Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a former Cuban track and field competitor who is the reigning world record holder in the high jump. He set the record for the second-highest jump in Boudewijnstadion Bruxelles (BEL) on 5 September 2014. With the highest mark of 2.43 m (7 feet 11 12 in), he holds the national and Asian records. Mutaz Essa Barshim, a Qatari track and field competitor of Sudanese origin who competes in the high jump, was born on June 24, 1991. This is still the European record, and he is third all-time behind Javier Sotomayor and Mutaz Essa Barshim in the world. On June 30, 1987, he set a new world record of 2.42 meters in Stockholm. That began a four-year ascent in the track and field world for Mogenburg, who won three gold medals at the European World Championships and culminated in winning the gold. Jan Niklas Patrik Sjöberg is a retired high jumper from Sweden. Dietmar Mogenburg grabbed the international spotlight in the high jump in 1980, when the 18-year-old West German tied Polish high jumper Jacek Wzsola's outdoor world record. The jump is a European milestone, placing him in a tie for the third position with Patrik Sjöberg in the men’s all-time chart, behind Javier Sotomayor and Mutaz Essa Barshim. Bondarenko jumps from his right leg using the Fosbury Flop technique.Īt the 2014 IAAF Diamond League competition in New York City on June 14, 2014, he set a new personal best jump of 2.42 meters. He won the World Championship in 2013, the European Championship in 2014, and the Olympic bronze medal in 2016. Bohdan Viktorovych Bondarenko – 2.42mīondarenko, Bohdan Viktorovych, is a high jumper from Ukraine. Paklin used the Fosbury Flop form, as did all contemporary high jumpers, and he was the first to do so by leaping with his right leg. He is the fifth-highest jumper in history, with a jump of 2.41 m (7 feet 11 in). Paklin captured the 1987 World Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the 1987 World Championships for the USSR in the high jump. He received his training at the Frunze Armed Forces Athletic Society. Igor Vasilyevich Paklin is a former Kyrgyz competitor who competed for the Soviet Union and then Kyrgyzstan.

Ukhov has achieved the Russian national record indoors four times: jumping 2.39 meters on January 28, 2007, in Moscow, 2.40 meters on February 25, 2009, in Athens, and 2.41 meters (7′ 10-3/4″) on January 16, 2014, in Chelyabinsk. He has captured the high jump at the inaugural 2010 IAAF Diamond League and was a silver medalist at the 2010 European Athletics Championships. He is a two-time European Indoor champion and a gold medalist at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Ivan Sergeyevich Ukhov is a high jumper from Russia. His biggest accomplishment as a high jumper was a bronze medal for the Russian Empire at the 1988 Summer Olympics.įrom August 11 to September 4, 1985, his personal best leap of 2.40 meters in Donetsk was still the world record before Igor Paklin broke it by one centimeter. Rudolf Pavlovich Povarnitsyn is a former athlete who competed for the Soviet Union and then Ukraine. Matei participated in the Olympics in 1980, 1988, and 1992, finishing 13th in 19. But he is considered the 8th high jumper of all time.

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