High jump
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The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is p
Canadian high jumper Nicole Forrester demonstrating the Fosbury flop
Yelena Slesarenko hitting the bar while using the Fosbury Flop technique
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras during the standing high jump competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Gold medal winner Ethel Catherwood of Canada scissors over the bar at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Her winning result was 1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in).
Yaroslava Mahuchikh
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Yaroslava Oleksiivna Mahuchikh is a Ukrainian high jumper and women's high jump world record holder. She is the winner of three senior global titles: 2022 and 2026 World Indoor Championships, 2023 Wor
High jump
…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. Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Ukraine) is the women's world record holder with a jump of 2.10 m (6 ft 10+1⁄2 in) set in 2024. The rules set for the high jump by World Athletics…
Mahuchikh at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Mahuchikh at the 2019 World Athletics Championships
Mahuchikh at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Mahuchikh at the 2022 European Athletics Championships