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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.
The women's high jump event at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany was held between 18 August and 20 August 2009.. Reigning champion Blanka Vlašić had spent the 2007 and 2008 seasons largely unbeaten, but high-profile losses in the Olympic high jump final and the 2008 IAAF Golden League final spelled the end for her lengthy winning streak.
High jump: 2.33 m [b] Naoyuki Daigo: 2 July 2006 Japanese Championships: Kobe, Japan Pole vault: 5.83 m Daichi Sawano: 3 May 2005 Shizuoka, Japan Long jump: 8.40 m (+1.5 m/s) Shotaro Shiroyama: 17 August 2019 Athlete Night Games in Fukui — Fukui 9.98Cup Fukui, Japan [24] Triple jump: 17.15 m (+0.9 m/s) Norifumi Yamashita: 1 June 1986 Japanese ...
The event is affiliated with the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and is an WTA 250 tournament on the WTA Tour. As successor to the Japan Open (where men and women played simultaneously, up to 2008) the event was held in women-only form for the first time in 2009 , and was the second tournament of the season held in Japan: the Pan Pacific Open ...
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.
The 2009 HP Open (also known as the 2009 HP Japan Women's Open Tennis) was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 1st edition of the HP Open, and was classified as an WTA International tournaments of the 2009 WTA Tour. It was played in Osaka, Japan.
Japan: 2.23 m (7 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) Naoyuki Daigo: 2 July 2006: Kobe Switzerland 2.33 m (7 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) Loïc Gasch: 8 May 2021 Lausanne 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 ...
In the 2015 World Championships in Athletics the qualifying height for men was 2.31 m and for women 1.94 m. 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.