The record is held by Stefka Kostadinova, with 2.09 meters.
As of 2011, Javier Sotomayor holds the mens world record at 2.45 meters. Stefka Kostadinova holds the womens world record at 2.09 meters.
Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria set the women's world record for the high jump in 1987 at a height of 2.09 meters (6 feet, 10 1/4 inches). It is the longest standing world record in the history of the high jump.
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the current world record for the indoor is held by Kajsa Bergqvist from Sweden with a jump of 2.08m. the current world record for the outdoor is held by Stefka Kostadinova from Bulgaria with a jump of 2.09m
The world record for the high jump (outdoors) is 2.45 m (8'0.5"), by Javier Sotomayor of Cuba in Salamanca on July 27, 1993
Iolanda Balas of Romania set a world record on September 21, 1959 of 1.84 meters. Balas held the world record for almost 13 years, first setting the record on June 7, 1958 at 1.74 meters and breaking it many times. Her best jump, and final world record, was 1.91 meters in July of 1961. That world record lasted for 10 years. The current women's world record is 2.09 meters set in 1987 by Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria.
how far can monster trucks jump? In 1999 a monster truck known as Bigfoot set the monster truck long jump world record by jumping 202 feet over a Boeing 727. That jump also set the monster truck high jump world record of 24 feet.
ulysses s grant holds the jumping record at west point -jaedin kelley
I remember when i was young i saw in TV a german guy jumping 2.04 only with one leg, it was astonishing for me... don't know the name of him
This is the technique for high jumping that everybody uses nowadays. The jumpers goes over the bar backwards. Fosbury invented it and it produced record high jumps.
some black guy. it would be mexican, but they can't afford to get to track competitions. i mean, they hav practice jumping over fences so they would be amazing
No one came close to Breaking J. Sotomayor high jump world record in 2008.