, and it was the only jumping event available to women until 1948, when the long jump was permitted.
Standing records prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics World Record Lyudmila Andonova (BUL) 2.07 m : July 20, 1984: Berlin, East Germany: Olympic Record Sara Simeoni (ITA) 1.97 m : July 26, 1980: Moscow, Soviet Union: Broken records during the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic Record Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) 2.00 m : August 9, 1984: Los Angeles, United ...
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.
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.
This rule was not applied retroactively, [7] and has, thus far, only affected the men's and women's pole vault, women's 2,000 m and women's triple jump. 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.
nb1 Marion Jones was stripped of her Olympic medal in 2000. nb2 Crystal Cox was stripped of her Olympic medal in 2004. nb3 Dominique Blake was accidentally given her Olympic medal and she returned it in 2017. [8] a Original silver medalists, Russia, and 4th place finishers, Belarus, were stripped of their results for doping offenses. Following ...
This was also the first Olympic women's high jump since 1980 where the winning height was below two metres. A week earlier, while competing in the heptathlon , Katarina Johnson-Thompson had jumped 1.98 m.