high jump - Top performers

An athletics field event in which competitors attempt to leap over a bar set at a predetermined height without knocking the bar over. The height of the bar is gradually increased, and competitors are allowed three attempts to clear each new height; they are eliminated if they fail. The person clearing the greatest height, or (if two or more tie) the person with the fewest misses at the lower heights, is the winner. The current world record for men is 2·45 m/8 ft½ in, achieved by Javier Sotomayor (1967– ) of Cuba in 1993 at Salamanca, Spain; for women, it is 2·09 m/6 ft 10¼ in, achieved by Stefka Kostadinova (1965– ) of Bulgaria in 1987 at Rome.

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Holm, at 1.81 m tall, equaled Franklin Jacobs' height-over-head record of 59 cm when he cleared 2.40 m (7'10-1/2") to win the European Indoor championships in March 2005.http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=High_jump&action=edit&section=3#

Top performers

as of 20 July 2006

Men (outdoor)

Mark	Athlete	Nationality	Venue	Date
2.45	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	Salamanca	July 27, 1993
2.42	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	Stockholm	June 30, 1987
2.41	Igor Paklin	USSR / Kyrgyzstan	Kobe	September 4, 1985
2.40	Rudolf Povarnitsyn	USSR / Ukraine	Donetsk	August 11, 1985
2.40	Sorin Matei	Romania	Bratislava	June 20, 1990
2.40	Charles Austin	United States	Zurich	August 7, 1991
2.40	Vyacheslav Voronin	Russia	London	August 5, 2000
2.39	Jianhua Zhu	China	Eberstadt	June 10, 1984
2.39	Hollis Conway	United States	Norman	July 30, 1989
2.38	Seven athletes (Avdeyenko, Malchenko, Topic, Kemp, Partyka, Freitag, Sokolovskyy)	-	-	-

Women (outdoor)

Mark	Athlete	Nationality	Venue	Date
2.09	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	Rome	August 30, 1987
2.07	Lyudmila Andonova	Bulgaria	Berlin	July 20, 1984
2.06	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	Eberstadt	July 26, 2003
2.06	Hestrie Cloete	South Africa	Paris	August 31, 2003
2.06	Yelena Slesarenko	Russia	Athens	August 28, 2004
2.05	Tamara Bykova	USSR / Russia	Kiev	June 22, 1984
2.05	Heike Henkel	Germany	Tokyo	August 31, 1991
2.05	Inha Babakova	USSR / Ukraine	Tokyo	September 15, 1995
2.04	Silvia Costa	Cuba	Barcelona	September 9, 1989
2.04	Venelina Veneva	Bulgaria	Kalamata	June 2, 2001

Men (indoor)

Mark	Athlete	Nationality	Venue	Date
2.43	Javier Sotomayor	Cuba	Budapest	4 March 1989
2.42	Carlo Thränhardt	West Germany	Berlin	26 February 1988
2.41	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	Piraeus	1 February 1987
2.40	Hollis Conway	United States	Seville	10 March 1991
2.40	Stefan Holm	Sweden	Madrid	6 March 2005
2.39	Dietmar Mögenburg	West Germany	Cologne	24 February 1985
2.39	Ralf Sonn	Germany	Berlin	1 March 1991
2.38	Seven athletes (Paklin, Avdeyenko, Smith, Beyer, Matei, Hemingway, Rybakov)	-	-	-

Women (indoor)

Mark	Athlete	Nationality	Venue	Date
2.08	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	Arnstadt	4 February 2006
2.07	Heike Henkel	Germany	Karlsruhe	8 February 1992
2.06	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	Piraeus	20 February 1988
2.05	Blanka Vlašić	Croatia	Banská Bystrica	14 February 2006
2.04	Alina Astafei	Germany	Berlin	3 March 1995
2.04	Anna Chicherova	Russia	Yekaterinburg	7 February 2003
2.04	Yelena Slesarenko	Russia	Budapest	7 March 2004
2.03	Tamara Bykova	USSR	Budapest	6 March 1983
2.03	Monica Iagar	Romania	Bucharest	23 January 1999
2.03	Marina Kuptsova	Russia	Vienna	2 March 2002