Olympic high jump record

Answer 1

2.45m (8 feet 1/2 inch) held by Javier Sotomayor from Cuba.

Answer 2

Men: 2.39 meters (7 feet, 10 inches) by Charles Austin of the United States at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta.

Women: 2.06 meters (6 feet, 9 1/10 inches) by Yelana Slesarenko of Russia at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens.

Answer 3

Olympic records in the high jump as of the 2008 Games - Women - Yelena Slesarenko of Russia, 2.06 meters set at the 2004 Games in Athens. Men - Charles Austin of the United States, 2.39 meters set at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. All time - 2.45m (8 feet 1/2 inch) held by Javier Sotomayor from Cuba.

Answer 4

1) Men's High Jump: 2.39 meters by Charles Austin of the United States at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.

2) Women's High Jump: 2.06 meters by Yelena Slesarenko of Russia at the 2004 Games in Athens.

3) Men's Triple Jump: 18.09 meters by Kenny Harrison of the United States at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.

4) Women's Triple Jump: 15.39 meters by Francosie Mbango Etone of Cameroon at the 2008 Games in Beijing.

Answer 5

That depends there are many different classes in the paralympics.

• Classes 11, 12 and 13 cover the different levels of visual impairment.
• Class 20 covers athletes with an intellectually disability
• Classes 32-38 cover athletes with different levels of cerebral palsy - both wheelchair (32 - 34) and ambulant (35 - 38).
• Classes 40-46 cover ambulant athletes with different levels of amputations and other disabilities, including les Autres (eg. dwarfism).
• Classes 51-58 cover wheelchair athletes with different levels of spinal cord injuries and amputations.

Men:

Class F11: Italo Sacchetto - 1.59m (ITA)

Class F12: Ruslan Sivitski - 2.02m (BLR)

Class F13: J Orcutt - 1.98m (USA)

Class F42: Arnold Boldt - 1.96m (CAN)

Class F44: Jeff Skiba - 2.11m (USA)

Class F45: Matthias Berg - 1.68m (GER)

Class F46: Yancong Wu - 1.97m (CHN)

Answer 6

Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) is both the indoor and outdoor world record holder in this event with jumps of 2.43 metres (7 ft 11.67 in) and 2.45 metres (8 ft 0.46 in), respectively.Stefka Kostadinova (Bulgaria) has held the women's world record 2.09 metres (6 ft 10.28 in) since 1987.