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A plaque on Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria, commemorating Stefka Kostadinova's high jump world record of 2.08 m set on 31 May 1986. The first world record in the women's high jump was recognised by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in 1922.
The championship records for the event are 2.41 m for men, set by Bohdan Bondarenko in 2013, and 2.09 m for women, set by Stefka Kostadinova in 1987. Additionally, Kostadinova's championship record jump of 2.09 m was also the only time the world record has been broken at the World Athletics Championships.
The women's world record has been broken on three occasions at the Olympics, with records coming in 1928, 1932 and 1972. [1] Ellery Clark was the first Olympic champion in 1896 and Ethel Catherwood became the first female Olympic high jump champion 32 years later.
Championship record: World Leading Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR) 2.03 m: Brno, Czech Republic: 22 June 2022 African Record Hestrie Cloete (RSA) 2.06 m: Saint-Denis, France: 31 August 2003 Asian Record Nadezhda Dubovitskaya (KAZ) 2.00 m: Almaty, Kazakhstan: 8 June 2021 North, Central American and Caribbean record Chaunte Lowe (USA) 2.05 m: Des ...
[10] [11] In doing so, Thiam became the first ever Belgian woman to set an official athletics world record. [12] As of March 2023, Thiam holds the Belgian records in the heptathlon and pentathlon, javelin and long jump (out and indoors). She holds the world record for the high jump discipline within the heptathlon competition, set in 2019.
Heike Henkel (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪkə ˈhɛŋkl̩] ⓘ; born Heike Redetzky; 5 May 1964) is a German former athlete competing in high jump. She was Olympic, World and European champion. She won the high jump gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
She won the women's high jump with a personal best and world leading height of 2.03 m. She improved to 2.04 m on 11 June 2017 in Hengelo . On 6 July 2017, she set a new personal best at the Diamond League in Lausanne with a height of 2.06 m, a Diamond League record.
The women's high jump at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, from 27 to 30 September 2019. [ 1 ] Summary