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High Jump Men
OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION High Jump Men
ATHLETE
NAME
SCORE
OLYMPIC GAME
DATE
COUNTRY
DISTANCE
[meters]
1896
Ellery CLARK
1.81
Athènes 1896
10 APRIL
USA
1900
Irving BAXTER
1.9
Paris 1900
15 JULY
USA
1912
Richards Alma
1.93
Stockholm 1912
08 JULY
1920
Richmond LANDON
1.94
Anvers 1920
17 AUGUST
USA
1924
Osborn Harold
1.98
Paris 1924
07 JULY
1936
Johnson Cornelius
2.03
Berlin 1936
02 AUGUST
1952
Davis Walt
2.04
Helsinki 1952
20 JULY
1956
Dumas Charles
2.12
Melbourne / Stockholm 1956
23 NOVEMBER
1960
Robert SHAVLAKADZE
2.16
Rome 1960
01 SEPTEMBER
URS
Valeri BRUMEL
2.16
Rome 1960
01 SEPTEMBER
URS
1964
Valeri BRUMEL
2.18
Tokyo 1964
21 OCTOBER
URS
John THOMAS
2.18
Tokyo 1964
21 OCTOBER
CAN
1968
Fosbury Dick
2.24
Mexico 1968
20 OCTOBER
1976
Jacek WSZOLA
2.25
Montréal 1976
31 JULY
POL
1980
Gerd WESSIG
2.36
Moscou 1980
01 AUGUST
GDR
1988
Avdeyenko Gennadiy
2.38
Séoul 1988
25 SEPTEMBER
1996
Charles AUSTIN
2.39
Atlanta 1996
28 JULY
USA
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All events
MEN'S EVENTS
10000m men
100m men
110m hurdles men
1500m men
200m men
20km walk men
3000m steeplechase men
400m men
400m hurdles men
4x100m relay men
4x400m relay men
5000m men
50km walk men
800m men
decathlon men
discus throw men
hammer throw men
high jump men
javelin throw men
long jump men
marathon men
pole vault men
shot put men
triple jump men
WOMEN'S EVENTS
10000m women
100m women
100m hurdles women
1500m women
200m women
20km race walk women
3000m steeplechase women
400m women
400m hurdles women
4x100m relay women
4x400m relay women
5000m women
800m women
discus throw women
hammer throw women
heptathlon women
high jump women
javelin throw women
long jump women
marathon women
pole vault women
shot put women
triple jump women
New Olympic Record
2.39m
More about : Charles AUSTIN,
Atlanta 1996
,
United States of America
Equipment and History
International Association of Athletics Federations
Olympic medallists
Gold medals
Andrey SILNOV
Stefan HOLM
Sergey KLIUGIN
Charles AUSTIN
Javier SOTOMAYOR
Gennadi AVDEENKO
Dietmar MÖGENBURG
Gerd WESSIG
Jacek WSZOLA
Yuri TARMAK
Richard Douglas FOSBURY
Valeri BRUMEL
Robert SHAVLAKADZE
Charles Everett DUMAS
Walter Francis DAVIS
John WINTER
Cornelius Cooper JOHNSON
Duncan MCNAUGHTON
Robert Wade KING
Harold Marion OSBORN
Richmond LANDON
Alma Wilfred RICHARDS
Harry Franklin PORTER
Samuel JONES
Irving BAXTER
Ellery CLARK
Silver medals
Germaine MASON
Matt HEMINGWAY
Javier SOTOMAYOR
Artur PARTYKA
Patrick SJÖBERG
Hollis CONWAY
Jacek WSZOLA
Gregory JOY
Stefan JUNGE
Edward J. Jr. CARUTHERS
John Curtis THOMAS
Valeri BRUMEL
Charles Michael PORTER
Kenneth George WIESNER
Bjorn Andreas PAULSON
David Donald ALBRITTON
Robert VAN OSDEL
Benjamen Van Doren HEDGES
Leroy Taylor BROWN
Harold MULLER
Hans LIESCHE
Cornelius LEAHY
Georges ANDRE
Istvan SOMODY
Garrett SERVISS
Patrick Joseph LEAHY
James CONNOLLY
Robert GARRETT
Bronze medals
Yaroslav RYBAKOV
Jaroslav BABA
Abderrahmane HAMMAD
Stephen James SMITH
Artur PARTYKA
Hollis CONWAY
Timothy FORSYTH
Patrick SJÖBERG
Rudolf POVARNITSIN
Jian-Hua ZHU
Jörg FREIMUTH
Dwight Edwin STONES
Valentin GAVRILOV
John Barnett RAMBO
John Curtis THOMAS
Igor KASHKAROV
Jose TELLES DA CONCEICAO
George Anthony STANICH
Delos Packard THURBER
Simeon Galvez TORIBIO
Claude Charles MENARD
Pierre LEWDEN
Bo EKELUND
George Leslie HORINE
Paul WEINSTEIN
Lajos GÖNCZY