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The women's high jump event at the 2021 Summer World University Games was held on 4 and 6 August 2023 at the Shuangliu Sports Centre Stadium in Chengdu, China. Medalists [ edit ]
Standing records prior to the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships World record Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) 2.08: Arnstadt, Germany: 4 February 2006 European record Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) 2.08: Arnstadt, Germany: 4 February 2006 Championship record Tia Hellebaut (BEL) 2.05: Birmingham, United Kingdom: 3 March 2007 World Leading Yaroslava ...
Standing records prior to the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships World U20 Record Olga Turchak (URS) 2.01: Moscow, Soviet Union: 7 July 1986 Heike Balck (GDR) Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany
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 high jump was among the first events deemed acceptable for women, having been held at the 1928 Olympic Games. Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) is the world record holder with a jump of 2.45 m (8 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in) set in 1993 – the longest-standing record in the history of the men's high jump.
The women's high jump event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 5 and 7 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. [1] Even though 32 athletes qualified through the qualification system for the Games, [2] only 31 took part in the competition. This was the 22nd appearance of the event, having appeared at every Olympics since women's ...
Indy Olympians from 2021, Cole Hocker and Lynna Irby-Jackson, will try to make it to Paris when the track and field trials open a 10-day run Friday. Indy Olympians from 2021, Cole Hocker and Lynna ...
Gerd Wessig is the only man to have set a world record in the Olympic high jump, having done so in 1980 with a mark of 2.36 m (7 ft 8 + 3 ⁄ 4 in). The women's world record has been broken on three occasions at the Olympics, with records coming in 1928, 1932 and 1972. [1]