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Nation	Height	Athlete	Venue	Date
	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor	Salamanca Salamanca Salamanca is a city in western Spain, the capital of the province of Salamanca , which belongs to the autonomous community of Castile and Leon ....	1993-07-27
	2.42 m	Patrik Sjöberg Patrik Sjöberg Jan Niklas Patrik Sj?berg is a former Sweden high jumper and previous world record holder. With 2.42 m, he holds the Swedish as well as the European record in men's high jump, making him the second best high jumper of all time, after Javier Sotomayor....	Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....	1987-06-30
	2.42 m	Carlo Thränhardt Carlo Thränhardt Carlo Thr?nhardt is a former Germany high jumper, who won the silver medal at the 1981 European Indoor Championships in Athletics in Grenoble....	Berlin	1988-02-26
	2.41 m	Igor Paklin Igor Paklin Igor Paklin is a retired athlete who represented USSR and later Kyrgyzstan. He trained at Armed Forces in Frunze.Competing in the high jump, he won the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships as well as a silver medal at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics for the USSR....	Kobe Kobe is the List of Japanese cities by population in Japan and as the capital city of Hyogo Prefecture and a prominent port city in Japan with a population of about 1.5 million....	1985-09-04
	2.40 m	Rudolf Povarnitsin	Donetsk Donetsk Donetsk , is a large city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the economic and cultural Donets Basin region....	1985-08-11
	2.40 m	Sorin Matei Sorin Matei Sorin Matei is a retired Romanian high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.40 metres, achieved in June 1990 in Bratislava. Only three high jumpers have achieved better results during the outdoor season....	Bratislava Bratislava Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 427,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River....	1990-06-20
	2.40 m	Charles Austin Charles Austin Charles Austin is an United States Athletics who won the gold medal in the men's high jump at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also the 1991 outdoor world champion and 1997 indoor world champion....	Zürich Zürich Z?rich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Z?rich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre and sometimes called the Cultural Capital of Switzerland, the political capital of Switzerland being Berne....	1991-08-07
	2.40 m	Vyacheslav Voronin Vyacheslav Voronin Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin is a Russian Athletics who specializes in the high jump.Voronin is a World Champion and European Indoor Champion ....	London	2000-08-05
	2.39 m	Zhu Jianhua Zhu Jianhua Zhu Jianhua is a retired PR China high jumper. Dominating Asian high jump in the early 1980s, he won the Asian Championships in 1981, crushing the championship record by 15 centimetres....	Eberstadt Eberstadt Eberstadt is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn , Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. It is most well-known for its yearly international high jump meeting and winegrowing....	1984-06-10
	2.38 m	Dragutin Topic Dragutin Topic Dragutin Topic is a Serbian Athletics . He is a World junior records in athletics Holder with 2.37 when he won World Junior Championships 1990, three weeks before his win at European Championships....	Belgrad	1993-08-01
	2.38 m	Troy Kemp Troy Kemp Troy Kemp 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 of Nations record....	Nice Nice Nice is a city in Southern France France located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, between Marseille, France, and Genoa, Italy, with 1,197,751 inhabitants in the 2007 estimate....	1995-07-12
	2.38 m	Artur Partyka Artur Partyka Artur Jerzy Partyka is a former Poland high jumper and two-time Olympic Games medalist. He won twelve National champions High Jump in a row, starting in 1989....	Eberstadt Eberstadt Eberstadt is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn , Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. It is most well-known for its yearly international high jump meeting and winegrowing....	1996-08-18
	2.38 m	Jacques Freitag Jacques Freitag Jacques Freitag a South African high jumper. He grew up in Bronkhorstspruit . He is 2.04 m and weighs 87 kg. His mother, Hendrina Pieters, was in 1973 a South African high jump champion with PB 1.74m....	Oudtshoorn	2005-03-05
	2.37 m	Valeriy Sereda Valeriy Sereda Valeriy Sereda is a retired high jumper who represented the Soviet Union and later Azerbaijan. His personal best jump is 2.37 metres, achieved in September 1984 in Rieti....	Rieti Rieti Rieti is a town in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of c. 47,700. It is the capital of province of Rieti.The town centre rests on a small hilltop, commanding a wide plain at the southern edge of an ancient lake....	1984-09-02
	2.37 m	Steve Smith Steve Smith (athlete) Steve Smith is a retired high jumper from England. He was born in Liverpool. At the 1992 World Junior Championships he equalled the Junior world records in athletics of 2.37 metres, which Dragutin Topic had achieved in 1990....	Seoul Seoul Seoul is the Capital and largest city of South Korea. With a population of over 10 million, It is one of the world's List of cities proper by population.The Seoul National Capital Area - which includes the major port city of Incheon and satellite towns in Gyeonggi-do, has 24.5 million inhabitants and is the world's second largest List of me...	1992-09-20
	2.36 m	Eddy Annys Eddy Annys Eddy Annys is a former high jumper from Belgium, who still is the national record holder with 2.36 metres and 2.31 m . He won a bronze medal at the 1986 European Indoor Championships in Athletics....	Ghent Ghent Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region, Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys River and became in the Middle Ages one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe....	1985-05-26
	2.36 m	Jan Zvara Ján Zvara J?n Zvara is a retired high jumper who represented Czechoslovakia. His greatest achievement was the bronze medal at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships....	Prague Prague Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....	1987-08-23
		Jaroslav Baba Jaroslav Bába Jaroslav B?ba is a Czech Republic high jumper.At the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships he jumped 2.25 metres and won a joint bronze medal along with Germaine Mason and Stefan Vasilache....	Rome	2005-07-08
	2.36 m	Nick Saunders Nick Saunders Clarence Nicholas Saunders is a retired Bermuda high jumper.He won a bronze medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and finished fifth at the 1988 Summer Olympics....	Auckland Auckland The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban areas of New Zealand with over 1.3 million residents, percent of the country's population....	1990-02-01
	2.36 m	Georgi Dakov Georgi Dakov Georgi Dakov is a retired Bulgarian high jumper, who was actually born in Russia.His personal best jump was 2.36 metres, achieved in August 1990 in Brussel....	Brussels Brussels Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....	1990-08-10
	2.36 m	Lambros Papakostas Lambros Papakostas Lambros Papakostas is a retired Greece high jumper who won two silver medals at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics in 1995 and 1997....	Athens Athens Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....	1992-07-21
	2.36 m	Tim Forsyth Tim Forsyth Tim Forsyth is a retired Australian three-time Olympic high jumper.His first success on the international scene came in 1990 with a silver medal at the World Junior Championships....	Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....	1997-03-02
	2.36 m	Steinar Hoen Steinar Hoen Steinar Hoen is a retired Norway high jumper. He represented IK Tjalve during his senior career.In his early career he finished eleventh at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics, fourteenth at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics, ninth at the 1992 European Indoor Championships in Athletics and ninth at the 1993 IAAF World...	Oslo Oslo is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....	1997-07-01
	2.36 m	Konstantin Matusevich Konstantin Matusevich Konstantin Matusevich is a retired Israeli high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.36 metres, achieved in February 2000 in Perth, Western Australia. This is the current Israeli record....	Perth Perth, Western Australia Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....	2000-02-05
	2.35 m	Jean-Charles Gicquel Jean-Charles Gicquel Jean-Charles Gicquel is a retired high jumper from France, who set his personal best on 1994-03-13 in Paris. He is a four-time National champions High Jump for France in the men's high jump event....	Paris	1994-03-13
	2.35 m	Mark Boswell Mark Boswell Mark Boswell and grew up in Brampton, Ontario is a Canada high jumper, who won a total number of six National champions High Jump in the men's high jump event....	Seville Seville ||-||}Seville is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Seville ....	1999-08-23
	2.35 m	Kyriakos Ioannou Kyriakos Ioannou Kyriakos Ioannou is a Greek Cypriot high jumper.His personal best jump and Cypriot national record is 2.35 metres, achieved at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics held in Osaka where he won the bronze medal....	Osaka Osaka is a Cities of Japan in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshu.Osaka is a City designated by government ordinance under the Local Autonomy Law and the capital city of Osaka Prefecture....	2007-08-29
	2.34 m	Robert Ruffini Róbert Ruffini R?bert Ruff?ni is a retired high jumper who represented Czechoslovakia and later Slovakia. His personal best jump is 2.34 metres, achieved in July 1988 in Prague. This is the current Slovak record. ...	Prague Prague Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....	1988-07-03
	2.34 m	Rolandas Verkys Rolandas Verkys Rolandas Verkys is a retired Lithuanian high jumper, who won four National champions High Jump for Latvia in the men's high jump event.He finished seventh at the 1992 European Indoor Championships in Athletics in Genoa with a jump of 2,26 metres....	Warsaw Warsaw Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....	1991-06-16
	2.34 m	Arturo Ortíz Arturo Ortíz Arturo Ort?z is a retired Spain high jumper.His personal best jump was 2.34 metres, achieved in June 1991 in Barcelona. This is the current Spanish record. ...	Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....	1991-06-22
	2.34 m	Andrey Sankovich	Gomel	1993-05-15
	2.34 m	Lee Jin-Taek Lee Jin-Taek Lee Jin-Taek is a retired South Korean high jumper.His personal best jump is 2.34 metres, achieved in June 1997 in Seoul. This is the current South Korean record....	Seoul Seoul Seoul is the Capital and largest city of South Korea. With a population of over 10 million, It is one of the world's List of cities proper by population.The Seoul National Capital Area - which includes the major port city of Incheon and satellite towns in Gyeonggi-do, has 24.5 million inhabitants and is the world's second largest List of me...	1997-06-20
	2.34 m	Abderrahmane Hammad Abderrahmane Hammad Abderrahmane Hammad is an Algerian athlete competing in the high jump....	Alger Alger Alger is an alternate name for Algiers, the capital of Algeria. In fact, it is the French language name for the Algerian capital city.Alger may also refer to:...	2000-07-14
	2.34 m	Germaine Mason Germaine Mason Germaine Mason is a Jamaican-born athletics competing in high jump. In 2006 he switched sporting allegiance, and now represents United Kingdom....	Santo Domingo Santo Domingo Santo Domingo, or in full, Santo Domingo de Guzm?n, is the Capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic, and the second largest city in the Caribbean....	2003-08-09
	2.34 m	Kabelo Kgosiemang Kabelo Kgosiemang Kabelo Kgosiemang is a high jumper from Botswana.He won the 2006 African Championships in Athletics with a personal best jump of 2.30 metres, the best result since Abderrahmane Hammad won with 2.34 m in 2000....	Addis Ababa Addis Ababa Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia and the African Union and its predecessor, the Organisation of African Unity. It is also the largest city in Ethiopia....	2008-05-04
	2.33 m	Marcello Benvenuti Marcello Benvenuti Marcello Benvenuti is a retired Italian high jumper.He became Italian high jump champion in 1989, rivalling with Luca Toso and Daniele Pagani....	Verona Verona Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans....	1989-09-12
	2.33 m	Gilmar Mayo	Pereira Pereira Pereira is a common surname in the Portuguese language.It may also refer to:...	1994-10-17
	2.33 m	Naoyuki Daigo Naoyuki Daigo Naoyuki Daigo is a Japanese high jumper.His personal best jump is 2.33 metres, achieved in July 2006 in Kobe....	Kobe Kobe is the List of Japanese cities by population in Japan and as the capital city of Hyogo Prefecture and a prominent port city in Japan with a population of about 1.5 million....	2006-07-02
	2.32 m	Gennadiy Belkov Gennadiy Belkov Gennadiy Belkov is a retired Uzbekistani high jumper who represented the Soviet Union.He won the silver medal at the 1979 European Indoor Championships in Athletics and finished eighteenth at the at the 1980 European Indoor Championships in Athletics....	Tashkent Tashkent Tashkent is the Capital of Uzbekistan and also of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was 2.18 million....	1982-05-29
	2.32 m	Jessé de Lima Jessé de Lima Jess? Farias de Lima is a Brazilian high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in May 2006 in Porto Alegre. This is the current Brazilian record....	Lausanne Lausanne Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French language-speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva , and facing ?vian-les-Bains and with the Jura mountains to its north-west....	2008-09-02
	2.31 m	Roland Dalhäuser Roland Dalhäuser Roland Dalh?user is a retired high jumper from Switzerland. He won three medals at the European Indoor Championships in Athletics and became Swiss champion nine times....	Eberstadt Eberstadt Eberstadt is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn , Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. It is most well-known for its yearly international high jump meeting and winegrowing....	1981-06-07
	2.31 m	Oleg Palaschevskiy	Bryansk Bryansk Bryansk is a types of settlements in Russia in Russia, located 379 km southwest from Moscow. It is the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast....	1990-08-12
	2.31 m	Elvir Krehmic	Zagreb Zagreb Zagreb is the Capital and the largest city of Croatia. Zagreb is the Culture of Croatia, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Cinema of Croatia, Economy of Croatia and Government of Croatia center of the Croatia....	1998-07-07
	2.31 m	Mika Polku	Hämeenkyrö Hämeenkyrö H?meenkyr? is a municipalities of Finland of Finland.It is located in the provinces of Finland of Western Finland and is part of the Pirkanmaa regions of Finland....	2000-07-22
		Toni Huikuri	Bratislava Bratislava Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 427,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River....	2002-06-11
	2.30 m	Marko Turban	Rakvere Rakvere Rakvere is a town in northern Estonia and the county seat of L??ne-Viru County, 20 km south of the Gulf of Finland....	1996-06-05
	2.30 m	Normunds Sietinš	Nurmijervi	1992-07-20
	2.30 m	Adrian O'Dwyer	Algiers Algiers Algiers Nicknamed El-Bahdja or Alger la Blanche for the glistening white of its buildings as seen rising up from the sea, Algiers is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea....	2004-06-24
	2.26 m	Metin Durmusoglu	Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....	2002-06-08
	2.22 m	Felipe Apablaza	Cochabamba Cochabamba Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the Capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the list of cities in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people....	2001-06-03

Women

Nation	Height	Athlete	Venue	Date
	2.09 m	Stefka Kostadinova Stefka Kostadinova Stefka Kostadinova is a Bulgarian former Athletics specialising in the high jump and current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.Stefka Kostadinova won gold medal in the Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's high jump in Atlanta, setting an Olympic record of 2.05 m....	Rome	1987-08-30
	2.08 m	Kajsa Bergqvist Kajsa Bergqvist Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist is a retired Sweden high jumper. She has 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....	Arnstadt Arnstadt Arnstadt is a town in Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany, situated on the Gera River. It is one of the oldest towns in Thuringia and is nicknamed Das Tor zum Th?ringer Wald, The Gate to the Thuringian Forest....	2006-02-04
	2.07 m	Heike Henkel Heike Henkel Heike Henkel is a German people former Athletics competing in high jump. She won the high jump gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona....	Karlsruhe Karlsruhe Karlsruhe is a city in the south west of Germany, in the States of Germany Baden-W?rttemberg, located near the France-German border.Founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, the surrounding town became the seat of two of the highest courts in Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany whose decisions have the force of a law, and the...	1992-02-08
	2.07 m	Blanka Vlašic Blanka Vlašic Blanka Vla?ic [] is a Croatian high jumper and current world champion. Her personal best jump of 2.07 m was set on August 7, 2007. Only two other women have jumped higher than this....	Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....	2007-08-07
	2.06 m	Hestrie Cloete Hestrie Cloete Hestrie Cloete-Storbeck is a highly successful high jumper....	Paris	2003-08-31
	2.06 m	Yelena Slesarenko Yelena Slesarenko Yelena Vladimirovna Slesarenko, n?e Sivushenko is a Russian high jumper....	Athens Athens Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....	2004-08-28
	2.05 m	Inga Babakova	Tokyo	1995-09-15
	2.05 m	Tia Hellebaut Tia Hellebaut Tia Hellebaut is a Belgian Olympic champion and athlete who used to be active in the heptathlon but afterwards specialized in the high jump event....	Birmingham Birmingham Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....	2007-03-03
	2.04 m	Silvia Costa Silvia Costa Silvia Costa is a former high jumper from Cuba most known for winning medals at the 1985 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 1993 World Championships in Athletics....	Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....	1989-09-09
	2.03 m	Louise Ritter Louise Ritter Louise Dorothy Ritter is a former track and field athlete from the United States, who won the gold medal in the women's high jump at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea....	Austin Austin, Texas Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Travis County, Texas. Situated in Central Texas and part of the Southwestern United States, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 16th-largest in the United States....	1988-07-08
	2.03 m	Niki Bakogianni Niki Bakogianni Niki Bakoyianni is a retired Greece high jumper.She was born in Lamia .She is best known for winning a silver medal at the Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Women's high jump after a tough competition with Stefka Kostadinova, who eventually became Olympic champion....	Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....	1996-08-03
	2.03 m	Monica Iagar Monica Iagar Monica Dinescu-Iagar is a Romanian athletics competing in high jump. Her personal best jump is 2.02 metres.She made her international debut in 1995 but went through a six-month drug suspension in 1996....	Bucharest Bucharest Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....	1999-01-23
	2.03 m	Antonietta Di Martino Antonietta Di Martino Antonietta Di Martino is an Italy high jumper. She currently holds the Italian national women's high jump record .She finished twelfth at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton....	Milan Milan Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....	2007-06-24
	2.02 m	Ruth Beitia Ruth Beitia Ruth Beit?a Vila is a high jumper from Spain.With 2.01 metres indoor and 2.02 metres outdoor she holds the current Spanish records....	San Sebastián San Sebastián Donostia-San Sebasti?n is the capital city of the Provinces of Spain of Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country , Spain. Locals call themselves donostiarras, both in Basque and Spanish....	2007-08-04
	2.01 m	Olga Turchak Olga Turchak Olga Turchak is a retired high jumper from Kazakhstan, who set her personal best on 7 July 1986, jumping 2.01 metres at a meet in Moscow. She competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 , where she finished in fourth place....	Moskva Moskva Moskva is the Russian name of the Russian capital known in English as Moscow. It may also refer to one of the following:*Moskva River, a central-Russian river on which Moscow lies...	1986-07-07
	2.01 m	Hanne Haugland Hanne Haugland Hanne Haugland is a former Norway high jumper. She represented the clubs Haugesund IL, IL i BUL, SK Vidar and IF Minerva during her senior career....	Zürich Zürich Z?rich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Z?rich. The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre and sometimes called the Cultural Capital of Switzerland, the political capital of Switzerland being Berne....	1997-08-13
	2.00 m	Tatyana Shevchik Tatyana Shevchik Tatyana Shevchik is a retired Belarusian high jumper.She finished tenth at the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships, fourth at the 1994 European Indoor Championships in Athletics, sixth at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships and fifth at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics....	Gomel	1993-05-14
	2.00 m	Zuzana Hlavonová Zuzana Hlavonová Zuzana Kov?cikov? , n?e Hlavonov? is a Czech Republic high jumper.Her personal best jump is 2.00 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Prague....	Prague Prague Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....	2000-06-05
	2.00 m	Britta Bilac Britta Bilac Britta Bilac is a retired high jumper from Slovenia. Her greatest achievement was the European Championship victory in 1994 with a personal best jump of 2.00m....	Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....	1994-08-14
	2.00 m	Dóra Györffy	Nyiregyhaza Nyíregyháza Ny?regyh?za is a city in North-east Hungary and the county capital of Szabolcs-Szatm?r-Bereg. With a population of 117,000 it is the seventh-largest city in Hungary and is one of the leading cities of Northern Hungary....	2001-07-26
	1.98 m	Alison Inverarity Alison Inverarity Alison Inverarity is a former Australian Olympic and Commonwealth athlete, competing in the high jump.She is the daughter of former Australian Test cricketer John Inverarity and a graduate of Pembroke School, Adelaide....	Ingolstadt Ingolstadt Ingolstadt is a city in the Free State of Bavaria, Germany. It is located along the banks of the Danube River, in the center of Bavaria. As of December 31, 2005, Ingolstadt had 121,801 residents, making it the second-largest city in Upper Bavaria, after Munich....	1989-02-12
	1.98 m	Debbie Brill Debbie Brill Debbie Brill Order of Canada is a Canada high jump athlete who was the first North American woman to clear 6 feet, at age 16. Her unique reverse jumping style was called the "Brill Bend"....	Rieti Rieti Rieti is a town in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of c. 47,700. It is the capital of province of Rieti.The town centre rests on a small hilltop, commanding a wide plain at the southern edge of an ancient lake....	1984-09-02
	1.98 m	Lyudmila Butuzova Lyudmila Butuzova Lyudmila Butuzova 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....	Sochi Sochi Sochi is a Russian resort types of inhabited localities in Russia, situated in Krasnodar Krai just north of the southern Russian border. It sprawls along the shores of the Black Sea and against the background of the snow-capped peaks of the Caucasus Mountains....	1984-06-10
	1.97 m	Danuta Bulkowska Danuta Bulkowska Danuta Bulkowska-Milej is a Polish sportswoman and a holder of the title of the champion of Poland in high jump. Her 1984 record remains unbeaten in Poland ....	Wörrstadt Wörrstadt W?rrstadt is a municipality in the district Alzey-Worms, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located approximately 10 km north of Alzey, and 20 km south-west of Mainz....	1984-06-09
	1.97 m	Ling Jin	Hamamatsu	1989-05-07
	1.97 m	Valentina Gotovska Valentina Gotovska Valentina Gotovska 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....	Vilnius Vilnius Vilnius is the largest city and the Capital of Lithuania, with a population of 555,613 as of 2008. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality....	1990-08-04
	1.97 m	Sigrid Kirchmann Sigrid Kirchmann Sigrid Kirchmann is a former high jumper from Austria, best known for winning Austria's first ever medal at the World Championships in Athletics....	Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....	1993-08-21
	1.97 m	Olga Bolshova	Rieti Rieti Rieti is a town in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of c. 47,700. It is the capital of province of Rieti.The town centre rests on a small hilltop, commanding a wide plain at the southern edge of an ancient lake....	1993-09-05
	1.97 m	Solange Witteveen Solange Witteveen Solange Maril? Witteveen is a Argentina high jumper, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 2000....	Manaus Manaus Manaus is a city in Brazil, the capital of Amazonas state. It is situated at the confluence of the Rio Negro and River Solim?es rivers. It is the most populous city of Amazonas, according to the statistics of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and is a popular tourism destination....	2001-05-19
	1.97 m	Tatyana Efimenko Tatyana Efimenko Tatyana Efimenko is a Kyrgyzstan high jumper.She won the bronze medal at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics and finished fifth at the 2002 IAAF World Cup....	Rome	2003-07-11
	1.97 m	Romary Rifka Romary Rifka Mar?a Romary Rifka is a female Mexico high jumper.Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in April 2004 in Xalapa. This is the current Mexican record....	Xalapa Xalapa Xalapa de Enr?quez, commonly Xalapa or Jalapa is the capital city of the Mexico States of Mexico of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality....	2004-04-04
	1.95 m	Diana Elliott Diana Elliott Diana Davies is a retired high jumper from Great Britain, who set her personal best on 26 June 1982, jumping 1.95 metres at a meet in Oslo, Norway, a UK national record....	Oslo Oslo is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....	1982-06-26
		Susan Moncrieff	Bremen Bremen Bremen is a Hanseatic League city in northwestern Germany . It is a port city, situated along the Weser River, about south from its mouth on the North Sea....	2001-06-24
		Jessica Ennis Jessica Ennis Jessica Ennis is a United Kingdom Athletics , competing in the heptathlon. Her father is Jamaican and her mother English people. Her first senior championships was the 2005 World University Games, where she won the bronze medal....	Desenzano	2007-05-05
	1.93 m	Candeger Oguz	Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....	2004-05-16
	1.92 m	Orlane dos Santos	Bogotá Bogotá Bogot? ? officially named Bogot?, D.C. , formerly called Santa Fe de Bogot? ? is the capital city of Colombia, as well as the most populous city in the country, with 6,776,009 inhabitants ....	1989-08-11
	1.91 m	Viktoria Leks Viktoria Leks Viktoria Leks is an Estonian high jumper and National Indoor Champion 2006-2007.She competed at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships without reaching the final round....	Tallinn Tallinn Tallinn is the capital and largest city in the Republic of Estonia and of Harju County. It occupies a surface of 159.2 km? in which 397,617 inhabitants live....	2007-02-11

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women)
• List of Olympic medalists in athletics (men)
• World Record progression in athletics high jump men
• World Record progression high jump women
  World Record progression high jump women
  
  World Record in the Women's High Jump in athletics ....
  
• National champions High Jump (women)
  National champions High Jump (women)
  
  Below a list of all national champions in the women's high jump event in track and field from several countries....
  
• National champions High Jump (men)
  National champions High Jump (men)
  
  Below a list of all national champions in the Men's High Jump event in track and field from several countries since 1980 in sports....