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Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh, 17, is setting records and winning gold medals.
At the time, he was a good high jumper, but not a great one.
Bergmann had been sharing a two-bed room with fellow high-jumper Dora Ratjen.
The U.S. high jumper Chaunté Lowe once slept in a car as a child.
In his sophomore year, he joined the track-and-field team as a high jumper.
This was exactly Eric Thompson's situation as a Junior Olympic champion high jumper in high school.
The first depicts 27-year-old Sudanese high-jumper Mohamed Younes Idriss soaring over a high-rise.
Eighteen-year-old high-jumper Vashtie Cunningham just finished senior year at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The AIU said the suspensions were linked to an investigation into whereabouts violations committed by Russian high jumper Danil Lysenko.
High jumper Derek Drouin earned Canada's third gold medal of the Games, clearing 2.38 meters to beat Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim.
As Vulture points out, it seems that an Australian high jumper shares a name with a certain GoT character: Bran Stark.
The female athletes cleared were Iuliia Maltseva (discus), triple jumpers Viktoria Prokopenko and Irina Gemeniuk, high jumper Irina Gordeeva and sprinter Alena Mamina.
As we previously reported, Nieto -- a world class high jumper -- landed on his head while training ... and suffered severe damage to his back.
Decorated Paralympic swimmer Aurélie Rivard and Olympic high jumper Derek Drouin were also in the running, but none were as great as Penny.
It included high jumper Anna Chicherova who won a bronze medal in Beijing and went on to claim gold in London in 2012.
Australian high jumper and model Amy Pejkovic is about to steal your heart ... and we're not just talkin' about her amazing bikini shots.
In it, there was a series of pictures of a female high jumper who took off another piece of clothing in each frame.
A high jumper, Ms. Wolf recently explained, must leap over a bar raised to increasingly greater heights until she inevitably fails to clear it.
And Margaret Bergmann Lambert, a German high jumper who was excluded from the 1936 Berlin Olympics because she was Jewish, has died at 103.
Long jumpers Reese and Dendy return to defend titles along with high jumper Cunningham, who is the daughter of former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham.
A world-class German high jumper, she was used by the Nazis for propaganda purposes and then summarily barred from competing because she was Jewish.
"This completely rewrote my Olympics story," said Chaunté Lowe, an American high jumper who participated in four Summer Games but had never won a medal.
World champions Shubenkov (sprint hurdles) and Kuchina (high jump) and former European indoor champion high jumper Daniil Tsyplakov were the most high-profile of the seven.
He was an accomplished sprinter and high-jumper in the 1930s and 40s, attending Tampa University in Florida on an athletic scholarship for track and field.
Country: RussiaSport: Track and FieldOne thing to know: High jumper Mariya Lasitskene was considered a favorite to win the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
It led me to wonder if we were watching this exuberant four-time Olympian high jumper and reigning American record-holder aging in front of us.
Its roster includes Brazilian basketball star Maria Paula "Magic Paula" Gonçalves, Dominican Republic's champion hurdler Felix Sanchez, American high jumper Dwight Stones and Mexican sprinter Ana Guevara.
But Salto is still not as speedy or as proficient of a high-jumper as the galago, which achieves speeds of up to 2.24 meters per second.
I had complete artistic freedom and chose three people who had never participated in the Games: a French triathlete, a Sudanese high jumper and a Brazilian diver.
Sprinter Inna Eftimova, middle-distance runners Daniela Yordanova, Vanya Stambolova and Teodora Kolarova, high jumper Venelina Veneva and hammer thrower Andrian Andreev all tested positive for banned substances.
Catch up: Seven Russians were suspended last week for obstructing an antidoping investigation into a Russian high jumper accused of failing to make himself available for drug testing.
Teenage high jumper Vashti Cunningham, the daughter of former National Football League quarterback Randall, also made waves by jumping a personal best of 2800m in a dominant performance.
Imagine you're an athlete, a star high jumper who's just won a silver medal at the Olympic Games, the first US woman to medal in high jump since 1988.
The designer has created key innovations for athletes, like decathlete Ashton Eaton, pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie, high jumper Erik Kynard Jr., triple jumper Christian Taylor and sprinter Allyson Felix.
The former Team USA Olympic high jumper who was paralyzed in a training accident in California last month says he's making HUGE progress -- and can now move his arm!!!
As we previously reported, 2-time Olympic high jumper Jamie Nieto fell on his head while training Olympic hopefuls last month ... and suffered major damage to his spinal cord.
As we previously reported, 2-time Olympic high jumper Jamie Nieto fell on his head while training Olympic hopefuls this past weekend ... and suffered major damage to his back.
And ISPs consistently pressure the FCC to weaken the definition of broadband, since it's easier to be an expert high jumper when the bar is set to ankle height.
Despite the ban, some Russians – including two-time world champion high jumper Maria Lasitskene – have been cleared to compete internationally after demonstrating that they train in a doping-free environment.
The athlete, high jumper Danil Lysenko, had been one of the Russians cleared to compete internationally by the IAAF for having demonstrating he was training in a doping free-environment.
The high jumper Maria Lasitskene accused Russian officials of not doing enough to end a sanction that caused many athletes to miss the 215 Olympics and last month's world championships.
A month ago, I talked with the American high jumper Chaunté Lowe about the moment last November when she learned she had won a bronze medal in the 2008 Olympics.
Margaret Bergmann Lambert, a world-class high jumper, was best known for her nonparticipation in the 1936 Olympics, when she was kept off the German team because she was Jewish.
Caster Semenya cruised to victory in the women's 800m, Germany's Thomas Roehler won the javelin and 173-year-old high jumper Ruth Beitia won Spain's first Olympic gold in women's athletics.
Despite the federation being banned, some Russians - including twice world champion high jumper Maria Lasitskene — have been cleared to compete internationally after demonstrating they are training in a doping-free environment.
Moroccan high jumper Rhizlane Siba, the 2014 African champion, said she and her teammates were stranded for three days waiting for a flight and claimed they were given little help by organizers.
Despite the athletics federation being banned, some Russians - including twice world champion high jumper Maria Lasitskene — have been cleared to compete internationally after demonstrating they are training in a doping-free environment.
CreditCreditLaurel Golio for The New York Times Before she became a comedian, Michelle Wolf was a high school track star whose experience as a high jumper taught her a lasting metaphor about life.
Several Russian medallists are reportedly among those positive Beijing 2008 Games re-tests, including high jumper Anna Chicherova who won a bronze medal in China and went on to claim gold in London.
Sprinters Tezdzhan Naimova and Inna Eftimova, middle-distance runners Daniela Yordanova, Vanya Stambolova and Teodora Kolarova, high jumper Venelina Veneva and hammer thrower Andrian Andreev have all tested positive in the last decade.
The German high-jumper Dora Ratjen, a former fourth-place Olympian who won a gold medal at the European Athletics Championship, was suddenly identified as male, prompting Germany to quietly return the medal.
Despite the ban, some Russian athletes – including two-time world champion high jumper Maria Lasitskene – have been cleared to compete internationally by the IAAF after demonstrating they train in a doping-free environment.
He constructed monumental portraits of various athletes: a high jumper clearing a building in the Flamengo neighborhood, a swimmer with a 21976-foot wingspan in Guanabara Bay and a diver in Barra de Tijuca.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova has lost her appeal against the decision to strip her of her 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medal over a doping offense, sport's highest tribunal CAS said on Friday.
High jumper Levern Spencer, competing in her fifth Commonwealth Games, boosted St Lucia up the table with a maiden gold medal for the Caribbean island, while Troy Doris of Guyana won the men's triple jump title.
Then there's the Chinese high jumper at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles; the windows of his Shanghai home were broken and his family was threatened after he failed to win a medal in his event.
CreditCreditTomás Munita for The New York Times NOGALES, Mexico — A few hundred feet from the American border, José Manuel Talavera contemplated his challenge with the focus, if not quite the physique, of an Olympic high jumper.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova was officially stripped of her 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medal after she tested positive for banned substances in re-tests of samples, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday.
You have athletes such as herself, Vessey, or the magnificently inked high jumper Inika McPherson—"Those athletes that stick out because they are unique or strange"—and more conventional "girl next door" athletes like Alyson Felix.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian high jumper Maria Lasitskene has taken the rare step of publicly criticizing her country's suspended athletics federation for what she says is a lack of progress toward reinstatement four years into a doping scandal.
"I'm feeling good," Bolt told a Monaco news conference on Wednesday, before explaining how the death in a motorcycle accident in April of his close friend and former British high jumper Germaine Mason had hampered his progress.
"Man, I wanted to get that feeling of being on a podium and the world is applauding your achievement," said the American high jumper Chaunté Lowe, who was elevated to bronze for the 2008 Olympics last year.
Former Slovenia high jumper Rozle Prezelj has replaced Fredericks on the five-strong International Association of Athletics Federations' task force, which is coordinating the re-admittance process regarding the suspended Russian athletics' federation RUSAF, the IAAF statement added.
Veteran U.S. Olympic high jumper Chaunté Lowe is in line to receive bronze from Beijing, her first Olympic medal, after Russia's Anna Chicherova was stripped of it and the fourth and fifth place finishers were disqualified for doping.
JR has planted three huge figures supported by scaffolding around Rio: a diver plunging into Barra Beach; a swimmer in Guanabara Bay; and a high jumper representing a Sudanese athlete whose injury prevented him from participating in the Games.
He was inspired to aim for the Olympics as a six-year-old after a dinner conversation with his grand-uncle, Lloyd Valberg, a former national high-jumper who was also Singapore's first Olympian, according to local media reports.
The integrity unit contended in Thursday's announcement that data manipulation was at the heart of its case, which started as an investigation into the high jumper Danil Lysenko for a third so-called "whereabouts" failure in June last year.
Margaret Bergmann Lambert, a world-class high jumper who was best known for her nonparticipation in the 21999 Berlin Olympics — she was kept off the German team because she was Jewish — died on Tuesday at her home in Queens.
He was inspired to aim for the Olympics as a six-year-old after a dinner conversation about his grand-uncle, Lloyd Valberg, a former national high-jumper who was also Singapore's first Olympian, according to local media reports.
Despite the federation's suspension, some Russian athletes — including two-time world champion high jumper Maria Lasitskene and 2015 world champion hurdler Sergey Shubenkov — have been cleared to compete internationally after demonstrating they are training in a doping-free environment.
They are David McCreary, previously VP Engineering of Boiler Room and senior software engineer at NextVR; Cat Forrest, former international GB high jumper, Rapha cycling ambassador and marketeer at Virgin Group; and Matt Harrison, previously Strategy Director at innovation agency Seymourpowell.
The list included hurdler Sergey Shubenkov, who will defend his world title in the 110-metre hurdles, and world champion high jumper Maria Lasitskene, whose personal best of 2.06 meters is three centimeters off the world record set in 1987.
He added that Russia could not be reinstated while there was a separate case by the I.A.A.F.'s Athlete Integrity Unit investigating accusations that Russian track federation officials were involved in covering up the high jumper Danil Lysenko's failed test.
TMZ Sports has learned ... Jamie Nieto -- a high jumper who finished 4th at the 2004 Games and 6th in 2012 -- was injured during a backflip training exercise while working with Olympic hopefuls at Azusa Pacific University in California on April 23rd.
"You can't tell me that there are star Russian athletes who are familiar to American viewers like Valery Brumel," he said, referring to the Soviet high jumper who won a silver medal in the 1960 Olympics and a gold four years later.
This story is part of a series about former high school high jumper Eric Thompson, who in 2007 tested positive for a small amount of cocaine while at a junior national meet and was subsequently suspended by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
DOHA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Russian high jumper Maria Lasitskene is ready to leave Russia and train abroad for a chance to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as the country faces potential exclusion from the Games over alleged manipulation of anti-doping laboratory data.
But there are signs that he could struggle against longer, stronger NBA defenders: As you can see, Tatum doesn't have a ton of lift or elevation from a standstill—to make an imperfect track-and-field analogy, he's more of a long jumper than a high jumper.
The AIU, the independent unit set up by the sport's governing body in 2017 to manage all integrity issues had provisionally suspended seven people including federation president Dmitry Shlyakhtin in an investigation linked into whereabouts violations committed by Russian high jumper Danil Lysenko, which they said the officials had obstructed.
The Athletics Integrity Unit, an independent investigative arm of track and field's global governing body, which was recently renamed World Athletics, said it had charged the Russian federation president, Dmitri Shlyakhtin; four other officials; a coach; and an athlete with numerous offenses, including providing forged documents, false explanations and tampering with evidence in a case involving a Russian high jumper accused of failing to make himself available for drug testing.
Ricky Robertson was the 2008 High school #1 rated high jumper at and 2009 High school #1 rated high jumper at . Ricky graduated from Hernando High School (Mississippi).
He spent time in the editing rooms of his father's movies, learning the process. Reitman graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in 1995; Reitman was a high jumper in high school, coached by Occidental College Hall- of-Famer Phil Sweeney.From the Commentary to Juno. Reitman states that the High-Jumper is a call out to his days as a High-Jumper.
Rosemarie "Rosi" Ackermann ( Witschas; born 4 April 1952) is a former East German high jumper. She was the first female high jumper ever to clear the height of 2.00 m, on 26 August 1977 in Berlin.
Vladimír Malý (born 27 June 1952) is a Czech former High jumper.
Yuliya Andriyivna Levchenko (; born 28 November 1997) is a Ukrainian high jumper.
Roberto Ferrari (born 24 March 1967) is a retired Italian high jumper.
Erika Furlani (born 2 January 1996) is an Italian female high jumper.
His son, Tim Forsyth, is a bronze medal-winning Olympic high jumper.
Christian Falocchi (born 30 January 1997) is an Italian male high jumper.
Marcello Benvenuti (born 26 April 1964) is a retired Italian high jumper.
Dalton Grant (born 8 April 1966) is a male British high jumper.
Mauro Bogliatto (born 24 February 1943) is a former Italian high jumper.
Donatella Bulfoni (born 6 November 1959) is a retired Italian high jumper.
Paolo Borghi (born 27 November 1961) is a retired Italian high jumper.
Ettore Ceresoli (born 11 April 1970) is a retired Italian high jumper.
Bruno Bruni (born 25 September 1955) is a retired Italian high jumper.
Gianni Davito (born 19 August 1957) is a retired Italian high jumper.
Leonid Pumalainen (; born 13 April 1970) is a retired Russian high jumper.
Anna Iljuštšenko (born 12 October 1985 in Sillamäe) is an Estonian high jumper.
Francesca Bradamante (born 26 April 1973) is a former Italian female high jumper.
Daniela Galeotti (born 22 March 1977 in Livorno) is an Italian high jumper.
Karin Wagner is a German high jumper, who was successful in the 1970s.
Viktoriya Yuryevna Klyugina (; née Slivka; 28 September 1980) is a Russian high jumper.
Erskine Anton Norris (born 7 January 1940) is a former Barbadian high jumper.
Marco Fassinotti (born April 29, 1989 in Turin) is an Italian high jumper.
Peter Horák (born 7 December 1983 in Bratislava) is a Slovak high jumper.
Donald Thomas (born 1 July 1984) is a Bahamian high jumper from Freeport, Bahamas.
Marco Segatel (born 23 March 1962) is an Italian male high jumper masters athlete.
Daniela Mareen Rath (born 6 May 1977 in Willich) is a German high jumper.
In 2002, Holloway married Canadian Olympic high jumper Greg Joy. They have two daughters.
Lee Jin-Taek (born 13 April 1972) is a retired South Korean high jumper.
Heike Balck (born 19 August 1970 in Schwerin) is a retired German high jumper.
Alessandra Fossati (born 30 September 1963 in Milan) is a retired Italian high jumper.
Sandra Dini (born 1 January 1958 in Florence) is a retired Italian high jumper.
Rodolfo Bergamo (born 23 August 1955 in Venezia) is a retired Italian high jumper.
Paul Frommeyer (born 28 June 1957 in Ibbenbüren) is a retired West German high jumper.
Tatjana Kivimägi, (, transliterated Tatyana Kivimyagi; born 23 June 1984) is a Russian-Estonian high jumper.
Albano Albanese (20 December 1921 – 5 December 2010) was an Italian hurdler and high jumper.
Gian Marco Schivo (born May 6, 1949 in Toulon) is a retired Italian high jumper.
Giacomo Crosa (born 11 January 1947) is an Italian journalist and a former high jumper.
Oscar Raise (born 19 February 1952 in Gassino, Torino) is a retired Italian high jumper.
Her husband is famous Serbian high jumper Dragutin Topić who was also her personal trainer.
Susan Eva Moncrieff, née Jones (born 8 June 1978) is a female retired English high jumper.
Gianmarco Tamberi (born 1 June 1992) is an Italian high jumper, world indoor champion in 2016.
She was born from the Italian former high jumper Marcello Furlani, her coach, and Senegalese mother.
Silvano Chesani (born 17 July 1988) is an Italian high jumper. He is born in Trento.
Zheng Yixin plays for the Fujian Yango Women's Volleyball Club. Her father was a high jumper.
Yelena Vladimirovna Slesarenko, née Sivushenko (, born February 28, 1982 in Volgograd) is a Russian high jumper.
Ian Thompson (Ian Ronald Thompson; 8 December 1968 – 15 March 1999) was a Bahamian high jumper.
Zheng Xingjuan (born March 20, 1989 in Fuqing, Fujian, PR China) is a Chinese high jumper.
Olga Turchak (; born 5 March 1967) is a retired female high jumper born in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Ioamnet Quintero Alvarez (born September 8, 1972 in Havana, Cuba) is a former high jumper from Cuba.
Niki Bakogianni (, , born June 9, 1968) is a retired Greek high jumper. She was born in Lamia.
Víctor Rafael Moya Carvajal (born October 24, 1982 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban high jumper.
Mohamed Abdul Razzak (born 1933) is an Iraqi high jumper. He competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Gerd Nagel (born 22 October 1957 in Sulingen, Lower Saxony) is a retired West German high jumper.
Vita Palamar (; born 12 October 1977 in Khmelnytskyi, Soviet Union) is a female high jumper from Ukraine.
Dragutin Topić (, born 12 March 1971 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian high jumper.
Maryse Éwanjé-Épée (born September 4, 1964, in Poitiers, France) is a retired high jumper from France.
Gabriele Günz, née Niebling (born 8 September 1961 in Eisenach) is a retired East German high jumper.
Mark Naylor (born 10 September 1957 in York, North Yorkshire) is a retired male high jumper from England.
As a junior, he was named All-state in track and field as a sprinter and high jumper.
Aleksey Yemelin (; born October 16, 1968) is a retired high jumper who represented the USSR and later Russia.
Gordon Albert Miller (born 16 December 1939 in Croydon, Greater London, England) is a former British high jumper.
Tomáš Janků (; born 27 December 1974 in Jablonec nad Nisou) is a former Czech high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.34 metres, achieved at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg. In 2010, he married Czech pole vaulter Kateřina Baďurová. His older brother Jan Janků is also a prominent high jumper.
Arieh Batun-Kleinstub (also "-Naveh"; אריה קלינשטוב-נווה; born 26 January 1933) is an Israeli former Olympic high jumper.
Cuban High Jumper Mestre: The Event of My Life. ACN Cuba News (2014-11-28). Retrieved 2018-02-04.
Alfredo Jadresic (born 18 September 1925) is a Chilean former high jumper who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Olympic high jumper Otto Monsen took the national titles in 1916 and 1917. Ferdinand Bie also represented the club.
Richard Spencer (born 16 July 1955) is a Cuban former high jumper who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
David Anderson (born 8 December 1965) is an Australian former high jumper who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Paul Ngadjadoum (born 20 October 1957) is a Chadian former high jumper who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Takahisa Yoshida (; born 17 February 1970) is a Japanese former high jumper who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Kabelo Kgosiemang - Memoriał Kamili Skolimowskiej 2013 Another famous Botswana athlete is high jumper Kabelo Kgosiemang, three times African champion.
Levern Donaline Spencer (born 23 June 1984) is a Saint Lucian high jumper. Spencer was born in Cacao Babonneau, Castries.
Kostas Baniotis in Moscow, 2013 Konstadinos "Kostas" Baniotis (; born 6 November 1986 in Komotini, Rhodope) is a Greek high jumper.
Riccardo Fortini (3 April 1957 – 30 August 2009) was an Italian high jumper who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Ann Roniger (February 13, 1943 – June 9, 2019), later Ann Roniger Hussong, was an American athlete, a high jumper and pentathlete.
Stephen "Steve" Wray (20 May 1962 - 22 December 2009) was a Bahamian former athlete who competed mostly as a high jumper.
Giulio Ciotti (born 5 October 1976 in Rimini) is an Italian high jumper. He is the twin brother of Nicola Ciotti.
Nicola Ciotti (born 5 October 1976 in Rimini) is an Italian high jumper. He is the twin brother of Giulio Ciotti.
Bad news for Polish high jumper Bednarek, out for the season. European Athletics (2011-05-03). Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
Robert "Robbie" Karl Grabarz (born 3 October 1987) is a former British high jumper. He is the 2012 Olympic bronze medalist.
Joanne Loraine "Jo" Jennings (formerly Steele; born 20 September 1969 in Pakenham, Suffolk) is a female retired high jumper from England.
Serhiy Senyukov (; 27 January 1955 – 1 September 1992) was a high jumper who represented the Soviet Union. He trained at Spartak.
Raffaella Lamera (born 13 April 1983) is an Italian female high jumper, who participated at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics.
Fabrizio Borellini (born 5 July 1968) is a retired Italian high jumper. He won one medal at the International athletics competitions.
Ernest Leighton "Ernle" Haisley (born 20 June 1937) is a Jamaican former high jumper who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Cornel Porumb (born 11 May 1939 in Sibiu) is a Romanian former high jumper who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Bhim Singh (born 13 April 1945 in Dhanana) is an Indian former high jumper who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Tonje Angelsen (born 17 January 1990) is a Norwegian high jumper. Angelsen was considered a promising high jumper when she set a Norwegian age record at 1.82 m 16 years old (2006). Her career stalled somewhat because of injury until 2009. In 2010 and 2011 she qualified to several international championships but did not make it to the finals.
She was a 2005 graduate of Memorial High School, of Port Arthur, Texas Beaumont Enterprise. Retrieved=August 5, 2016 where she was freshman state champion and a six foot high jumper as a freshman in high school. McPherson shares the freshman high school record with Amy Acuff 6 ft. Was also named ESPN female high jumper of the decade.
Anthony Howard Sneazwell (born 4 October 1942) is an Australian former high jumper who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics. Sneazwell won the 1963 Helms Award as the most outstanding amateur athlete in Australasia. Track & Field News ranked him as the #2 high jumper in the world that year, behind only Valeriy Brumel.
Erminio Azzaro (born 12 January 1948) is a retired Italian high jumper who won a bronze medal at the 1969 European Championships.
St Lucia is also home to Levern Spencer, who is a high jumper and holds the St Lucian record of 1.94 meters.
Silvia Costa Acosta-Martínez (born May 4, 1964 in La Palma, Pinar del Río Province) is a former high jumper from Cuba.
Bilač and high jumper Britta Vörös, the 1994 European champion in the high jump, were married in 1990 and divorced in 2010.
Alessandra Bonfiglioli (born 5 December 1963) is an Italian female retired high jumper, which participated at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics.
Esthera Petre (2011) Esthera Petre (born May 13, 1990, Bucharest) is a Romanian high jumper. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Juan Francisco Centelles Aizpurúa (born January 26, 1961 in Playa, Ciudad de la Habana) is a retired male high jumper from Cuba.
Enzo Del Forno (born 24 January 1950) is a retired Italian high jumper who won three medals at the International athletics competitions.
Andrés Tan Franco (30 November 1925 - 9 February 2008) was a Filipino former high jumper who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Erika Anna Kristina Kinsey (née Wiklund; born 10 March 1988) is a Swedish high jumper. She was European Junior Champion in 2007.
Vita Styopina (, full name Вікторія Іванівна Стьопіна, Viktoriya Ivanivna Styopina; born 21 February 1976 in Zaporozhia, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian high jumper.
Brendan Anthony John Reilly (born 23 December 1972 in Shipley, West Yorkshire)Sports-Reference profile is a male double Olympic retired high jumper.
Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 1997, News from the Caribbean and Latin America; High Jumper Sotomayor to Skip Toronto Showdown; accessed 21 February 2011.
Aileen Wilson (born 30 March 1994) is a British female high jumper, who won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships.
Iryna Kovalenko (born 12 June 1986) is a Ukrainian female high jumper, who won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships.
Natalya Mamlina (born 16 March 1991) is a Russian female high jumper, who won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships.
Gaël Lévecque (born 23 November 1994) is a French male high jumper, who won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships.
Gu Biwei (born 17 February 1988) is a Chinese female high jumper, who won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships.
Ann-Ewa Karlsson (born 1 April 1955) is a former Swedish female high jumper. She competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics representing Sweden.
John Vernon (3 September 1929 - 21 June 2019)John Vernon's obituary was an Australian high jumper who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Eike Onnen (born 3 August 1982 in Hannover) is a German high jumper. Eike Onnen in 2007 He comes from a sporting family with sister Imke also being a high jumper while mother Astrid Fredebold-Onnen a former heptathlete. He finished seventh at the 2007 World Championships. He became German champion in 2005 and 2006, and represents the club LG Hannover.
Oleksiy Demyanyuk (July 30, 1958 in Baranivka, Ukrainian SSR - April 5, 1999) was a high jumper from the Soviet Union, who set the world's best year performance in 1981 with a leap of 2.33 metres at a meet in Leningrad. He ended up in eleventh place at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. His son, Dmytro Dem'yanyuk, is also a high jumper.
Kęstutis Šapka (born 15 November 1949) is a retired Lithuanian high jumper who represented the Soviet Union. He was inspired to become a professional high jumper after the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico and became one of the early adopters of Fosbury Flop. He retired due to recurring injuries. After retiring from competitions he worked as a trainer in Vilnius.
Bolshov is married to Valentina Maslovskaya, a Soviet sprinter who also competed at the 1960 Olympics; their daughter Olga Bolşova became an Olympic high jumper. According to Valery Brumel's wife, Vladimir Vysotsky originally devoted his "Song about high jumper" () to Bolshov. Later, when Brumel heard the song, he "decided" that it is about him, which Vysotsky did not mind.Tsybulski, Mark.
Joni Luann Huntley (born August 4, 1956) is an American high jumper. She competed at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1984, placing fifth in 1976. At the Pan American Games she won a gold medal in 1975 and a bronze in 1983. She was ranked as third-best high jumper in the world in 1975.
Beatrice Lundmark Beatrice Lundmark (born April 26, 1980) is a Swiss high jumper. Her personal bests are 1.92 metres outdoors and 1.88 metres indoors.
Mateusz Przybylko (born March 9, 1992) is a German high jumper of Polish descent. He won the gold medal at the 2018 European Championships.
Andriy Oleksiyovych Protsenko (; born 20 May 1988) is a Ukrainian high jumper. He is the 2014 World Indoor bronze medalist and European silver medalist.
Svatoslav Ton () (born 20 October 1978) is a Czech high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.33 metres, achieved in June 2004 in Prague.
Giordano Ferrari (born 23 January 1956) is a retired Italian high jumper. He won one medal, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.
Luca Toso (born 15 February 1964 in Tavagnacco, Udine) is a retired Italian high jumper. He won two medals at the International athletics competitions.
Daniele Pagani (born 11 June 1966) is a retired Italian high jumper. He won a medal, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.
Miodrag Todosijević (14 September 1941 in Kraljevo – 11 November 1982 in Beograd) was a Serbian high jumper who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Airinė Palšytė (born 13 July 1992 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian high jumper. She won gold medal at the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Novica Čanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Новица Чановић; 29 November 1961 – 3 July 1993) was a Serbian high jumper who represented SFR Yugoslavia during his active career.
Susanne Beyer (née Helm, born 24 June 1961) is a retired East German high jumper. She won a bronze medal at the 1987 World Championships.
Beverley Lenna Brewis (15 June 1930 – 22 March 2006) was a New Zealand high jumper who represented her country at the 1950 British Empire Games.
Egberdiena "Diny" Hobers (born 10 December 1932) is a retired Dutch high jumper. She competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and finished in 16th place.
Goodman's daughter, Chelsea Goodman, attended Oklahoma as a high jumper. She is currently married and has two children with Philadelphia Eagles' offensive tackle Lane Johnson.
Serhiy Dymchenko (born 23 August 1967) is a retired Ukrainian high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.37 metres, achieved in September 1990 in Kyiv.
Tatiana Gousin (born 26 January 1994) is a Greek high jumper. She competed in the women's high jump at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics.
Ligia Grozav married Bara (born 26 January 1994) is a Romanian female high jumper, who won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships.
Four other athletes achieved a total of 100 points: sprinter Jeremy Wariner, middle- distance runner Pamela Jelimo, hurdler David Oliver, and high jumper Blanka Vlašić.
Massimo Di Giorgio (born 22 March 1958) is a former Italian high jumper, who won three medals at senior level at the International athletics competitions.
Marco Tamberi (born 30 July 1957 in Ancona) is a retired Italian high jumper and coach of his son, the indoor world champion Gianmarco Tamberi.
Claude Ferragne (born 14 October 1952) is a Canadian former high jumper who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. Ferragne was born in Montreal, Quebec.
Maurice Fournier (born 18 January 1933) is a French former high jumper who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
IAAF (2010-12-22). Retrieved 31 January 2011. His 2.42 ties him for the third best high jumper of all time, only behind Barshim and Sotomayor.
Her personal best of is the Moroccan record.K-State high jumper Rhizlane Siba cleared for takeoff. Ummah Sport (2015-05-12). Retrieved on 2016-07-09.
Filippo Campioli (born 21 February 1982) is a male high jumper from Italy. His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Formia.
Jean René Labat (19 February 1892 – 8 March 1970) was a French high jumper. He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics and finished in ninth place.
Ruggero Biancani (25 January 1915 - February 1993) was an Italian versatile athlete (he was discus thrower and high jumper), who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Alfredo Campagner (11 October 1920-15 October 2016) was an Italian high jumper, who won eight national championships at individual senior level from 1940 to 1951.
Andriy Sokolovskyy (; born 16 July 1978) is a Ukrainian high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.38 metres, achieved in July 2005 in Rome (Golden Gala).
Antonella Bevilacqua (born 15 October 1971 in Foggia) is an Italian high jumper, whose personal best jump was 1.98 metres, achieved in May 1996 in Milan.
Olga Viktorovna Kaliturina (, born 9 March 1976, Ryazan) is a Russian high jumper. Her personal best jump is 1.98 metres, achieved in August 2004 in Moscow.
Marina Aitova, née Korzhova (born 13 September 1982) is a Kazakhstani high jumper. Her personal best jump is 1.99 metres, achieved in July 2009 in Athens.
Wang Chen (; born 27 February 1990) is a Chinese male high jumper, who won an individual gold medal at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics.
Reijo Untamo Vähälä (born 7 March 1946) is a Finnish former high jumper. He placed second in men's high jump at the 1969 European Athletics Championships.
Bror August Kraemer (22 February 1900 – 20 January 1990) was a Finnish high jumper. He competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics and finished in 19th place.
Deirdre Ryan at "Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern", 2012, Lucerne, Switzerland Deirdre Ryan (born 1 June 1982) is an Irish high jumper. She competed in the 2012 Olympic Games.
Tatyana Babashkina, née Motkova (born 23 November 1968) is a retired Russian high jumper. Her personal best jump is 2.03 metres, achieved in May 1995 in Bratislava.
Before she was an Olympic volleyball player, she was also an elite high jumper, winning a bronze medal at the 1955 Pan American Games in that event.
For first time since 1971, Cuba finished outside top-2, leading to a 4th place. High jumper Levern Spencer won St. Lucia's first Pan American gold medal.
Jarosław Kotewicz (born March 16, 1969 in Iława) is a retired Polish high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in August 1995 in Zurich.
2017: West Mesquite's high jumper Ja'Sha Sloan placed 1st at the Texas UIL 5A State Championships with a winning height of 5-09.00 on May 12, 2017.
Cai Shu (; born June 14, 1962) is a retired male high jumper from PR China, who competed for his native Asian country at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
However, Ackermann's early celebrations caused the rod to fall, leaving her with second place. Ackermann retired from athletics after the 1980 Olympics, where she placed fourth, just outside the medals. Ackermann is the last female high jumper to set a world record using the straddle technique. She's also the last high jumper of either gender to win the Olympic gold medal in the high jump event with that technique.
Shigeki Toyoshima (born March 5, 1971) is a retired male high jumper from Japan. He is a one-time national champion (1998) in the men's high jump event.
Ivan Bernasconi (born 19 October 1974 in Como) is an Italian high jumper. He won gold medal in 1999 at the 2nd editions of the Military World Games.
Abigail Kwarteng (born January 13, 1997 in Bekwai) is a Ghanaian high jumper. She has competed at world championships, most recently at the 2019 African Games in Rabat, Morocco.
Hidehiko Tomizawa (, born 1 June 1946) is a retired Japanese high jumper. He won a silver medal at the 1970 Asian Games and placed 19th at the 1972 Olympics.
Norwegian all-time list high jump Särnblom has also played basketball in the highest Norwegian league.History of Ullern Basket He is married to fellow former high jumper Hanne Haugland.
Sylwester Bednarek ( ; born 28 April 1989) is a Polish high jumper. He won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships and gold at the 2017 European Indoor Championships.
He was a medalist in the backstroke and butterfly in swimming and a talented high jumper in track. Because of his basketball inexperience, Sojourner wasn't highly recruited by colleges.
Gennadiy Sergeyevich Chernovol (; born June 6, 1976 in Russia) is a former Kazakhstani athlete who competed in the sprints events. He is married to a high jumper, Anna Chicherova.
Gianmario Roveraro (24 May 1936 - 5 July 2006) was an Italian high jumper, who was the first Italian athlete over 2 metres barrier, then banker, who founded Akros Finanziaria.
Miloslava Rezková (; 22 July 1950 – 19 October 2014) was a Czech high jumper who won gold medals at the 1968 Olympics and 1969 European Championships. Rezková was born and raised in Prague, where she married Rudolf Hübner, a fellow Olympic high jumper. She first trained in ballet and rhythmic gymnastics before changing to the high jump. In 1968 she improved her personal best from 1.66 to 1.87 m, and became national and Olympic champion.
It is crucial for high jumpers to have strong lower bodies and cores, as the bar progressively gets higher, the strength of an athlete's legs (along with speed and technique) will help propel them over the bar. Squats, deadlifts, and core exercises will help a high jumper to achieve these goals. It is important, however, for a high jumper to keep a slim figure as any unnecessary weight makes it difficult to jump higher.
Pierre Guilloux (19 October 1901 – 7 September 1937) was a French high jumper and basketball player. He competed at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics and finished seventh in 1924.
Wang Zhouzhou (王舟舟, born 20 April 1977) is a male high jumper from PR China. His personal best jump is 2.27 metres, achieved in June 1999 in Shanghai.
Kabelo Mmono (born 4 February 1980) is a high jumper from Botswana. He won gold medals at the All-Africa Games and the African Championships in Athletics.African Championships. GBR Athletics.
Olena Kholosha (; born 26 January 1982) is a Ukrainian high jumper. Kholosha won a bronze medal at the European Athletics championships in Helsinki by jumping a height of 1.92 m.
Alfonso Stoopen (4 March 1902 - 22 December 1967) was a Mexican high jumper and long jumper who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in San Luis Potosí.
Her personal best jump of 2.03 metres is the current Greek record.Greek all-time list, women - Athletix After retiring she has worked as a coach. She coaches high jumper Konstadinos Baniotis.
Tamara Metal (-Shumacher; also "Matal"; תמר מיטל-שומכר; born December 26, 1933) is an Israeli former Olympic high jumper and long jumper, and captain of the Israel women's national basketball team.
Jasmin Halili (born 1 March 1999) is a Serbian high jumper. His personal best is 2.20 m (Gävle 2019). He won the high jump at 2019 European Team Championships in Skopje.
Yuliya Lyakhova (born 8 July 1977) is a retired Russian high jumper. Her personal best jump is 1.99 metres, achieved in September 1997 at the IAAF Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka.
Valentina Liashenko (born 30 January 1981) is a female high jumper from Georgia. She competed in the Women's high jump event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China.
Angelo Tommasi (17 November 1911 - 24 June 2004) was an Italian high jumper who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was the brother of the other Olympic athlete Virgilio Tommasi.
Mihajlo Dimitrijević (May 27, 1927 - November 2, 1995) was a Serbian high jumper who competed for SFR Yugoslavia in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was a member of AK Partizan Belgrade.
Hestrie Cloete OIS (née Storbeck; born 26 August 1978) is a former South African high jumper. Her foremost achievements were winning two world championships and two silver medals at Olympic Games.
Giuseppe Palmieri (21 January 1902 - 13 October 1989) was an Italian high jumper and javelin thrower who competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics, than he was also basketball player and coach.
Atanas Vasilev Andonov (; born July 16, 1955) is a retired male decathlete from Bulgaria. He set his personal best (8199 points) in 1981. Andonov is married to high jumper Lyudmila Andonova.
Richards was the United States' best decathlete and high jumper due to enter the 1916 Olympic Games, but those Games were never held, because of the outbreak of World War I.
Washington Post 20 August 2004 Ottey was formerly married to the American high jumper and 400 m hurdler Nat Page and was known as Merlene Ottey-Page during the mid-eighties.
He was a champion high jumper and earned All-City honors in basketball and baseball. His younger brother Bob was a starting quarterback for the Miami Hurricanes in the mid-1960s.
Lyudmila Butuzova (born 28 February 1957) is a high jumper from the Soviet Union, who set the Kazakhstani and Uzbekistani national record on 1984-06-10, jumping 1.98 metres in Sochi.
Simon Phelan (born 26 February 1986) is an Irish-born athlete who now competes for Jersey as a high jumper. He won the high jump event at the 2011 Island Games.
Liu Yunpeng (; born October 24, 1962) is a retired Chinese high jumper, who competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He is the father of model Ning Liu.
Ajit Singh Balla (born 1931) is an Indian former high jumper who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He finished eleventh in the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games high jump.
Anne Lise Wærness (born 1 September 1951) is a Norwegian high jumper. She was born in Trondheim. She competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Her personal best is 1.74m.
María del Carmen García (born 27 July 1969) is a retired high jumper from Cuba, who set her personal best on 17 March 1990, jumping 1.92 metres at a meet in Manaus.
Jiří Lanský (17 September 1933 - 14 February 2017) was a Czech high jumper who won silver medals at the 1954 and 1958 European Championships. He finished seventh at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Bärbel Graf is a retired East German high jumper. She finished ninth at the 1966 European Championships. She also became East German champion in 1966, competing for the sports club SC DHfK Leipzig.
High jumper Germaine Mason originally competed for Jamaica as he was born in Kingston, but switched to Great Britain as his father was born there. He won an Olympic silver medal in 2008.
Sharon Hutchings (née McPeake, born 22 June 1962) is a former high jumper from Northern Ireland. She won a silver medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh with a lifetime best of .
Dietmar Mögenburg (born 15 August 1961) is a (West) German former high jumper who won gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and at the 1982 European Championships in Athens.
In 2010, Baďurová married Czech high jumper, Tomáš Janků. The pair have two daughters Ellen (born 2012) and Nikolet (born 2014). She won StarDance (Czech version of Dancing with the Stars) in 2012.
Erkki Olavi Niemi (born April 18, 1962 in Vaasa) is a retired high jumper from Finland. He competed for his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics, finishing in 9th place (2.24 metres).
Alfredo Deza Fuller (born 24 June 1944) is a Peruvian hurdler. He competed in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics. His son Alfredo Deza Ganoza was a high jumper.
Omoba Adegboyega Folaranmi Adedoyin, M.D. (11 September 1922 – January 2014) was a Nigerian-born British high jumper and long jumper, who became the first Nigerian to compete in an Olympics final in 1948.
Sara Simeoni (born 19 April 1953) is an Italian former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and twice set a world record in the women's high jump.
Wang Xueyi (Chinese: 王雪毅; born 3 August 1991) is a Chinese high jumper. She won a silver medal at the 2017 Asian Championships and placed fourth at the 2018 Asian Games.
Viktoriya Fyodorova (born May 9, 1973) is a retired female high jumper from Russia. She set her personal best in the women's high jump event (1.98 metres) on 20 June 1997 in Tartu.
Bo Daniel Ekelund (26 July 1894 – 1 April 1983) was a Swedish high jumper who won a bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Ekelund was a top Scandinavian high jumper in the late 1910s. He won the Swedish Games with a jump of 1.85 m in 1916, the Scandinavian triangular meet in 1919, and Swedish national titles in 1919 and 1920. In September 1919 he set a new Scandinavian record at 1.93 m, which was the world's best jump in 1919.
Gisle Ellingsen (born 11 October 1965) is a former Norwegian high jumper. He represented the athletics club IL Gular. He finished twelfth at the 1989 European Indoor Championships. He became Norwegian champion in 1987.
Jithin C. Thomas (born 1 June 1990) is an Indian high jumper. He won the silver medal at the 2013 Asian Championships. His personal best is 2.22 metres, achieved in September 2012 in Chennai.
Normunds Pūpols (born 5 October 1984 in Ventspils) is a Latvian high jumper. He is a six-time Latvian champion in high jump and has a personal best of 2.28 metres, set in 2006.
Urszula Kielan–Lipiec (born 10 October 1960 in Otwock) is a retired high jumper from Poland. She won four medals at the European Indoor Championships as well as an Olympic silver medal in 1980.
Marinella Bortoluzzi (born 16 February 1939) is a former Italian female high jumper who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and won three national championships at the individual senior level from 1959 to 1963.
Endre Kelemen (born 5 December 1947) is a retired Hungarian high jumper. He won two medals at the European Indoor Championships, in 1971 and 1975, and competed once at the Olympic Games, in 1976.
Wells was born and raised in Kincardine, Ontario. An athletic student, he was highly active in his high school athletic team. In 1978, he attained Canadian National Junior Champion status as a high jumper.
Her last period as a high jumper also brought her best performance – she jumped a personal best of 1.95 m in Banská Bystrica in early 1993.Kašparkova Šárka. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-16.
He has a daughter, Nathalie, with retired Cuban high jumper Silvia Costa. Nathalie Martínez is an able hurdler. His son is Abel Martinez Abreu who was born in Spain, with Ana E. Abreu Garcia.
John Atkinson (born 29 October 1963) is an Australian former high jumper who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the commonwealth games in 1986 in Edinburgh and Worlds in 1985.
Moira Lindsay Maguire Walls (born 4 May 1952), is a Scottish former high jumper, long jumper and pentathlete. She won a bronze medal in the high jump at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.
Carlos Abaunza (born 15 August 1959) is a Nicaraguan high jumper. He competed in the men's high jump at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Carlos immigrated to the United States when he was 13 years old.
His personal best of 2.30 metres was recorded in June 2007 in Bangkok. He is 1.93 m and weighs 72 kg. His father and coach, also called Sergey Zasimovich, was a high jumper as well.
Serena Capponcelli (born 24 January 1989) is an Italian female high jumper, shot putter, javelin thrower and former bobsledder, who finished at 20th place in the 2018 indoor seasonal world lists in the high jump.
Alessia Trost (born 8 March 1993) is an Italian female high jumper who won the 2009 World Youth Championship in Athletics in Brixen. She was the bronze medallist at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Patrick Etolu (17 March 1935 – 24 December 2013) was a Ugandan high jumper. He was born in Soroti District, Eastern Region, Uganda. He won the high jump at the 1953 Central African Games.Central African Games.
Georges Damitio en juillet 1946, en ciseau Georges Damitio (20 May 1924 in Toulouse – 7 September 1994) was a French high jumper who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Her skills as a high jumper were first discovered in July 2001, during the Italian Championship in Catania when her jump raised her personal best from 1.93 to 1.98 meters, thus equalling the personal best of accomplished Italian high-jumper Antonella Bevilacqua. A month later, she was able to reach the world finals where she finished twelfth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. In 2006, she finished fifth at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow and tenth at the European Championships in Gothenburg.
Brad Kearns (born February 4, 1965 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author, podcast host, professional Speedgolfer, Masters high jumper, and former professional triathlete. Kearns performed on the international triathlon circuit from 1986 to 1995 and won 31 events worldwide. He is currently a top-20 world-ranked professional Speedgolfer, and 2020 top-3 world-ranked Masters age 55-59 high jumper. In 2018, Kearns broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest single hole of golf ever played (minimum length, 500 yards).
All time best Balkan athletes, men - The Athletics Site After retiring he became a coach, and was educated in physiotherapy. He moved to Norway in the early 1990s and trained high jumper Steinar Hoen among others.
Lester Steers (June 16, 1917 – January 23, 2003) was an American track and field high jumper. In 1941 he broke the world record for the high-jump three times. His last record stood for 12 years.
Yeung Man Wai (Chinese: 楊文蔚; born 18 September 1994) is a high jumper from Hong Kong. She won a silver medal at the 2017 Asian Championships and placed fifth at the 2018 Asian Games.
In addition to football, he was a standout in track & field and basketball. He earned all-state honors as a high jumper and was a two-time all-conference selection as a point guard in basketball.
Hugo Muñoz Llerena (born 10 January 1973) is a retired Peruvian high jumper. He competed in the 1996 (Atlanta) and 2000 (Sydney) Olympic Games as a member of the Peru National Team without reaching the finals.
Roberto Vilches Ruisánchez (born 21 May 1999 in Mexico City) is a Mexican high jumper. He won the title at 2018 World U20 Championships in Tampere and the bronze medal at 2019 Pan American Games in Lima.
Līga Kļaviņa (born January 27, 1980 in Tukums) is a female heptathlete from Latvia, who began her career as a high jumper. She competed for her native Baltic country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Her hobby is collecting wind chimes. ; : :Kane is one of Yukika and Kaede's friends, and a high jumper, and is also the protagonist of Fate/School Life. She is considerate and intelligent. She has feelings for Shirō.
Hollis Conway (born January 8, 1967) is a track and field high jumper and a two-time Olympic medalist. He is currently employed by Lafayette Consolidated Government as the Community Development Director in Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory’s administration. Conway previously served as the Assistant Director of Diversity, Leadership, & Education for the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team under head coach Billy Napier. Conway was the top-ranked high jumper in the U.S. seven straight years from 1988–94 and in the world for two of those years (1990 and 1991).
Orrin Anthony Barton (born October 17, 1969) is an American retired high jumper. Barton was born in Washington, D.C.. He finished fifth at the 1992 World Cup, won the 1993 Summer Universiade, finished eighth at the 1993 World Championships, won the bronze medal at the 1995 World Indoor Championships and seventh at the 1995 World Championships. At one time he was the third-ranked high jumper in the world and number one in the United States. His personal best jump is 2.32 metres, achieved in June 1992 in New Orleans.
Randall Wade Cunningham II (born January 4, 1996) is an American collegiate high jumper for the USC Trojans Men's track & field team who is a senior during the 2017-18 school year. He was a high jumper and quarterback at Bishop Gorman High School. He is a five-time Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) state champion (three times in track and twice in football). He is a 2-time NCAA Track Champion, and 4-time NCAA All-American, U.S. Junior National Champion and Pan American Junior Athletics Championships Champion.
Emilian Kaszczyk (born 21 April 1980) is a retired Polish high jumper. He is mainly known as the gold medalist at the 2003 Summer Universiade. His personal best is 2.28 metres, achieved in July 2003 in Bielsko-Biala.
Burcu Yüksel (née Ayhan; ; born May 3, 1990 in Kadirli, Osmaniye Province) is a Turkish female high jumper. She is a member of Fenerbahçe Athletics club, where she is coached by Cüneyt Yüksel. The tall athlete is at .
Zhang Shufeng (; born 24 November 1984) is a Chinese high jumper. His personal best jump is , achieved in August 2006 in Shijiazhuang. He is from Heilongjiang province.08/09/22 Challenging the Body’s Limits—High Jump (Part 2).
Hamish Kerr (born 17 August 1996) is a New Zealand high jumper. In June 2019, he equalled the national record with a jump of 2.30 m, winning the gold medal at the 2019 Oceania Athletics Championships in Townsville.
Turebergs Friidrottsklubb is an athletics club based in Sollentuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. Some athletes affiliated with it are Olympic high jump champion Kajsa Bergqvist and her coach Bengt Jönsson, sprinter Eric Josjö and high jumper Thomas Eriksson.
Antonios Mastoras (; born January 6, 1991) is a Greek high jumper. He took the fourth place at the 2013 European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg and won the bronze medal, the same year, at the European U23 Championships in Tampere.
Gyula Németh (born 2 December 1959) is a retired Hungarian high jumper. He finished fourteenth at the 1983 European Indoor Championships, and eighth at the 1988 European Indoor Championships. He became Hungarian high jump champion in 1986 and 1989.
Kallenou didn't participate in many international events in 2012 since she chose to focus on her studies for her last year of high school. The high jumper competed at the World Junior Championship in Barcelona with a 19th position.
Lugo and Amanda Vogle married in January 2018. He is the son of Vicki and Ben Lugo. Seth was the punter for his high school football team, goalkeeper for soccer team, and a high jumper in track and field.
Krisztina Solti (born 28 April 1968) is a retired Hungarian high jumper. She finished sixteenth at the 1989 World Indoor Championships. She also competed at the 1993 World Championships without reaching the final. She became Hungarian champion in 1993.
John Arthur "Jack" Winter (3 December 1924 – 5 December 2007) was an Australian high jumper who won that event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London with a jump of 1.98 metres (6 ft. 6 in.).Jack Winter. Sports Reference.
Vaso Komnenić (, born 15 May 1955 in Kosovska Mitrovica), is a retired Serbian and Yugoslav high jumper. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1980 Summer Olympics and won 6th place in high jump. He was a member of Red Start athletics club.
Martin Günther (born 8 October 1986) is a German high jumper. He won the 2003 World Youth Championships and finished eighth at the 2010 World Indoor Championships. His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in February 2010 (indoor) in Karlsruhe.
Kimberly Jess (born 30 January 1992) is a former German high jumper and occasionally participated in long jump events in international level events. She was a junior World champion in the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
In March 2020, Starc flew home ahead of the final ODI match against South Africa, so he could watch Healy play in the final of the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup. Healy's brother-in-law is high jumper Brandon Starc.
Walter George Marty (August 15, 1910 – April 25, 1995) was an American high jumper. He set both indoor and outdoor world records in his speciality and was national co-champion both indoors and outdoors in his peak year of 1934.
Millis has both boys and girls indoor and outdoor, track. Indoor track is during the winter and outdoor track is in the spring. In the 2009–10 winter track season, a Millis high jumper won five state championships. State Champs '80.
Troy Kemp (born March 18, 1966) is a former high jumper from Bahamas who won the gold medal at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. Having jumped 2.38m in Nice 1995, Kemp is a co-holder of the Commonwealth record.
In 1972, Lewis married Commonwealth Games High jumper Carolyn Wright. Their daughter Tamsyn Manou is a three-time Olympian, specialising in the 800 metres, who has won three Commonwealth Games relay gold medals and one World Indoor 800m gold medal.
Antetokounmpo was born in Sepolia in Athens, Greece. His parents were immigrants from Nigeria. His late father, Charles, was a former Nigerian soccer player, while his mother, Veronica, was a high jumper. Charles died in September 2017, at age 54.
Janusz Roman Trzepizur (born 21 May 1959 in Namysłów) is a retired high jumper from Poland. He won a silver medal at the 1982 European Indoor Championships and the 1982 European Championships, both times finishing behind Dietmar Mögenburg of West Germany.
Steinar Hoen (born 8 February 1971) is a retired Norwegian high jumper. He represented IK Tjalve during his senior career. He has been the meeting director for the Bislett Games since 2007.Happy Hoen finally gets a high jump in Oslo .
Retrieved 10 October 2019."Iolanda Balaş, Ivan Patzaichin şi Cristian Ţopescu au primit decoraţia regala "Nihil Sine Deo"". mediafax.ro. Retrieved 10 October 2019. In 2000, Track & Field News voted Balaș as the best female high jumper of the 20th century.
Ruth Beitia Vila (; born 1 April 1979) is a retired high jumper who is currently the reigning Olympic champion in the women's high jump. She was also a politician in the Partido Popular and a member of the Parliament of Cantabria.
Mikhail Tsvetkov (born 4 May 1980) is a Russian high jumper. He finished fourth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris with a jump of 2.29 metres. His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in July 2003 in Madrid.
Birger Halvorsen (19 February 1905 – 7 September 1976) was a Norwegian high jumper. He represented Horten FIK. He won a silver medal at the 1934 European Championships in Turin with a jump of 1.97 metres. This remained his career best jump.
Erik Stai (29 November 1915 – 4 March 2004) was a Norwegian high jumper. He represented the club IF Vestheim. He finished fourth at the 1938 European Championships with a jump of 1.90 metres. He never participated in the Summer Olympics.
In the huddle with Coach Dye, Jackson suggested a play. "Coach, I was a 7 foot high jumper in high school. Why don't we go over the top?" Dye complied with his running back and Auburn went with the play.
Yelena Borisovna Yelesina (; born April 4, 1970) is a Russian female high jumper. She won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with 2,01m, one centimetre behind her personal best jump. She also has several minor medals from major championships.
In 2011 Green married her coach Yannick Tregaro, who was also the coach of high jumper Kajsa Bergqvist and triple jumper Christian Olsson. The couple announced their divorce in early 2014. Furthermore, she is the cousin of rock musician Nicke Green.
Elizabeth Clara Müller (married name Gonçalves; June 8, 1926 – July 12, 2010) was a Brazilian high jumper, sprinter and shot putter.Elizabeth Müller. Sports-Reference. Retrieved on 2015-03-08. At the 1948 Summer Olympics, she placed 17th in the high jump.
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-01-01. Two of the Filipino medallists in Tokyo, high jumper Toribio and Miguel White, later won Olympic medals (as of 2015, they are the only athletics medallists for the Philippines at the Olympics).Philippines Athletics.
Triple jump medallist Wendell Mottley also became involved in politics later in his life, serving as Trinidad and Tobago's Finance Minister, and high jumper Anton Norris was another athlete in the field to become a prominent economist in the region.
Andrei Churyla (; born 19 May 1993) is a Belarusian high jumper. He participated in the high jump at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, finishing fourth. At the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Barcelona, he won a gold medal.
Sofie Natalie Skoog (born June 7, 1990) is a Swedish high jumper. She represented her nation Sweden at the 2015 IAAF World Championships, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing seventh in the final round of the women's high jump. Skoog currently trains as a member of the track and field squad for IF Göta Karlstad, under the tutelage of her coach Stefan Holm, a former high jumper and Athens 2004 champion. Skoog competed for Sweden, along with her fellow countrywoman Erika Kinsey, in the women's high jump at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Panagiotis Kontaxakis in Amorgos, 2015. The position is from the 7th exercise of Baduanjin (Clench the fists and glare fiercely). Panagiotis Kontaxakis (; born 16 August 1964 in Melbourne, Australia) is a Greek qigong and tai chi master and a retired high jumper.
Eduard Malchenko (; born 24 November 1986) is a Russian high jumper. His personal best is , achieved in June 2010 in Yerino. He is mainly known as the gold medalist at the 2009 Summer Universiade. He also finished eighth at the 2011 Summer Universiade.
His father Sergey Malchenko was also a professional high jumper, who achieved a best of .2011 USA Outdoor, Day 1: Strong Throws, Exciting 10,000m battles, by Alfons Juck, note by Larry Eder. Run Blog Run (2011-06-24). Retrieved on 2014-07-13.
BBC News, undated interview with Ukhov by Steven Rosenberg for BBC Sport, article and video released 23 April 2011, "Renewed Spirits for Russian High Jumper Ivan Ukhov"; Retrieved 24 April 2011. This concern did not materialise, though, with Ukhov winning Gold in London.
Svetlana Zalevskaya (; born 14 June 1974 in Almaty) is a retired female high jumper from Kazakhstan. Her personal best jump is 1.98 metres indoors on 2 March 1996 Samara. Her outdoor best is 1.97 metres, achieved in June 1996 in Pierre-Bénite.
Constance Senghor (born May 23, 1963) is a retired female high jumper from Senegal. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, finishing in 27th place in the final rankings with a jump of 1.70 m.
Solange Marilú Witteveen (born 6 February 1976) is a retired Argentine high jumper. She won a gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. She also represented Argentina at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Lecturers and former lecturers include the former German Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Werner Müller. Alumni of the university include the head of the SAP Global Labs Network Clas Neumann, the German politician Mario Brandenburg and the German high jumper Elena Herzenberg.
Starc is of Slovene descent.11 December 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2015 He is the older brother of Australian Olympic high jumper Brandon Starc. In 2015, Starc became engaged to fellow Australian cricketer Alyssa Healy and they married on 15 April 2016.
Gerd Wessig (born 16 July 1959 in Lübz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) was an East German high jumper who won the gold medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics, the first man ever to set a world record in the high jump at the Olympics.
Wanita May (born January 30, 1975 in Grimsby, Ontario) is a Canadian high jumper. She started competing at age 16 and participated in World Junior Championships in 1992. She went on to place first in the Canadian Championships in 2000, 2001 and 2003.
Kwaku Boateng (born 30 June 1974 in Eastmont, Ghana) is a Canadian high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.34 metres, achieved in July 2000 in Zagreb. Boateng competed representing Ghana from 1993 to 1996. From January 1997 he has competed for Canada.
ESPN female high jumper of the decade ESPN.go.com. Retrieved August 5, 2016.AOC Raleigh adidas Outdoor Championships June 18-19, 2004 at NC State U., Raleigh NC presented by the National Scholastic Sports Foundation a DyeStat featured meet Dyestat.com. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
Sandrine Fricot (born 4 June 1968 in Épinal) is a retired high jumper from France, who set her personal best on 8 June 1992, jumping 1.93 metres at a meet in Belfort. She is a two-time French national champion: 1992 and 1994.
Falk Henning Wendrich (born 12 June 1995) is a German high jumper. Wendrich won a silver medal at the high jump at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Barcelona.Heute Silber, 2016 Olympia-Gold? and finished fifth at the 2014 edition.
Henadz Maroz (, tr. Henadz Viktaravich Maroz; Łacinka: Hienadź Viktaravič Maroz; , tr. Gennadiy Viktorovich Moroz; born August 15, 1978) is a retired Belarusian high jumper. In 2003 he equalled his indoor personal best of 2.30 metres to win the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships.
Nelė Žilinskienė (née Savickytė, born 29 December 1969) is a lithuanian retired female high jumper. Born in Telšiai, her personal best jump, first cleared in Vilnius in July 1994, was 1.96 metres. She again cleared this height when finishing fifth in the 1996 Olympic final.
His father was Merv Inverarity, a Western Australian first-class cricketer during the 1930s and '40s and later senior administrator within the Western Australian Cricket Association. Inverarity's daughter Alison Inverarity was an Olympic high jumper, representing Australia at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.
Arsène Claude Ménard (14 November 1906 – 2 September 1980) was a French high jumper who won a bronze medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics with a jump of . He achieved his personal best of that same year in Dairen.Claude Menard. Track and Field Brinkster.
Antonina Lazareva (, née , Okorokova; born March 27, 1941 in Serpukhov) is a Soviet high jumper. She won the silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico. She won the bronze medal at the European Indoor Games in 1968 and 1969.
Jean-Charles Gicquel (born 24 February 1967 in Ploërmel) is a retired high jumper from France, who set his personal best (2.35 m) on 13 March 1994 in Paris. He is a four-time national champion for France in the men's high jump event.
Petronella Veronica Maria "Nel" Zwier (29 August 1936 – 8 October 2001) was a Dutch high jumper. She competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and finished in ninth place. In 1959 she won the Amateur Athletic Association of England title with a jump of 1.65 m.
Ján Zvara (born 12 February 1963 in Banská Bystrica) is a retired Slovak high jumper who represented Czechoslovakia. His greatest achievement was the bronze medal at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships. His personal best was 2.36 metres, achieved in August 1987 in Prague.
Huffman's time in the 40 yard dash was 4.36 seconds (fully automatic timing). Huffman is notable for his occasional and unpredictable use of a one-legged straddle (similar to a high jumper) method to clear the bar. This technique is commonly called "The Huffman Roll".
Loïc Gasch (born 13 August 1994) is a Swiss high jumper. He finished tenth at the 2018 European Championships. He also competed at the 2015 European U23 Championships without reaching the final. His personal best jump is 2.26 metres, achieved in July 2017 in Zürich.
Cook attended North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee, Georgia. While there, he played wide receiver for the Bulldogs high school football team. As a senior, he caught 32 passes for 800 yards and ten touchdowns. He also competed in track as a high jumper.
Bruce McBarnette is a masters high jumper and has broken world records for his age group. He has won 12 world championships and 35 USA Track and Field Masters National Championships.Newell, Patrick. "Investor profits in high jump at USTA Masters", Albuquerque Journal, 19 February 2017.
He was also a starter on the Brandon basketball team and competed as a high jumper with the varsity track & field team. He was selected to the Sun Belt First Team All-State team and was named to the Clarion Ledger All-Metro team.
George Burton Spitz, Jr. (June 19, 1912 – April 1986) was an American high jumper. He jumped indoor world records in 1931 and 1932 and was a leading favorite for that summer's Olympics; however, an ankle injury troubled him there and he only placed ninth.
John Thomas dies at 71' U.S. high jumper medaled in two Olympics. The Los Angeles Times. He graduated from Boston University in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in physical and psychological rehabilitation. Thomas retired from competition at the age of 27 and became a businessman.
Lyudmila Andonova (, née Zhecheva; born 6 May 1960) is a retired female high jumper from Bulgaria. In 1984, she broke the World Record with a clearance of 2.07 metres. She competed at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.
Artur Jerzy Partyka (born 25 July 1969 in Stalowa Wola, Poland) is a former Polish high jumper and two-time Olympic medalist. He won twelve national titles in a row, starting in 1989. He represented ŁKS Łódź. His father is Algerian, his mother is Polish.
Tregaro was a prospective high jumper, who placed 10th in the final of the high jump at the 1996 World Junior Championships. His coach was Viljo Nousiainen. Nousiainen died in 1999. This left Tregaro and the young triple jumper Christian Olsson without a coach.
Stevan Zorić (born 25 May 1971 in Novi Sad) is a Serbian former high jumper who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics, in the 1996 Summer Olympics, and in the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is a bronze medalist from 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics.
Gösta Bernhard Svensson (21 November 1929 - 14 October 2018) was a Swedish high jumper. He competed at the 1950 European Athletics Championships and 1952 Summer Olympics and finished in fifth and fourth place, respectively. In 1952 he set a new national record at 2.02 m.
Brendan O'Reilly (14 May 1929 – 1 April 2001) was an Irish Selected Olympic high jumper, broadcaster, journalist, actor, singer and songwriter (best known for the 'Ballad of Michael Collins' and the Olympic song, 'Let the Nations Play'. He is best known as presenter of the long-running Sports Stadium. Between 1966 and 1968, O'Reilly had the honour of commentating for Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest, as well as presenting the National Song Contest (to select Ireland's Eurovision entry) from 1966 to 1970. He was a High Jumper, studied in America at the University of Michigan, he set the Irish High Jump record and also set the Irish Javelin record.
Marko Turban (born 14 May 1967) is a retired Estonian high jumper. He was born in Rakvere. He competed at the 1996 Olympic Games and the 1997 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final. His personal best is 2.30 metres, achieved in June 1996 in Rakvere.
Mária Melová-Henkel (born 21 October 1975) is a retired Slovak high jumper. She finished fifth at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. She also competed at the 1997 World Indoor Championships and the 2002 European Championships without reaching the final. Her personal best jump is 1.92 metres.
Yelena Gulyayeva, née Rodina (born 14 August 1967 in Moscow) is a retired Russian high jumper. Her personal best jump is 2.01 metres, achieved in May 1998 in Kalamata. She gave a positive drugs test at the 1991 European Cup, and was suspended for two years.
Katarzyna Mirosława Majchrzak-Waśniewska (born June 25, 1967 in Gdańsk, Pomorskie) is a former female high jumper from Poland, who represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She set her personal best (1.92 m) in the women's high jump event in 1992.
Rico Freimuth (born 14 March 1988) is a German athlete who specialises in the decathlon. He won two medals at World Championships, bronze in 2015 and silver in 2017. Rico is the son of Uwe Freimuth, a decathlete, and the nephew of Jörg Freimuth, a high jumper.
Laura Agront Sánchez-Pimion (born March 14, 1965) is a retired female high jumper from Puerto Rico. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, finishing in 22nd place in the final rankings with a jump of 1.80 m.
Janet Margaret Boyle (born 25 July 1963) is a former high jumper from Northern Ireland. She represented Great Britain & Northern Ireland at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. At the Commonwealth Games, she won a bronze medal in Edinburgh 1986 and a silver medal in Auckland 1990.
María Romary Rifka González (born 23 December 1970 in Poza Rica, Veracruz) is a female Mexican high jumper. She is married to track & field athlete, Alejandro Cárdenas. Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in April 2004 in Xalapa. This is the current Mexican record.
József Jámbor (born 17 February 1957) is a retired Hungarian high jumper. He finished seventh at the 1979 European Indoor Championships. He became the Hungarian indoor champion in the high jump in 1979. His personal best jump was 2.27 metres, achieved in May 1982 in Rehlingen.
István Gibicsár (born 13 January 1957) is a retired Hungarian high jumper. He was born in Császártöltés. He finished ninth at the 1980 European Indoor Championships with a jump of 2.23 metres. He also competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics, but without reaching the final round.
Franklin Jacobs (born December 31, 1957 ) is a former high jumper from the United States. His personal best of was a world indoor record in 1978, and at above Jacobs' own height of , it remains the record for height differential, now held jointly with Stefan Holm.
Gene Johnson (born March 11, 1941) is a retired male high jumper from the United States, who competed in the 1960s for his native country. He set his personal best in the men's high jump event () on January 29, 1966 at an indoor meet in Portland.
Jacek Roman Wszoła (born 30 December 1956 in Warsaw, Poland) is a retired Polish high jumper best known for winning gold and silver medals at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics respectively. Wszoła is also a one-time world record holder with the result of 2.35 metres.
Osvalda Giardi (19 December 1932 – 1 July 2019) was an Italian high jumper and pentathlete. She won 10 titles at the Italian national championship, and was ranked at number 25 on the IAAF world leading list in 1957, with 1.63 m established in Bologna on 14 September.
Jessie Mary Hayward (née Donaghy, born 7 December 1939) is a former New Zealand high jumper and long jumper. She represented her country at the 1956 Summer Olympics and 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, winning a silver medal in the high jump at the latter event.
Nina Serbina (; born 21 July 1951) is a Ukrainian former high jumper who competed for the Soviet Union. She was a bronze medallist at the 1979 IAAF World Cup, held in Montreal, with a jump of .IAAF World Cup. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2017-03-11.
Three of his older brothers, Giannis, Thanasis and Kostas, play basketball professionally. Giannis plays for the Milwaukee Bucks and was named NBA Most Valuable Player in 2019 and 2020. Antetokounmpo's father and his oldest brother, Francis, played football in Nigeria. His mother was a high jumper.
Bengt Jönsson (born August 29, 1958 in Klippan, Sweden) is a trainer in athletics. He trained world champion high jumper Kajsa Bergqvist in Turebergs FK for many years,Kajsa Bergqvist bryter med tränaren, Expressen 2003-11-04 and Jönsson influenced her to focus on high jump only.
Tom McCants (born November 27, 1962) is a retired American high jumper. He finished twelfth at the 1987 World Championships. He also competed at the 1989 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final. His personal best jump is 2.37 metres, achieved in May 1988 in Columbus, Ohio.
Swede Halbrook played high school basketball at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon where he also starred in track as a high jumper and hurdler. Lincoln won the state tournament in Halbrook's senior year. In one tournament game he scored 50 points and had 34 rebounds.
Aleksandr Kravtsov (born March 18, 1974) is a retired male high jumper from Russia, best known for winning the gold medal in the men's high jump at the 2001 Summer Universiade. He set his personal best (2.31 metres) on 14 July 2001 at a meet in Tula.
Jeannette Pennings (born 7 October 1977 in Alphen aan den Rijn) is a Dutch bobsledder and track and field athlete. The high jumper Wilbert Pennings is her brother. She started with international bobsleigh competitions in 1999. She is the runner in a 2-bob mostly alongside Ilse Broeders.
Kabelo Kgosiemang (born 7 January 1986) is a male high jumper from Botswana. He has won the high jump at the African Championships in Athletics on five consecutive occasions. His personal best, also the current national record of Botswana, was set in winning the 2008 African Championships in Athletics.
Konstantin Matusevich (, ; born 25 January 1971 in Kiev,Konstantin Matusevich at Sports Reference in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) is a retired Ukrainian-born Israeli high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.36 metres, achieved in February 2000, in Perth. This is the current Israeli record.
During the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens, Greece, she met Turkish high jumper Kemal Güner of Fenerbahçe Athletics. The couple married in 1999. She became a Turkish citizen and converted to Islam adopting the Turkish name Nur Güner. However, she became known further as Nora Güner.
Walls competed in the high jump at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. She won the bronze medal, and is the only Scottish high jumper to have won a Commonwealth Games medal. Walls competed in the high jump at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, finishing 31st.
William (Bill) Sneazwell (3 April 1906 – 14 December 1967) was a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). His son, Anthony (Tony) Sneazwell, is an Australian former high jumper who competed at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics.
Nihat Bekdik during the Istanbul Rowing Championship, 3 August 1933. He was also a very good triple jumper and high jumper. In 1923 he set new Turkish records at triple jump (11.92m) and high jump (1.58m). After his football career he continued doing sports in equestrian, rowing and swimming.
Halfdan Bjølgerud (13 February 1884 – 18 April 1970) was a Norwegian high jumper. He represented Ørnulf IF in Kristiania. At the 1906 Summer Olympics he finished sixth in the high jump final with a jump of 1.67 metres.Norwegian Olympic athletes He became Norwegian champion in 1903 and 1906.
Torrence earned second-team All-PCC honors, and was also named second-team All-Pacfic Coast by UPI. Entering the 1958–59 season, Torrence was the only returning full-time starter for UCLA. By then, he had also become a notable high jumper on the Bruins' track team.
Acuff-Ecoff Family Archives She is married to Tye Harvey, a retired pole vaulter. They have a daughter, Elsa. "Olympic high jumper takes leap into motherhood", Recordnet.com In addition to being a model, Acuff is also an artist with work on display with the Art of the Olympians.
Arthur M. "Art" Jackes (June 26, 1924 – November 10, 2000) was a Canadian high jumper. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics and finished sixth. Jackes was a Canadian high jump champion in 1948–1950. He finished tenth in the high jump at the 1950 British Empire Games.
István Kovács (born 9 October 1973) is a retired Hungarian high jumper. He competed at the 1997 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final round.. Retrieved on 26 February 2009. He became Hungarian high jump champion in 1996 and 1997, as well as indoor champion in 1995 and 1997.
He was the father of Nyna Konishi, Lonnie Whitfield, CNN anchor Fredricka WhitfieldNavy SEALs in Afghanistan; Dance fever. July 6, 2005. CNN. Retrieved July 12, 2008 and accomplished high jumper Ed Wright. In 1989 Whitfield founded the Mal Whitfield Foundation for the promotion of sports, academics, and culture.
Maria "Ria" Ahlers (born 20 July 1954) is a former high jumper from the Netherlands. She competed in the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics and finished in 16th and 12th place, respectively. Her personal best was 1.87 m (1976). She was a national champion in 1972, 1972 and 1976.
Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna (1935 – 25 September 1967)"Emmaunel Ifeajuna". Brinkster. Retrieved 2014-07-13. was a Nigerian army major and high jumper. He was the first Black African to win a gold medal at an international sports event when he won at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
Elena Vallortigara (born 21 September 1991) is an Italian female high jumper. In 2018, establishing her Personal Best with 1.95 m, at 6 May 2018 had reached the 1st place in the seasonal world lists anf finished the season at 2nd with a new PB of 2.02 m.
James Stephenson Smith (born 29 March 1973) is a retired British high jumper. Smith's indoor mark of 2.38 metres and his outdoor mark of 2.37 metres are British records in the high jump (7 feet 9 and three-quarter inches, and 7 feet 9 and one-half inches, respectively).
Jan Chesbro-Wohlschlag (born July 14, 1958) is a retired high jumper from the United States, who set her personal best on July 1, 1989, jumping 2.00 metres at a meet in Oslo, Norway. She is a two-time indoor and outdoor (1988 and 1989) USA national champion.
Yohan Camilo Chaverra Córdoba (born 21 March 1995 in Turbo) is a Colombian hurdler. He is also a high jumper. He established his personal best on 110 m hs to 13.46 in Cali, in June 2019. He qualified for the semifinals at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha.
Benjamin "Benn" Fields (born December 17, 1954) is an American former high jumper. In 1979 Fields won silver medals at the Pan American Games and the Soviet Spartakiad. He won his specialty at the 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials, but missed out on Olympic participation due to the American boycott.
She was ranked in the top 5 six times. The only female high jumpers with more top ten rankings are Inha Babakova and Stefka Kostadinova, both with thirteen. In 1983, Brill was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition for being "Canada's premier woman high-jumper".
Gunhild Maria Larking (born 13 January 1936) is a retired Swedish high jumper. She competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1954 European Athletics Championships and 1956 Summer Olympics and placed ninth in 1952 and fourth in 1954 and 1956. She won five consecutive national titles from 1952 to 1956.
Initially a high jumper, he adapted into a sprinter under Kunst's guidance. He participated in the 1985 Asian Athletics Championships, finishing in 4th place in the 100 metres category. Consequently, he received little recognition for his accolade at the time, having been overshadowed by the top 3 contenders.
Plawcyzk grew up in Nice, France. His father was a championship decathlon runner and his grandfather Jerzy Plawcyzk was an Olympic high-jumper."Edmond Plawczyk : le surfeur le plus rapide du monde". Startin' Sport, Par Anne Goas le 29 octobre 2015"Des valeurs simples au profit de l’excellence".
Minna Vehmasto (born 28 March 1962 in Kuusjoki) is a retired Finnish high jumper. She finished twelfth at the 1983 World Championships. She became Finnish champion in 1980, 1981 and 1983.Finnish Championships - GBR Athletics Her personal best jump was 1.91 metres, achieved in July 1983 in Pori.
Juha Isolehto (born 6 June 1968) is a retired Finnish high jumper. He finished tenth at the 1990 European Championships. He also competed at the World Championships in 1991, 1993 and 1995 without reaching the final. He became Finnish champion in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1997.
Candeğer Kılınçer Oğuz, née Kılınçer, (born July 16, 1980) is a Turkish female high jumper. She studied at Dokuz Eylül University. The tall athlete at is a member of Enkaspor. Her coach is Tayfun Aygün, who contributed to the establishment of a special school for high jump in 2005.
Joško Vlašić () (born 22 July 1956) is a Croatian athletics coach and a former decathlete who represented Yugoslavia. Vlašić's greatest competitive success was winning the decathlon gold medal at the 1983 Mediterranean Games, but he is best known for coaching his daughter Blanka Vlašić, a world champion high jumper.
Namakoro Niaré (born 4 June 1943 in Bamako) is a Malian former discus thrower who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics, in the 1972 Summer Olympics, and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. He is the father of French shot putter Yves Niaré and French High Jumper Gaëlle Niaré.
Abdullah Noor Wasughe (born 13 December 1947) is a Somali former high jumper who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He also won the 1970, 1971 and 1972 East and Central African Championships and the 1973 All-Africa Games. His personal best jump was 2.05 metres, achieved in 1972.
Louise Ann Miller (born 9 March 1960) is a retired female high jumper from England, who set her personal best (1.94 metres) in 1980. Miller was born in Saffron Walden, Essex. She competed for Great Britain at the 1980 Summer Olympics, finishing in 11th place (1.85 m) in the overall-rankings.
Constantin Militaru (born 17 February 1963) is a retired Romanian high jumper. He competed at the 1983 World Championships without reaching the final round. He became national champion in 1985 and 1992.Romanian athletics championships - GBR Athletics His personal best jump was 2.31 metres, achieved in May 1986 in Bucharest.
Having a history as a high jumper, and after being a member of football clubs Eintracht Wetzlar and VfB Gießen she was with 1. FFC Frankfurt (1st Frankfurt Women's Football Club) starting 1997. She played as a defender or midfielder. Künzer retired in July 2008 from professional football after an injury.
Vitaliy Tsykunov (; born 22 January 1987) is a retired Kazakhstani high jumper. He was born in Ust-Kamenogorsk.Vitaliy Tsykunov profile at IAAF (old) As a junior competed at the 2006 World Junior Championships without reaching the final. He won the silver medal at the 2006 Asian Junior Championships the same year.
Jeanelle Scheper (born 21 November 1994) is a Saint Lucian high jumper. She is the second athlete from St. Lucia to qualify for the high jump final in the World Championships in Athletics after Lavern Spencer did it starting in 2007 when in 2015 she joined Spencer in the final.
Robert Wolski (born 8 December 1982) is a Polish high jumper. He finished eighth at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow. He also competed in the 2004 Olympics, but failed to qualify from his pool. His personal best jump is 2.31 metres, achieved in September 2006 in Wrocław.
Tom Farrell (born 23 March 1991) is an English long-distance runner. He represented his country at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics and 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Both his parents are former athletes. His father David was a steeplechaser and his mother Jennifer Little was a high jumper.
Valentīna Gotovska (born 3 September 1965 in Krāslava) is a retired Latvian long jumper. Her personal best jump is 6.91 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Tartu. In her earlier career she was a high jumper, with a personal best of 1.97 metres from 1990. Gotovska retired after the 2005 season.
Nancy Voorhees (January 4, 1906 – June 1988) was an American high jumper. She won a gold medal at the 1922 Women's World Games, setting the first world record at 1.46 m. Her elder sister Louise competed alongside in the high jump at those Games. Nancy married C. Redington Barrett in 1930.
Miguel Ángel Sancho Rubio (born 24 April 1990) is a Spanish high jumper. He was born in Valencia. He finished fourth at the 2007 World Youth Championships and won the bronze medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships. He also competed at the 2009 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final.
Valerio Ángel Vallania (14 July 1906 - 8 October 1998) was an Argentine hurdler and high jumper. He competed in the men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He achieved his personal best in high jump at 1.91 metres on 26 March 1932. That was new South American record.
Hans Rudolf Jagenburg (18 August 1894 – 5 January 1971) was a Swedish high jumper. He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics and finished in ninth place. Nationally Jagenburg won two titles, in 1913 and 1922. In 1918 he won the Scandinavian triangular meet and was ranked fifth in the world.
Smith was an All- district performer in both football and basketball and one of the top football players coming out of SE Texas in 2002. He earned four letters in both football and basketball and a high jumper in track and field and was third place in state high jump meet.
IAAF's all-time lists of outdoor high jumps. Del Davis (born May 3, 1960 in California) is an American former high jumper and former American record holder. His personal best jump is ; achieved during the 1982 NCAA Track and Field Championships. His mark equaled the U.S. record held by Dwight Stones.
James Theophilus Grayman (born 11 October 1985) is a male high jumper from Antigua and Barbuda. He was born and raised in Parham Town by his mother Evelyn Sheppard. His personal best jump is 2.27 metres, achieved in July 2007 in Pergine Valsugana. This is the current Antiguan and Barbudan record.
Olga Gere-Pulić (Serbian Cyrillic: Олга Гере-Пулић; born September 27, 1942, in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia) is a former Yugoslav high jumper. She won first medal for Yugoslavia at the European Athletics Championships, silver in 1962. Gere represented Yugoslavia at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics where she was placed 7th.
Varun Singh Bhati (born 13 February 1995) is a para high jumper from India. He was afflicted by poliomyelitis at a young age, and joined sports during his school days. He has won several medals in international events including bronze at 2016 Summer Paralympic Games and 2017 World Para Athletics Championships.
Jagan Graeme Hames (born 31 October 1975) is a retired decathlete from Australia, who won the gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, setting a personal best (8,490 points). He started his career as a high jumper and has an official PB of 2.30m in this event.
He attended the Humberside Collegiate Institute and played until his graduating 2011 Basketball and Soccer for the Huskies. His parrents immigrated in the late 80s from Jamaica, his father David the former Jamaican footballer came from Manchester, Jamaica and his mother the high jumper Elaine, is originally from St. Mary, Jamaica.
Irina Igorevna Geraschenko (, born 10 March 1995 in Kyiv Чемпіонат України: у кроці від визначення складу команди на чемпіонат Європи Championship of Ukraine: the step of determining the composition of the team for the European Championship, Ukrainian Athletic Federation ( )) is a Ukrainian high jumper. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
She was also a three-time All- American high jumper at LBSU, and she competed at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, finishing 10th with a jump of 5–10 ¾. Haneef-Park was inducted into the 49er Athletic Hall of Fame at Long Beach State on November 19, 2008.
One of these clubs was founded on 25 January 1911, which the club now counts as its founding date. The club has had success in athletics, with Martin Stokken representing the club. High jumper Tonje Angelsen has also represented the club. The ski jumping hill Granåsen originally belonged to the club.
Keith Spalding Brown (June 1913 – July 1991) was an American athlete, politician and businessman. He broke the pole vault world record both indoors and outdoors and was also a good high jumper. He later became involved in politics and served as the Republican Party's state chairman in Arizona for two years.
With 62 athletes and 4 guides, the US athletics delegation is the largest in the country's history. Roderick Townsend is a high jumper on the American team. He was the tallest member of the United States delegation at . Grace Norman and Allysa Seely competed in both athletics and paratriathlon in Rio.
Rene van der Merwe (born 15 June 1986) is a South African female high jumper. She was the gold medallist at the 2006 African Championships in Athletics, extending her country's success in the event from Hestrie Cloete.South Africans steal the show - African Championships report - Day Four. IAAF (2006-08-13).
Rick Noji (born October 22, 1967 in Seattle) is a retired American high jumper. He attended Franklin High School in Seattle, Washington and also attended the University of Washington. He finished eighth at the 1991 World Championships. He also competed at the 1993 and 1995 World Championships without reaching the final.
Lochsley Thomson (born 20 August 1973) is a retired Australian high jumper. He finished fifth at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.1994 Commonwealth Games, men's results - Sporting Heroes He also competed at the 1992 Olympic Games without reaching the final. His personal best jump is , achieved in March 1992 in Adelaide.
Kim Tae-Hoi (born 3 September 1973) is a retired South Korean high jumper. He won the silver medal at the 2002 Asian Games. He also competed at the 1996 Olympic Games, but did not reach the final. His personal best jump is 2.27 metres, achieved in April 1996 in Kyongju.
Elfriede Kaun (5 October 1914 - 5 March 2008) was a German high jumper. Born in Büttel, Steinburg, she won the bronze medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Her personal best jump was 1.63 metres. She competed for the sports club Kieler TV, and died in 2008 in Kiel.
In the early days he acquired some reputation as an athlete and a high-jumper. In 1529, Francis shared lodgings with his friend Pierre Favre. A new student, Ignatius of Loyola, came to room with them. At 38, Ignatius was much older than Pierre and Francis, who were both 23 at the time.
Olivier Sanou (born July 2, 1975) is a retired Burkinan track and field athlete. He was a high jumper before specializing in the triple jump in the late 1990s. A double African champion, Sanou made his mark in Africa. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but failed to qualify for the final.
Karina Vnukova (born 27 March 1985 in Vilnius, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian high jumper. She finished eighth at the 2001 World Youth Championships. She later competed at the 2007 European Indoor Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final. Her personal best is 1.87 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Strasbourg.
Anna Visigalli (born 24 February 1981) is a retired Italian high jumper. She won the bronze medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games. She also competed at the 2005 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final. She became Italian champion in 2002 and 2004 as well as Italian indoor champion 2002 and 2005.
Hennadiy Valentynovych Avdyeyenko () (born November 4, 1963 in Odessa) is a retired high jumper who represented the USSR and later Ukraine. He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Odessa. Great Olympic Encyclopedia, vol.1-2, Moscow:Olympia Press Publisher, 2006, entry on "Авдеенко", available /> vari.yandex.ru/dict/olympic/article/olymp/ol11/ol1-0026.
Jing Xuezhu (born 20 April 1975) is a Chinese high jumper. She finished twelfth at the 2003 Universiade and won the silver medal at the 2005 Asian Championships. She also competed at the 2004 Olympic Games without reaching the final round. Her personal best jump height is , achieved in May 2004 in Shijiazhuang.
Valeriy Nikolayevich Brumel (; 14 April 1942 – 26 January 2003)Great Russian Encyclopedia (2006), Moscow: Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Enciklopediya Publisher, vol. 4, p. 243 was a Soviet high jumper. The 1964 Olympic champion and multiple world record holder, he is regarded as one of the greatest athletes ever to compete in the high jump.
Ain Evard (born 22 June 1962 in Jõgeva) is a former Estonian high jumper who represented the Soviet Union and Estonia. His personal best equals to 2.25, jumped on 2 June 1985 in Riga, Latvia. He is a 17-time Estonian champion (outdoor 1981–1982, 1985–1994; indoor 1982–1984, 1988, 1992).
Nicole Forrester (born 17 November 1976) is a Canadian high jumper. She was born in Aurora, Ontario. Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in July 2007 in Thessaloniki. Nicole completed her Bachelor of Arts in Management and Communication and her Bachelor of Science in Movement Science at the University of Michigan.
Snežana Hrepevnik (13 November 1948 – 13 May 1981) was a Serbian high jumper who competed in the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics. She finished 14th at the 1968 Summer Olympics, 20th at the 1972 Summer Olympics and 12th at the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was born in Umka and died in Belgrade.
Driver is a decorated track athlete. He is an Olympic- class high jumper, being able to jump . He qualified for the 1996 Olympic Field Trials in the high jump. He competed for the Alcorn State Braves track team, where he excelled in the high jump and earned all-conference honors his senior year.
Mustapha Raifak (born 9 September 1975 in Montreuil) is a French high jumper. He finished seventh at the 2006 World Cup. He also competed at the 1997 World Championships and the 2006 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final round. His personal best jump is 2.28 metres, achieved in July 1997 in Toulouse.
Hall was also an NCAA national champion high jumper in track and field. Florida Football 2014 Media Guide , University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida (2014). After college, he decided against a professional football career. Hall ran for ninety-four yards in the team's 14–13 Gator Bowl victory on New Year's Day 1953.
Oleg Zhukovskiy (; born 15 February 1970) is a retired Belarusian high jumper. He finished tenth at the 1993 World Championships, twelfth at the 1994 European Indoor Championships, and fourteenth at the 1994 European Championships. He competed at the 1995 World Championships without reaching the final. Zhukovskiy became Belarusian high jump champion in 1993.
Georgi Krumov Dakov (; 21 October 1967 – 29 July 1996) was a Bulgarian high jumper. His personal best jump was , achieved in August 1990 in Brussels. This is the Bulgarian record.All time best Balkan athletes, men - The Athletics Site Dakov reached the 1992 Olympic final and was the 1990 European Championship bronze medallist.
'The Playing Field Is Not a Place for Politics' . Runners World. Retrieved on 19 August 2013. Two Swedish athletes, high jumper Emma Green Tregaro and sprinter Moa Hjelmer, attracted attention when they painted their nails in a rainbow pattern in support of gay rights and displayed the colours during the qualifying rounds.
Jones was born in Llanishen, Wales. He was educated at Monmouth School before matriculating to Jesus College, Oxford. A keen sportsman, as well as his rugby career he was also selected to represent Wales as a high jumper but was unable to compete. In his post-graduate years he was a management trainee.
Sergey Petrovich Klyugin (Russian: Сергей Петрович Клюгин; born 24 March 1974 in Kineshma) is a Russian high jumper. He won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with 2.35m, one centimetre behind his personal best jump from 1998. A bronze medal at 1998's European championships was his only other international medal.
Amewu Mensah (born 21 March 1977) is a German high jumper. At the 1999 World Championships she reached the final, but failed to clear the opening height there.1999 World Championships Official Results - High Jump - Women - Final (IAAF.org) In June 2000 in Rehlingen she achieved a career best jump is 1.94 metres.
Zhou Zhongge (; born 15 February 1967) is a Chinese track and field coach and former high jumper. His personal best was , set in 1990. He was the gold medallist at the 1990 Asian Games and the 1998 Asian Games silver medallist. He was the winner at the Asian Athletics Championships in 1998.
2009 World Athletics Tour. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-09-01. Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva scored the most points during the circuit, with a total of 106. Five other athletes achieved a total of 100 points: distance runner Kenenisa Bekele, hurdler Dayron Robles, sprinters Kerron Stewart and Sanya Richards, and high jumper Blanka Vlašić.
Born in Bielefeld, Kacper Przybyłko comes from a sporting family of Polish origin. His twin brother, Jakub, is also a footballer who joined Greuther Fürth in 2014, and later played for the second team in fourth-tier Regionalliga Bayern. His older brother Mateusz Przybylko is a high jumper representing Germany in international competitions.
Loo Kum Zee (born 2 December 1974) is a Malaysian high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.24 metres, achieved in December 1995 in Chiangmai. He won bronze medals at the Asian Championships in 1995, 1998, 2002 and 2003. He also competed at the 1996 Olympic Games, but did not reach the final.
He ran the last leg of the winning 4 × 400 m relay in the Europa Cup in 1989 (Gateshead), helping Great Britain to win the team title for the first time. Whittle was an international schools' high jumper, and also competed in the 200m at the 1986 Commonwealth Games, making the semi-final.
Stine Kufaas (born 7 April 1986) is a Norwegian high jumper. Her personal best jump is 1.93 metres, achieved in June 2010 at a national competition at Lillehammer. She has 1.92 metres on the indoor track, achieved in February 2010 in Eskilstuna. She is also the Norwegian record holder in the standing high jump (1,53m).
Martin Buß (born 7 April 1976) is a German high jumper who won the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is a five- time outdoor national champion for Germany in the men's high jump event and three-time champion at the German Indoor Athletics Championships.German Championships. GBR Athletics.
Mihalinec's mother Damijana is a volleyball coach and former player, and her younger sister Katja played volleyball internationally. Maja also started with volleyball, but her physical education teacher persuaded her to take up athletics. For some time she trained in both sports, but then chose running. Her partner Luka Zidar is a competitive high jumper.
Karol Rovelto, née Damon (born December 20, 1969) is a retired American high jumper. She finished eighth at the 1994 World Cup. She also competed at the 1999 World Indoor Championships, the 1999 World Championships and the 2000 Summer Olympics. Her personal best jump was 1.97 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Palo Alto.
Ilona Maria Gusenbauer (née Majdan on 16 September 1947) is a retired Austrian high jumper. She competed at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and finished in eighth and third place, respectively. She held the world record for more than a year starting in 1971, and was the Austrian champion in 1966–1973, 1975 and 1976.
Wilf Wedmann (born April 17, 1948) is a retired male high jumper from Canada, who represented his native country at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. A resident of Gloucester, British Columbia, he claimed the silver medal in the men's high jump event at the 1971 Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia.
Zuzana Hlavoňová (née Kováčiková ), born 16 April 1973) is a Czech Republic former high jumper. Born in Šaľa, Czechoslovakia, she competed at three Olympic Games, and won silver medals at the 1999 World Indoor Championships and the 2000 European Indoor Championships. Her personal best jump is 2.00 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Prague.
"Sullivan: Fair Lawn high jumper takes unlikely road to Rio Games as rower", The Record (Bergen County), July 18, 2016. Accessed July 19, 2016. "In other words, quite a leap from those high jump and long jump meets Eisser used to dominate for Fair Lawn High School’s Cutters." She graduated from Cornell University in 2012.
László Boros (born 3 February 1982) is a retired Hungarian high jumper. He was born in Budapest. He finished twelfth at the 1999 World Youth Championships. He also competed at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2005 World Championships without reaching the final round.. Retrieved on 26 February 2009.
Zoltán Társi (born 20 May 1961) is a retired Hungarian high jumper. He was born in Oroszlány. He became Hungarian high jump champion in 1980, and competed at the 1980 European Indoor Championships and the 1980 Summer Olympics, but without reaching the final round. His personal best jump was 2.24 metres, achieved in 1980.
Teymour Ghiasi (, born 12 April 1946) is a retired Iranian high jumper. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and placed 22nd–25th. Ghiasi won gold medals at the Asian Games in 1970 and 1974 and a bronze in 1966. At the 1974 Asian Games he set a new Asian record at 2.21 meters.
Roland Dalhäuser (born 12 June 1958 in Birsfelden, Basel-Country) is a retired high jumper from Switzerland. He won three medals at the European Indoor Championships and became Swiss champion nine times. His personal best jump, which is also the Swiss record, is 2.31 metres.Swiss athletics records He jumped 2.32 metres on the indoor track.
Hrvoje Fižuleto (born 15 January 1963) is a retired Croatian high jumper. He finished fifth at the 1984 European Indoor Championships, tenth at the 1987 European Indoor Championships and twelfth at the 1988 European Indoor Championships. He competed in the men's high jump at the 1984 Summer Olympics, representing Yugoslavia, without reaching the final.
Geoff Parsons (born 14 August 1964 in Margate) is a retired Scottish high jumper, who won three Great Britain titles (AAA Championships) in the men's high jump event. His personal best jump was 2.31 metres, achieved at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria.Commonwealth All-Time Lists (Men) - GBR Athletics He was trained by Ron Murray.
Liam Jeffrey Zamel-Paez (born 4 August 1988) is an Australian-born high jumper who switched nations in 2014 and now represents Ireland. He was born in Paddington, New South Wales. He later moved to Brisbane when he was 5, completing high school at Gregory Terrace in 2006. Competed 2005 World Youth Championships athletics.
Charles Lefrançois (born December 19, 1972) is a retired high jumper from Canada, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. He won the silver medal at the 1997 Summer Universiade. He is a seven-time national champion (1993−1998) for Canada in the men's high jump event.
István Major (20 May 1949 - 5 May 2014)Elhunyt Major István Európa-bajnok magasugró. ma.hu (5 May 2014) was a Hungarian high jumper. He won four medals at the European Indoor Championships between 1971 and 1974, as well as two silver medals at the Universiade. His best Olympic performance was a sixth place in 1972.
In 1990 she enrolled at Brigham Young University as the first Soviet citizen to do so. She competed in athletics for the BYU Cougars. Graduating in Russian from Brigham Young University in 1993, she later tok an MBA at Westminster College in 1997. Kaljurand is living with high jumper Marko Turban, they have two children.
In recent years, Cypriot athletes have achieved some notable successes in Athletics. High jumper Kyriakos Ioannou has won medals in the IAAF World Athletics Championships, Commonwealth Games and the Mediterranean Games. Sprinter Eleni Artymata has also won multiple medals in the Mediterranean Games, including gold medals in the 200 metres in 2009 and 2013.
Nils Ole Nicklén (9 February 1917 - 9 May 1995) was a Finnish high jumper. He was born in Karis and represented a club in Helsinki, where he also died. He is best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1946 European Championships. At the 1948 Olympic Games he no-heighted in the final.
Haydar Aşan (16 April 1906 - 29 February 1996) was a Turkish sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He also competed as a high jumper, pole vaulter and played as a professional football player. As a teenager he competed in local athletic championships and began amateur boxing.
Reece was born and raised in Fiji and attended Queen Victoria School. He represented the school in rugby and track and field in the Coke Games. He was a high jumper and a 100m sprinter. He finished 5th in the High Jump in his category in his last year in school with a jump of 1.70m.
Richmond Wilcox "Dick" Landon (November 20, 1898 - June 13, 1971) was an American high jumper who won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics.Dick Landon. sports-reference.com Landon attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and Yale University. In 1922 he married Alice Lord, an Olympic diver he met on the boat to the 1920 Olympics.
Retrieved April 2, 2010. He attended Mercer University in Macon, Georgia from 1952 to 1956, where he played for the Mercer Bears basketball team and was a javelin thrower and high jumper for the Bears track and field team. Carnes dated his future wife, Nanette, a Mercer education major whom he knew from Eatonton, while they were undergraduates.
Arinze Obiora (born 5 December 1985) is a retired Nigerian high jumper. He finished fourth at the 2003 All-Africa Games, sixth at the 2006 African Championships, won the bronze medal at the 2007 All-Africa Games and finished sixth at the 2008 African Championships. His personal best was 2.20 metres, achieved in July 2007 in Algiers.
In shot put his personal best of 20.03 metres, which he threw in August 1979, earned him entrance in the 20 meter club. In a European Cup contest in 1977, Tuokko tested positive for doping, along with fellow Finns high jumper Asko Pesonen and javelin thrower Seppo Hovinen. He had a career in education after quitting professional sports.
Mansour was born in Bowden in England, to Jewish-Egyptian parents and lived in Cheshire for a month before her parents moved the family to Cairo, Egypt. During her youth, Mansour excelled as a runner and a high jumper. She also competed in equestrian competitions. Mansour first came in contact with Parisian surrealism while still living in Cairo.
Ni Zhiqin (; born 14 April 1942) often referred to as Ni Chih-Chin, is a retired Chinese high jumper. He is known for breaking the world record with 2.29 m on 8 November 1970 in Changsha, but because PR China was not a member of the International Association of Athletics Federations at the time, his record was never ratified.
Ralf Sonn (born 17 January 1967 in Weinheim) is a retired German high jumper. His personal best, achieved during the indoor season in March 1991 in Berlin, was 2.39 metres. Only five athletes (Sotomayor, Thränhardt, Sjöberg, Conway and Holm) have jumped higher on the indoor track. His outdoor PB was 2.34 metres, achieved at the World Championships in Stuttgart.
Maalik Reynolds (born April 27, 1992) is an American high jumper. Reynolds attended high school at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2014. He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics with a concentration in Management. He jumps off his left foot.
19 just 30-seconds into a game against rival Reno High. She had season-ending surgery Feb. 11 and was cleared to return to full basketball activity Oct. 10. In addition to basketball, she also participated in track and field as a high jumper in which she qualified as an alternate for the 2012 London Olympics.
Heikki Taneli (born 12 June 1980) is a retired Finnish high jumper. He finished sixth at the 2005 Summer Universiade and competed at the 2006 European Championships without reaching the final. He became Finnish champion in 2006. His personal best jump is 2.27 metres, achieved in July 2005 in Pori; and again in July 2006 in Jyväskylä.
Toni Olavi Huikuri (born 17 September 1979 in Helsinki) is a Finnish high jumper. He was born in Helsinki and represented the club HKV Helsinki. He finished sixth at the 1996 World Junior Championships and competed at the 2000 Olympic Games and the 2000 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final. He never became Finnish champion.
Henry Augustus Simmons (21 February 1911 – 23 March 1944) was an English high jumper. He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics and finished in 11th place. The same year he set a British junior record at 1.86 m. Simmons was a Royal Air Force officer and won the RAF high jump title in 1930, 1932 and 1935.
Majd Eddin Ghazal (; born 21 April 1987) is a Syrian high jumper. He utilizes the Fosbury Flop style, jumping off his left leg. He was the national flag bearer at the 2012 Summer Olympics and at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In the Men's high jump event, he ranked 28th and did not advance to the final in 2012.
Doris Langer, 1962. Doris Langer, née Walther (born 29 September 1938) is a retired East German high jumper. She finished fifth at the 1962 Athletics Championships and was entered for the 1964 Olympic Games, but did not start. She became East German champion in 1960, 1962 and 1963, won silver in 1964 and 1965 and bronze in 1966.
However, during the championships, she showed great form and managed to clear 2.03 m and earn silver medal, coming close to clearing 2.05 and creating history to become the first high jumper to win 3 consecutive world titles. But Anna Chicherova beat the Croatian on countbacks, while Antonietta Di Martino has to settle for the bronze with 2.00 m.
Birger Leirud (26 June 1924 – 10 February 1999) was a Norwegian high jumper. He represented Leirsund IL. At the 1948 Summer Olympics he finished thirteenth in the high jump final with a jump of 1.80 metres. At the 1952 Summer Olympics he finished seventeenth with 1.90 m.Norwegian Olympic athletes He finished fourth at the 1946 European Championships in Athletics.
Andrea Mátay (born 27 September 1955 in Budapest) is a retired Hungarian high jumper. Her outdoor personal best jump was 1.94 metres, achieved in September 1979 in Mexico City.World women's all-time best high jump (last updated 2001 She had 1.98 m on the indoor track, from February 1979 in Budapest. It was a world indoor record.
Stefano Sottile (born 26 January 1998) is an Italian high jumper. He won gold medal at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics, finished fourth at the 2019 European U23 Championships and third at the 2019 European Team Championships Super League. He also competed at the 2016 World U20 Championships and the 2019 World Championships without reaching the final.
The parents of high jumper Dalton Grant, European and Commonwealth gold medallist and triple Olympian, were both born in Jamaica, in Kingston and St. Thomas respectively. Japanese sprinter Asuka Cambridge, who competed in the semi-finals for the 100 meter race in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, was born in Jamaica to a Jamaican father and Japanese mother.
He was earlier the Asian Indoor and World Junior champion in 2010, and won the high jump gold medals at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships and 2011 Military World Games. Mutaz jumps off his left foot, using the Fosbury Flop technique, with a pronounced backwards arch over the bar. One of his brothers, Muamer, is also a high jumper.
Ramsay Carelse (born 30 October 1985) is a South African high jumper. He was born in Somerset West, Western Cape. He finished fifth at the 2004 World Junior Championships, fifth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and won the bronze medal at the 2006 African Championships. He also competed at the 2006 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.
Noengrothai Chaipetch (; RTGS: Nueng-rue-thai Chaipet, born 1 December 1982) is a female high jumper from Thailand. Her personal best jump is 1.94 metres, achieved in December 2009 in Vientiane, Laos. She won the bronze medal at the 2003 Asian Championships. She also competed at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics without reaching the final.
Miyuki Fukumoto (née Aoyama; born 4 January 1977) is a female high jumper from Japan. Her personal best jump is 1.92 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Osaka. She won the silver medal at the 2003 Asian Championships, and finished fifth at the 2006 Asian Games. She was the Japanese national high jump champion in 2006.
Rita Kirst (née Schmidt on 21 October 1950) is a retired German high jumper. She competed at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics and finished in fifth, fifth and 22nd place, respectively. Between 1968 and 1974 she won three gold and two bronze medals at the European indoor championships. Her personal best is 1.92 m (1974).
The school is now known as University Liggett School, located in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan. Nelson's classmate John Neil Patterson DUS '06 was a member of the 1908 USA Olympic team as a high jumper (7th place) and a hurdler. Nelson was a late replacement in the pole vault competition for Paul Maxon, another 1906 DUS graduate.
Svetlana Vladimirovna Shkolina (; born 9 March 1986) is a Russian high jumper. Her indoor personal best is 2.00 metres, achieved in February 2010 in Arnstadt. In February 2019, the Court of Arbitration for Sport handed her a four-year ban for doping, starting from 1 February 2019 and rectoroactive from 16 July 2012 to 28 July 2015.
Viktor Shapoval (, born 17 October 1979) is a Ukrainian high jumper. He competed at the 2009 European Indoor Championships and the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final. He received Honours - National Championships in Ukraine in July 2007 with a mark of 2.24 metres. His personal best jump is 2.34 metres, achieved in September 2009 in Berdychiv.
Markus Einberger (born 5 February 1964) is a retired Austrian high jumper. He competed at the 1983 World Championships without reaching the final.. Retrieved on 26 February 2009. He became Austrian high jump champion in 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1989, rivalling with Gottfried Wittgruber and Wolfgang Tschirk. He also became indoor champion in 1984, 1985, 1988 and 1989.
Gottfried Wittgruber (born 16 April 1961) is a retired Austrian high jumper. He finished eighth at the 1979 European Indoor Championships, and twelfth at the 1981 European Indoor Championships. He became the Austrian high jump champion in 1986, rivalling with Wolfgang Tschirk and Markus Einberger. He also became the indoor champion in 1981, 1987 and 1992.
Lada Pejchalová (born 15 November 1998) is a Czech high jumper. She won the bronze medal at the 2015 World Youth Championships and finished fourth at the 2016 World U20 Championships. She also competed at the 2018 European Championships without reaching the final. Her personal best jump is 1.90 metres, achieved in July 2016 in Miskolc.
At club level Stanley enjoyed a hugely successful career with Caragh, winning two county club championship. He also played with the Garda club in Dublin. Stanley was also a successful high jumper and represented Ireland at the 1924 Summer Olympics. In retirement from sport Stanley came to be recognised as one of the greats of Gaelic football.
Andra Kareem Manson (born April 30, 1984) is a male high jumper from the United States. His personal best jump is 2.35 metres, achieved in April 2009 in Austin. He has 2.33 on the indoor track, from February 2007 in Fayetteville. Manson was raised in Brenham, Texas and went to Brenham High School, where he graduated from in 2002.
Staking the Plains (2015-03-15). Retrieved on 2015-06-27. Two weeks later he jumped higher again, clearing to win at the Texas Relays. This performance raised him to the top of the global rankings at that point of the season.Corder, Everett (2015-03-31). Duffield’s leap makes him No. 1 high jumper in entire world.
Wojciech Theiner (born 25 June 1986 in Ruda Śląska) is a Polish high jumper. He finished fifth at the 2003 World Youth Championships, won the silver medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships and competed at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships without reaching the final. His personal best is 2.32 metres, achieved on 2 July 2014 in Katowice.
Katrina Gibbs (born 7 April 1959 in Hay, New South Wales) is a retired Australian track and field athlete, who specialised in the High Jump. She married fellow nationally ranked High Jumper, David Morrow (Retired). Gibbs won two Australian High Jump national championships - in 1978 and 1982. In both years, she was duly selected in Australia's Commonwealth Games team.
Lucienne N'Da (born 6 July 1965) is an Ivorian retired high jumper and four- time African champion. Her personal best jump is 1.95 metres, achieved at the 1992 African Championships in Belle Vue Maurel. This is the current national record.Côte d'Ivoire athletics record She also competed at two Olympic Games, in Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992.
Bi Hongyong (born 16 November 1974) is a retired Chinese high jumper. He finished twelfth at the 1995 World Championships, clearing only 2.15 metres after jumping 2.27 m in the qualification round. He won the Asian Junior Championships in 1992. He is a two-time national champion for PR China in the men's high jump event.
Nadiya Dusanova (; born 17 November 1987 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) is an Uzbekistani high jumper. She competed at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games without reaching the final.. Retrieved on 4 April 2009. At the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships she won the gold medal jumping 1.84 metres. She won silver medal at 2018 Asian games with 1.94 m.
Yekaterina Yevseyeva (born 22 June 1988 in Almaty, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakhstani high jumper. She was born in Almaty. She won bronze medals at the 2005 World Youth Championships and the 2006 World Junior Championships. She also competed at the 2008 World Indoor Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final.. Retrieved on 4 April 2009.
Wearne finished third in the 220 yard sprint behind fellow Australians Decima Norman and Jean Coleman. She was a member of the 440 yard relay gold medal team with Norman. Wearne was the first woman to represent Australia at both the Olympics and British Empire Games with Victorian high jumper Doris Carter."Australia’s oldest living Olympian passes away".
Aleksandr Grigoryev (; born 7 October 1955) is a former Belarusian high jumper who competed for the Soviet Union. He represented his country at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and was a seven-time Soviet champion. He was a medallist at the European Athletics Championships, IAAF World Cup and multiple times at the European Cup. He held a personal best of .
Niculina Vasile (born 13 February 1958) is a retired high jumper from Romania, who set her personal best on 2 June 1985, jumping 1.98 metres at a meet in Bucharest. A three-time national champion (1981, 1982 and 1984), Vasile competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where she finished in 11th place (1.85 metres).
Bengt Kenneth Lundmark (born 25 March 1946) is a retired Swedish high jumper. He won a bronze medal at the 1968 European Indoor Games and a gold medal at the 1970 European Cup, and competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics Lundmark was the Swedish champion in 1968 and 1970 and shared a national record with Bo Jonsson in 1969.
Dzmitry Nabokau in 2017 Dzmitry Syarheyevich Nabokau (; born January 20, 1996 in Byalynichy) is a Belarusian high jumper. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's high jump event; his result of 2.17 meters in the qualifying round did not qualify him for the final. 2014 world junior silver medalist. 2017 european u23 champion.
Para High-Jumper Sharad Kumar is training at SAI, Bangalore. National High-Jump Coach Nikitan uffgan has been giving important tips to Sharad, a probable for 2012 London Paralympic games. Sharad made his international debut in 2010 at the Asian Para Games in Guangzhou. In January 2012, he jumped 1.64m, thus qualifying for the 2012 Paralympics.
Ken Amato attended Braddock High School in Miami, Florida. He was a Dade County All-Star Team member in football, and also participated in volleyball and in track and field as a high jumper. Amato learned to long snap in his last year playing Pop Warner football, but he did not do it again until college.
Dóra Győrffy (born 23 February 1978 in Budapest) is a Hungarian high jumper. She became Hungarian champion every year since 1996, except 2003,Hungarian Championships - GBR Athletics and NCAA champion for Harvard in 2001.NCAA Division I Championships (Women) - GBR Athletics Her personal best jump is 2.00 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Nyíregyháza. This is the Hungarian record.
Lorenzo Sotomayor Collazo (born 16 February 1985) is a Cuban-born Azerbaijani light-welterweight boxer who won a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics. He is a nephew of the high jumper Javier Sotomayor. In 2013 he moved from Cuba to Azerbaijan to increase his chances for Olympic selection. He chose to compete as Collazo, which means "shining star".
Aside from football he also played basketball as a center and played baseball as well as a home run batter. He was also a track and field athlete and competed as a long distance runner and high jumper. He also won the pentathlon and decathlon events during the initial years of the Philippine Amateur Track and Field Federation.
Ramon Kaju (born 19 February 1973 in Viljandi) is a retired Estonian high jumper and decathlete. He finished tenth at the 1998 European Indoor Championships.1998 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final He also competed at the 1998 European Championships without reaching the final. His personal best jump is 2.28 metres, achieved in August 1998 in Haapsalu.
Edward "Ed" Broxterman (born November 28, 1973 in Baileyville, Kansas) is an American retired high jumper. He competed at the 1996 Olympic Games without reaching the final. His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in June 1996 in Atlanta.World men's all-time best high jump (last updated 2001) He is currently working for Westar Energy in Leavenworth Kansas.
Mildred Olive Wiley (December 3, 1901 - February 7, 2000) was an American high jumper who won a bronze medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics. After marriage she changed her last name to Dee and gave birth to five children. One of them, Bob Dee, was a prominent professional footballer at the Boston Patriots in the 1960s.
Marina Sysoyeva (born 3 June 1959) is a retired high jumper from Frunze, Kirghiz SSR who represented the USSR. Her greatest achievement was the fifth place at the 1980 Summer Olympics, jumping 1.91 metres.1980 Summer Olympics, women's results - Sporting Heroes Two weeks before the competition, she had achieved a career best result of 1.93 metres.
Arguably the most important training for a high jumper is plyometric training. Because high jump is such a technical event, any mistake in the technique could either lead to failure, injury, or both. To prevent these from happening, high jumpers tend to focus heavily on plyometrics. This includes hurdle jumps, flexibility training, skips, or scissor kick training.
For the Italian high jumper with the same name see Roberto Ferrari (athlete) Roberto Ferrari (December 8, 1890 - September 27, 1954) was an Italian gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was born in Genoa. He was part of the Italian team, which was able to win the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1920.
Stephane Joseph Leresae (born 1937) is a retired Kenyan high jumper, who competed at the Olympics and Commonwealth games. Leresae is from Maralal. He went to Narok Primary School, where his teacher William ole Ntimama (who later became a prominent politician) spotted his jumping talent.Daily Nation, July 13, 2002: Leresae competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics, finishing 18th in the high jump.
Robert Marinov () (born February 1, 1967) is a retired Bulgarian high jumper. He finished fifteenth at the 1987 World Championships and fourteenth at the 1992 European Indoor Championships.1992 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite He also competed at the 1993 World Championships without reaching the final round. He became national champion in 1992 and 1993.
Arne Ljungqvist (born 23 April 1931) is a Swedish medical researcher, sports personality and retired high jumper. Ljungqvist is an honorary member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), chairman of IOC's Medical Commission, and vice chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).IOC Member page at Olympic.org for Professor Arne Ljungqvist, accessed on 25 June 2008WADA Management Biographies: Prof.
His 82-yard punt against the Georgia Bulldogs in 1958 remains the longest punt by a Gator in the modern era. Green was also a sprinter and high jumper on the Florida Gators track and field team. He was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great."F Club, Hall of Fame, Gator Greats.
Eddy Annys (born December 15, 1958) is a former high jumper from Belgium, who still is the national record holder with 2.36 metres (outdoor) and 2.31 m (indoor). Annys won a bronze medal at the 1986 European Athletics Indoor Championships. In 1983 he was named Belgian Sportsman of the Year. He is currently active at Randstad Belgium as the Managing Director.
Sieglinde Cadusch (born 28 August 1967) is a retired Swiss high jumper. She competed at the 1992 Olympic Games, 1994 European Championships, the 1995 World Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games as well as the World Indoor Championships in 1993, 1995 and 1997 without reaching the final. Her personal best jump is 1.95 metres, achieved in September 1995 in Marietta.
Alica Javadová (born 26 June 1969) is a retired Slovak high jumper. She finished eighth at the 1996 European Indoor Championships.1996 European Indoor Championships, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite She also competed at the 1995 World Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games without reaching the final. Her personal best jump is 1.95 metres, achieved in May 1996 in Bratislava.
Andrei Chubsa (; born 29 November 1982) is a Belarusian high jumper. He won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Youth Championships, finished sixth at the 2000 World Junior Championships and tenth at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and won the gold medal at the 2001 European Junior Championships. His personal best jump is 2.32 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Stockholm.
Samson Oni (born 25 June 1981) is a Nigerian-English high jumper. Early in his career Oni won the 2001 AAA Indoor Championships while representing Nigeria. He also competed in the 2007 European Indoor Championships, the 2008 World Indoor Championships, and the 2009 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final. He then finished seventh at the 2010 World Indoor Championships.
Oksana Okunyeva (; also transliterated Okuneva or Okunieva, born 14 March 1990 in Mykolaiv) is a Ukrainian high jumper. She won the silver medal at the European U23 Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and finished first at the World Challenge Hengelo in the Netherlands. Her personal best jump is 1.98 metres, achieved in Berdychiv on 28 June 2014 at the Memorial of Vitaliy Lonsky.
Birgit Kähler (born 14 August 1970 in Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen) is a retired female high jumper from Germany. Her personal best jump was 1.94 metres, achieved in August 1991 in Bonn.World women's all-time best high jump (last updated 2001) She finished fifth at the 1991 World Championshipsiaaf.org - World Championships in Athletics 2005 News and fifth at the 1992 European Indoor Championships.
Mahamat Idriss (ne Koundja Ouya, July 17, 1942 – October 3, 1987) was a Chadian high jumper. He was born in Fort-Lamy, Chad, French Equatorial Africa. Before the Chadian independency on August 11, 1960 he competed for France, winning the French national championships in 1960 and 1961.French Championships - GBR Athletics He also finished twelfth at the 1960 Olympic Games while representing France.
Mika Petteri Polku (born 19 July 1975 in Virrat) is a Finnish high jumper. He was born in Virrat and represents the club Virtain Urheilijat. He won the bronze medal at the 1994 World Junior Championships and finished eighth at the 1996 European Indoor Championships. He competed at the 2000 Olympic Games and the 2001 World Championships without reaching the final.
The Israeli team to the 21st European Athletics Champs includes 10 athletes (7 men and 3 women). Donald Sanford is the top name in the men team along with talented high jumper Dmitriy Kroyter and improved triple jumper Yochai Halevi. Pole vaulter Jillian Schwartz is the most experienced from the female trio. She was World Championships finalist in 2005 when competing for USA.
Newton had no experience in track and field as a child. In small town North Carolina, there was nothing like that. He was an unathletic, two pack a day smoker until his daughter got involved with track. He turned into a proficient Masters sprinter and high jumper, Newton was an early practitioner of the sport after turning 40 in the 1970s.
Adam Shunk (born August 29, 1979) is an American high jumper. Shunk earned a BA in Psychology from the University of North Carolina in 2003 and attained a PhD in Educational Psychology/Neuropsychology at Ball State University. He competed for the NIKE Indiana Invaders Track Team, before becoming a NIKE athlete. He finished sixth at the 2007 Pan American Games.
Milada Karbanová, married Matoušová (born 27 March 1948 in Jablonec nad Nisou) is a retired high jumper from the Czech Republic. She won four medals at the European Indoor Championships as well as a silver medal at the 1974 European Championships in Athletics, representing Czechoslovakia. She also competed in the women's high jump at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Daniel Mkandawire (born 26 December 1951) is a Malawian former high jumper and triple jumper. Daniel competed in the men's high jump at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where he finished in 36th place with a height of 1.90 metres. He also holds the Malawian national record for the triple jump with a distance of 14.30 metres which he set in 1970.
Ellen Pettitt (born 13 May 1986 in Perth2014 CWG profile) is an Australian high jumper turned triple jumper. She finished sixth at the 2003 World Youth Championships and at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Her personal best in the high jump is 1.91 metres, first achieved in March 2006 in Melbourne. Her triple jump personal best is 13.54 metres, set in 2014 in Glasgow.
Robert Shavlakadze (; , 1 April 1933 – 4 March 2020) was a Georgian high jumper. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in first and fifth place, respectively. He also won a bronze medal at the 1962 European Championships. Domestically Shavlakadze won only one Soviet title, in 1964, finishing second in 1959, 1960 and 1962.
Ella Junnila (born 6 December 1998) is a Finnish high jumper, who represents Tampereen Pyrintö. She has previously represented Janakkalan Jana and Vammalan seudun Voima. She represented Finland in 2018 European Athletics Championships in high jump and finished 17th with a result of 186 cm. She won a bronze medal at the 2019 European Athletics U23 Championships with a result of 192 cm.
Harry John Grumpelt (March 2, 1885 - November 3, 1973) was an American high jumper and accountant. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics and finished sixth. Grumpelt won the AAU title in 1910 (indoors) and 1911 (outdoors); he placed second outdoors in 1908, 1910 and 1912, and third in 1914. Grumpelt was bursar of the New York Public Library until his 1950 retirement.
Tibor Gerstenbrein (born 2 August 1955) is a retired Hungarian high jumper. He finished eighteenth at the 1981 European Indoor Championships, and thirteenth at the 1983 European Indoor Championships. He became Hungarian high jump champion both indoor and outdoor in 1982. His personal bests in the event are 2.23 metres outdoors and 2.24 metres indoors, both set in Budapest in 1981.
She competed for the sports clubs SC DHfK Leipzig and SC Leipzig. Between 1965 and 1968 she married Jens Schulze, also a competitive high jumper, and changer her name from Rüger to Rüger-Schulze. They had three children, all athletes: Thomas specialized in shot put, whereas Michael and Sabina Schulze became swimmers. Sabina won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Richard Piakura (born 1 July 1976) is a Cook Island former high jumper, professional rugby league and rugby union footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played representative level rugby league (RL) for the Cook Islands, and at club level for Ngatangiia/Matavera Sea Eagles, and representative level rugby union (RU) for the Cook Islands at rugby sevens.
Virgil Severns (born May 22, 1929) is a former male high jumper from the United States, who competed in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for winning the gold medal at the inaugural Pan American Games in 1951. Severns set his personal best in the men's high jump event (2.038 metres) on 1950-04-01 at a meet in Austin, Texas.
Waterman's father was in the British Army, her grandfather flew Spitfires during World War II. Her mother teaches children with learning disabilities. Waterman attended boarding school in Somerset, England. Waterman focused on athletics, but a back injury curtailed a promising career as a high jumper. Switching to a more academic course of study, she entered Oxford University, where she majored in geography.
Sigrid Kirchmann (born March 29, 1966 in Bad Ischl) is a former high jumper from Austria, best known for winning Austria's first ever medal at the World Championships in Athletics. She did so in 1993, finishing third behind two Cubans. Also competing in the pentathlon, Kirchmann represented her native country in the women's high jump at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Zhang Guowei (; born June 4, 1991) is a Chinese high jumper. He holds the Chinese indoor record of 2.33 metres, and has jumped 2.38 metres outdoors. He was the silver medallist at the 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. He has been a finalist at the World Championships in Athletics and the IAAF World Indoor Championships and represented China at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Adrian Proteasa (born 1 March 1959) is a retired Romanian high jumper. Proteasa won the bronze medal at the 1980 European Indoor Championships and finished seventh at the 1980 Olympic Games. He became national champion five times in a row, from 1977 through 1981.Romanian athletics championships - GBR Athletics His personal best jump outdoors was 2.26 metres, achieved in July 1980 in Bucharest.
Aleksander Walerianczyk (born 1 September 1982, in Kraków) is a former Polish high jumper. He finished thirteenth at the 2002 European Championships in Munich, tenth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris and fifth at the 2007 European Indoor Championships in Birmingham. He won the 2005 Summer Universiade in Izmir. His personal best jump is 2.36 metres, achieved in July 2003 in Bydgoszcz.
Jean Shiley Newhouse (November 20, 1911 - March 11, 1998) was an American high jumper. She was born Jean Shiley in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Havertown, a Philadelphia suburb, where she joined the team at Haverford High School. Shiley tied with Babe Didrikson in the trials for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In the games, both cleared and failed at .
The German Sportspersonality of the Year has been chosen annually since 1947, with separate awards made for men and women. The record holder is tennis player Steffi Graf, who won five awards. Swimmer Michael Groß, tennis player Boris Becker, and high jumper Ulrike Meyfarth each have four awards. Since 1957 the sport journalists also vote for Germany's Sportsteam of the Year.
Sam Grewe (born June 10, 1998) is an American Paralympic high jumper. Grewe contracted osteosarcoma aged 13 which resulted in his right leg being amputated below his knee. Grewe currently jumps for the University of Notre Dame Track and Field Team, and is studying Pre-Med with the hopes of attending medical school in the future. He resides in Fisher Hall on campus.
His impact on the defensive side, however, earned him the National Defensive Player of the Year award by USA Today. In addition to football, Joyner was on the school's track & field team. He placed 3rd in the 100 meters at the 2010 BCAA Championships, with a career-best time of 10.83 seconds. He was also a long jumper and high jumper.
Michael Robert Christopher Mason (born 30 September 1986) is a Canadian high jumper. The 2004 World Junior champion, he has represented Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships, 2010 Commonwealth Games, 2012 Summer Olympics, 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 2015 Pan American Games. His personal best for the event is 2.33 metres.
Krzysztof Krawczyk (born 28 January 1962 in Wałbrzych) is a Polish former high jumper. He represented his country at the 1988 Summer Olympics as well as one outdoor and two indoor World Championships. In addition he was the European Junior Champion in 1981. His personal bests in the event are 2.32 metres outdoors (Lublin 1988) and 2.30 metres indoors (Budapest 1987).
Gilmar Jalith Mayo Lozano (born 30 September 1969) is a Colombian high jumper. His personal best jump is , achieved in October 1994 in Pereira. This is the current Colombian and South American record.Colombian athletics records (updated June 2007) Mayo represented Colombia twice at the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000) and three times at the World Championships in Athletics (1995, 1997 and 1999).
Donata Jancewicz-Wawrzyniak (born June 17, 1969 in Gdańsk) is a retired female high jumper from Poland, who set her personal best on August 23, 1998, jumping 1.95 metres at the European Championships in Budapest where she won silver medal. She is a four-time Polish national indoor champion. She represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
James Allen Howard (born September 11, 1959) is an American retired high jumper. He finished second at the 1985 IAAF World Cup, tenth at the 1987 World Indoor Championships and at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He won the US national title in 1984.US National High Jump Champions His personal best jump is 2.36 metres, achieved in June 1987 in Rehlingen.
Emma Anna-Maria Green, also known as Emma Green Tregaro (born 8 December 1984) is a retired Swedish high jumper. She won a bronze medal in the event at the 2005 IAAF World Championships. She represented Sweden at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She finished 2nd at the 2010 European Athletics Championships with a new personal best of 2.01 m.
Vladimir Ilyich Kuntsevich (; born 6 August 1952) is a Russian high jumper and jumping coach. Since 2012 he holds the world record in the M60 age group at 1.81 m. Previously he held a world record in the M55 category. Kuntsev was the first coach of Ivan Ukhov, and currently coaches his daughters Yekaterina and Daria, who compete at the national level.
Jamal Wilson (born September 1, 1988 in Nassau) is a Bahamian high jumper. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's high jump event; his result of 2.22 meters in the qualifying round did not qualify him for the final. His personal bests in the event are 2.30 metres outdoors (Australia 2018) and 2.31 metres indoors (Linz 2016).
Kil () is a locality and the seat of Kil Municipality in Värmland County, Sweden with 7,842 inhabitants in 2010. It is a railway junction which unites railways from five directions, all but one having passenger services. Swedish world elite high jumper Stefan Holm competes for the Kil AIK athletics club. Per Åslund who plays for the Färjestad BK is from Kil.
Sharad Kumar (born 1 March 1992) is an Indian para high jumper and a former world no. 1. Born in Patna, he made his International debut at the 2010 Asian Para Games. At the 2014 Asian Para Games, he won the gold medal in the high jump (T42), breaking a 12-year Asian Games record, and reclaimed the world no. 1 position.
Brigitte Rougeron (born 14 June 1961 in Paris) is a retired French high jumper. She finished fifth at the 1985 European Indoor Championships. 1985 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite She became French champion in 1981 and 1986.French Championships - GBR Athletics Her personal best jump was 1.92 metres, achieved in May 1984 in Haguenau.
Nathan Leeper (born June 13, 1977 in Greensburg, Kansas) is a retired American high jumper. He finished eleventh at the 2000 Olympic Games, fourth at the 2001 World Indoor Championships and seventh at the 2002 World Cup. Former High Jump Coach at Patrick Henry high school in San Diego CA His personal best jump is 2.35 metres, achieved in May 2000 in Sacramento.
Viktoria Leks (born September 28, 1987) is an Estonian high jumper and National Indoor Champion 2006–2007. She competed at the 2007 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final round. Her personal best outdoor jump is 1.89 metres, achieved in June 2007 in Türi and indoor 1.91 (this was the national record this time), achieved in February 2007 in Tallinn.
Barbro Anita Inga-Britt Lorentzon (née Gyborn, 21 February 1936 – 15 June 1987) was a Swedish high jumper. She competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and finished in sixth place. Lorentzon won Swedish titles in the high jump in 1959 and 1960 and in the pentathlon in 1960. She held the Swedish high jump record and was an elite hurdler.
Kjell-Åke Lennart "Sörmarkarn" Nilsson (born 5 April 1942) is a retired Swedish high jumper. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics and at the 1966 European Athletics Championships and finished in seventh, sixth and eighth place, respectively. Nilsson won a bronze medal at the 1966 European Indoor Games and became a Swedish champion outdoors in 1963 and indoors in 1966.
Dimitrios Kokotis (born 12 April 1972) is a retired Greek high jumper. He finished thirteenth at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships, eighth at the 1998 European Indoor Championships and fifth at the 1998 European Championships. His personal best jump is 2.32 metres, achieved in July 1998 in Athens. This ranks him second among Greek high jumpers, only behind Lambros Papakostas.
Mickaël Hanany (born 25 March 1983, in Vitry-sur-Seine) is a French high jumper. His biggest success to date is winning the bronze medal at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki. He finished seventh at the 2002 World Junior Championships. He also competed at the 2002 European Indoor Championships, the 2005 World Championships and the 2006 European Championships without reaching the final round.
Retrieved on 2015-03-07. Former international high jumper and European indoor medallist Tomáš Janků was appointed as CEO and committee member of the organising group. The event was televised live, with a total of 28 international broadcasters having agreements to show the proceedings either live or delayed. Eurosport was the most prominent of these in the competition's region, continuing its place as the traditional main broadcaster.
Then-Tennessee offensive coordinator Randy Sanders and running backs coach Trooper Taylor were impressed by Foster when recruiting in San Diego. Foster committed to attend Tennessee on January 28, 2004. Foster also competed on the track & field team as a sprinter and high jumper. He had personal-bests of 11.24 seconds in the dash, and had a top-jump of (6–2.5) in the high jump.
Nikhil Chittarasu (born 24 August 1990) is an Indian high jumper. He finished eighth at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games, thirteenth at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, won the silver medal at the 2010 South Asian Games, competed at the 2010 Asian Games without reaching the final and finished ninth at the 2013 Asian Championships. His personal best is 2.21 metres, achieved in May 2013 in Colombo.
He first competed mainly as a high jumper and a triple jumper.Thomas Rohler: I love javelin because... IAAF He began to make his impact as a junior (under-20) athlete in the javelin throw in 2010. That year he threw beyond seventy metres for the first time and represented his country at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, where he finished in ninth place.Thomas Rohler. IAAF.
Onnanye Ramohube (born 2 March 1979) is a retired Botswana high jumper. He finished ninth at the 2003 All-Africa Games, fourth at the 2002 African Championships, twelfth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and eighth at the 2006 African Championships. His personal best is 2.25 metres, first achieved in May 2007 in Gaborone. He was the gold medallist at the Africa Military Games in 2002.
Samson Idiata (born 23 January 1988 in Ewu2014 CWG profile) is a Nigerian high jumper and long jumper. He took the bronze medal at the 2003 All-Africa Games, and later finished fifth at the 2006 African Championships and tenth at the 2007 All-Africa Games. He later switched to long jump. In this event he has finished eighth at the 2010 African Championships.
Diana Lázničková (born 14 August 1974) is a retired Slovak high jumper. She competed at the 2002 European Indoor Championships and the 2005 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final. She became Slovak champion in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 and Slovak indoor champion in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008. Her personal best jump was 1.87 metres, achieved in June 2001 in Bratislava.
Retrieved 14 May 2014. from Northern Ireland and hurdler Jack Parker also represented Great Britain at the 1952 summer olympics. Jack Parker along with fellow hurdler Harry Kane competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne in the 110 metre and 400 meter hurdles respectively. The high-jumper Geoff Parsons, who competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, reached the final in 1988.
Seven of the twelve competitors automatically qualified for their respective events while the remaining five athletes used wild cards to partake in the Games. This was Qatar's most successful Olympics since the 2000 Sydney Games, winning a total of two Olympic medals. Skeet shooter Nasser Al-Attiyah, and high jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim both won bronze medals in their respective sports for the first time.
Normunds Sietiņš (born 17 July 1967) is a retired Latvian high jumper. He finished eleventh at the 1986 World Junior Championships, reached the final but failed to record a mark at the 1992 European Indoor Championships, and competed at the 1994 European Championships without reaching the final. His personal best is 2.30 metres, achieved in July 1992 in Nurmijärvi. This is the Latvian record.
Natalja Jonckheere (born 21 October 1970) is a retired Belgian high jumper. She finished ninth at the 1988 World Junior Championships, tenth at the 1989 European Indoor Championships. twelfth at the 1989 World Indoor Championships, ninth at the 1995 World Indoor Championships and tenth at the 1998 European Indoor Championships. She also competed at the 1994 European Championships and the 1995 World Championships without reaching the final.
Labros Papakostas (, born 20 October 1969 in Karditsa) is a retired Greek high jumper who won two silver medals at the World Indoor Championships in 1995 and 1997. His personal best, achieved in Athens in 1992, was 2.36 metres, when he took the Greek national record from Panagiotis Kontaxakis. He is an eight-time national champion for Greece in the men's high jump event.
Leif Roar Falkum (born 23 June 1949) is a retired Norwegian high jumper. He represented IK Tjalve during his active career. He finished fifteenth at the 1973 European Indoor Championships, sixth at the 1974 European Championships, fifth at the 1976 European Indoor Championships and fourteenth at the 1976 Summer Olympics.Norwegian international athletes - F He became Norwegian champion in the years 1971-1974 and 1976.
Huang Haiqiang (born 8 February 1988 in Zhejiang) is a Chinese high jumper. He won the 2005 World Youth Championships and the 2006 World Junior Championships, the latter in a personal best jump of 2.32 metres. He competed at the 2007 World Championships without reaching the final. He represented his country in the high jump at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but came in dead last.
Astrid Tveit (born 26 June 1957) is a retired Norwegian high jumper. She represented Lillehammer IF and IL i BUL. She finished tenth at the 1975 European Indoor Championships, fifteenth at the 1978 European Indoor Championships and tenth at the 1978 European Championships. She also competed at the European Championships in 1974 and 1982 as well as the 1976 Summer Olympics without reaching the finals.
Nevena Lenđel (born 18 July 1979) is a retired Croatian high jumper. She won the bronze medal at the 1998 World Junior Championships and the 2001 Summer Universiade. She also competed at the 1999 World Championships, the 2000 and 2002 European Indoor Championships and the 2002 European Championships without reaching the final. Her personal best jump was 1.91 metres, achieved in August 1999 in Gothenburg.
Uelses went to Miami Senior High School where they had an outstanding athletic program. An all-around athlete, he was a star hurdler and high jumper and ran the 440 on track team and played on the football team while also an honor student. When he injured an ankle on the hurdles, someone suggested he try pole vaulting. He did, and was soon obsessed.
Lawrence William "Lawrie" Peckham (born 4 December 1944) is a retired Australian high jumper. A ten-time national champion, he won two gold and one silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in 1966–1974. He competed at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics and placed 10th, 8th and 18th, respectively. In 1977, Peckham married fellow Olympian, Judy Canty, the 1978 Commonwealth Games champion in the 800 metres.
Giannis and Thanasis playing basketball at a local court in Sepolia, Athens in 2015. When he officially gained Greek citizenship on May 9, 2013, his name was officially romanized as Giannis Antetokounmpo. His nickname is the "Greek Freak". Antetokounmpo's father, Charles, was a former Nigerian association football player, while his mother, Veronica, is a former high jumper. Charles died in September 2017, at age 54.
Erin Marie Aldrich (born December 27, 1977 in Dallas, Texas) is an American high jumper and volleyball player. After graduating Lake Highlands High School, she played volleyball at the highest level, competing for the United States women's national volleyball team. She competed at the university level for the Texas Longhorns in both sports. Her high jump career included finishing fourth at the 2001 Summer Universiade.
The 2011 Hall of Fame and Awards Evening took place on Tuesday 20 September at Lord's Cricket Ground. The third batch of inductees consisted of three-time Olympian skier Chemmy Alcott, Paralympic swimming gold medallist Elaine Barrett, world triathlon champion Tim Don, Commonwealth Games gold medallist high jumper Dalton Grant, Commonwealth Games gold medallist squash player Paul Johnson, and superstar Arsenal and England footballer Rachel Yankey.
Lea Haggett-Goodman (9 May 1972 - 31 December 2013 HAGGETT, LEA MAUREEN, 1972 GRO Reference: DOR Q2/2014 in Kent (564-1Y) Entry Number 510398914 ) was an English high jumper. She represented Great Britain at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and won a bronze medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Plovdiv. She held the UK junior record for 23 years, from 1991 to 2014.
Gerardo Eugenio Martínez Dibene (born 14 November 1979 in Baja California Sur) is a Mexican high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in April 2007 in Walnut. This is the current Mexican record.Mexican athletics records (updated June 2007) Martínez won the gold medal at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games and the bronze medal at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games.
Adrijus Glebauskas (born 20 November 1994) is a Lithuanian high jumper. He finished fifth at the 2017 Summer Universiade,Final results and won the bronze medal at the 2019 Summer Universiade. He also competed at the 2015 European U23 Championships, the 2018 European Championships and the 2019 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final. His personal best jump is 2.27 metres, achieved in June 2019 in Utena.
Péter Bakosi (born 23 June 1993) is a Hungarian high jumper. He finished eighth at the 2012 World Junior Championships, and fifth at the 2015 European U23 Championships. He also competed at the 2013 European U23 Championships, the 2015 European Indoor Championships and the 2017 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final. His personal best jump is 2.26 metres, achieved in July 2016 in Miskolc.
Osku Torro (born 21 August 1979) is a Finnish high jumper. He was born in Jyväskylä.Tilastopaja profile for Osku Torro He competed at the 2006 European Championships, the 2007 European Indoor Championships, the 2010 World Indoor Championships and the 2010 European Championships without reaching the final. His personal best jump was 2.27 metres, achieved in August 2007 in Lappeenranta and also in July 2008 in Tampere.
Maayan Furman-Shahaf (; born November 9, 1986) is an Israeli high jumper and triple jumper. She holds a personal best of for the high jump and for the triple jump. She competed for Israel at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in the women's high jump, coming in fifth at 1.88 m. She represented her country at the European Athletics Championships in 2012 and 2016.
Gretel Lambert (born Margarethe Bergmann; April 12, 1914 – July 25, 2017)Obituary, nytimes.com, July 25, 2017; accessed September 10, 2017. was a German Jewish track and field athlete who competed as a high jumper during the 1930s. Due to her Jewish origins, the Nazis prevented her from taking part in the 1936 Summer Olympics, after which she left Germany and vowed never to return.
Phạm Thị Diễm (born 24 January 1990) is a Vietnamese high jumper. She won the bronze medals at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games and the 2013 Southeast Asian Games, finished ninth at the 2013 Asian Championships, seventh at the 2014 Asian Games and won the silver medal at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games. Her personal best jump is 1.91 metres, achieved in May 2013 in Taipei.
Rojs Piziks (born February 12, 1971 in Sigulda) is a retired male decathlete and high jumper from Latvia, who competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. He set his personal best score (8045 points) in the men's decathlon on June 16, 1996 at a meet in Riga. Piziks is a four-time national champion in the men's decathlon.
There are five main characters in Misshitsu no Sacrifice. is a Japanese girl who is good at sports and was originally aiming to become a high jumper but due to an injury she received during a practice, she has given this up. is a Russian girl who appears before Miki covered in blood. is the daughter of a famous doctor and an honours student.
Omar was born in Quneitra which is near both Israel and Palestine in the Golan Heights. She was inspired by Ghada Shouaa who won a medal in Atlanta at the Olympics in 1996. She is one of five athletes who train Damascus which includes high jumper Majd Eddin Ghazal. At the Asian Athletics competition in 2017 she was sole athlete from her worn-torn country.
Tyke Peacock (born February 24, 1961) is a retired high jumper from the United States, who is best known for winning the silver medal in the men's high jump event at the inaugural 1983 World Championships. He set his personal best of 2.33 metres in the same event on 1983-08-17 at a meet in Berlin. He also won the 1981 IAAF World Cup.
Roman Fricke (born 23 March 1977 in Bremen) is a German high jumper, who won two national titles in the men's high jump event. He finished thirteenth 2003 World Championships in Paris with a jump of 2.20 metres. He also competed in the 2004 Olympics, but failed to qualify from his pool. His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in May 2004 in Herzogenbuchsee.
Sposób at the 2010 Janusz Kusociński Memorial Grzegorz Sposób (born 12 February 1976 in Świdnik) is a Polish high jumper. He finished sixth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris with a jump of 2.29 metres. The next year he competed in the 2004 Olympics, but failed to qualify from his pool. His personal best jump is 2.34 metres, achieved in June 2004 in Bydgoszcz.
In addition, he won three straight titles at the Pan American Games from 1987 to 1995. He is regarded as the best high jumper of all time. Cuban boycotts of the Olympics in 1984 and 1988 and an injury in 1996 cost him chances at additional Olympic medals, but he returned to win the silver medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Sotomayor retired in 2001.
The city is home to several notable people from athletes to politicians. Barbara Roberts, who served in the state legislature and as Oregon Secretary of State before election as Governor of Oregon grew up in Sheridan and graduated from Sheridan High School. High jumper Joni Huntley also graduated from the high school and won a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Milton Bruce "Milt" Ottey (born December 29, 1959 in May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica) is a Canadian retired high jumper. Milt came to Canada at the age of 10 years. He attended and graduated from high school within the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). He received a full athletic scholarship from the University of Texas El Paso, where he received his bachelor's degree in education.
Besides basketball, Russell represented USF in track and field events. He competed in the race, which he could complete in 49.6 seconds. He also participated in the high jump; Track & Field News ranked him as the seventh-best high jumper in the world in 1956. That year, Russell won high jump titles at the Central California AAU meet, the Pacific AAU meet, and the West Coast Relays.
Inner courtyard of Tchaikovsky's Museum Estate The town is the birthplace of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a Russian composer who spent the first eight years of his life here. Today, the house of his birth is home to the Tchaikovsky Museum. Also the high jumper Rudolf Povarnitsyn was born in Votkinsk. His greatest achievement was a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the USSR.
Scott Ferrier (born 12 June 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a former decathlete from Australia, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. An alumnus of Trinity Grammar School, Ferrier competed for the Old Melburnians Athletics club and was a two- time Australian champion in the men's decathlon, he married Olympic teammate and high jumper Alison Inverarity in 2000.
Sergey Budalov (; born 7 August 1949) is a retired high jumper who represented the Soviet Union. Budalov trained at Spartak in Moscow Oblast. He finished fourth at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and eighth at the 1971 European Indoor Championships in Sofia. On national level he became Soviet champion in high jump on three occasions, setting a new championship record of 2.25 metres in 1976.
Tatyana Efimenko (; born 2 January 1981 in Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR) is a female high jumper from Kyrgyzstan. Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in July 2003 in Rome. She won the bronze medal at the 1998 World Junior Championships and finished fifth at the 2002 IAAF World Cup. She competed at the World Championships in 1999 and 2005 without reaching the finals there.
Fox was born in Toronto, the son of Dianne Gerace, who was an Olympic high jumper and women's pentathlete, and Ulrich Fox. His father is Bahamian and his mother is Canadian of Italian and Scottish descent. Fox's family moved to his father's native Bahamas when Fox was young. He attended Kingsway Academy in Nassau, where he was a member of the high school's basketball team, the "Saints".
At 1.86 metres tall, Kašpárková started her professional athletics career as a high jumper and finished sixth at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics. She won the bronze medal in the 1989 European Athletics Junior Championships,European Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-03-16. and she went on to participate in the women's high jump at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics for Czechoslovakia.
At the Auckland women's championships in 1941, Mitchell broke her own New Zealand record with a throw of . She also at one time held the New Zealand women's long jump record, and was a competent high jumper, winning the Auckland championship in 1936. Mitchell was also known for her kauri carving, as an artist, a poet and a horsewoman. She died in Dargaville in 2007.
He was in charge as Technical Director for the Vietnam Athletics Federation. Since September 2013, Freimuth has been Professor for Sport & Event Management at the Business and Information Technology School at Berlin, Hamburg and Iserlohn. He is the twin brother of high jumper Jörg Freimuth, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He is also the father of fellow decathlete Rico Freimuth.
He won the 100 m 3 times in row (1946, 1950 and 1954) - the first competitor to achieve such a feat. He also won the 200 m once (in 1946) and was second once (in 1950). Fortun came from a very humble background in the Cuban province of Camaguey. Originally he was a high jumper but moved the sprints when he realised his talent for them.
Xu Yang (born 27 June 1970 in Jiangsu) is a retired Chinese high jumper. He won the silver medals at the 1993 and 1995 Asian Championships and the bronze medal at the 1994 Asian Games. He also competed at the 1991 World Championships and the 1992 Olympic Games without reaching the final. His personal best jump is 2.31 metres, achieved in September 1993 in Beijing.
Aleksandr Andreyevich Shustov (), born 29 June 1984) is a male high jumper from Russia, best known for winning the gold medal in the men's high jump at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand. On 29 July at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, Spain (that was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys) he achieved his personal best (2.33 metres) and won gold medal.
Teodoro Palacios Flores (7 January 1939 - 17 August 2019) was a Guatemalan high jumper who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal at the 1963 Pan American Games. Teodoro's son is Grammy nominated American composer Marcos "Kosine" Palacios, of the production group, Da Internz. Palacios died on 17 August 2019 at 15.10 CET in Krankenhaus Roosevelt in Guatemala. He was 80.
Colin Ernest Sutherland Gordon (24 December 1907 – 22 August 1960) was a high jumper from British Guiana (present-day Guyana). He competed for Great Britain at the 1928 Summer Olympics and finished in 17th place. At the 1930 British Empire Games he represented British Guiana and won the silver medal. Gordon was the son of John Richard Colin Gordon, a sugar-planter, and his wife Hilda Sloman.
The approach run of the high jump may actually be more important than the take-off. If a high jumper runs with bad timing or without enough aggression, clearing a high bar becomes more of a challenge. The approach requires a certain shape or curve, the right amount of speed, and the correct number of strides. The approach angle is also critical for optimal height.
Linda Maria Sandblom (born 18 October 1989, Hanko) is a Finnish high jumper, who represents HIK Friidrott Hanko. Until 2013 she represented Hangö IK. She is coached by Matti Nieminen and Leif Sandblom. At the Finnish Indoor Championships Sandblom has won gold in 2016, silver in 2009 and 2014 and bronze in 2013. Sandblom set a new Finnish record, 193 cm, on 25 June 2016 in Kuortane at the Elite Games.
Mizuki Ashiya, a Japanese girl living in the United States, watches a program on TV featuring a high jumper named Izumi Sano. She was amazed by his performance and begins following his athletic career. Years later, she does research on him and discovers that he is currently attending Osaka High School. The school is unfortunately an all-boys school and Mizuki convinces her parents to send her to Japan by herself.
An excellent high jumper before entering high school, he stopped for personal reasons when he entered high school. He found out Mizuki's true gender due to an accident early in the series. When he was young, his parents were involved in a car accident which killed his mother, impacting the family deeply. Sano ran away from home because of disagreements with his father but father and son reconcile in the end.
Ioannis Constantinou (, born 23 March 1978) is a retired Cypriot high jumper. He finished eleventh at the 2001 Mediterranean Games, won a bronze medal at the 2003 Summer Universiade, a silver medal at the 2005 Mediterranean Games and finished tenth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He also competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games without reaching the final. His personal best is 2.24 metres, achieved in May 2004 in Sparta.
Aliaksandr Viarutsin (; born 18 November 1979) is a retired Belarusian high jumper. He won a bronze medal at the 1998 World Junior Championships and a silver medal at the 2001 European U23 Championships. He later won the bronze medal at the 2003 Summer Universiade, and competed at the 2002 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final. His personal best is 2.25 metres, achieved in May 2004 in Brest.
Alice Ann Simicak (née Whitty; March 24, 1934 - January 7, 2017) was a female high jumper from Canada, who represented her native country at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. A resident of Richmond, British Columbia, she claimed the silver medal in the women's high jump event at the 1959 Pan American Games, alongside Chile's Renata Friedrichs. Whitty died on January 7, 2017 in Richmond at the age of 82.
Svetlana Munkova, née Ruban (born 23 May 1965) is an Uzbekistani high jumper. She won the silver medal at the 1993 Asian Championships and the gold medal at the 1994 Asian Games. She also competed at the 1995 World Indoor Championships, the 1995 World Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games without reaching the final. Her personal best jump was 1.94 metres, achieved in May 1988 in Alma-Ata.
Andrea Baumert, née Arens (born 5 May 1967) is a retired German high jumper. She finished fifth at the 1990 European Indoor Championships.1990 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik- Statistik-Seite She represented the sports club SC Charlottenburg, and became West German champion in 1989.West German championships, women's high jump Her personal best jump was 1.98 metres, achieved in August 1989 in Hamburg.
Kari Karlsen (born 5 February 1952) is a retired Norwegian high jumper. She represented Oslo IL. She finished tenth at the 1970 European Indoor Championships, eleventh at the 1971 European Indoor Championships and thirteenth at the 1974 European Indoor Championships.Norwegian international athletes - K She became Norwegian champion in the years 1970-1973.Norwegian championships in high jump Her personal best jump was 1.80 metres, achieved in July 1971 in London.
Kenneth George Wiesner (February 17, 1925 – March 20, 2019) was an American high jumper who won a silver medal at the 1952 Olympics. Wiesner attended Marquette University, where he was a three-time NCAA high jump champion. After the 1946 season he retired and became a dentist at U.S. Navy. He returned to compete at the 1952 Olympics, and in 1953 broke the world indoor record three times.
Jamie Earl "James" Nieto (born November 2, 1976 in Seattle, Washington) is an American high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.34 (7' 8"), achieved at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He was the 2004 and 2012 USA Olympic Trials Champion as well as the 2003 USA Outdoor Champion with a jump of 2.30 meters (7' 6.5"). Nieto attended Eastern Michigan University, Sacramento City College, and Valley High School.
Dagmar Melzer (born 23 June 1945) is a retired East German high jumper. She won the bronze medal at the 1964 European Junior Games, finished seventh at the 1966 European Championships and joint fourth at the 1967 European Indoor Games. At the East German championships she won silver medals in 1963 and 1966, and bronze medals in 1967 and 1968. She became East German indoor champion in 1965 and 1967.
Per Thomas Eriksson (born 1 May 1963 in Arbrå, Gävleborg) is a retired male high jumper from Sweden. He also competed in the men's triple jump during his career. He finished ninth at the 1984 European Indoor Championships.1984 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik- Statistik-Seite He became Swedish champion in 1990 and 1991, and also has four gold medals in long and triple jump.
Vlašić then raised the bar to 2.10 m, a would-be world record, but failed all three attempts. On 31 August, at Hanžeković Memorial in Zagreb, Vlašić cleared 2.08 m. She set a new personal best, Croatian record and became the second best high-jumper of all time behind the world record of Stefka Kostadinova (2.09 m in 1987). She raised the bar to 2.10 m, but failed once again.
Birger Haug (19 August 1908 – 16 January 1981) was a Norwegian high jumper. He represented Verdal IL. At the 1932 Summer Olympics he finished ninth in the high jump final with a jump of 1.85 metres.Norwegian Olympic athletes He won silver medals at the Norwegian championships in 1930, 1931 and 1933.Norwegian championships in high jump His personal best jump was 1.915 metres, achieved in August 1931 on Bislett stadion.
Sverre Helgesen (26 May 1903 - 4 November 1981) was a Norwegian high jumper, sports official and journalist. He was born in Bodø and died in Oslo.profile He represented the sports club Bodø og Omegns IF, then IK Tjalve after moving to Oslo. When Norwegian athletics was split in a bourgeois camp and a Workers' Confederation of Sports, Helgesen eventually chose to move to the workers' club IF Rollo.
Dahl was a First-team All-state, All-conference and All-city for Mankato East High School. He ran for 3,398 yards and passed for 1,769 yards as a quarterback over his final two years and scored 57 touchdowns. He quarterbacked the team to a runner up finish at the state tournament his junior year. He also competed in basketball and track & field (as a High jumper and long jumper).
Lillehammer Idrettforening is a Norwegian athletics club from Lillehammer, founded on 28 May 1919. At that time city already had four different sports teams; for cross-country skiing (since 1882), gymnastics (since 1892), speed skating (since 1897) and football (since 1911) respectively. Its most prominent recent member is Morten Sand, who participated at the 2006 European Championships. Prominent former members include high jumper Astrid Tveit and long-distance runner Brynhild Synstnes.
Nathaniel Page (born January 26, 1957) is an American former track and field athlete who began as a high jumper before concentrating on the 400 meters hurdles. He finished second in the high jump with 2.23 meters at the 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials, to qualify for the Moscow Olympics, which the American team boycotted. Page married Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey in February 1984. The couple divorced in 1987.
Imke Susann Onnen (born 17 August 1994) is a German athlete specialising in the high jump. She won a bronze medal at the 2019 Summer Universiade. Her personal bests in the event are 1.94 metres outdoors (Göttingen 2019) and 1.96 metres indoors (Leipzig 2019). She comes from a sporting family, her brother Eike also being a high jumper while mother Astrid Fredebold-Onnen a former heptathlete (as well as Imke's coach).
Wolfgang Tschirk (born 1956) is a retired Austrian high jumper. He finished thirteenth at the 1981 European Indoor Championships. He also competed at the 1983 World Championships without reaching the final.. Retrieved on 26 February 2009. He became Austrian high jump champion eleven times in a row from 1974 through 1984 as well as in 1990 and 1991, his winning streak only broke by rivals Gottfried Wittgruber and Markus Einberger.
Péter Deutsch (born 19 August 1968) is a retired Hungarian high jumper. He finished in joint eleventh place at the 1990 European Indoor Championships with a jump of 2.20 metres. He became Hungarian high jump champion in 1992, 1993 and 1995, and also became indoor champion in 1990 and 1996. His personal best jump was 2.27 meters, achieved in August 1989 in Brussels.. Retrieved on 26 February 2009.
Dariusz Zielke (born 21 October 1960) is a Polish former athlete who specialised in the high jump.All-Athletics profile He won a bronze medal at the Friendship Games which were organised in 1984 for countries that boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics. His personal bests in the event are 2.31 metres outdoors (Warsaw 1984) and 2.28 metres indoors (Handen 1986). His brother, Piotr Zielke, was also a high jumper.
American college coaches in particular were very aware of the richness of the competitor pool, since they annually traveled to Kingston to scout for junior college and NCAA-level talent. Several top performers at Champs such as British high jumper Germaine Mason are former Jamaican high school stars. Jamaican-born American sprinter Sanya Richards competed at the meet for Immaculate Conception High School before migrating to the US in 1997.
Julia Machin (née Bennett, born 26 March 1970) is an English high jumper. She won at the 1990 UK Championships and the 1994 AAA Championships, and competed at the Commonwealth Games in 1994 and 2006. She achieved her best of 1.92 metres on 6 March 1990, when winning at the AAA Indoor Championships. Her outdoor best of 1.89 metres was set on 11 June 1994, when winning the AAA title.
Velazquez attended Fordham Preparatory School in The Bronx, New York City, where he played for the school's baseball team. He played as a center fielder until his senior year, when he became the team's starting shortstop. In his senior year, the New York Post named Velazquez their All-Bronx Baseball Player of the Year. Velazquez also competed on the Prep's track and field team, as a sprinter and high jumper.
Kyriakos Ioannou (, born 26 July 1984) is a Cypriot high jumper. He has twice won medals at the World Championships in Athletics (2007 and 2009) and was the bronze medallist at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2008. He is the only medalist for Cyprus at the World Athletics Championships since its creation in 1983. He's also the Cypriot record holder, both outdoors (2.35 m) and indoors (2.32 m).
This record stood for more than forty years and was not broken until the 2019 Baltimore Ravens. Cunningham finished his career with 5,453 rushing yards, 210 receptions for 1,905 yards, and 49 touchdowns. He is the older brother of former UNLV and NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham and uncle of Randall Cunningham II and world champion high jumper Vashti Cunningham. Cunningham is the 2010 Inductee to the Patriots Hall of Fame.
Thorsten Marschner (born 17 November 1968) is a retired German high jumper. He finished eighth at the 1994 European Indoor Championships, and won the bronze medal for his club LG Frankfurt at the 1993 German indoor championships. His personal best outdoors was 2.28 metres, achieved in July 1988 in Neubrandenburg.World men's all-time best high jump (last updated 2001) Indoors, he achieved 2.30 metres in January 1989 in Senftenberg.
Jan Niklas Patrik Sjöberg (; born 5 January 1965) is a Swedish former high jumper. He broke the world record with in Stockholm on 30 June 1987. This mark is still the European record and ranks him third on the world all-time list behind Javier Sotomayor and Mutaz Essa Barshim. He twice held the world indoor record holder with marks of 2.38 m (1985) and 2.41 m (1987).
Crawford William Fairbrother (1 December 1936 – 23 November 1986) was a Scottish high jumper. Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, his father was Scottish Athletics Championship medallist in high jump in the 1920s and 1930s. Fairbrother won a record 13 successive Scottish titles in the high jump from 1957 to 1969, the best post-war championship record by any Scot. He also won the AAA Championship titles in 1959, 1961 and 1964.
Zsivótzky retired in 1973 and later worked in the clothing industry. He remained involved with athletics as an administrator, becoming a member of the Hungarian Olympic Committee and vice-president of his athletic club Újpesti TE. He married Magdolna Komka, an Olympic high jumper. One of his sons is decathlete Attila Zsivoczky, the other is football player Gyula Zsivóczky Jr.. Zsivótzky died from cancer in his native Budapest, aged 70.
Leontia Kallenou (, ; born October 5, 1994) is a Cypriot track and field athlete competing in the high jump.IAAF Profile She is the current holder of the Cypriot national record in both outdoor (1.93 m) and indoor (1.93 m). The Cypriot high jumper, who competesBulldogs profile for the Georgia Bulldogs, while studying at the University of Georgia, is the reigning American collegiate champion in women's high jump, in both outdoor and indoor.
The club has hosted one international event, the European Cup B Final in 2000. Among its most prominent members are Berit Berthelsen, winner of two European Indoor Championships and national record holder in the long jump, and Christina Vukicevic, silver medalist in 100 m hurdles at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Romanian Olympic high jumper Adrian Proteasa has also represented Tyrving, although well past his active career.
Hardy attended West Craven High School in Vanceboro, North Carolina. As a senior on the football team, he played quarterback after previously being a wide receiver. That season, he passed for 2,500 yards and had 35 passing touchdowns. Hardy also picked two additional letters as a shooting and point guard on the basketball floor and another in track as a high jumper (best of 6-4 or 1.93m).
Henkel was born in Kiel, Schleswig- Holstein. Having competed for West Germany at the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988, she emerged as the world's leading female high jumper of the early 1990s. As well as her Olympic triumph, Henkel won World, World Indoor, European and European Indoor titles. She is one of only two female high jumpers in history to have won all five titles, the other being Stefka Kostadinova.
Angela Bradburn-Spangler (born September 4, 1968, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a retired high jumper from the United States, who set her outdoor personal best on May 28, 1994, jumping 1.95 metres at a meet in Wörrstadt. Her indoor best is 1.98 metres set on March 5, 1994, in Atlanta. She is the 1994 US national champion and three-time US national indoor champion (1992, 1994 and 1997).
High jumper and Pan American Games champion Levern Spencer spearheaded the Saint Lucian delegation for the third consecutive time, as the oldest and most experienced competitor (aged 32) and the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony. Other notable athletes on the roster featured Spencer's teammate Jeanelle Scheper and ex-NFL running back turned track sprinter Jahvid Best. Saint Lucia, however, has yet to win its first ever Olympic medal.
Sabrina De Leeuw (born 19 August 1974) is a retired Belgian high jumper. She won the 1993 European Junior Championships, and the gold medal at the 1997 Jeux de la Francophonie, She also competed at the 1993 World Championships without reaching the final. She was given the Golden Spike Award in 1993. She became Belgian champion in 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Cristina Fink (born Cristina Fink Smith; December 12, 1964) is a psychologist and retired high jumper from Mexico, who set her personal best on May 17, 1992, jumping 1.94 meters at a meet in Mexico City. She competed for her country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where she finished in 20th place (1.84 meters). Her son, Pablo Sisniega, is a goalkeeper for Los Angeles FC.
Hammond accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida, where he played for coach Urban Meyer and coach Will Muschamp's Florida Gators football teams from 2008 to 2012. During his four-season college career, he started 19 of 48 games in which he played, recording 63 receptions for 809 yards and six touchdowns. He was also a high jumper for the Florida Gators track and field team.
Muamer Aissa Barsham (born 3 January 1994 in Doha) is a Qatari athlete specialising in the high jump. He won his first major senior medal at the 2014 Asian Games. He is the younger brother of another high jumper, Mutaz Essa Barshim, who is a multiple medalist at continental and world events and the current Asian record holder. Just like his brother he is coached by Stanisław Szczyrba.
Liu struggled to raise the bar at the start with two unbearable fouls until he successfully cleared by chance on his third attempt at 2.10 m. After failing to reach the height of 2.15 in a single rewarding attempt, Liu relegated instead to become the last high jumper to round off the overall standings against a field of the remaining thirty-six at the end of the qualifying round.
The host stadium shown in 2010. Cuba sent a full strength delegation and won almost half the events, taking twenty golds and 41 medals overall. Cuban gold medallists included high jumper Javier Sotomayor, 800 metres runners Ana Fidelia Quirot and Norberto Téllez, and hurdler Anier García. Boosted by the absence of Spain, Brazil came second in the medal tally, winning 31 medals in total – eight of which were gold.
Vlašić is best known for coaching his daughter Blanka Vlašić. In her youth, she tried many athletic events, as well as sports such as tennis, basketball and volleyball, but settled on high jump after consultation with her father. As a high jumper, she became a double world outdoor champion, double world indoor champion, European champion, Olympic silver medalist, and double world junior champion. She describes her father as her "greatest asset".
Jan Erik Fredrik Dahlgren (born 19 February 1947) is a retired Swedish high jumper. He competed at the 1966, 1969 and 1971 European championships and at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and finished in 10–14th place; he also placed fourth at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Domestically Dahlgren won the Swedish title in 1971 and 1972 and set four national records, the last being 2.22 m in 1972.
He spent two years as the No. 1 ranked high jumper in the United States. In college, Harris was a five-time All-American, while earning the two individual (2002 indoor and outdoor) National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships. He also represented Team USA at one World University Games. He is both the Ivy League indoor and outdoor high jump record holder and Princeton's only two-time NCAA individual event track and field champion.
Harry Franklin Porter (August 31, 1882 in Bridgeport, Connecticut - June 27, 1965) was a high jumper from the United States of America. He was a member of the Irish American Athletic Club, and won gold in the High Jump in the 1908 Summer Olympics at a mark of 6'3". He graduated from Cornell University. According to his 2019 trading card; "it was not until after his graduation that he became imbued with the athletic spirit.
Nick Moroney (born 3 August 1972) is an Australian high jumper. He finished sixth at the 1998 World Cup, competed without clearing any height at the 2002 World Cup, finished fourth at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and fifth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He won the 2000, 2001, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2012 Australian Championships. His personal best is 2.25 metres, first achieved in January 2000 in Hobart, and later equalled several times.
Kathryn Holinski (born 19 July 1982) is a retired German high jumper. She finished seventh at the 2002 European Indoor Championships, third at the 2002 European Cup, fourth at the 2002 European Championships and sixth at the 2002 World Cup. She won a silver medal at the German championships in 2002, became German indoor champion in 2002 and also won an indoor bronze in 2003. She represented the club LG Olympia Dortmund.
In September 2010, Fairlands was one of the first two middle schools in England to be awarded specialist Technology College status. In 2011, Fairlands was twinned with School 108 in the central Russian city of Yekaterinburg, as part of the BBC Olympic Dreams project. Both schools will use the partnership for cultural exchange, and followed the progress of high jumper and former School 108 pupil Ivan Ukhov in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Gennadiy Belkov (born 24 June 1956) is a retired Uzbekistani high jumper who represented the Soviet Union. He won the silver medal at the 1979 European Indoor Championships and finished eighteenth at the 1980 European Indoor Championships.1980 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite He competed in the men's high jump at the 1980 Summer Olympics. His personal best jump was 2.32 metres, achieved 29 May 1982 in Tashkent.
Monika Gollner (born 23 October 1974 in Velden) is a retired Austrian high jumper. She finished thirteenth at the 1992 World Junior Championships, and also competed at the 1995 World Indoor Championships, the 1995 World Championships, the 1998 European Championships and the 2012 European Championships without reaching the final.European Athletics Championships Helsinki, Finland 27 June - 1 July 2012 Results High Jump Women Qualification (PDF) Her personal best jump is , achieved in July 1998 in Feldkirch.
The majority of indigenous settlers were Wangkumara people from the Tibooburra region. In 1962, local high jumper Percy Hobson became the first person of Aboriginal descent to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal for Australia in Perth. The tall Hobson jumped above his height to win the event with a Games record leap of . Hobson was celebrated on his return to Bourke and greeted by a brass band playing "Hail the Conquering Hero".
Vikki Hubbard (born 13 July 1989) is an English high jumper. She was born in Grantham and attended Cliffedale Primary School before being in the form Bronte at Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School. She was good at table tennis at school and was part of the school team. She finished seventh at the 2005 World Youth Championships, and competed at the 2006 World Junior Championships and the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.
Clarence Nicholas "Nick" Saunders (born 14 September 1963) is a retired Bermudian high jumper. He won a bronze medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and finished fifth at the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 1989 he held the Commonwealth record with 2.34 metres, but this was equalled by Dalton Grant. At the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, Saunders would jump 2.36 to take the Commonwealth record and the gold medal ahead of Grant.
Randall Wade Cunningham Sr. (born March 27, 1963) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played in the NFL for 16 seasons, primarily with the Philadelphia Eagles. Cunningham is also known for his tenure with the Minnesota Vikings. He is the younger brother of former college and professional football player Sam Cunningham and the father of Randall Cunningham II and world champion high jumper Vashti Cunningham.
Sabine Bramhoff (born 1 November 1964) is a retired German high jumper. She finished seventh at the 1989 European Indoor Championships.1990 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik- Statistik-Seite She represented the sports club LC Paderborn, and won the silver medal at the West German champion in 1989.West German championships, women's high jump Her personal best jump was 1.94 metres (6.3 ft), achieved in August 1990 in Düsseldorf.
Beate Holzapfel (born 9 April 1966) is a retired West German high jumper. She finished ninth at the 1990 European Indoor Championships.1990 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik- Seite She represented the sports club LG Bayer Leverkusen, and won the bronze medal at the West German championships in 1989.West German championships, women's high jump Her personal best jump was 1.90 metres, achieved in July 1991 in Hannover.
Judit Kovács (born 7 June 1969 in Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar) is a retired female high jumper from Hungary. Her personal best jump was 1.94 metres, achieved in August 1992 in Budapest.World women's all-time best high jump (last updated 2001 She finished sixth at the 1990 European Athletics Championships, eighth at the 1991 World Championships and fifth at the 1992 European Athletics Indoor Championships. She also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Bernard graduated from Howard University School of Business and Howard University School of Law in 2010, where he received his JD/MBA. Bernard is a practicing lawyer and is a member of the New York and New Jersey State bars. Bernard has 3 brothers, Mike, Wayne and Wynton. Bernard’s oldest brother, Mike, was a standout high jumper for Southern Illinois University and was one of the first seven-foot jumpers in the state of Illinois.
Svetlana Bolshakova (; born 14 October 1984) is a Russian-born triple jumper of who competes for Belgium internationally. She married Belgian high jumper Stijn Stroobants in August 2006 and acquired the Belgian nationality in July 2008. Bolshakova was born in Leningrad and represented Russia until 13 November 2008. As a teenager she won the silver medal at the 2001 World Youth Championships and the bronze medal at the 2003 European Junior Championships.
Terje Totland (born 14 February 1957) is a former Norwegian high jumper. He represented Eikanger IL. At the 1976 Summer Olympics he finished ninth in the high jump final with a jump of 2.18 metres. In addition he finished tenth at the 1978 European Indoor Championships, fourteenth at the 1978 European Championships and sixteenth at the 1984 European Indoor Championships.Norwegian international athletes He became Norwegian champion in 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984 and 1984.
Her personal best jump is 4.43 metres, which she achieved in April 2004 in Santa Fe. This is the current Argentine record,Argentine athletics records (updated June 2007) and was a South American record until 2005. She is a former high jumper, winning silver at the 1993 South American Championships. In 2000 and 2010 she won the Konex Award Merit Diploma as one of the five best Atletes from each decade in Argentina.
In the same year, she improved her personal best from 1.82 metres, achieved in May 2005 in Zeven, to 1.91 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Regensburg.. Retrieved 2010-03-01. Her progress stalled in the years 2006 and also 2007 because she spent the period from September 2005 to August 2006 working in an orphanage in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She did train with former high jumper Igor Paklin, albeit under sub-par material conditions.
Melanie Skotnik (formerly Melfort; born 8 November 1982 in Hersbruck, West Germany) is a French-German high jumper. She holds both German and French citizenship through her parentage and represented Germany until 2004. She retired in June 2016. Skotnik finished in seventh position and ninth position respectively in the finals of the 2007 World Championships and 2009 World Championships. She was eliminated in the qualification rounds of the 2005 and 2011 World Championships.
Juana Rosario Arrendel (born 16 June 1978 in La Romana) is a female high jumper from the Dominican Republic. Arrendel originally won the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, but lost the gold medal after testing positive for stanozolol. In 2006, she became the sixth woman to win three Central American and Caribbean Games titles in a row. The other are Miguelina Cobián, Carmen Romero, Bárbara Hechevarría, María Caridad Colón and Letitia Vriesde.
Gordeeva in 2012. Irina Andreyevna Gordeeva (; born 9 October 1986, St. Petersburg) is a Russian high jumper. She finished seventh at the 2003 World Youth Championships, ninth at the 2004 World Junior Championships, fifth at the 2009 European Indoor Championships and fifth at the 2009 World Athletics Final. She competed at the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final. Her personal best is 2,04 metres, achieved in August 2012 in Eberstadt.
Ebba Anna Jungmark (born 10 March 1987) is a Swedish high jumper. She finished fifth at the 2006 World Junior Championships, won the bronze medal at the 2007 European U23 Championships, and competed at the 2007 World Championships without reaching the final. Jungmark won the NCAA Indoor Championship for Washington State University in March 2008 (1.89 m). Her personal best jump is 1.96 metres, achieved at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris, France.
Antonia Stergiou (, born 7 July 1985 in Sarande, Albania) is a Greek female high jumper. She is competing with the athletics club A.O. Kouros Patron, situated in Patras. She finished seventh at the 2004 World Junior Championships, won the silver medal at the 2007 European U23 Championships and the bronze medal at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara. She entered the final at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, taking the 8th place.
Vern McGrew (December 7, 1929 - January 9, 2012) was an American high jumper. He competed in the high jump event at the 1948 Summer Olympics at the age of eighteen. He used the western roll technique, which was common at the time, and in 1948 achieved a career best clearance of 2.04 meters (6 ft 8¼ in). Born in Big Spring, Texas, he went on to attend Lamar High School in Houston, graduating in 1946.
The son of Darrell and Ruby Crosswell (née Parsons), and cousin of Craig Davis,"Craig: One in a Million", Football Record, (8/9/10 April 1988), p.9.. Crosswell was educated at Scotch College in Launceston, where he excelled both as a footballer and a high-jumper. Recruited from Northern Tasmanian club Campbell Town, Crosswell made his VFL debut in 1968 for Carlton. A solid debut season earned him Carlton's 'best first year player' award.
Nicola Lauren McDermott (born 28 December 1996) is an Australian high jumper with Croatian ancestry. She competed in the women's high jump at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. McDermott also competed in the women's high jump at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, where she achieved a personal best jump of 1.91m and won the bronze medal. \- On 20 June 2019, McDermott jumped a personal best of 1.96m at Mestský Stadion, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Matti Viitala (born 26 March 1966) is a retired Finnish high jumper. He finished sixth at the 1989 Summer Universiade, competed at the 1990 European Championships and the 1994 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final. He became Finnish champion in 1990, before a long reign of Juha Isolehto, and Finnish indoor champion in 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1995. His personal best jump was 2.25 metres, achieved in August 1990 in Helsinki.
Kristofer Lamos (born 1 January 1974) is a former German high jumper. He finished in joint ninth place at the 1994 European Indoor Championships, and competed at the 1994 European Championships without reaching the final. Domestically he won the bronze medal for his club LG Frankfurt at the 1998 German championships, as well as a silver medal at the 2001 German indoor championships. His personal best was 2.28 metres, achieved in August 1999 in Pfungstadt.
Each writer's top pick received three points, their second two, and their third one. A tie occurred in 1971 as pentathlete Debbie Van Kiekebelt and high jumper Debbie Brill finished with an identical 208 points. Van Kiekebelt had more first place votes, 55 to 38, however the two women were named co-winners of the award. Barbara Ann Scott was the first woman to unanimously win the award, doing so in 1947.
A person with low tone will most likely not be able to engage in "explosive" movement such as needed in a sprinter or high jumper. These athletes usually have high tone that is within normal limits. A person with high tone will usually not be flexible in activities such as dance and yoga. Joint laxity contributes greatly to flexibility, especially with flexibility in one or a few areas, instead of overall flexibility.
Rustam Akhmetov (, born 17 May 1950) is a retired high jumper who represented the Soviet Union. He was born in Berdychiv, Ukrainian SSR, and was affiliated with the VSS Avangard in Berdychiv. He won bronze medals at the 1968 European Junior Championships and the 1971 European Championships, and finished eighth in the high jump final at the 1972 Olympic Games. He became Soviet high jump champion in 1971, rivalling with Sergey Budalov and Kestutis Šapka.
Hilmar Örn Jónsson (born 6 May 1996) is an Icelandic athlete specialising in the hammer throw. He represented his country at the 2017 World Championships without reaching the final. His personal best in the event is 72.38 m set in Eugene in 2017.All-Athletics profile Both of his parents used to be athletes; his father Jón Sigurjónsson was a hammer thrower while his mother Guðbjörg Lilja Svansdóttir was a high jumper.
Yoko Hunnicutt, née Ota (born 14 January 1975 in Amagasaki, Hyōgo and raised in Kamakura, Kanagawa) is a Japanese high jumper. Her personal best jump is 1.95 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Sapporo. She finished fifth at the 1992 World Junior Championships and eleventh at the 2000 Olympics. At the regional level she won the 1991 Asian Championships and the 1998 Asian Games and finished second at the 1998 Asian Championships.
Tatsiana Sheuchyk (; born 11 June 1969) is a retired Belarusian high jumper. She competed at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Her other international results include finishing fourth at the 1994 European Indoor Championships,1994 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite sixth at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships and fifth at the 1995 World Championships. Her personal best jump is 2.00 metres, achieved in May 1993 in Gomel.
Russian athletes who participated in Rio and Pyoengchang had to participate under a neutral flag with very strict criteria. Furthermore, government officials were not allowed to visit the event and the Olympic anthem was played instead of the Russian anthem. In November 2019 Russia's representatives circumvented WADA rules and deleted data's from Russian doping tests handed over to the WADA. Russian athletics officials tried to block doping investigations of a high jumper.
Breyton Avron Poole (born 23 March 2000 in Cape Town) is a South African high jumper. He won the gold medal at the 2017 World U18 Championships, the bronze medal at the 2018 World U20 Championships, the bronze medal at 2019 African Games, the gold medal at the 2019 African U20 Championships and finished fourth at the 2019 Summer Universiade. He also competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games without reaching the final.
Christine Frances "Chris" Stanton (née Annison, born 12 December 1959) is a retired high jumper from Australia. She set her personal best on 26 January 1985, jumping 1.96 metres at a meet in Adelaide, South Australia. An eight- time national champion in the women's high jump, she competed for her native country at three consecutive Olympic Games, in Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988. She was born in Perth, Western Australia.
Alumni including Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, fellow playwright and actor Steven Berkoff, 1960s tycoon John Bloom and nutritionist John Yudkin. Two current members of the House of Lords are former pupils: (Lord Levy and Lord Clinton-Davis). The school had 600 boys with a sixth-form entry by the early 1970s.Former High jumper and Board Director of London 2012 Bid Team Dalton Grant attended Hackney Downs school in the 80s.
Fernand Djoumessi Temfack (born 5 September 1989) is a Cameroonian high jumper. He won the bronze medal at the 2010 African Championships, finished fourth at the 2011 All-Africa Games, fourth at the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie, seventh at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, won the silver medal at the 2014 African Championships, and finished seventh at the 2014 Continental Cup. His personal best is 2.28 metres, achieved in June 2014 in Bühl.
Simeon Toribio was the other repeat victor and his third straight win made him the most successful high jumper in the competition's history. Kenkichi Oshima's triple jump win completed Japan's unbeaten streak in the event. The minor medallists in that event, Naoto Tajima and Masao Harada, were the top two in the long jump here and took gold and silver in the triple jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics two years later.
He was the third best IAAF junior high jumper in the world that year. He was bedridden for six months in 2017 with a slipped disc. In January 2018, Shankar broke Roy's indoor national record with a mark of 2.18 metres, and then bettered it by a centimetre the same month. In February, he further improved on his indoor record with a 2.28 metres leap at the Big 12 Indoor Athletics Championships in Ames.
Petra Wziontek (born 30 August 1960) is a retired West German high jumper. She finished fifth at the 1980 European Indoor Championships.1980 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik- Seite She represented the sports club ASV Köln, and won the silver medal at the West German championships in 1982.West German championships, women's high jump Her personal best jump was 1.91 metres, achieved in June 1979 in Bremen.
Taisiya Filipivna Chenchik (; 30 January 1936 – 19 November 2013) was a Soviet high jumper. She competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished fifth and third, respectively. At the European championships she won a gold medal in 1966 and a silver in 1958. Chenchik also won the high jump event at the 1963 Universiade, 1967 European Indoor Championships, USSR-USA dual meets (1958–59, 1962–63, 1965) and Soviet championships (1957–59 and 1962).
Itay Margalit (born 25 January 1970) is a retired Israeli high jumper. He finished ninth at the 1998 European Indoor Championships.1998 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final He also competed at the 1990 European Championships, the 1993 World Championships, the 1994 European Championships, the 1997 World Indoor Championships and the 1998 European Championships without reaching the final. His personal best jump is 2.27 metres, achieved in June 1998 in Tel Aviv.
Niaré competed at the 2001 World Championships, the 2006 European Championships, the 2007 World Championships, the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2009 World Championships without reaching the final. His personal best throw in the shot put was 20.72 metres, a French national record, achieved in May 2008 in Versailles. He also had 63.44 metres in the discus throw, achieved in May 2007 in Chelles. He is the brother of French High Jumper Gaëlle Niaré.
Benjamin Arthur Challenger (born 7 March 1978) is a retired English high jumper. His personal best jump of 2.30 metres was achieved when he won the 1999 Summer Universiade. His career highlight is a silver medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, Challenger attended Shepshed High School and later he studied sports science at Loughborough University (a course he later abandoned in favour of full-time high jump training).
However, a faster high jumper might need about 13 strides. A greater run speed allows a greater part of the body's forward momentum to be converted upward. The J type approach, favored by Fosbury floppers, allows for horizontal speed, the ability to turn in the air (centripetal force), and good take-off position. This allows for horizontal momentum to turn into vertical momentum, propelling the jumper off the ground and over the bar.
Tora Lian-Juin Harris (born September 21, 1978) is an American high jumper. He is a Princeton University engineer of Taiwanese and African-American descent. Harris is an Olympian, a four-time national champion and two-time bronze medalist in international competition. He represented Team USA twice in the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, three times in the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics and has served as a representative once in the IAAF Continental Cup.
Kane Brigg (born 14 January 1988) is a retired Australian high jumper and triple jumper. He finished sixth at the 2005 World Youth Championships and eleventh at the 2006 World Junior Championships. He also competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games without reaching the final. In 2006 he was the youngest male athlete on the Australian athletics team at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games His personal best is 2.24 metres, first achieved in June 2007 in Gold Coast.
Elena Herzenberg (born 24 June 1979) is a retired German high jumper. She finished fourth at the 2001 European U23 Championships and thirteenth at the 2001 World Indoor Championships. She also competed at the 2002 European Indoor Championships, the 2002 European Championships and the 2003 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final. She became German champion in 2002 and German indoor champion in 2001 and 2003; here she also won silver medals in 1999 and 2002.
Pia Zinck (born 4 May 1971) is a retired female high jumper from Denmark. She is a seven-time national champion (1992–1998) in the women's high jump. Zinck finished eighth at the 1996 European Indoor Championships1996 European Indoor Championships, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite and twelfth at the 1997 World Championships. She also competed at the 1994 European Championships, the 1995 World Championships and the 1997 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.
Noor Azhar Abdul Hamid (born 8 February 1949) is a former Singaporean high jumper. His national record of set during the 1973 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games stood for 22 years until it was broken by Wong Yew Tong in 1995, and won him the 1974 Singapore National Olympic Council Sportsman of the Year award. In 1999, Noor Azhar was ranked 25th in a list of Singapore's 50 Greatest Athletes of the Century by The Straits Times.
The technique gained fame across the Soviet Union when he successfully treated Soviet world-record holder, and gold medalist high jumper, Valery Brumel in 1968. Brumel broke his tibia in a motorcycle accident and had 20 unsuccessful operations over a three-year period to try to repair his non-union. Ilizarov used distraction osteogenesis to heal the non-union and leg length discrepancy. Ilizarov gained more fame in 1980 when he successfully treated Italian journalist and adventurer, Carlo Mauri.
Norwegian international athletes - S He became Norwegian champion in the years 1986, 1988-1990 and 1992.Norwegian championships in high jump Särnblom made a brief comeback at the 2006 Norwegian championships, representing Haugesund IL, but failed to clear his opening height at the competition.Results - 2006 Norwegian championships, day three His personal best jump was 2.31 metres, achieved in August 1994 in Helsinki. This makes him the second best high jumper in Norwegian history after Steinar Hoen.
Sangeetha Mohan is a former Indian female high jumper. She has represented India at the 2004 Asian Junior Athletics Championships and 2004 South Asian Games. Sangeetha clinched gold medal in the women's high jump at the 2004 South Asian Games and in fact, set the women's high jump record of 1.81m at the South Asian Games history. She also secured a bronze medal in the women's high jump at the 2004 Asian Junior Athletics Championships held in Malaysia.
Einar Tommelstad (19 January 1909 – 7 November 1983) was a Norwegian high jumper. He represented Oslo IL. At the 1928 Summer Olympics he finished eleventh in the high jump final with a jump of 1.84 metres.Norwegian Olympic athletes He became Norwegian high jump champion in 1928,Norwegian championships in high jump and also won the Norwegian championships in pentathlon in 1930.Norwegian championships in pentathlon His personal best jump was 1.92 metres, achieved in July 1928 on Bislett stadion.
Owen Guinn Smith (May 2, 1920 – January 20, 2004) was an American athlete, the 1948 Olympic champion in the pole vault. Born in McKinney, Texas, Smith moved to California when he was a child. He was originally a high jumper, but UC Berkeley, the university he wanted to attend, already had a strong high jumping team, so he took up pole vaulting. He won the NCAA championships in 1941, the year before he graduated as a history major.
In his first year in Chicago, Welch pursued new forms of art including Conceptual and Performance Art. One of his first student works was High Jump in which he invited a national champion high jumper to attempt a world record in the sculpture studio of the Art Institute. He also created Mississippi River Measure by measuring a frozen section of the river with lengths of his outstretched body. Both works were documented in the art publication Interfunktionen.
Fiji competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. The country's delegation consisted of a single athlete, visually impaired sprinter Ranjesh Prakash, who competed in two events in athletics. Prakash was also his country's flagbearer during the Games' opening ceremony."I'll do it for Fiji" , Fiji Times, August 29, 2008 High jumper Iliesa Delana was initially reported in May 2007 as having qualified for the Games, but it was later reported that he had "fallen short during trials".
Petrina Price (born 26 April 1984) is an Australian high jumper. Price was born in Greenacre. She finished seventh at the 2000 World Junior Championships, won the silver medal at the 2001 World Youth Championships and the bronze medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships, and finished ninth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She also competed at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships, the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.
European Athletics (October 2002). Retrieved on 2009-10-02. Mo Farah of Great Britain is the only athlete, male or female, to win the main award three times. Czech javelin legend Jan Železný, British triple jumper Jonathan Edwards and his Swedish rival Christian Olsson have won the men's award twice, while Sweden's heptathlete Carolina Klüft, the Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, Croat high jumper Blanka Vlasic and Dutch sprinter Dafne Schippers have won the women's award twice each.
Rune Almén (born 20 October 1952 in Trollhättan, Västra Götaland County) is a former Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the high jump.Rune Almén. Sports-reference. Retrieved on 2015-07-27. Almén became Swedish junior champion in high jump three years in a row between 1970 and 1972. He went on to become the leading Swedish high jumper in the late 1970s, as he became Swedish outdoor champion six years in a row between 1973 and 1978.
With the parallel straddle, the lead leg is kicked high and straight, and head and trunk pass the bar at the same time. Charles Dumas, the first high jumper to clear 7 ft, and John Thomas (silver medal at the 1964 Olympics) used this technique. Valeriy Brumel (gold in 1964) dove a little bit, his head going over the bar before his trunk. Probably the most extreme exponent of the dive straddle was Bob Avant, who cleared 7 ft.
Sorin Matei (born 6 July 1963) is a retired Romanian high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.40 metres, achieved in June 1990 in Bratislava. As of August 2018, Matei is tied for 7th place on the, men's high jump outdoor, all time top list, behind Javier Sotomayor, Mutaz Essa Barshim, Patrik Sjöberg, Bohdan Bondarenko, Igor Paklin and Ivan Ukhov. Matei competed at the 1980, 1988 and 1992 Olympics and placed 13th in 1980 and 1992.
Rolandas Verkys (born 17 March 1966Some sources say 1967, but the IAAF says 1966 (IAAF top list)) is a retired Lithuanian high jumper, who won four national titles for Lithuania in the men's high jump event. He finished seventh at the 1992 European Indoor Championships in Genoa with a jump of 2,26 metres.1992 European Indoor Championships - men's high jump His personal best jump was 2.34 metres, achieved in June 1991 in Warszawa. This is the current Lithuanian record.
Sjöberg has a gold medal from the World Championships in Rome 1987 and has three Olympic medals: silver medals from Los Angeles 1984 and Barcelona 1992, and a bronze medal from Seoul 1988. Sjöberg is the only high jumper to have won medals in more than two Olympic Games. He won the 1985 World Indoor Games, is a four-time European Indoor champion and twice won the World Cup title. Sjöberg received the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1985.
Jaroslav Bába () (born 2 September 1984 in Karviná, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech high jumper. At the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships he jumped 2.25 metres, winning a joint bronze medal along with Germaine Mason and Ştefan Vasilache. In the same year he won the Olympic bronze medal with a jump of 2.34 m. In 2005 he jumped a new personal best of 2.36 m in July in Rome, and later finished fifth at the World Championships.
John Schultz (born 28 September 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He had been a champion high-jumper at Caulfield Grammar School, winning the senior high jump at the 1955 Associated Grammar Schools Combined Athletics Meeting (as had South Melbourne's Jim Taylor in 1948). He also played for the school's First XVIII, a team which also contained other future VFL players, Ron Evans of Essendon and Ron Cabble of Hawthorn.
He was also a leading British high jumper in this period. His athletic career was curtailed by a leg injury in 1930. He joined a 4×100 metre relay for England against Germany in 1931, but was not selected for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. After he retired from athletics, he became an entertainer, playing piano in the original cast of the Noël Coward's musical Cavalcade at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1931.
Britta Bilač (née Vörös) (born December 4, 1968, in Saalfeld, Thuringia, East Germany) is a retired high jumper who competed internationally for Germany and Slovenia from 1992 onwards. Her greatest achievement was the European Championship victory in 1994 with a personal best jump of 2.00 m. She won the 1989 Hochsprung mit Musik with a leap of 1.84 m. Formerly representing East Germany, she married Slovenian long jumper Borut Bilač and thus became a Slovenian citizen in 1992.
As a high school athlete, Eddleman won three Illinois state high jump titles.IHSA.org As a collegian, each year that Eddleman attended Illinois he also competed in track as a high jumper. Eddleman would win various high jump titles while at Illinois, including the Chicago Relays, the Illinois Tech Relays, and the Penn Relays. Additionally, he won three high jump titles in each appearance at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, the Central Collegiate Championships, and the Drake Relays.
Retrieved on 3 September 2009. His first experiences of track and field competition were as a junior high jumper and John Anderson, the referee for the UK television series Gladiators and coach of former world record holder Dave Moorcroft, urged him to focus on athletics. Training at Corby Athletics Club, he began competing in the decathlon and 110 metres hurdles and he became the No. 1 ranked under-20 British athlete in both disciplines.Going for gold.
Bo Over the Top was a collegiate football play in the 1982 Iron Bowl. The play involved Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson and proved to be the deciding factor in the game between the Auburn Tigers and Alabama Crimson Tide. The "Over the Top" refers to the nature of the play. Jackson, a state champion high jumper in high school, jumped over the Alabama defensive line on a fourth down play from the one-yard line.
Zheng Dazhen (; born September 22, 1959) is a retired Chinese high jumper. She finished eleventh at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and also won the 1984 Friendship Games. In 1983 she reached the final of the inaugural World Championships in Athletics, but finished 18th and last with only 1.80 metres. On the regional level she won the Asian Championships in 1979 and 1983 as well as the 1978 and 1982 Asian Games, both times in new championship records (CR).
Yang Wenqin (; born April 30, 1960 in Shanghai) is a retired Chinese high jumper. In 1983 she reached the final of the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, but finished 16th and third to last with only 1.84 metres. On the regional level she took a gold medal at the Asian Championships in 1985; in addition she won bronze medals at the 1978 and 1982 Asian Games. Both contests were won by fellow Chinese person Zheng Dazhen.
Spitz was the world's best high jumper in 1932. On February 6 he improved his own indoor world record to 2.02 m (6 ft in), again at the Millrose Games. A week later at Boston he broke the record again, jumping 2.04 m (6 ft in), a mark that exceeded Osborn's outdoor world record as well. Spitz also won his first national indoor championship that year, clearing a meeting record 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) on that occasion.
Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda (born 26 January 1988), also known as Girish N. Gowda is paralympic high jumper from India. He was born with a disability in the left leg. He represented India in the 2012 Summer Paralympic games held in London in the men's high jump F-42 category and won the silver medal in the finals with a jump of 1.74 meters using scissors technique. He became the first Indian to win a medal at that event.
Mariyappan Thangavelu (born 28 June 1995) is an Indian Paralympic high jumper. He represented India in the 2016 Summer Paralympic games held in Rio de Janeiro in the men's high jump T-42 category, winning the gold medal in the finals. He is India's first Paralympian gold medalist since 2004. On 25 January 2017, Government of India announced "Padma Shri" award for his contribution towards sports and in the same year he was also awarded Arjuna Award.
Second World War fighter ace Johnnie Johnson attended Loughborough Grammar school. The high jumper Ben Challenger, son of Showaddywaddy drummer Romeo Challenger, is from Loughborough. The popular Muslim and Bangladeshi presenter Rizwan Hussain was brought up there. Notable sporting graduates of Loughborough University include Sir Clive Woodward, Sebastian Coe, Paula Radcliffe, David Moorcroft, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Monty Panesar, Steve Backley, Jack Kirwan and Lawrie Sanchez. Loughborough was the birthplace of the poet and Royalist John Cleveland (1613–1658).
Samkelo Mike Radebe (born 8 May 1989 in Soweto, South Africa) is a South African Paralympic sprint runner and high jumper who competes in the T45 class. He lost both arms in an electrocution accident at age 9 when his kite got caught in electrical wires. The South African organisation Children of Fire assisted with Radebe's rehabilitation after he was injured. He began running in high school in 2003, and studies law at the University of Johannesburg.
Diana Clare Davies (née Elliott; born 7 May 1961) is a retired female high jumper from Great Britain, born in Catworth. Her personal best of 1.95 metres set on 26 June 1982, at a meet in Oslo, Norway, stood as the UK national record until 2014. She competed at two Olympic Games, reaching the final on both occasions. In Los Angeles 1984, she finished in 9th place (1.88 m), while in Seoul 1988, she finished 8th (1.90m).
Kearns is also an avid high jumper and sprinter. In February 2020, competing in the high jump in the Masters age 55-59 division in Santa Monica, CA, he cleared 5'0" (1.52m), which ranked him #1 in the USA and #3 in the world as of May, 2020. In 2016 at age 51, Kearns cleared 1.65m (5'5"), in the high jump at a practice session, matching the All-American standard for the 50-54 age group.
Elizabeth Chuah Lamb (now Gapes; born 12 May 1991) is a high jumper from New Zealand. Lamb won a gold medal at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, India and has also represented New Zealand at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2015 Summer Universiade. Lamb is also a fashion model and holds both a Commerce and a Science Degree from the University of Auckland. She is married to Sam Gapes, a professional stuntman from Auckland, New Zealand.
Carolina Anna "Lien" Gisolf (13 July 1910 – 30 May 1993) was a Dutch high jumper. She won a silver medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics and finished fourth in 1932. Her talent was discovered during school competition in 1926, when it turned out that she jumped 30 centimetres higher than her classmates. On 3 July 1928 she set an unofficial Dutch record by jumping 1.465 metres, which was followed by a new world record of 1.582 metres.
Annette Harnack (born 5 December 1958) is a retired West German high jumper. She finished eighth at the 1978 European Indoor Championships.1978 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik- Statistik-Seite She represented the sports clubs TV Sontra and TuS 04 Leverkusen, and won bronze medals at the West German championships in 1978 and 1979.West German championships, women's high jump Her personal best jump was 1.90 metres, achieved in September 1979 in Mexico City.
Jasmin Feige, née Fischer (20 June 1959 - 19 June 1988) was a West German long and high jumper. She was born in Leverkusen. She finished fifth at the 1979 European Indoor Championships.1979 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite At the 1981 European Indoor Championships she finished sixth in the high jump1981 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik- Statistik-Seite and won a bronze medal in the long jump.
Brian E. Stanton (born February 19, 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is an American high jumper. He represented his home country in the 1988 Olympics where he finished 11th in the final, jumping 2.31m. He also jumped his personal record of 2.34m that same year. In March 1996, then age 35, he jumped 2.20m at the Long Beach Relays, a mark which is superior to the listed American masters M35 record of 2.15m by Jim Barrineau.
The former high jumper then started his career as a police officer. He became a technical official in track and field. During the early years of the Philippine Amateur Basketball League approached one sports writer at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum complaining that the PABL officials at the gate of the sports venue won't let him watch the then ongoing game where his son Aris is playing. The journalist approached PABL chairman, Oscar Villadolid who recognized Franco.
Roman Šebrle (; born 26 November 1974) is a retired decathlete from the Czech Republic. He is considered to be one of the best decathlon athletes of all time. Originally a high jumper, he later switched to the combined events and is a former world record holder in the decathlon. In 2001 in Götzis he became the first decathlete ever to achieve over 9,000 points, setting the record at 9,026 points, succeeding his compatriot, Tomáš Dvořák, who had scored 8,994 points two years earlier.
Einar Karl Hjartarson (born 28 October 1980) is a retired Icelandic high jumper. He won the 1997 European Youth Olympic Days, finished twelfth at the 1998 World Junior Championships, and won the 1999 and 2001 Games of the Small States of Europe (the latter in a championship record 2.25). He also competed at the 2000 European Indoor Championships and the 2001 World Championships without reaching the final. His personal best is 2.28 metres (indoor), achieved in February 2001 in Reykjavik.
Fabrice Saint-Jean (born 21 November 1980) is a retired French high jumper. Fabrice Saint-Jean Men high jump French Athletics Championships 2013 t152250 (cropped) He won the bronze medal at the 2001 European U23 Championships. He took additional bronze medals at the regional events 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie and the 2013 Mediterranean Games, and also a seventh place at the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie. Saint-Jean also competed at the 2012 European Championships without reaching the final.
Anna Ustinova (born 8 December 1985) is a Kazakhstani high jumper. She finished seventh at the 2004 World Junior Championships and the 2005 Universiade, won the bronze medal at the 2005 Asian Championships and finished sixth at the 2006 Asian Games. In 2007, she won bronze medals at the Asian Championships and the Universiade, before competing at the 2007 World Championships without reaching the final. She won the silver medal at the 2010 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships behind compatriot Marina Aitova.
Svetlana Mikhaylovna Radzivil (; born 17 January 1987 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR) is an Uzbekistani high jumper. She is among Asia's top female high jumpers. She won the Asian Games title three times running (2010 to 2018) and was the Asian champion in 2015. She has also won two silver and one bronze medal at the Asian Athletics Championships. She is a two-time champion at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships (2006 and 2014). She is a three-time Olympian (2008, 2012 and 2016).
Hartley was raised in Lydiate, Merseyside on the outskirts of Liverpool where his family ran a market garden. He began his athletic career at age 13 as a high jumper. By age 18 he held the Under-19 record for 400m hurdles (52.9 seconds). Following success in national and international competition, Hartley won a silver medal representing England at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealandand then a gold medal at the European Championships in Rome in the 400m relay.
In America, Lu Rui Xi (Ella Chen) watches a documentary on Taiwanese high jumper Zuo Yi Quan (Wu Chun). Inspired by his jumps, Rui Xi decides that she wants to meet her idol and therefore transfers to Ying Kai University which he attends in Taiwan. However, the school is an all-boys school and thus Rui Xi cuts all her hair off and dresses up as a boy in order to attend the school. There she befriends Jin Xiu Yi (Jiro Wang).
Antonietta Di Martino (born 1 June 1978 in Cava de' Tirreni) is a retired Italian high jumper. She currently holds the Italian national women's high jump record at 2.03 metres for outdoor events and 2.04 metres for indoor events. She also currently holds the women's all-time highest jump- differential, meaning she has jumped the highest (0.35 metres) more than her own height. Her first significant international achievement was winning silver medal at the 2007 European Indoor Championships in Birmingham.
Håkon Särnblom (born 3 March 1966) is a retired Norwegian high jumper. He represented IK Tjalve and IF Minerva during his active career. He finished tenth at the 1988 European Indoor Championships, fourteenth at the 1990 European Indoor Championships, sixth at the 1994 European Indoor Championships, fourth at the 1994 European Championships and tenth at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as the World Championships in 1991 and 1995 without reaching the finals.
Anne Gerd Eieland (born 28 December 1982) from Iveland, Aust-Agder is Norway's third best female high jumper of all time, behind Hanne Haugland and Tonje Angelsen. Eieland was undefeated in Norwegian competition from 2001 to 2005. She was brought up in her teenage years by Torstein Bærheim, who was her trainer for many years, and who took Eieland to record level in 2003. She later found a new trainer, and in winter 2006, Hanne Haugland came in as Eieland's new mentor.
He was ordered to either pay a fine of 200,000 dollars or face two years in jail, and paid the fine shortly before the court closed; he continued to serve as head of ZDK, Earlier in his life he was a high jumper and he was the last gold medallist in that event at the British West Indies Championships in 1965. His brother, Lester Bird, was also a track athlete and former champion at this competition.British West Indies Championships. GBR Athletics.
Judith Peckham (née Canty; born 9 December 1950) is a former Australian track and field athlete who competed in the 400 metres and 800 metres. She was a member of the 4×400 metres relay team which finished in fourth place at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and she won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.Australian Athletics Historical Archive. Retrieved 27 June 2013 She married high jumper Lawrie Peckham.
Tarmak on a stamp of Umm al-Quwain Jüri Tarmak (born 21 July 1946) is a former Estonian high jumper who competed for the Soviet Union. Tarmak took up athletics in 1963, following his father Aadu Tarmak, who was the Soviet champion in the discus throw in 1943–44. In 1970 he became a member of the Soviet national team. He won a silver and a bronze medal at European indoor championships in 1971 and 1972, and an Olympic gold medal in 1972.
The Saint Lucia Olympic Committee sent President Richard Peterkin, Minister of Youth and Sports Lenard Montoute, Chief de Mission Alfred Emmanuel, Coach Henry Bailey, and Coach Karen Beaubrun to Beijing alongside the four-person athletic delegation. Saint Lucia was the 67th nation in line at the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, in which high jumper Levern Spencer was the flagbearer. Saint Lucians were unable to view the 7:00 am opening ceremony because of issues with the local cable provider.
Ann Marie Flynn (born August 17, 1938) is a retired female high jumper from the United States, who competed in the 1950s and 1960s for her native country. She was born in New York City and was a member of the German-American Athletic Club in Brooklyn. She set her personal best in the women's high jump event (1.65 metres) on July 18, 1959, at a meet in Philadelphia. She also competed in the discus throw and the heptathlon during her career.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Little is the child of athletic parents, her father a football cornerback and her mother a star basketball player and high jumper at Eastern Kentucky University. Shamier began participating in youth track and field as an 8 year old. She made her first appearance at the national level at the 2004 USATF Youth Championships as a 100 meter sprinter running for the University of Chicago Youth Track Club. She regularly participated in all comers track meets.
In his junior year, he broke his high school record with a jump, and the next year took second place in the state with a jump. The technique gained the name the "Fosbury Flop" when in 1964 the Medford Mail- Tribune ran a photo captioned "Fosbury Flops Over Bar," while in an accompanying article a reporter wrote that he looked like "a fish flopping in a boat." Others were even less kind, with one newspaper captioning Fosbury's photograph, "World's Laziest High Jumper".
Aleksey Vladimirovich Dmitrik (Russian: Алексей Владимирович Дмитрик; born 12 April 1984) is a Russian high jumper. He won the silver medal at the 2009 European Indoor Championships. He was born in Slantsy, Leningrad Oblast. He won the gold medal at the 2001 World Youth Championships, finished fourteenth at the 2002 World Junior Championships and was the runner-up to Jaroslav Bába at the 2003 European Athletics Junior Championships. His first major win as a senior athlete came at the 2005 European Cup.
In the beginning of the 20th century Bulgaria was famous for two of the best wrestlers in the world – Dan Kolov and Nikola Petroff. Stefka Kostadinova is the best female high jumper, still holding the world record from 1987, one of the oldest unbroken world records for all kind of athletics. Ivet Lalova along with Irina Privalova is currently the fastest white woman at 100 metres. Kaloyan Mahlyanov has been the first European sumo wrestler to win the Emperor's Cup in Japan.
Cravens is the son of Kevin and Yolanda Cravens. His older sister, Malia, was on the women's basketball team at Hawaii in 2012 before transferring to USC, where she was briefly on the 2013 Women of Troy basketball team as a guard before joining the track team as a high jumper. His older brother, Siaki, was a defensive lineman at Hawaii who previously played at Utah. His grandfather, Jack Cravens, played basketball and baseball at Brigham Young from 1957 to 1959.
Akimoto defended her national title in 1980, then again in 1981, improving further to 13.71 seconds. She won another bronze medal at the Pacific Conference Games that year – one of only three Japanese women ton win an individual medal there, alongside high jumper Hisayo Fukumitsu and fellow hurdler Yumiko Aoi. She remained unchallenged at continental level, repeating her hurdles victory at the 1981 Asian Athletics Championships (again held in Tokyo) in a new championship record of 13.78 seconds ahead of China's Dia.
Four of them received their spots in track and field, and in swimming by wild card entries. Three Syrian athletes had competed in Beijing, including high jumper Majed Aldin Ghazal, who was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony. Among the sports played by the athletes, Syria marked its Olympic debut in equestrian show jumping. Because of an ongoing 2011-2012 uprising in Syria (now turned into a civil war), there were concerns about Syria's participation to the Olympic games.
Nobes went to school at Windsor Girls' School and was a county level high jumper as a teenager. She studied biochemistry at the University of London. She completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge, working with Martin Brand. Nobes did brief Post-Docs in Helen Saibil and Aviva Tolkovsky's labs in Oxford before joining Alan Hall's laboratory at the University College London, where she identified the role of the GTPase CDC42 and effectors in forming actin-rich filopodial extensions.
Julio Luciano (born 10 October 1977) is a retired Dominican Republic high jumper. He won the silver medal at the 1997 Central American and Caribbean Championships, the bronze medal at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games, and the gold medal at the 1999 Central American and Caribbean Championships. He also competed at the 1996 Olympic Games and the 1997 World Championships without reaching the final. Luciano's personal best jump is 2.28 metres, achieved in May 1997 in Santo Domingo.
Keivan Ghanbarzadeh (born 26 May 1990) is an Iranian high jumper. He competed at the 2009 World Youth Championships without reaching the final. On the regional level he finished fourth at the 2009 Asian Championships, eighth at the 2010 Asian Games, won the silver medal at the 2010 Asian Indoor Championships, finished sixth at the 2011 Asian Championships, sixth again at the 2011 Summer Universiade and won a bronze medal at the 2013 Asian Championships. His personal best is 2.26 metres, achieved in April 2012 in Shiraz.
As a child he has been described as being a "small, skinny white kid"There's something about: Sonny Bill Williams, league player, nzherald.co.nz, dated 26 October 2013. who was "painfully shy", as well as "a freakish sporting talent, a competitive sprinter, a champion high jumper and cross country runner and the kid who played footy in teams a couple of age divisions above, to make things fairer." Despite being tipped to have a promising future in athletics, Williams abandoned it when he was about twelve years old.
Nylander attended Southern Methodist University ("SMU") in Dallas, Texas, USA on an athletic scholarship, where he was a member of the track and field team. During the European Championships in Gothenburg 2006, Nylander attended a party on a night club in central Gothenburg. He, former high jumper Patrik Sjöberg and sprinter Patrik Lövgren, was later stopped by the police and brought to the police station where they left urine samples, under suspicion of drug use. In interviews, Nylander at first claimed that he had not used narcotics.
Rose Amoanimaa Yeboah (born December 23, 2001) is a Ghanaian high jumper. She has competed at world championships, most recently at the 2019 African Games in Rabat, Morocco. Yeboah first gained international experience in 2019 at the XIV African U20 Championships in Abidjan, where she won the gold medal in high jump with a height of 1.83 m. In August, she also competed at the 2019 African Games in Rabat, increasing by one centimeter and thus also won another gold medal in the high jump event.
Ariane Friedrich (born Tempel; 10 January 1984 in Nordhausen) is a German high jumper. She won the silver medal at the 2009 World Championships and represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the German outdoor record holder in the event with a best of 2.06 m, although this is 1 cm less than the indoor record held by Heike Henkel. She became German champion in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, and represents the club LG Eintracht Frankfurt.
Next, Halvor Øien won the javelin event in 1917 and 1918, and also took two silver and three bronze. Since then, the club has had two Norwegian champions, Grete Etholm in the discus throw (first time 2001) and Christian Settemsli Mogstad in the sprints (first time 2008). High jumper Olav Aarnes did not win any national medals, but was a 1912 Olympian. Two Olympic wrestlers have represented the club; silver medalist in 1948 Aage Eriksen (also participated in 1952) and Håkon Olsen (participated in 1952).
Jacques Freitag (born 11 June 1982) is a South African high jumper. He is one of only nine athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Jana Pittman, Dani Samuels, and David Storl) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event. Freitag grew up in Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng (50 km east of Pretoria). His mother, Hendrina Pieters, was in 1973 a South African high jump champion with a personal best of 1.74 metres.
Trevor Barry (born 14 June 1983) is a male high jumper from the Bahamas. His personal best high jump is 2.32 metres, achieved in the final at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea on 1 September 2011. Barry competed in college for Dickinson State University where he helped lead his team to 3 consecutive national championships. At the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games Barry won the silver medal in the high jump and finished sixth in the long jump.
Suzuka is a sports-themed romance comedy that intertwines the pursuit of love and athletics. The story is based around Yamato Akitsuki, a young man from rural Hiroshima Prefecture moving to the big city of Tokyo, and his new next-door neighbor, Suzuka Asahina, a skilled high jumper. Yamato falls in love with Suzuka and pursuing a relationship with her he joins the track and field team hoping to impress her. After joining, Yamato discovers that he has the potential to become a top hundred-meter sprinter.
Klaus Bechler (born 1942) is a former German helicopter engineer of the West German Border Guard (Bundesgrenzschutz) who volunteered to transport eight Black September terrorists and their nine Israeli hostages from the Munich Olympic Village to Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in what became known as the Munich Massacre. He is one of the few survivors of the event. Bechler was based at Oberschleißheim at the Fliegerstaffel Süd. On 4 September, Bechler had been in the Olympic stadium and saw the German high jumper, Ulrike Meyfarth, win gold.
Giannis and Thanasis playing basketball at a local court in Sepolia, Athens Antetokounmpo was born in Athens, Greece, to Nigerian parents, and grew up in the Athens neighborhood of Sepolia. His late father, Charles, was a former Nigerian soccer player, while his mother, Veronica, is a former high-jumper. His parents are from different Nigerian ethnic groups—Charles was Yoruba, and Veronica is Igbo. He officially gained Greek citizenship on May 9, 2013, with the official legal spelling of his last name being Antetokounmpo.
Sergey Sergeyevich Zasimovich (; born 11 March 1986) is a Kazakhstani high jumper. He was born in Karagandinskaya. As a junior, he finished seventh at the 2004 Asian Junior Championships and twelfth at the 2005 Asian Championships, and won the gold medal at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games. In 2006 he finished fifth at the Asian Indoor Championships, but won the silver medal at the Asian Games. He furthermore won a silver at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games and the gold medal at the 2008 Asian Indoor Championships.
One of the reasons Anderson decided to attend Missouri was so that he could compete as a high jumper on the track and field team. As a student, Anderson worked at KOMU-TV, but any work on the sports desk was voluntary. After graduating, he spent time in Tulsa, Oklahoma, working for KTUL-TV and KOTV-TV, and he also worked in Phoenix at KPHO-TV before joining ESPN. From 2008 to 2014, he and John Henson hosted Wipeout, a reality game show on ABC.
Oleksandr Nartov (, born 21 May 1988) is a Ukrainian high jumper. He won the silver medal at the 2003 World Youth Championships and the 2005 World Youth Championships, the gold medal at the 2007 European Junior Championships, the bronze medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade and the silver medal at the 2009 European U23 Championships. He competed at the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2009 European Indoor Championships without reaching the final. His personal best jump is 2.31 metres, achieved in February 2012 in Berdychiv.
In 2010, Chemos won gold medals in the 3000 metre steeplechase at the African Championships and the Commonwealth Games, heading a Kenyan clean sweep of the medals in the latter. She also took Diamond League victories in Oslo, Rome, Eugene and London, en route to capturing the overall Diamond League title in the steeplechase. As a result of her successes during the 2010 season, Chemos was one of five females shortlisted for the IAAF World Athlete of the Year award, won by high jumper Blanka Vlašić.
He is also the Showaddywaddy bandmate of Trevor Oakes – father of professional footballers Scott and Stefan Oakes. Contrary to popular belief, Challenger is not the father of footballer Dion Dublin, although he is close friends with Dion's father, Eddie, who is also a professional drummer. Romeo Challenger is the father of high jumper Ben Challenger, who won a silver medal in the 1998 Commonwealth Games, and a bronze medal four years later; and Tamzin Challenger, a musician best known for her material with bassline producer T2.
Tim Forsyth (born 17 August 1973 in Mirboo North, Victoria, Australia) is a retired Australian three-time Olympic high jumper: 1992, 1996, and 2000).Tim Forsyth profile at ABC News Forsyth's first success on the international scene came in 1990 with a silver medal at the World Junior Championships. In 1992 a 19-year-old Forsyth won an Olympic bronze medal, equalling his then personal best height of 2.34m. He went on to win another World Junior Championships silver medal, this time beaten by Brit Steve Smith.
Eleanor Inez Montgomery (November 13, 1946 - December 28, 2013) was an American high jumper. She was a two-time Olympian, placing 8th in 1964 and 19th in 1968, and a Tigerbelle, the name of the Tennessee State University women's track and field program. Montgomery set her personal best in the high jump (1.80 m) on July 6, 1969 at the US National Championships in Dayton, which was an American record at that time. She also competed in the long jump and the pentathlon during her career.
She was born in Athens and is the daughter of the former Hellenic Army officer and monarchist Alexandros Kountouras. Her father is co-founder and ongoing leader of BEO (Βυζαντινή Εθνική Οργάνωση, Vyzantini Ethniki Organosi, "National Byzantine Organisation", earlier Vasiliki Ethniki Organosi, "National Royal Organisation"), the title of which was changed in the Metapolitefsi for legal reasons. From childhood she was engaged in athletics. Her father enrolled her in the National Gymnastic Academy of Greece at the age of twelve as a high- jumper in training.
Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist (; born 12 October 1976 in Sollentuna, Stockholm) is a Swedish former high jumper. She won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships. Her personal outdoor record of 2.06 m, set in Germany in 2003, is also a Swedish record. Her indoor record of 2.08 m, set at the Hochsprung mit Musik meeting in 2006, is the world indoor record.
Manjula Kumara Wijesekara (born 30 January 1984 in Morawaka) is a Sri Lankan high jumper. He has been regarded as one of the most experienced high jumpers to have represented the country mainly in the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games after making his senior debut in 2001. Manjula Kumara represented Sri Lanka at the 2004 Summer Olympics, which was also his only Olympic appearance in his prolific career. His personal best is 2.27 metres, first achieved in July 2004 in Colombo, is the Sri Lankan record.
As CEO of JSW Sports, Mustafa has led the JSW Sports Excellence Programme (SEP) since it commenced in 2012 to support Olympic Disciplines - Boxing, Judo, Wrestling, Swimming and Athletics. Some of the current names in the JSW Sports Sports Excellence Programme stable include Asian and Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, 2016 Rio Olympic Bronze medal-winning female wrestler Sakshi Malik, Asian and Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning wrestler Bajrang Punia and 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games gold medal-winning high-jumper Tejaswin Shankar.
Delfina Blaquier (born 20 November 1980) is an Argentine socialite, photographer, fashion businesswoman, and former high jumper. A youth athlete in the 1990s, Blaquier competed internationally in the women's high jump. She was a gold medalist at the South American Youth Championships in Athletics in 1996, a silver medalist at the South American Championships in Athletics in 1997, and a two-time gold medalist at the South American Junior Championships in Athletics in 1997 and 1998. In 1998 she placed eighth at the World Athletics U20 Championships.
Nalin Priyantha Akwattha Dawage (born 22 April 1981) is a retired Sri Lankan high jumper. He finished fifth at the 2005 Asian Championships, fourteenth at the 2006 Asian Games, won the bronze medals at the 2006 South Asian Games and the 2010 South Asian Games. He also no-heighted in the final at the 2002 Asian Championships and competed at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2010 Asian Games without reaching the final. His personal best is 2.15 metres, achieved at the 2005 Asian Championships in September 2005 in Incheon.
Karim Samir Lotfy El Sayed (born 21 April 1989) is an Egyptian high jumper. In age levels he finished eighth at the 2005 World Youth Championships, won the silver medal at the 2005 African Junior Championships, competed at the 2006 World Junior Championships and finished fourteenth at the 2008 World Junior Championships. In regional competitions he finished seventh at the 2007 All- Africa Games, fifth at the 2007 Pan Arab Games and fourth at the 2008 African Championships. His personal best is 2.25 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Eberstadt.
In 1958, she won three events, set two Ozark regional records, and finished with the highest total points across the five pentathlon events. In 1959 she was included in the All- America Women's Track and Field Team. She continued competing as an athlete in college at Colorado State University, where she was a member of the school's first women's track and field team, along with sprinter Lillian Greene- Chamberlain, high jumper Ann Marie Flynn, and Rose Melanchuk. She aspired to a place on the American team for the 1960 Summer Olympics, but failed to qualify.
Perhaps the greatest drug scandal in the sport of track and field, since Ben Johnson's 1988 disqualification, occurred here when the world's only eight foot high jumper Javier Sotomayor tested positive for cocaine. A Cuban national hero, his subsequent suspension was fought from the highest levels, Fidel Castro claiming it was a conspiracy. Despite a second positive test for cocaine a few months later, Sotomayor eventually had his suspension reduced by a year, just in time to win a silver medal at the Sydney Olympics. A year later he retired facing another positive drug test.
North Vietnam, Syria and Cambodia each won one gold medal each. Ni Zhiqin, China's leading men's high jumper, was the only man to defend his title from the 1963 games. Zheng Fengrong, a former world record holder, added the high jump gold to the defence of her women's pentathlon title and also an 80 metres hurdles bronze. The most successful athlete of the tournament was Sin Kim-dan, who won the 200 metres, 400 metres and 800 metres titles – this meant she managed to defend all her 1963 titles.
Zhu Jianhua (; born 29 May 1963) is a retired Chinese high jumper. His personal best of 2.39 metres is a former world record for the event. In Helsinki 1983, Zhu became China's first man to win a medal in the IAAF World Championships. In the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, he became the first male from the People's Republic of China to win an athletics medal in the history of the Olympic Games (Yang Chuan-kwang won a silver medal representing the Republic of China in the 1960 Rome Olympics).
Yekaterina Savchenko, née Aleksandrova (, born 3 June 1977) is a high jumper from the Omsk region of Russia and competes for the Trade Unions Athletics Club. She has had multiple successes within recent years in her event, including multiple victories in Russian national championships, and she is currently being coached by Yevgeni Savchenko. As of 1/11/2012 she is in 40th place in the IAAF World Rankings and 10th in Russian Rankings. Her personal best jump is 2.00 metres, achieved in July 2007 in Dudelange at the Memorial Sam Besch.
It made Xiu Yi angry at Quan so he went to confront him Episode 3: Shen Le is another high jumper but is more talented at it than Quan. Rui Xi and Shen Le build up hatred for each other after roasting each other at a soccer game. Rui Ci often goes to the gay doctor's office for life advice since they both know about her secret. Quan iver hears Rui xi talking to Yu Ci Lang (Quan's dog) about her personal life and Quan hears about it and starts to like her.
Rolf Beilschmidt clearing 2.25 m in 1977 Rolf Beilschmidt (born 8 August 1953, in Jena) is a retired East German high jumper. Beilschmidt represented the sports club SC Motor Jena, and became East German champion in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1981.East German championships, men's high jump Beilschmidt's personal best high jump was 2.31 metres, achieved in August 1977 in Helsinki.World men's all-time best high jump (last updated 2001) Beilschmidt shares the decathlon world record in high jump with Christian Schenk at 2.27 m.
He was a member of the track team (competing as a high jumper under coach Jimmy Curran), the art editor of the school yearbook, a member of the glee club, and a member of the John Marshall Literary Society. To his disappointment, he was relegated to the third-tier football team due to his slender physique. Stewart also made his first onstage appearance at Mercersburg, as Buquet in the play The Wolves in 1928.; During summer breaks, he returned to Indiana, working first as a brick loader and then as a magician's assistant.
In the same meet, Benedict Starly of Tamil Nadu also managed to clear 2.18 m, however, gold was awarded to Shankar Roy on the account of fewer number of attempts. On 28 September 2004, during the Asian All-Stars Athletic Championship in Singapore, India's best high jumper broke his own National record with a height of 2.25 m to take the silver behind Hu Tong of China. In 2007, both Hari Shanakar and Benedict Starly sailed past a height of 2.14 m during the 33rd National Games, held in Guwahati.
The Cyprus national rugby union team known as The Moufflons currently holds the record for most consecutive international wins, which is especially notable as the Cyprus Rugby Federation was only formed in 2006. Tennis player Marcos Baghdatis was ranked 8th in the world, was a finalist at the Australian Open, and reached the Wimbledon semi-final, all in 2006. High jumper Kyriakos Ioannou achieved a jump of 2.35 m at the 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, in 2007, winning the bronze medal. He has been ranked third in the world.
Vlašić won the World Championships in Osaka thanks to a 2.05 m jump, winning Croatia's first gold medal at the World Athletics Championships. Antonietta Di Martino of Italy and Anna Chicherova of Russia both cleared 2.03 m to share the silver medal. In early October, Vlašić was named female European Athlete of the Year by the European Athletic Association after the combined votes of a panel of experts, a group of journalists and the public. She is the first Croatian athlete and the first high jumper to win this award.
In 1986, she cleared 1.81 metres as a 14-year-old. In 1990, still only eighteen, Haggett was the UK's number one female high jumper, winning the AAA Championships with a personal best of 1.88 m, defeating Olympic finalist Janet Boyle. A week later at the World Junior Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, she again cleared 1.88 m to win the bronze medal. She would remain the only British woman to win a medal at the World Junior Championships in the high jump until Morgan Lake won gold in 2014.
Significant results were made also by rugby players of Čelik, who were eight- time champions of SFR Yugoslavia, won the Cup six times and were double champion of BiH. Since 1992, noted international results were made by tennis player Mervana Jugić, high jumper Elvir Krehmić, shooter Šejla Kurtagić, karatist Arnel Kalušić etc. Zenica has 45 working clubs in which there are many professionally and amateur sportsworkers employed. Zenica is also the only BiH city in which there is working Club of extreme sports (Scorpio), with focuses on alpinism and sports climbing.
Andrey Alexandrovich Silnov (, born 9 September 1984) is a Russian high jumper and the 2008 Olympic champion. Born in Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, he is 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) and weighs 83 kg (183 lbs). In a late 2006 interview, Andrey said he was the younger son of working-class parents and that he got into athletics as a boy, inspired by the triple-jumping exploits of an older brother.IAAF.org, News Centre, 18 January 2007, "Silnov is fishing for the World High Jump record"; accessed 5 June 2011.
After public outcry in Bulgaria, Slavkov was replaced as President of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee by retired Bulgarian olympic high jumper Stefka Kostadinova, and as President of the Bulgarian Football Union by Borislav Mikhailov, the former captain of the Bulgaria national football team. In 2001 he established a political party named Forward Bulgaria (modeled after Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia) which failed to clear the 4% barrier in order to enter Parliament. On 1 May 2011 Slavkov died in a government hospital following lung complications at age 70, 10 days shy of his 71st birthday.
Born in Vienna, Scheidl was the head cashier of the Austrian Medizinal-Drogen-AG for ten years following his schooling. He participated in the 1906 Intercalated Games and was active in track and field as high jumper, long-jumper and discus thrower, as swimmer and as gymnast. At the 1906 Olympic Games in Athens, he took part in the pentathlon, coming in ninth, and 13th in the standing long jump. His rankings in high jump and discus throw (Greek style) are not handed down and in standing long jump he was disqualified.
Tania Dixon (née Murray) is a high jumper and triple jumper from Dunedin, New Zealand. Murray won the gold medal in the women's high jump at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. In 1991, she set a New Zealand record for the women's high jump of 1.92 metres, and in 1997 set a similar record for the triple jump of 13.48 metres. Murray was New Zealand women's high jump champion in 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1997, and was New Zealand triple jump champion in 1994, 1997, and 1999.
Ivan Möller (12 February 1884 – 31 July 1972) was a Swedish sprint runner, hurdler and high jumper. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay. He won a silver medal in the relay, and failed to reach the final in his individual events. Nationally Möller won eleven Swedish titles: in the 200 m in 1911, in the 110 m hurdles in 1910–12, in high jump in 1909 (twice), and in the 4 × 100 m relay in 1907 and 1909–1912.
G-ROW, which also incorporates academics and relationship-building, is now a program of Community Rowing, Inc. She also founded WeCanRow (Women Enduring Cancer Row), a program for women breast cancer survivors. Founded in Boston in 2002, WeCanRow now has chapters around the U.S. In 2007, Metcalf was hired as head coach for the MIT women's openweight crew. She was a panelist at the 2003 National Gay and Lesbian Athletics Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a panel of LGBT Olympians that also included swimmer Mark Tewksbury and high jumper Brian Marshall.
Edward Laboran (born 23 June 1942) is a former Papua New Guinean high jumper. Laboran won the high jump event at the inaugural Papua New Guinea National Championships, held in Lae on 6 October 1962, with a leap of 1.90 m. He went on to win this event for the next three years. The following year, Laboran was part of the maiden Papua New Guinean team to compete at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, where he finished 11th in the high jump clearing the bar at .
Marina Kuptsova (born December 22, 1981 in Moscow) is a Russian high jumper who won a silver medal at the 2003 World Championships. She is also a former European indoor high jump champion. Her personal best jump of 2.02 metres was achieved in Hengelo in June 2003, a year when she also won the national championship. She set a personal best of 2.00 m to win the 2002 Hochsprung mit Musik, and returned the following year with a season's best of 2.02 m to score a second victory.
William "Will" Sharman (born 12 September 1984) is a British athlete who specialises in the 110 metres hurdles. He started his career as a junior high jumper and decathlete, but focused entirely on hurdling after a shoulder injury. He made his international debut for Great Britain at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and went on to compete at the 2007 Summer Universiade. Sharman came to prominence in 2009, after he significantly improved upon his previous personal best and finished fourth in the 110 metres hurdles final at the 2009 World Championships.
In keeping with tradition, welcoming speeches were given by the President of the Southeast Asian Games Federation Tunku Imran and Malaysia's Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin. After that, the Games were officially declared open by the then Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, Sultan Muhammad V. Later, Malaysian high jumper Nauraj Singh Randhawa was given the honour of taking the oath of sportsmanship on behalf of the athletes whilst Vice-President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia Datuk Megat Zulkarnain Tan Sri Omardin read out the oath behalf of Games officials.
According to his website, Pinkett was an academic All-American at Rutgers. He was named a member of the 1993 USA TODAY All-USA Academic Team and Pinkett was a member of the Cap and Skull organization. He served as President of MEET, the Rutgers Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, and was the captain of the Rutgers varsity men's track and field team, competing both as a high jumper and long jumper. Additionally, he was the 1994 male Walter Byers Scholarship winner as the NCAA's top scholar athlete.
Stig Roland Helmer "Stickan" Pettersson (born 26 March 1935) is a retired Swedish high jumper. He won two medals at the European Athletics Championships and competed in three Olympic Games. Pettersson placed just outside the medals in three Olympic Games. In 1956 he jumped 2.06 m finishing fourth; he was briefly in a tie for the Olympic record, but it was broken during the competition. Four years later in Rome he cleared 2.09 m for the fifth place, and in Tokyo in 1964 he placed fourth again, despite his best Olympic jump of 2.14 m.
Born in Tooting, Greater London, Lally began athletics as a high jumper. This began her interest in the sport and led to her joining her first club, Hercules Wimbledon AC, where she took up discus throwing. At the English Schools' Athletics Championships, she finished sixth in 2004, and seventh in 2005, before going on to win the 2006 AAA Junior Championships title, with a distance of 46.60. Lally won a bronze medal at the 2009 European U23 Championships in the discus throw, with a throw of 54.44 metres.
He was one of the ten children born into the family. For his primary school studies, he attended St. Bartholomew Primary School and proceeded to the Nigerian Military School (NMS) Zaria in January 1963. By the time he was in Class 3, he was the school high jumper and also played basketball for the school. The January 1966 coup took place while he was at home on holidays and he was one of those deployed to help maintain peace during one of the pre-civil war riots in Zaria in May 1966.
Vanessa Carol Ward (née Browne; born 5 January 1963) is a retired high jumper from Australia, who set her personal best on 12 February 1989, jumping 1.98 metres at a meet in Perth, Western Australia. This (as of 2013) still stands as the Australian record. A five-time national champion in the women's high jump event, she competed for her native country at two Olympic Games, in Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1981 to 1984 and 1987 to 1988.
Pamela Ann Spencer (born October 8, 1957) is a retired high jumper from the United States, who set her personal best on 1981-08-28, jumping 1.97 metres at a meet in Brussels, Belgium. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, finishing in eleventh place (1.85 metres). Spencer grew up in Great Falls, Montana and attended Great Falls High School where she set state records in the high jump. She later attended Seattle Pacific University and California State University, Northridge where she graduated in 1983.
Magdolna Komka, née Csábi (born 1 August 1949) is a retired Hungarian high jumper. She finished seventh at the 1970 European Indoor Championships1970 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite and fourth at the 1972 European Indoor Championships.1972 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite She became Hungarian champion in 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1972.Hungarian Championships - GBR Athletics She also competed in the women's high jump at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Olsson's feats lead him to win the Waterford Crystal European Athlete of the Year for a second successive year. From autumn of 2003 until her retirement in 2008, Tregaro coached Swedish high jumper Kajsa Bergqvist who earlier in 2003 had won a high jump gold medal at the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Bergqvist tore her Achilles tendon in July 2004, making her ineligible for the Athens Olympics. She made a comeback to win a gold medal in the high jump at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics.
Adrian O'Dwyer (born December 1, 1983) is a retired Irish high jumper. During his athletic career, O'Dwyer holds two senior Irish outdoor (2002 and 2003) and indoor titles (2003 and 2004), and competed in the men's high jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics, representing his nation Ireland. Additionally, he set his own personal best and a remarkable Irish record at 2.30 m at the international meet in Algiers to secure a place on the Olympic team. Indeed, O'Dwyer is one of the tallest athletes in the elite Irish track and field team, standing .
Marko Aleksejev (born February 14, 1979 in Tartu) is a retired Estonian high jumper. He was selected to compete for the Estonian squad in the men's high jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also trained throughout his athletic career for Audentese Sport Club () in Tallinn, under his personal coach Allan Eleranna. In 2005, Aleksejev recorded his personal best jump at 2.28 m from the International High Jump Meet in Bühl, Germany. Aleksejev qualified for the Estonian squad in the men's high jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Retrieved on 2015-03-21. The national championships of the host nation was sometimes replaced by the regional championships.Trinidad & Tobago National Championships. NAAATT. Retrieved on 2015-03-21. The championships featured prominent Caribbean men's sprinters of the period, including Commonwealth champion Tom Robinson, and Jamaican Olympic medallists Lennox Miller, George Kerr and Malcolm Spence. Other prominent champions of this event were hurdler Keith Gardner and high jumper Ernle Haisley (both Commonwealth champions). Women were not invited to the first two editions of the competition, but a women's programme was introduced from 1959 onwards.
Annette Rogers (later Kelly, October 22, 1913 – November 8, 2006) was an American sprinter and high jumper. She competed in the individual 100 m, 4×100 m relay and high jump at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics and won two gold medals in the relay, setting a world record in 1932. She placed fifth in the individual 100 m in 1932 and sixth in the high jump in 1932 and 1936. Domestically she won the AAU outdoor titles in the 100 yards in 1933 and in the relay in 1931–1933.
During the prelims, Panavoglou unleashed the discus into the field with an initial distance of 57.26 m, and then extended it powerfully to his best effort at 58.47 m on his second attempt. With his next throw being slightly shorter than his best by nearly a full meter, Panavoglou wound up to twenty-third spot in a field of thirty-nine athletes, and did not advance past the qualifying round. Panavoglou currently resides in Thessaloniki, and works as a worldly renowned chiropractor for numerous track and field athletes, including Cypriot high jumper Kyriakos Ioannou and Jamaica's two-time Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown.
Lisek began his career as a high jumper, but later switched to pole vault, having decided he was too short for his original event. He was coached by Vyacheslav Kalinichenko, who also trained Monika Pyrek, one of the most successful Polish female pole vaulters. At the 2012 Polish Championships, he tested positive for an illegal substance, methylhexanamine, and was banned for six months.IAAF newsletter The athlete stated that he took the substance unknowingly in an energy drink and even listed it with the supplements he was using before the anti-doping control, which contributed to the reduced period of suspension.
However, much more than a pretty face Ethel Catherwood took home the world's first ever gold medal awarded to a female high jumper and holds the title as the only Canadian female athlete to have won an individual gold medal in an Olympic track and field event. Catherwood also held national titles in javelin throw, but this event became Olympic only in 1932, whereas she retired from competitions a year earlier. Upon her return from the 1928 Olympics, Catherwood was offered a movie contract, but declined the offer. She took a business course, married, and moved to California.
The athlete Gretel Bergmann wins the high jump championships in the United Kingdom. Since the Nazi racial laws prevented her continuing her training in Germany, being a Jew, her father had sent her to England, where she could live more safely and continue her sporting career. At the Berlin Olympics in 1936, the Americans and the IOC (International Olympic Committee) demand that Jewish athletes are not to be excluded from the event, especially the high jumper Gretel Bergmann of international fame, thus putting the Nazi Olympic Committee in great difficulty. A victory by a Jewish athlete would seriously humiliate the Nazi party.
Retrieved on 8 May 2009. She rounded off the year by winning her first senior gold medal at an international tournament, taking first place at the 2001 Mediterranean Games.Mediterranean Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 8 May 2009. The results of Vlašić's final year as a junior showed further development as a high jumper. She set a new indoor best of 1.92 m at the 2002 European Indoor Championships and was the favourite to win the 2002 World Juniors. She won the competition by a margin of nine centimetres, setting a new personal best of 1.96 m and attempting the symbolic two metres height.
Raised on a dairy farm, as the youngest of four children, and the only girl in the family Tyus was encouraged by her father to participate in sports. While a high school athlete Tyus participated in basketball and began her track endeavors as a high jumper before transitioning to the sprints after being invited to a summer track clinic at Tennessee State University in 1960. It was in this same year that Tyus's father died leaving the job of male role model in Tyus's life to her soon to be track coach at Tennessee State Ed Temple.
Kerstin Brandt, née Dedner (born 9 December 1961 in Wismar, Bezirk Rostock) is a retired East German high jumper. She won the 1979 European Junior Championships,European Junior Championships (Women) - GBR Athletics finished fourth at the 1982 European Indoor Championships1982 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik- Seite and fifth at the inaugural 1983 World Championships. She represented the sports club SC Empor Rostock, and won bronze medals at the East German championships in 1979, 1987 and 1988.East German championships, women's high jump Her personal best jump was 1.99 metres, achieved in August 1983 in London.
Oana Manuela Pantelimon, née Musunoiu (born September 27, 1972 in Tecuci) is a Romanian high jumper. At the 2000 Olympic Games Pantelimon ended in third place, tied with Kajsa Bergqvist of Sweden. As the two athletes had an identical jumping record, with perfect attempts up to 1.99 where both had one foul, they shared the bronze medal.Note: The Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad (page 447 of 548) erroneously lists her place as fourth. Pantelimon, who had no international honors before this competition, even jumped a personal best of 1.99 metres, improving her old mark with 5 centimetres.
In the first contest between universities from different countries, Oxford v Yale at the Queen's Club, West Kensington, in 1894, Fry came third in the long jump and won the 100 yards. In addition to being an outstanding long jumper, sprinter and high jumper, Fry was also a talented hurdler, once competing against Godfrey Shaw the champion hurdler of the time, who beat him but told him, as Fry later recalled: "He was sure if I took up hurdling seriously I might win the championship." Fry was also president of the Oxford University athletics club in 1894.
Morgan was born in Keilor on the outskirts of Melbourne, Victoria, where his father Patrick owned and operated a farm. He attended St Columbas Primary School in Essendon before moving on to St Joseph's Christian Brothers College in North Melbourne in 1917 and again from 1920 to 1926, finally completing his secondary schooling at St. Kevins. He and his brother Frank traveled to school each day by horse and buggy. While at school he was considered a very good high jumper and champion handball player and retained a love of sport, and in particular, Australian rules football, throughout his life.
Lee McConnell (born 9 October 1978) is a retired Scottish athlete, who competed in the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles having started her career as a high jumper. She is three-times an Olympian having competed for Great Britain at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics, and is 11-times a medalist at major championships. She was voted Scottish Athlete of the Year in 2002, 2003 and 2007. McConnell is a four-time World Championship bronze medallist in the 4 x 400 metres relay; in 2005 and 2007, with the latter team setting the British record of 3:20.04, 2009 and 2011.
Viktor Bolshov (; born 23 May 1939) is a retired Soviet high jumper. He competed in the 1960 Olympics finishing fourth behind his teammates Robert Shavlakadze, world record holder Valery Brumel and American John Thomas. During the course of the competition all four equaled the Olympic record, Shavlakadze, the first jumper in the order set the record first. Based on current rules, Bolshov would have tied Thomas for the bronze medal, but at the time jumpers were penalized for the number of attempts and Bolshov took seven attempts during the competition to Thomas' five.Men High Jump Olympic Games Rome 1960 - Thursday 01.09 . Todor66.
Sergey Malchenko (; born 2 November 1963) is a Russian former track and field athlete who competed in the high jump. His personal best mark of ranks him among the top twenty high jumpers of all-time and at his peak his was the sixth best ever in the event. He represented the Soviet Union three times in major international competition: he was the silver medallist at the European Athletics Championships in 1986, and a finalist at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics and 1989 European Athletics Indoor Championships. His son, Eduard Malchenko, is also a professional high jumper, who has a best of .
He won the IAAF World Junior Championships gold medal in 2004. From Nanoose Bay, British Columbia, Mason is only the second Canadian to win a World Junior Championship gold medal, following Mark Boswell who won in 1996. Mason holds a number of provincial records previously held by retired Canadian high jumper and 1976 Olympic Silver Medallist Greg Joy, including the BC high school, junior and senior records. Following his world junior win, he set the current NAIA record as a member of the UBC Thunderbirds and was the bronze medalist at the 2006 NACAC U-23 Championships.
Dimítrios Chondrokoúkis (, born January 26, 1988) is a Greek-Cypriot high jumper who competes internationally for Cyprus, since 2013. He won the gold medal at the 2012 Word Indoor Championships in Istanbul with a personal best of 2.33 meters representing Greece at the time. His personal best in the outdoor track is 2.32 m, achieved twice in Izmir on June 2011 and in the final at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea on 1 September 2011. In July 2012, it was announced Chondrokoúkis tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug stanozolol, an anabolic steroid.
Julia du Plessis (born 27 May 1996) is a South African high jumper. A child prodigy, her personal best jump is 1.88 metres, achieved in March 2012 in Germiston. In the age-specific categories she went on to win the bronze medal at the 2013 World Youth Championships, the silver medal at the 2015 African Junior Championships and finished twelfth at the 2012 World Junior Championships. She won the bronze medal at the 2015 African Games, finished eighth at the 2016 African Championships, tenth at the 2017 Summer Universiade and sixth at the 2018 African Championships.
The most prolific winner in event history is Loren Murchison, a sprinter who won 13 titles between 1919 and 1926. He is followed by pole vaulter Bob Richards (11), hurdler Greg Foster and 500-600-800m runner Mark Everett (10), and hurdler Harrison Dillard and miler Eamonn Coghlan (9). Coghlan’s total includes seven Wanamaker Mile victories and two Masters Mile wins. Four women share the honor of most Millrose wins at eight apiece: 400-meter runner Diane Dixon, whose eight victories include five straight from 1988–1992; middle-distance runner Jearl Miles-Clark; shot putter Connie Price-Smith; and high jumper Tisha Waller.
Confused on what to do after Eun-gyeol's confession, Jae-hee asks advice from Teacher Jang. Along with his fellow teachers, Teacher Jang brings Jae-hee, Tae-joon, and Eun-gyeol to the countryside for volunteer work, thinking it will lessen the tension between the trio. After the trip, Tae-joon reveals to Teacher Jang his plan to confess his love for Jae-hee and to admit to her that he knew all along that she is a girl. Meanwhile, Tae-joon's training partner and fellow high jumper Min Hyeon-jae (Kang Ha-neul) gets stressed over the competition between them and attempts to sabotage him.
Son of former athletes, father was once an Asian record holder in the pole vault, mother a high jumper, Zhang began to compete on the national track and field circuit as a teenager in 2004, setting bests of 10.80 seconds for the 100 metres and 21.53 seconds for the 200 metres. In 2005 he ran bests of 10.53 and 21.10 seconds in the sprints in his first international meeting in Tula, Russia. He placed in the top three in both events at the Chinese High School Games and came fifth over 200 m at the 2005 Chinese National Games.Zhang Peiming. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2013-03-31.
In 1920, Gloria Hollister enrolled at Connecticut College for Women, taking her childhood love and applying it toward a major in Zoology under the tutelage of Pauline Dederer. She graduated in 1924. During her college career, she served as class president and graduated Phi Beta Kappa; she was also heavily involved in sports and played varsity basketball and soccer, was a high jumper and a discus thrower on the track team, and was chosen in 1920 as a member of the All-American girls' hockey team. In Fall 1924, she continued her studies in Zoology at Columbia University, working under Florence Lowther and William K. Gregory.
Joel Baden (born 1 February 1996) is an Australian high jumper. A member of Australia's track and field squad at the 2015 IAAF World Championships and 2016 Summer Olympics, he cleared an extraordinary 2.29-metre mark twice as his personal best at the 2014 junior national meet in Melbourne, and at the North Queensland Games in Cairns two months before his maiden Games. Baden currently trains for the University of Melbourne's athletics club under the tutelage of his coach and mentor Sandro Bisetto. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Baden competed for Australia, along with his fellow countryman Brandon Starc, in the men's high jump.
Grégory Gabella (born 22 June 1980 in Thonon-les-Bains) is a French high jumper. He won the silver medal at the 1999 European Junior Championships,2005 European Junior Championships (Men) - GBR Athletics finished fifth at the 2001 European U23 Championships, won a joint bronze medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games, finished ninth at the 2002 European Championships2002 European Athletics Championships results, day 2 - The Athletics Site and won the bronze medal at the 2005 Mediterranean Games.2005 Mediterranean Games - GBR Athletics He also competed at the 1998 World Junior Championships without reaching the final. Gabella became French champion in 2004 and 2005 and French indoor champion in 2002 and 2003.
Weems played basketball at West Memphis High School where he was named first team all-state as a senior after leading his team to the 5A state championship, and was also a 6–10 high jumper in track and field. In Weems' high school career, West Memphis posted a record of 68–10. Weems averaged over 20 points per game as sophomore and junior, and 14.0 rebounds per game as a senior. After high school, Weems attended junior college at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, and was named 3rd team All-American, as well as all-conference and all- region as a freshman.
Patrick Clifford "Pat" Matzdorf (born December 26, 1949) is a former high jumper from the United States, who set a world record of 2.29 meters (7'-6 1/4") at a World All-Star Track Meet in Berkeley, California. Matzdorf, a Junior at the University of Wisconsin, entered the July 3, 1971 meet against the Soviet Union with a personal best of 7'-3" (2.21 m.) achieved earlier that year in March. He broke the world record that day on his third attempt at 2.29 meters. Matzdorf utilized the bent-leg straddle jumping style, a modification of the classic straight-leg straddle which dominated the sport in the 1950s and 1960s.
Richard Douglas Fosbury (born March 6, 1947) is an American retired high jumper, who is considered one of the most influential athletes in the history of track and field. Besides winning a gold medal at the 1968 Olympics, he revolutionized the high jump event with a "back-first" technique, now known as the Fosbury Flop, adopted by almost all high jumpers today. His method was to sprint diagonally towards the bar, then curve and leap backwards over the bar, which gave him a much lower center of mass in flight than traditional techniques. He continues to be involved in athletics and serves on the executive board of the World Olympians Association.
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-09. Four reigning men's champions from the 1958 European Athletics Championships were present at the competition: high jumper Richard Dahl, long jumper Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, javelin thrower Janusz Sidło and discus thrower Edmund Piątkowski (the latter a world record holder at the time). European Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-11. Sidło's fifth win in Union Internationale des Étudiants (UIE) competition made him the most successful individual athlete of the competition's history. In the women's competition, Vera Krepkina did a 100 metres/long jump double and she became Olympic champion in the latter event a year later.
Nikolia "Niki" Mitropoulou (; born February 16, 1982 in Galatsi, Athens) is a Greek high jumper. She attained her best jump of 1.91 metres from the Greek national championships to secure a spot on the Greek athletics squad for the 2004 Summer Olympics. Throughout her sporting career, Mitropoulou trained as a full-fledged member of the athletics team for Panionios G.S.S. in Nea Smyrni, Athens. Mitropoulou qualified as a lone athlete for the Greek squad in the women's high jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by setting up a B-standard of 1.91 metres from the Greek national championships at the Olympic Stadium.
Among the sports played by the athletes, Serbia marked its Olympic debut in taekwondo. Notable Serbian athletes featured butterfly swimmer and Olympic silver medalist Milorad Čavić, and world number-one male tennis player and Olympic bronze medalist Novak Djokovic, who was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony. Pistol shooter and Olympic gold medalist Jasna Šekarić, the oldest of the team at age 47, became the first Serbian athlete to compete in seven Olympic games, and played as an individual competitor under five different banners. Two athletes, on the other hand, made their sixth Olympic appearance: rifle shooter Nemanja Mirosavljev, and high jumper Dragutin Topić.
Lee McConnell attended Holyrood R.C. Secondary School in Glasgow before graduating from Loughborough University in 2000 with a degree in Sports Science. Originally a high jumper (becoming Scottish champion in 1998, 1999 and 2000), before turning to the 400 m and then the 400 metres hurdles (winning Commonwealth Bronze in a PB time). She was the Scottish 200 metres champion in 2002, and 2005. She also won the 400 m in 2001, and the 400 m at the AAA Championships in 2002. Internationally, in 2002, McConnell won a bronze medal at the 2002 European championships in the 400 m, then added a Commonwealth Games silver in the 400 m.
Balaș at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Balaș took up athletics owing to her caretaker Luisa Ernst, who was also a retired high jumper. In 1953 she transferred from Timișoara club "Electrica" to CCA (CSA Steaua). After finishing fifth in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, she won Olympic gold medals at Rome in 1960 (becoming the first Romanian woman to do so) and Tokyo in 1964. At the 1964 Olympics she competed with a torn tendon, which forced her later to withdraw from the 1966 European Championships. Nevertheless, between 1957 and 1966, Balaș won 154 consecutive competitions,"The Sport's Longest Winning Streak Gets Longer", Track & Field News (August 2016), p. 47.
Javier Sotomayor Sanabria (; born October 13, 1967) is a retired Cuban track and field athlete, who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder.Javier Sotomayor's profile at IAAF The 1992 Olympic champion, he was the dominant high jumper of the 1990s; his personal best of 2.45 m (8 ft 1/2 in) makes him the only person to have ever cleared eight feet. Sotomayor is twice a gold medallist at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics and also won two silver medals at the competition. At the IAAF World Indoor Championships he won four gold medals between 1989 and 1999.
Her Helsinki victory earned the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal for that year. In 2006, she had been ranked the number one female high jumper in the world but failed to win in that summer's European Championships in front of her home fans in Gothenburg, having to settle for a bronze medal. At the Hochsprung mit Musik meeting in Arnstadt, Germany, on 4 February 2006, Bergqvist set her first world record: she made an indoor leap of 2.08 on her first attempt, surpassing Heike Henkel's 2.07 m leap on 8 February 1992. The record was not totally unexpected since she jumped 2.00 m already in the warm up for the competition.
Camden High was well known for outstanding track programs. Bob Woods (head coach) and Tim Rostage (sprint coach) built a program that featured Roger Martin (1971 CCS Pole Vault Champion, 15'6), Bob Paulin (1976 CCS Champion and 1977 Jr. College XC State Champion), Rex White (24-foot long jumper), Mark Stewart (9.6 100 yard), Kevin Harding (6 ft. 7 inch high jumper), Steve Ruddy (46 ft triple jumper), Doug Searle (pole volter-San Diego State 17-6 School Recorder holder), Ron McKee (CCS Champion-Shot -60 ft plus). Three time 880 Women's CIF California State Meet Champion Ann Reagan ran a 2:04 800 meters as a Sophomore.
George Anthony Stanich (born November 4, 1928) was an American high jumper who won a bronze medal at 1948 Summer Olympics. He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, where he was a two-time all-conference player in the Pacific Coast Conference (now the Pac-12 Conference). As a basketball player at the University of California, Los Angeles, Stanich was a guard and led his team to its first NCAA tournament appearance in 50. He scored 9 points in the East- West All-Star Game and was a first-team all-American (as named by Converse), the first of 24 Bruins who would earn this honor under John Wooden.
Among the sports represented by the athletes, Syria made its Olympic debut in table tennis, as well as its return to judo after a twelve-year absence. The Syrian delegation featured four returning Olympians from the previous Games; among them were hurdler Ghfran Almouhamad and swimmers Bayan Jumah (women's 50 m freestyle) and American-based breaststroker Azad Al-Barazi. Attending his third Olympics as the oldest and most experienced competitor (aged 29), high jumper Majed Aldin Ghazal reprised his role of leading the Syrian team as the nation's flag bearer for the second consecutive time in the opening ceremony. Syria, however, did not win any Olympic medals in Rio de Janeiro.
Charles Everett "Charlie" Dumas (February 12, 1937 - January 5, 2004) was an American high jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft.(2.13 m) While attending Compton College, near Los Angeles, Dumas, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, made his memorable jump on June 29, 1956, in the US Olympic Trials in Los Angeles, breaking a barrier previously thought unbreakable. This jump not only ensured him of a place in the American Olympic team, but also made him the top favourite for the gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics. In Melbourne, he did not disappoint, and grabbed the title in a new Olympic Record.
Only one month later, on 1 August 2010, at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, she improved her personal best twice over within 5 minutes; first she jumped 1.99 and then just minutes later she jumped 2.01. This was her first time over the two-metre mark and was worth a European silver medal behind Blanka Vlašić – her first continental medal. She won the Folksam Grand Prix in Gothenburg later that month, jumping 1.95 m. Apart from being a world class high-jumper she has been a Swedish champion at the 100 m, 200m and long jump and is also a top national level triple jumper.
Miller, who is Jewish, attended East Brunswick High School and East Brunswick Jewish Center (EBJC) in East Brunswick, New Jersey.Josh Miller player profile , New England Patriots, accessed April 7, 2007. "Lettered in football, basketball and track at East Brunswick High School in East Brunswick, N.J." In East Brunswick High School he was an All-State pick in football (playing wide receiver, in addition to handling the duties of punting where he still holds some career records) and track (as a high jumper), as well as playing guard in basketball.Josh Miller « CBS Pittsburgh Miller was a high school classmate and football teammate of The Young Turks founder and CEO, Cenk Uygur.
Andrea Breder (born 7 December 1964) is a retired West German high jumper, born in Saarbrücken. She won the 1981 European Junior Championships,European Junior Championships (Women) - GBR Athletics finished seventh at the 1982 European Indoor Championships1982 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite and tenth at the 1984 European Indoor Championships She represented the sports club SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken, and became West German indoor champion in 1982.West German championships, women's high jump She also became long jump champion, in 1987.West German championships, women's long jump Her personal best jump was 1.93 metres, achieved in August 1981 in Koblenz.
Liu Yang (; born January 4, 1986 in Liaoning) is a Chinese high jumper. Representing his nation China in the men's high jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Liu cleared a height at 2.27 m to establish his own personal best from the Chinese Olympic Trials in Shijiazhuang. Liu qualified for the Chinese squad as an 18-year-old lone athlete in the men's high jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Three months before the Games, Liu auspiciously passed the exact Olympic B-height and registered his own personal best of 2.27 m at the Olympic Trials in Shijiazhuang to assure a place on the Chinese track and field team.
He finished sixth at the 1968 Olympic Games, this is the best performance for an Italian high jumper at the Summer Olympics like Rodolfo Bergamo at 1976 Summer Olympics. His personal best jump is 2.14 metres, achieved in the 1968 Olympic qualifying round.Italian all-time list, men's high jump (last updated 2000) Became a commentator and sports journalist, in 2009 he received the appointment as Deputy Director R.T.I. - Mediaset, position held until 31 December 2012. He has conducted various editions and sports columns of TG5, Italia 1 and Rete 4, always present in all the initiatives in the information field of the Fininvest group.
Mark Mandy (born 19 November 1972) is a retired Irish high jumper who grew up in England and competed for the Republic of Ireland by virtute of the fact he had a grandfather from Dublin. He seems to have retired from top level competition in 1999. He competed at the World Championships in 1993, 1995 and 1997, the 1996 Olympic Games, the 1997 World Indoor Championships, the 1994, 1996 and 1998 European Indoor Championships and the 1994 European Championships without reaching the final. Domestically, Mandy became Irish champion five times as well as AAA champion in 1997, AAA indoor champion in 1997, and Scottish champion in 1995.
Burke competed for some years both in the high jump and other events. Whilst some observers of Irish athletics mused that 6 ft 4 tall Burke who was in and around fourteen stone could have fond his ultimate forte as a decathlete, his success in this field would have been uncertain and it was a path he chose not to pursue. As a high jumper he also finished nineteenth at the 1992 World Junior Championships, and thirteenth at the 1998 European Indoor Championships.1998 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final He was a member of the Irish 4x400m Relay team who were 5th place finalists at the 2002 European Championships.
Leo W. Williams II (born 28 April 1960) is a retired American high jumper and entrepreneur. While attending Annapolis, Williams won four indoor Army-Navy Championships, four outdoor Army-Navy Championships, four indoor Heptagonal Championships, four outdoor Heptagonal Championships (1980–83) and the 1983 Penn Relays Championship of America High Jump (2.26 meters). He won the gold medal at the 1981 Summer Universiade with a jump of 2.24 meters and the silver medal at the 1983 Pan American Games with a jump of 2.27 meters. He is a two- time NCAA Indoor Champion (1981 with a jump of 2.27 meters and 1982 with a jump of 2.28 meters).
Eugen-Cristian Popescu (born 12 August 1962) is a retired Romanian high jumper. He finished seventh at the 1983 European Indoor Championships1983 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik- Statistik-Seite and at the 1986 European Championships, eighth at the 1987 European Indoor Championships1987 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite and eleventh at the 1994 European Indoor Championships.1994 European Indoor Championships, men's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite He became national champion in 1983, 1987-1990, 1993, 1994, 1998 and 1999.Romanian athletics championships - GBR Athletics He also competed at the 1983 World Championships as well as the World Indoor Championships in 1987 and 1995 without reaching the final round.
He enrolled in the College of the City of Detroit (later known as Wayne State University) in 1923 but did not try out for the track team until his junior year. He tried out for the track team as a high jumper, but the school's track coach, David L. Holmes, saw Doherty's potential as an all-around athlete in the decathlon, and entered him in competitions in the Penn Relays, the Illinois relays and the Ohio Relays. Doherty won four letters at Detroit City College, and was elected the student body president. He trained indoor on a track built in the 1880s for City College's "Old Main," when that large building served as Detroit's Central High School.
André Schneider-Laub (born 12 August 1958) is a retired (West) German high jumper. He won the silver medal at the 1977 European Junior Championships, finished seventh at the 1978 European Championships, won the bronze medal at the 1979 European Indoor Championships, finished sixth at the 1981 European Indoor Championships, fourth at the 1982 European Championships, sixth at the 1987 European Indoor Championships and competed without reaching the final at the 1987 World Indoor Championships. Schneider-Laub became West German champion in 1977 and 1978, won national silver medals in 1979 and 1986 and national bronze medals in 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985 and 1988. He also took three silvers and three bronzes at the West German indoor championships.
Dmytro Valeryovych Yakovenko (; born 17 September 1992) is a Ukrainian high jumper. A member of Ukraine's track and field squad at the 2015 IAAF World Championships and 2016 Summer Olympics, Yakovenko managed to clear his outdoor best jump of 2.30 m at the 2015 Ukraine Team Championships in Kirovohrad. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Yakovenko competed for Ukraine, along with his fellow countrymen Andriy Protsenko and eventual bronze medalist and current European record holder Bohdan Bondarenko, in the men's high jump. Leading up to his maiden Games, Yakovenko jumped a height of 2.30 metres to attain both his personal best and the IAAF Olympic entry standard at the 2015 Ukraine Team Championships.
Allan Smith is a multiple British champion and Team GB internationalist high jumper. He first came to the attention of the athletics world in 2011 when capturing all the Great Britain & Ireland Under 20 Men national indoor championship titles in a unique domestic athletics “grand-slam” that had never been done before. During that indoor season he also won the Welsh senior indoor title and set a Championship Best Performance in the Scottish Athletics Indoor League, placing him at the top of the UK junior men rankings for 2011. In 2012, he won the Scottish National Open and was runner-up in the Amateur Athletic Association of England (AAA) Under 23 Championship.
Retrieved on 8 May 2009. Her father brought her to the track while he practised and she dreamed of becoming a professional sprinter.Ramsak, Bob (5 March 2008). Focus on Athletes – Blanka Vlasic. IAAF. Retrieved on 8 May 2009. As she grew up she tried a number of sports but found that the high jump was particularly well-suited to her tall and slender frame. Vlašić shunned the idea of competing in more profitable sports, such as basketball, saying that she preferred the thrill of individual sports. She reached the international standard for a high jumper at an early age, setting a personal best of 1.80 metres at fifteen years of age and quickly improving to 1.93 m at sixteen.
Besides basketball, Russell represented USF in track and field events. Russell was a standout in the high jump, ranking the seventh-best high-jumper in the world in 1956 (his graduation year) according to Track & Field News (this despite not competing in Olympic high-jump competition that year). That year, Russell won high jump titles at the Central California AAU meet, the Pacific AAU meet, and the West Coast Relays. One of his highest jumps occurred at the West Coast Relays, where he achieved a mark of ; at the meet Russell tied Charlie Dumas, who would later in the year win gold in the Melbourne Olympics for the United States and become the first person to high-jump .
With this result of 1.98 m, Levern was the leading women's high jumper in the Commonwealth. At the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, however, she needed two attempts to clear 1.88m, and eventually recorded Saint Lucia's best-ever individual finish at Commonwealth Games athletics with a bronze medal, joining Dominic Johnson, who took bronze in men's Pole Vault in 2002 in Manchester. In 2010, Levern recorded six of the top ten best jumps of her career. She scored a victory at the 2010 CAC Games with a jump of 1.94 m and also had success on the European circuit, scoring five straight victories in Finland to scoop the 2010 Finnish Elite Games jackpot.Sonninen, A-P (22 August 2010).
San Marino was unable to send high jumper Eugenio Rossi because the governing body of athletics, the International Association of Athletics Federations, denied a request from the Sammarinese National Olympic Committee to allow him to compete in London. Pretelli was drawn in the fourth heat of the women's 100 metres on 3 August, finishing third out of nine runners with a time of 12.41 seconds. She placed 12th overall and did not advance into the quarter-finals after being two-tenths of a second slower than the slowest athlete who made the later stages. Afterwards, Pretelli revealed her training was delayed by tendinitis and she was only able to run three races going into the Olympics.
The state chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami inaugurated the Salem Cricket Foundation Stadium with international standards on 10 February 2020 in the presence of former cricketer Rahul Dravid and former ICC and BCCI president N. Srinivasan built at a cost of in Karivepilapatti near Vazhapadi. This newly inaugurated ground is the home ground for Salem Spartans, a TNPL team and also the second home ground for the Indian Premier League team of Chennai Super Kings. Mariyappan Thangavelu from Salem is an Indian Paralympic high jumper. He represented India in the 2016 Summer Paralympic games held in Rio de Janeiro in the men's high jump T-42 category, winning the gold medal in the finals.
Jackson, who ran 17 times for 114 yards during this Iron Bowl, continued marching his team downfield as he caught an 8-yard pass from quarterback Randy Campbell down to the Alabama 1-yard line. During the huddle Bo convinced Coach Dye to let him go over the top of offensive and defensive lines because he was a 7 foot high jumper in high school and the other team wouldn't be expecting it. On fourth down with 2:26 left in the game, Jackson completed the drive by going over the top for a one-yard touchdown run as Auburn (finished 9–3 in 1982) pulled off a 23–22 victory over Alabama and coach Paul "Bear" Bryant.
Valeriy Sergeyevich Skvortsov (; born May 31, 1945, Berdychiv, Ukraine, former USSR) is a retired high jumper who represented the USSR in the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. Skvortsov was first noticed by Soviet high jump coach Viktor Lonsky, who offered him training in a converted sports gym located within the walls of an old Catholic cathedral. His sports career began to accelerate as he won various local high jump competitions and later was invited to Moscow to train for the Soviet Olympic team. Skvortsov had subsequently participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games of 1964, where he took the 14th place in the high-jump final with a jump height of 2.06 meters.
In tribute to her daughter, Neal donated a silver cup to Olivia's school for the best high jumper and insisted that the name of her character, Olivia Walton, that she played in The Waltons television film, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, be kept as Olivia, and not changed to Mary as the producers wished. Roald Dahl donated a wooden statue of Saint Catherine to the Church of St John the Baptist in Little Missenden in memory of Olivia after the original was stolen from the church. Dahl's statue was also subsequently stolen and replaced by a replica. He also dedicated his children's novels James and the Giant Peach (1961) and The BFG (1982) to Olivia.
There was only a single competitor in road cycling, judo, tennis, and wrestling. The Serbia and Montenegro team featured several Olympic medalists from Sydney, including the reigning men's volleyball champions (led by team captain Vladimir Grbić), and pistol shooter Jasna Šekarić, who became the first Serbian athlete to compete in five Olympic Games under three different banners (the other were SFR Yugoslavia and Independent Olympic Participants). Meanwhile, four Serbia and Montenegro athletes had made their fourth Olympic appearance: high jumper Dragutin Topić, shot putter Dragan Perić (the oldest of the team at age 40), rifle shooter Stevan Pletikosić, and table tennis player Slobodan Grujić. Basketball team captain Dejan Bodiroga was appointed by the committee to become the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
Talles Frederico Souza Silva (born August 20, 1991) is a Brazilian high jumper. A member of Brazil's track and field squad at the 2015 IAAF World Championships, the 2015 Pan American Games, and the 2016 Summer Olympics, he cleared an automatic qualifying height of 2.29 m as his personal best at the regional grand prix meet in Campinas less than five months before his nation hosted the Games. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Silva competed as a lone countryman for the host nation Brazil in the men's high jump. Leading up to his maiden Games, Silva jumped a height of 2.29 metres to attain both his personal best and the IAAF Olympic entry standard in Campinas.
Recent athletic highlights include the 2016, 2017, & 2018 Conference Champion women's soccer teams that participated in the NCAA Division III National Tournament and the 2018 men's soccer team that did the same. All-American baseball player Drake Sykes had an outstanding 2016 season, two-time All-American wrestler Jaran Rutledge placed in the NCAA Division III National Tournament in 2007 (3rd) and 2008 (8th), and All-American high-jumper Austin Rauch finished sixth at the 2019 NCAA Division III Indoor track national championships. Knox College and Monmouth College have the sixth-longest college football rivalry in the United States. The Bronze Turkey trophy, awarded annually to the victor of their game, was created in 1928 and is the brainchild of Knox football alumnus Bill Collins.
It was also the first time a world record in the high jump had been set at the Olympics. Jörg Freimuth took bronze, making East Germany the third nation (after the United States and Soviet Union) to have two medalists in the event in the same Games. Defending champion Jacek Wszoła of Poland took silver, becoming the fourth man to win two high jump medals and matching Valeriy Brumel for best results at one gold and one silver. Through the 2016 Games, Wszoła, Brumel, and Javier Sotomayor (who joined them at one gold and one silver in 2000) remain the most successful Olympic men's high jumpers; no high jumper has won two gold medals, or one gold and two silvers.
Porter was a high jumper who utilized the straddle technique, the dominant high jump technique before the Fosbury Flop emerged in the 1960s. At the age of 19, Porter competed for Australia in the high jump at the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia, finishing second and taking the silver medal with a leap height of 2.10m, more than 5cm higher than his previous personal best. American Charles Dumas won the gold medal, setting an Olympic record of 2.12m, higher than the previous Olympic best by 7 cm. The event was known for lasting more than five hours and continuing well into dusk in front of 60,000 fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and was the longest field event in Olympic history.
Ian Kidgell (born 21 November 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Bears in the Australian Football League (AFL). Kidgell was originally listed by Hawthorn and played for their Under 19s and Reserves in 1989 and 1990 before leaving Hawthorn to go to Brisbane in the 1991 Pre-season Draft. Kidgell played three senior games for Brisbane in 1991 before returning to Hawthorn Reserves 1992, Essendon Reserves 1993, Oakleigh (VFA) 1994, Monbulk (1st Div YVMDFL 1995-2001 - a member of Monbulk's 1997 and 1998 premiership teams) A champion High Jumper as a junior, and standing 203 cm, he was the Bears tallest ever player and was blessed with great athleticism, Kidgell had to wait until round 21 to make his debut.
Aleksey Lesnichiy (also Aliaksei Liasnichy, ; born February 3, 1978) is a retired Belarusian high jumper. Lesnichiy was selected to compete for the Belarusian squad in the men's high jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but his participation had been abruptly outweighed with a doping failure for testing positive on clenbuterol, which resulted to his impending expulsion from the Games. During his athletic career, Lesnichiy cleared a height at 2.30 m to establish his own personal best from the 2003 Belarusian Athletics Meet in Minsk. Lesnichiy qualified for the Belarusian squad in the men's high jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by passing the exact Olympic A-height and registering his own personal best of 2.30 m from the national athletics meet in Minsk.
Women in athletics often wear bikinis of similar size as those worn in beach volleyball. Amy Acuff, a US high-jumper, wore a black leather bikini instead of a track suit at the 2000 Summer Olympics.Staff Correspondent, "Hype Hopes Today's Olympians need more than athletic prowess to win gold", Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 6, 2000 Runner Florence Griffith-Joyner mixed bikini bottoms with one-legged tights at the 1988 Summer Olympics, earning her more attention than her record-breaking performance in the women's 200 meters event.Anne Marie Balsamo, Technologies of the gendered body, page 46, Duke University Press, 1996, In the 2007 South Pacific Games, the rules were adjusted to allow players to wear less revealing shorts and cropped sports tops instead of bikinis.
Although Chamberlain was shy and insecure as a teenager, he became well known for his womanizing when he was an adult. As his lawyer Seymour "Sy" Goldberg put it: "Some people collect stamps, Wilt collected women." Swedish Olympic high jumper Annette Tånnander, who met him when he was 40 and she 19, remembers him as a pick-up artist who was extremely confident yet respectful: "I think Wilt hit on everything that moved ... [but] he never was bad or rude." However, Los Angeles Times columnist David Shaw claimed that during a dinner with Shaw and his wife, Chamberlain was "rude and sexist toward his own date, as he usually was", adding that at one point Chamberlain left the table to get the phone number of an attractive woman at a nearby table.
Jesse Daniel Williams (born December 27, 1983 in Modesto, California) is an American high jumper and the 2011 World Champion. He was ranked the #2 jumper in the world, outdoors, in 2010. He has jumped 53 centimeters above his height, a differential which places him among the top 20 jumpers of all time. Williams attended high school at Broughton High School in Raleigh, North Carolina and attended North Carolina State University for one year (2003) before transferring and finishing his student-athlete career at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where he won the NCAA track and field championships indoors 2005 and 2006 and outdoors in 2005 and 2006 becoming one of the few people to ever do so in the history of NCAA track and field.
Henry Lauterbach at a long jump competition in 1981 Henry Lauterbach (born 22 October 1957 in Buttstädt, Bezirk Erfurt) is a retired East German high jumper and long jumper. In the high jump he finished fourth at the 1978 European Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia and sixth at the 1979 European Indoor Championships in Vienna, Austria.1979 European Indoor Championships results, men's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite He competed at the 1976 Olympic Games, but did not reach the final round; at the 1980 Olympic Games however he finished fourth.1980 Olympic Games, men's results - Sporting Heroes With a jump of 2.29 metres he missed out on the bronze medal by 2 centimetres; the bronze and gold medals were won by his compatriots Jörg Freimuth and Gerd Wessig respectively.
In 2009, Levern signed her first professional contract with Stellar Group, becoming the first high jumper on their roster. She repeated as Central American and Caribbean champion in Havana, Cuba and signed an endorsement deal with Caribbean telecommunications provider, LIME – Landline, Internet, Mobile and Entertainment. She is featured on the cover of the 2010 LIME Services Directory, over 75,000 copies of which were distributed. After taking the gold medal at the 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics, Spencer was the sole Saint Lucian to qualify for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, but she failed to make the final. She also narrowly missed out on making the cut for the season-ending 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final, finishing ninth in the world for women's High Jump.
Heading to her fourth straight Olympics as the most experienced competitor, Lalova-Collio was selected by the committee to carry the Bulgarian flag at the opening ceremony, the second time by a female in the nation's Summer Olympic history. Bulgaria returned home from Rio de Janeiro with only three medals (one silver and two bronze), marking a slight improvement from the nation's overall tally at the previous Games (not taking into account subsequent changes to the medal tallies for the 2012 Games due to doping violations). All of Bulgaria's medalists were women for the first time in history; a silver to high jumper Mirela Demireva, and a bronze each to the rhythmic gymnastics troupe in the group all-around and freestyle wrestler Elitsa Yankova in the women's 48 kg.
Among the sporting events represented by the nation's athletes, Cyprus made its Olympic debut in artistic gymnastics and women's road cycling. The Cypriot delegation featured six returning Olympians, with only four of them having participated in more than two editions of the Olympic Games, including high jumper Kyriakos Ioannou, sprinter Eleni Artymata, 33-year-old windsurfer Andreas Cariolou (the oldest and most experienced competitor of the team), and Laser sailor Pavlos Kontides, who won a silver medal in London four years earlier. The nation's first ever Olympic medalist, and one of the potential frontrunners for gold in the Laser class at his third Games, Kontides was selected to lead the Cypriot team as the flag bearer in the opening ceremony. Unlike the previous Olympics, Cyprus failed to earn a single medal in Rio de Janeiro.
Canadian Swimmers Strike Out in Athens CANOE – SLAM! 2004 Games Swimming : Rock bottom Tewksbury and Martina Navratilova read the Declaration of Montreal at the opening ceremonies of the World Outgames. Tewksbury became a prominent advocate for gay rights and gay causes in Canada and the world.Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging. UBC Press; September 18, 2015. . p. 103–. On May 16, 2003, Tewksbury joined the board of directors for the 2006 World Outgames in Montreal and was named co-president. He was a panelist at the 2003 National Gay and Lesbian Athletics Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a panel of LGBT Olympians that also included rower Harriet Metcalf and high jumper Brian Marshall."GLAF convention brings gay athletes to Boston". Bay Windows, March 27, 2003.
His junior sporting career began at Saint Patrick's College Goulburn, then he moved to the senior school at Waverley College before going onto the University of Sydney. In an article in the Freeman’s Journal of 1931, it was stated that Rod O'Loan was the 1931 junior sprint champion over 100 yards in N.S.W., had won the Botany Junior Sprint title in 1931, was a champion high jumper at 13 years of age and was the holder of many junior swimming records, and he was in the First XI cricket and the First XV Rugby teams at 15 years of age.Freemans Journal, 19/03/1931 ‘Promising athlete R. O'Loan’ After seven seasons in first grade with the Tricolours, Rod O'Loan retired after the 1941 season and enlisted in the Army.
In his sophomore year, he failed to complete jumps of , the qualifying height for many high school track meets. This dominant technique, the straddle method, was a complex motion where an athlete went over the high jump bar facing down, and lifted his legs individually over the bar. Fosbury found it difficult to coordinate all the motions involved in the straddle method, and began to experiment with other ways of doing the high jump. Fosbury later recalled, "I knew I had to change my body position and that's what started first the revolution, and over the next two years, the evolution."Brad Fuqua, "Anything but a Flop: Fifty Years Ago, OSU High Jumper Dick Fosbury's New Style Launched His Event Toward New Heights," Corvallis Gazette-Times, March 29, 2014; pp.
His first exposure to the sport of football was at Buena Vista College in the fall of 1947, on the "B" team, joining after a short stint in the navy during World War II. He played defensive tackle despite being a relative lightweight at 190 pounds. Doran transferred to Iowa State University in 1947, joining the track team as a sprinter, high jumper and shot putter. Doran had his 1948 football season end in the season opener with a broken right ankle. In 1949, he helped the team post a 5–3–1 record, the school's first winning football season in a span of 14 years, and being named to the All-Big Seven team at offensive end, with 689 yards on 34 catches, breaking the single-season Big Seven receiving mark by over 200 yards.
On 21 September, it was widely reported that some of the data retrieved from the Moscow laboratory may have been manipulated and tampered with before it was retrieved by the World Anti-Doping Agency. This meant that Russia would remain suspended from the then-upcoming 2019 World Athletics Championships, and faced a possible ban from hosting and competing in all major sporting events including the upcoming 2020 Olympics and possibly the 2022 Olympics, 2022 FIFA World Cup and the 2024 Olympics. Two months later on 21 November, a number of Russian athletics officials were suspended for obstructing and failing to co-operate with an investigation into the whereabouts of high-jumper Danil Lysenko. President of the Russian Athletics Federation Dmitry Shlyakhtin was suspended along with 6 others associated with RusAF, including the athlete and his coach.
Jean Babilée (real name Jean Gutman(n); 3 February 1923 – 30 January 2014) was a prominent French dancer and choreographer of the latter half of the 20th century. He is considered to have been one of modern ballet's greatest performers, and the first French dancer to gain international acclaim. Babilée has been called the "enfant terrible of dance." Born in Paris in 1923, the son of a doctor, Babilée studied at the Paris Opéra Ballet School from 1936 to 1940.Patrick Bensard , Alliance Française USA, accessed March 1, 2011Music: High Jumper from Paris, Time, April 23, 1951 His dance career was interrupted during World War II because he was Jewish on his father's side. He left Paris in 1940 when the Wehrmacht was approaching the city, but returned to dance with the Paris Opera Ballet in early 1942.
The Botswana Golf Union offers an amateur golf league in which golfers compete in tournaments and championships. Botswana won the country's first Olympic medal in 2012 when runner Nijel Amos won silver in the 800 metres. In 2011, Amantle Montsho became world champion in the 400 metres and won Botswana's first athletics medal on the world level. High jumper Kabelo Kgosiemang is a three-time African champion, Isaac Makwala is a sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres, he was the gold medallist at the Commonwealth Games in 2018, Baboloki Thebe was a silver medallist in the 200 metres at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and reached the semi-finals at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics & Ross Branch Ross a motorbiker holds the number one plate in the South African Cross Country Championship and has competed at the Dakar Rally.
Twenty-three of them were born outside Qatar, including eleven handball players, two boxers, a table tennis player, and a beach volleyballer. In addition to three aforementioned sports, Qatar marked its Olympic debut in equestrian jumping and judo, as well as its return to weightlifting after 12 years. The Qatari team was highlighted by two of its prominent athletes and Olympic bronze medalists from the previous Games: high jumper and current Asian record holder Mutaz Essa Barshim, and skeet shooter Nasser Al-Attiyah, who attended his sixth Games as the oldest and most experienced competitor (aged 45). Other notable athletes on the Qatari delegation also included Asia's fastest sprinter Femi Ogunode, table tennis legend Li Ping, freestyle swimmer Nada Arkaji, and equestrian rider Sheikh Ali Al-Thani, who eventually served as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
He was selected as a consensus All-American in 1901 and was the captain of Harvard's 1902 football team. A newspaper story in 1902 called Kernan "one of the most remarkable college athletes in the world," and added the following about his gridiron talent: > He is of ideal build for a plunging half-back, and the force with which he > plunges into and tears through the center of the line is only little less > dangerous to an opposing team than the speed with which he goes around the > end. . . . He is the kicker of the university and in a game can punt from > fifty to seventy yards. Kernan also played four years for Harvard's baseball team, playing as both a pitcher and catcher. He was also a high jumper for the track team and, in 1903, won the intercollegiate championship with a high jump of six feet and one inch.
Diver Pat McCormick won four gold medals in two consecutive Olympics (Helsinki and Melbourne), and Misty May- Treanor (BS 2002) won three gold medals in women's beach volleyball in three other consecutive Olympics (Athens, Beijing, and London). High Jumper Dwight Stones set the World Record while a student at Cal State Long Beach, in addition to winning the bronze medal at both the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and 1976 in Montreal. Track and Field athlete Bill Green (BA 1984) set the United States and NCAA record three times in the hammer throw, and placed 5th at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Former students Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter (Class of 1972, Honorary Doctorate 2000) of The Carpenters are the namesakes of the Carpenter Performing Arts Center, a 1,065-seat performance hall on the campus of the university that also houses an exhibit on the Carpenters.
It had several departments, such as football, track and field, boxing, ice hockey, cycling, basketball, handball and volleyball. Among most notable athletes of that time were: Stanislaw Zakrzewski (high jumper), Klemens Biniakowski (runner, who participated in the 1928 Summer Olympics), Feliks Wiecek (cyclist, winner of the 1928 Tour de Pologne). Polonia’s football team were four times champions of Polish Pomerania, but failed to win promotion to the Ekstraklasa. After World War Two, Polonia was reactivated on October 21, 1945. In 1947, its football team once again won local championships. On May 22, 1946, the speedway department was formed, but in 1949, the so-called First Polonia was dissolved by the Communist authorities, who disliked its prewar, bourgeoisie roots. In 1949-57, Polonia Bydgoszcz did not exist. On May 24, 1957, BKS Polonia and ZS Gwardia (sports organization supported by Milicja Obywatelska) merged into Milicyjny KS Polonia.
Rainer Henkel (born 27 February 1964 in Opladen) is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.Rainer Henkel at Sports Reference at Sports Reference At the World Championships Henkel won four medals: two golds in the 400 m freestyle and 1500 m freestyle in 1986, silver in the 4×200 m freestyle, and bronze in the 4×200 m freestyle. Furthermore, he won five medals at the European Championships: two golds in the 1500 m freestyle and 4×200 m freestyle in 1987, two silver medals in the 1500 m freestyle in 1985 and the 400 m freestyle in 1987, and one bronze in the 400 m freestyle in 1985. From 1989 to 2001 he was married to the former German high jumper Heike Henkel.
Emery Oakland Barnes, OBC (December 15, 1929 – July 1, 1998) was a Canadian professional football player and politician. Born in Louisiana and raised in Oregon, Barnes was a gifted athlete, and was an alternate high jumper for the 1952 US Olympic Track and Field team. He played football at the University of Oregon (from where he received his B.Sc) and was selected by the National Football League's Green Bay Packers in the 1954 NFL Draft (10th round, 207th overall.) He played two games for the Packers in 1956, but had much more success in the Canadian Football League with the B.C. Lions. He played 3 years, from 1962 to 1964, for a total of 30 games and was champion in 1964 (though an injury prevented him from playing in the Grey Cup game.) He also received a Bachelor of Social Work degree from the University of British Columbia.
James Grayman competed in the Beijing Olympics as Antigua and Barbuda's sole high jumper, where he participated in the second qualifying heat on August 17 against athletes that included Brazil's Jesse Lima and the Czech Republic's Tomáš Janků. Grayman cleared a 2.20 meter height on his second attempt, placing behind tenth-place heat finalist Dmytro Dem'yanyuk of the Ukraine, who made the height on his first try, and eleventh-place heat finalist Linus Thörnblad of Sweden, who also made the height on his second attempt, but had fewer overall misses than Grayman. He finished ahead of the three thirteenth-place heat finalists (Italy's Alessandro Talotti, Spain's Javier Bermejo, and Botswana's Kabelo Kgosiemang) and the sixteenth-place heat finalist (Hup Wei Lee of Malaysia) who achieved the same height, but did so in three tries. Overall, Grayman ranked 28th out of 40 competitors and did not advance to finals on August 19.
After retiring from active competition Ottey spent several years coaching in various universities throughout the United States, including University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Kent State University and University of New Mexico before moving back to Toronto, Ontario. The number one ranked high jumper in the world in 1982 and the twenty three times indoor and outdoor [National champions] in the men's high jump event, Ottey is the owner and director OT Fitness Educational Services inc. Ottey took over the reins of the UK kids core skills development program International Fun and Team Athletics (IFTA) in Canada. OT Fitness provide programs in schools that promote health and fitness to assist in the core skills development of children and teens. OT Fitness looks at the obstacles to a healthy lifestyle and helps kids jump over them, crawl under them, run around them and tackle them head on "IT’S ABOUT THE KIDS".
Brigitte Elisabeth Holzapfel (born 10 April 1958 in Krefeld) is a retired West German high jumper. At the 1975 European Junior Championships she won a bronze medal in the high jump and a gold medal in pentathlon.European Junior Championships (Women) - GBR Athletics She finished eleventh at the 1976 Olympic Games, won silver medals at the 19771977 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite and 1978 European Indoor Championships,1978 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite and the bronze medal at the 1978 European Championships, finished sixth at the 1984 European Indoor Championships1984 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite and eleventh at the 1984 Olympic Games. She represented the sports clubs TSV Preußen Krefeld, TuS 04 Leverkusen, LG Bayer Leverkusen and TV Wattenscheid, and became West German champion in 1976 and 1978.
In August 2013, Helsingin Sanomat quoted the President of the Board of the Finnish Olympic Committee Risto Nieminen, that it is forbidding its athletes the rainbow-patterned fingernails in the upcoming games, ruling it political abuse of the Olympic Charter. The issue was raised after high-jumper Emma Green Tregaro displayed her rainbow nails and the Finnish Minister of Culture and Sport Paavo Arhinmäki waved the rainbow flag in the Moscow 2013 World Championships in Athletics in support of LGBT rights in Russia. Arhinmäki responded, that the Olympic movement should defend, not limit, the freedom of speech, and the Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade of Finland Alexander Stubb commented that the issue is about human rights, not politics, both bringing up the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute as one of the finest moments in Olympic history. The Committee followed up, that they were simply quoting the Charter, which bans political abuse, and themselves couldn't allow or disallow the nails.
Douglas G. Stuart (born October 5, 1931) was a Regents' professor emeritus of Physiology at the University of Arizona.Short Bio at the university portal As a young man in Australia, Stuart trained to compete with the Australian team in the British Commonwealth Games as a high jumper. He came to Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) on a track scholarship in 1954 to complete his BS (1955) and MS (1956) in physical education with an emphasis on mammalian physiology and the physiology of exercise. It was at MSU that Stuart developed his interest and expertise in academe (including exposure to experimental neuroscience; his first venture involved testing the effects of fatigue on human reaction time); blossomed in public speaking (MSU sent him state-wide to promulgate interest in its foreign student program) and leadership (he co-ran a dormitory of 500 undergraduate and graduate students); met and subsequently married (1957) an American undergraduate (see below).
The third group of inductees in 2011 were skier Chemmy Alcott (Richmond), Paralympic swimmer Elaine Barrett (Hackney), triathlete Tim Don (Hounslow), high jumper Dalton Grant (Hackney), squash player Paul Johnson (Greenwich), and footballer Rachel Yankey (Brent). In 2012 the inductees were cyclist Joanna Rowsell (Sutton), Paralympic rower Naomi Riches (Harrow), judo star and 2013 Patron Gemma Gibbons (Greenwich), canoeist Richard Hounslow (Harrow), England rugby star Maggie Alphonsi (Enfield) and world champion track star John Regis (Lewisham). London 2012 judo bronze medallist Karina Bryant (Kingston), England and Arsenal footballer Alex Scott (Tower Hamlets), fencer Richard Kruse (Barnet), Olympic silver medallist diver Peter Waterfield (Waltham Forest) and were all inducted in 2013, as well as Darren Hall (Waltham Forest), who is considered among many as the best ever British badminton player. Between them, the current 32 members have amassed 46 Olympic or Paralympic medals, 123 World Championship medals, 1 Tour de France, 6 Premier League medals, 1 European Champions League medal and over 1000 international appearances for their country.
Maria-Christine Soetewey (married Van Vlierberghe) (born 19 August 1957 in Kapellen) is a retired Belgian high jumper. She finished ninth at the 1980 European Indoor Championships,1980 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite twelfth at the 1980 Olympic Games, ninth at the 1982 European Indoor Championships,1982 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite sixth at the 1983 European Indoor Championships,1983 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite fifteenth at the 1983 World Championships, fourth at the 1984 European Indoor Championships,1984 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik- Statistik-Seite seventh at the 1985 World Indoor Games, and fourteenth at the 1987 European Indoor Championships.1987 European Indoor Championships results, women's high jump final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite She also competed at the 1984 Olympic Games without reaching the final. She became Belgian champion in 1979, 1980 and from 1982 to 1987.
Paulo Jorge da Silva Conceição (born 29 December 1993) is a Portuguese high jumper who has competed for S.L. Benfica since 2011. Paulo Conceição jumped 2.28m in 2020, setting a new Portuguese record. The previous record was 2.24m, also by Paulo Conceição, back in 2016. With 2.20 metres (7 ft 2.6 in), Paulo Conceição holds the Portuguese U-23 record in men's high jump. His 2014 record 2.20m – set in Lisbon on 16 July 2014 – is the third best in national history, and only Rafael Gonçalves has achieved a higher jump, which he did on three occasions. He is also an indoor Portuguese U-23 record holder with a mark of 2.16 m (2014). Paulo Conceição has a silver medal from the Mediterranean U23 Championships, in the city of Aubagne (France, near Marseille). At a young age he practiced all that was sport at school: gymnastics, volleyball, badminton, handball... but it was in basketball that he best distinguished.
" The Guardians Peter Bradshaw said, "Like a high-jumper cracking the bar in two with his forehead, former teen star Zac Efron fails to make it into the Mature Performer league in this unendurable romantic drama, filmed in the buttery late-summer glow I associate with movies such as Message in a Bottle and The Notebook." Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe wrote that Efron lacked suitable material to make his character interesting and that Steers' direction "cares not for pacing [or] depth or the power of real emotion", saying "the movie is very much dead already. It has no pulse, no apparent breath, and a curious odor seems to waft from the screen not long after Charlie and Sam win a race together in the opening scene." Mark Jenkins of NPR felt the film lacked "genuine emotion" to backup its concept and that Efron was miscast in the title character role, concluding that, "[U]nlike The Lovely Bones, this film doesn't attempt to show the afterlife as experienced by those who die too young.
Carl Albert "Flisa" Andersen (15 August 1876 – 28 September 1951) born in Oslo, he was a Norwegian pole vaulter, high jumper, and gymnast who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics, 1906 Intercalated Games and the 1908 Summer Olympics. As an athlete Andersen represented the IF Ørnulf club and set many Norwegian national records as well as being national champion in the pole vault and high jump in 1896, 1897 and 1900. Andersen participated in Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and competed in two field events, and won the bronze medal in the pole vault, he jumped 3.20 metres and finished behind two Americans Irving Baxter and Meredith Colket, earlier in the day he had competed in the high jump and jumped 1.70 metres to finish tied for fourth place just 0.5 metres behind another bronze medal. At the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, he was a member of the Norwegian gymnastics team, which consisted of 20 gymnasts, and went on to win the gold medal in the team, Swedish system event ahead of Denmark, he also competed in the individual all round five events competition and finished in 23rd position.
Uzbekistan made its Olympic debut in women's boxing, men's table tennis, and the rhythmic gymnastics group all-around, as well as returning to artistic gymnastics, women's judo, and rowing after their absence from London 2012. Leading the Uzbek roster lineup were Oksana Chusovitina, who created history as the oldest ever female gymnast (aged 41) and the first to participate in a record seventh Olympics, and Ekaterina Khilko, who became the only trampolinist to be featured in every Olympic competition since her sport was added to the program in Sydney 2000. Chusovitina's fellow gymnast Anton Fokin, along with judo legends Rishod Sobirov and Abdullo Tangriev, also highlighted the Uzbek team for being the only medalists returning to these Games. Other notable athletes on the Uzbek roster included world's top-ranked taekwondo fighter Dmitriy Shokin in the men's +80 kg division, American-based freestyle wrestler and Asian Games champion Bekzod Abdurakhmonov (men's 74 kg), tennis player Denis Istomin, Asia's top female high jumper Svetlana Radzivil, and super heavyweight boxer Bakhodir Jalolov, who was nominated by the committee as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
Brill came in eighth at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. She campaigned to have the Games stopped after the Munich massacre, and retired after the Games, becoming disillusioned with the Olympic experience. She returned to competition in 1975 and placed 4th at the Pan Am Games. At the 1976 Montreal Olympics she was eliminated after failing three times at the opening height, and was criticized for laughing in a subsequent interview, although she wrote afterwards that she was disappointed by her failure. She placed 3rd at the first World Cup in 1977, and won a silver medal at home in Edmonton, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. In 1979 Brill won a gold medal in the athletics World Cup held in Montreal, Canada. She was the world's number one high jumper for 1979. Having been ranked number one in the world by Track and Field News in 1979, Brill was one of the favourites going into the 1980 Olympics which Canada boycotted because of the U.S.S.R.'s military involvement in Afghanistan. In January 1982, Brill established a World Indoor High Jump record of 1.99 meters in Edmonton, Alberta, 5 months after giving birth to her first son, Neil.
On June 24, 2012, Cunningham established the USATF 15-16 age group Outdoor Track & Field record with a jump of . Cunningham won the August 2012 National AAU Junior Olympic Games high jump with a jump of . He actually won the 15-16 age group with a height of . The Junior Olympic age group record of by Johnnie Bartley had stood since 1986, but Cunningham continued to jump past his winning height to establish a new Junior Olympic record. By April 11 of his 2013 junior season, he had already cleared , which was the NIAA state championship record, four times that season. In the May 18, 2013 NIAA state championships, he achieved a high jump of , which was the best height by a high school high jumper in the nation that year. He earned the 2013 Nevada Track & Field Gatorade Player of the Year award. In the August 2013 AAU Junior Olympics, he was second or third in the 17-18 age group with a height of or , depending on the source. On January 3, 2014, he made a verbal commitment to the USC Trojans track team, shunning over 30 football scholarship offers.
It was also her fourth consecutive win in ÅF Golden League, where she was one of only two remaining jackpot contenders, the other being high jumper Blanka Vlašić.Turner, Chris (18 July 2008) Jelimo 1:54.97; Robles 12.88; Wariner 43.86 in Paris - ÅF Golden League, Paris IAAF Retrieved on 14 December 2008 On 18 August 2008 Jelimo won gold in the 800 metres at the Beijing Olympics. Her time was 1:54.87, again a record. She became the first Kenyan woman to win an Olympic gold medal.Okoth, Omulo (18 August 2008) Kenya wins two Olympic gold medals The Standard Retrieved on 14 December 2008 She continued her unbeaten streak by winning the Weltklasse Golden League meeting in Zurich on 29 August 2008 improving her personal best to 1:54.01.Weltklasse 2008 results Weltklasse Retrieved on 14 December 2008 This was the third fastest performance ever, behind only Nadezhda Olizarenko and the world record of Jarmila Kratochvílová. At the Memorial van Damme competition in Brussels, the ÅF Golden League final, Jelimo won the 800 metres with a time of 1:55.16. As the only athlete to win the same event at all six Golden League meetings, she won the competition's jackpot of $1,000,000.

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