Jumping events

Adhemar da Silva

Adhemar Ferreira da Silva (1927-2001), Brazilian triple jumper, back-to-back Olympic champion Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956, five-time world record holder to 16.56m, first Brazilian with two Olympic golds.

Aikaterini Stefanidi

Aikaterini (Katerina) Stefanidi, Greek pole vaulter born 1990; 2016 Olympic champion, 2017 world champion, 2016 and 2018 European champion, Greek record holder at 4.91 m.

Albert Gutterson

Albert Lovejoy Gutterson (1887-1965), Vermont engineer and University of Vermont athlete, won the 1912 Stockholm Olympic long jump gold at 7.60 m, an Olympic record until 1928, half an inch short of the world record.

Alma Richards

Alma Wilford Richards (1890-1963), American high jumper from Parowan, Utah; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic high jump gold at 1.93 m, first Olympic champion from Utah, later AAU decathlon champion and Los Angeles science teacher.

Andrey Silnov

Andrey Silnov (Андрей Сильнов), born 1984 in Shakhty, Russian high jumper, 2008 Beijing Olympic champion at 2.36 m and 2006 European champion; personal best 2.38 m; later banned four years for doping but kept his gold.

Anna Biryukova

Anna Biryukova (Анна Германовна Бирюкова), Russian triple jumper born 1967 in Yekaterinburg; 1993 world champion and first woman to exceed 15 m with a 15.09 m world record; 1996 Olympian.

Armand Duplantis

Armand "Mondo" Duplantis (born 1999), Swedish pole vaulter, two-time Olympic and three-time world champion; world record holder at 6.31 m, first broke the record in 2020 with 6.17 m and has raised it 15 times.

Arne Ahman

Arne Åhman (Arne Per Åhman, 1925–2022), Swedish triple jumper and high jumper, Nordingrå SK. Won triple jump gold at the 1948 London Olympics with 15.40 m, European silver in high jump 1950, bronze in triple jump 1946.

Arnie Robinson

Arnie Robinson (Arnie Paul Robinson, Jr.), American long jumper, 1972 Olympic bronze and 1976 Olympic gold medalist (8.35 m), six-time AAU champion, 1977 World Cup winner, later Mesa College coach; died 2020.

Ashia Hansen

Ashia Hansen, British triple jumper born 1971 in Evansville, Indiana; world indoor record 15.16 m (1998), two world indoor titles, 2002 European and two Commonwealth golds.

Bill Miller (olympedia 78793)

Bill Miller (William Waring Miller, 1912-2008), American Stanford pole vaulter; won 1932 Los Angeles Olympic gold in men's pole vault at 4.31 m, distinct from javelin thrower William Preston Miller and rower William Garfield Miller.

Bill Sefton

Bill Sefton (William Healy Sefton, 1915-1982), American pole vaulter for USC, fourth at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and co-holder with Earle Meadows of the 'Heavenly Twins' world records of 4.48 m and 4.54 m in 1937.

Bozhidar Sarâboyukov

Bozhidar Sarâboyukov (Божидар Саръбоюков), Bulgarian long jumper born 2004 in Harmanli; national record 8.49 m, 2025 European indoor champion, 2026 World Indoor and European outdoor bronze medallist.

Caterine Ibarguen

Caterine Ibargüen (Caterine Ibargüen Mena), Colombian triple and long jumper born 1984 in Apartadó; 2016 Olympic triple jump champion, 2012 silver, 2013 and 2015 world champion, 15.31 m national record.

Charlie Dumas

Charlie Dumas (Charles Everett Dumas, 1937-2004), American high jumper, first man to clear seven feet (2.15 m, 1956 US Olympic Trials) and 1956 Melbourne Olympic high jump champion; five AAU titles, 1959 Pan-Am gold.

Daniela Bartova

Daniela Bártová-Břečková (born 1974, Ostrava) is a Czech former Olympic gymnast (1992) and pole vaulter (2000, 4th) who set ten women's pole vault world records in 1995, up to 4.22 m, with a 4.51 m personal best.

Dehart Hubbard

DeHart Hubbard (William DeHart Hubbard, 1903-1976), American long jumper from Cincinnati who won gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics, the first Black athlete to win an individual Olympic gold, and set a 7.89 m long jump world record in 1925.

Esther Brand

Esther Brand, born Esther Cornelia van Heerden (1922–2015), was a South African high jumper who won the women's Olympic gold medal at Helsinki in 1952, clearing 1.67 m.

Ethel Catherwood

Ethel Catherwood, the Saskatoon Lily (1908–1987), Canadian high jumper; first Canadian woman to win Olympic gold, taking the 1928 Amsterdam high jump at 1.595 m after two world records.

Fosbury flop

Fosbury flop, the back-first high jump technique developed by Dick Fosbury, gold medalist at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics with an Olympic record 2.24 m; now used by nearly all elite high jumpers.

Heike Redetzky Henkel

Heike Redetzky Henkel (née Redetzky, born 1964, Kiel), German high jumper; 1992 Olympic, 1991 World, 1990 European champion; indoor world record 2.07 m 1992-2006; NADA founding board member.

High jump

High jump: Olympic track and field event; athletes take off from one foot over a 4.00m bar. Techniques evolved from scissors and straddle to the Fosbury flop, standard since Dick Fosbury's 2.24m 1968 gold.

High jump at the Olympics

Olympic high jump: men's event since 1896, women's since 1928. Fosbury Flop won 1968 gold at 2.24 m; world records 2.45 m (men) and 2.10 m (Mahuchikh); Tokyo 2021 shared gold Barshim–Tamberi; Paris 2024 champion Hamish Kerr.

Iolanda Balas

Iolanda Balas (Iolanda Balaș-Söter), Romanian high jumper (1936-2016): two Olympic golds (1960, 1964), 14 world records from 1.75m to 1.91m, unbeaten for nearly 11 years, first woman over six feet.

Jordan Diaz

Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortún (born 2001, Havana) is a Spanish triple jumper, 2024 Olympic and European champion, Spanish record holder at 18.18 m, third all-time behind Edwards; Cuban defector coached by Iván Pedroso.

Leo Goehring

Leo Richard Goehring (1891-1967), American standing-jump specialist of Mohawk AC, New York. Equal fourth in the 1912 Olympic standing high jump, equal fifth in the standing long jump, and holder of the last official standing high jump world record, 1.67 m (1913).