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Alessandra Fossati

Alessandra Fossati (born 30 September 1963 in Bovisio-Masciago) is a retired Italian high jumper.

Alessia Trost

On 20 January 2013 she set her personal best, third Italian best measure of all-time (after two female Italian champions, Antonietta Di Martino 2.04 m and Sara Simeoni 2.01 m), with 1.98 m in Udine, Italy.

Angela Bradburn-Spangler

Angela Bradburn-Spangler (born September 4, 1968 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a retired high jumper from the United States, who set her personal best on May 28, 1994, jumping 1.95 metres at a meet in Wörrstadt.

Angela McKee

Angela McKee (née Warner) (born 1 December 1974 in Henderson, New Zealand) is a former High Jump competitor for New Zealand.

Anne Gerd Eieland

Anne Gerd Eieland (born 28 December 1982) from Iveland, Aust-Agder is Norway's third best female high jumper of all time, behind Hanne Haugland and Tonje Angelsen.

Brigitte Holzapfel

Brigitte Elisabeth Holzapfel (born 10 April 1958 in Krefeld) is a retired West German high jumper.

Britta Bilač

Britta Bilač (née Vörös) (born December 4, 1968 in Saalfeld, Thuringia, East Germany) is a retired high jumper who competed internationally for Germany and Slovenia from 1992 onwards.

Carlo Thränhardt

Carlo Thränhardt (born 1957-07-05 in Bad Lauchstädt, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German high jumper, who won the silver medal at the 1981 European Indoor Championships in Grenoble.

Centennial Stadium

The stadium features a 400m synthetic rubberized track surface, as well as separate areas for long jump/triple jump, high jump, pole vault, discus, hammer, shot put, and javelin.

Daniela Rath

Daniela Mareen Rath (born 6 May 1977 in Willich) is a German high jumper.

Dawn-Marie Layne

She enrolled at the University of the West Indies in 2006 where she continued to play cricket leisurely but represented the University as a Track & Field Athlete specializing in the High Jump; she also represented the Combermere School as a 100 metre Hurdler for the time she was there.

Eberstadt

It is best known for its winegrowing and its yearly international high jump meeting (the Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt).

Europahalle

The venue has featured a number of world record performances in athletics, including a jump of 2.07 m in the high jump by Heike Henkel in 1992, when the Europahalle hosted the German Indoor Championships.

Francisco Centelles

Juan Francisco Centelles Aizpurúa (born January 26, 1961 in Playa, Ciudad de la Habana) is a retired male high jumper from Cuba.

Gabriele Günz

Gabriele Günz, née Niebling (born 8 September 1961 in Eisenach) is a retired East German high jumper.

Inna Gliznuta

Inna Gliznuta (born 18 April 1973 in Bender) is a Moldovan high jumper.

Jean-Charles Gicquel

Jean-Charles Gicquel (born February 24, 1967 in Ploërmel) is a retired high jumper from France, who set his personal best (2.35 m) on March 13, 1994 in Paris.

John Inverarity

Inverarity's daughter Alison Inverarity was an Olympic high jumper, representing Australia at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.

Kym Carter

In 1982, while at Wichita East High School (the same high school as national record holder in the mile, Jim Ryun, she set the NFHS national high school record in the high jump at 6' 2 1/4".

Lajos Gönczy

Lajos Gönczy (24 February 1881 in Szeged, Hungary – 4 December 1915 in San Michele, Italy) was a Hungarian high jumper, who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

María del Carmen García

María del Carmen García (born 27 July 1969) is a retired high jumper from Cuba, who set her personal best on 17 March 1990, jumping 1.92 metres at a meet in Manaus.

Marina Aitova

Marina Aitova, née Korzhova (born 13 September 1982 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakhstani high jumper.

Marion Hellmann

Marion Hellmann (née Goldkamp; born 6 April 1967 in Linnich, Nordrhein-Westfalen) is a retired German high jumper, who competed for her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Martyn Bernard

Martyn John Bernard (born 15 December 1984 in Wakefield, United Kingdom) is a British athlete, competing in high jump.

Michael George Glazebrook

Michael George Glazebrook was a Headmaster of Clifton College, later a Canon of Ely, and is reputed to have once held the world record for the high jump.

Nathan Leeper

Nathan Leeper (born June 13, 1977 in Greensburg, Kansas) is a retired American high jumper.

Nia Künzer

Having a history as a high jumper, and after being a member of football clubs Eintracht Wetzlar and VfB Gießen she was with 1. FFC Frankfurt (1st Frankfurt Women's Football Club) starting 1997.

Percy Perry Stadium

Percy Perry Stadium features a 400m polyflex synthetic rubberized track surface, as well as separate areas for long jump/triple jump, high jump, pole vault, discus, hammer, shot put, and javelin.

Romary Rifka

María Romary Rifka González (born 23 December 1970 in Poza Rica, Veracruz) is a female Mexican high jumper.

Ron Jourdan

The men's high jump final was held on the last day, and Jourdan began competition at 2.10 (6'-9") and set a personal best of 2.21 (7'-3"), finishing second to Dwight Stones.

Sabina Schulze

Her father Jens Schulze and mother Karin Rüger-Schulze competed in high jump, and the mother took part in the 1964 and 1968 Olympics.

Willem Coertzen

He came a close second to Damian Warner at the 2013 Decastar meeting, finishing with 8118 points (including a 2.08 m personal best in the high jump).

Wolfgang Kreißig

Wolfgang Kreißig (born 29 August 1970 in Gehrden, West Germany) is a retired German track and field athlete who specialised in the high jump.


see also

1922 College Football All-America Team

Kaw and Muller were both inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, and Muller also won acclaim as the silver medalist in the high jump at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

2003 in South African sport

13-14 September - Hestrie Cloete (High jump) and Okkert Brits (pole vault) win a gold and silver respectively at the 1st IAAF World Athletics Final held at the Stade Louis II, in Monte Carlo, Monaco

Badger State Games

The 2006 summer games saw Bill Wambach of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin break the national high-jump record for the 80-to-84 year old division with a jump of 1.26 meters.

Brumel

Valeriy Brumel (1942–2003), Soviet-Russian athlete in the high jump, and writer

Christopher Randolph Decathlete

Randolph graduated from Denver Christian High School where he competed in the high jump and 4 x 400 meter relay.

Di Martino

Antonietta Di Martino (born 1978), Italian athlete competing in high jump

Dustin Keller

During his senior year at Lafayette Jefferson High School he was the state's leading wide receiver in football with 114 Receptions in 2002, was second team All-State as a small forward in basketball, and he was the high jump state champion in Indiana, clearing 6'9" in a steady rain after coming second to Philadelphia 76er's Rodney Carney with a jump of 6'10".

Dwight Eddleman

As a collegian, he won an NCAA high jump championship and competed in the high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Eugene L. Roberts

Among the athletes trained by Roberts were Alma Richards and Clinton Larsen, the latter of whom held the world high jump record from 1917 to 1935.

Francis Agbo

Francis Agbo (born January 15, 1958 in Adjohoun, Benin) is a French athlete who specialises in the high jump.

Géo André

He competed for France in the 1908 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the high jump where he tied for the silver medal with British Con Leahy and Hungarian István Somodi.

Hochsprung

Hochsprung mit Musik, a international high jump competition in Arnstadt, Germany

Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt, an international high jump competition in Eberstadt, Germany

Mapúa Cardinals

Simeon Toribio - Member of the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympic teams; Olympic Bronze Medalist in the high jump event at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics; many-time Asian Games gold medalist and recipient of the 1930 World Helms Trophy for being Asia's greatest athlete.

Marcello Benvenuti

He became Italian high jump champion in 1989, rivalling with Luca Toso and Daniele Pagani.

Medochemie

Medochemie also sponsors the yachting Olympic silver medalist Pavlos Kontides and the high jump champion Kyriakos Ioannou.

Mitchell Watt

As a 13 year old he competed in the GPS 100m, 200m, 400m relay, 100m relay, long jump, high jump, triple jump, shot put and discus, winning all of his events bar and discus with a respectable 4th.

Moravia High Jump Tour

It is a high jump-only competition, held in the eastern Czech region of Moravia.

Nicola Ciotti

Ciotti became Italian high jump champion in 2005, rivalling with Giulio Ciotti, Andrea Bettinelli and Alessandro Talotti.

Olga Bolşova

Her personal best high jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in September 1993 in Rieti.

Polymath

Howard Baker – "Similar claims to the title of sporting polymath could be made for Howard Baker" (who won high jump titles, and played cricket, football, and water polo).

Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw

His younger son, Marshall, was an excellent sportsman, having been British Amateur High Jump champion in 1874 and 1876, world record holder for the High Jump on three occasions, as well as having represented England in rugby union in 1874.

Tom Moody

Schooled at Guildford Grammar School in Perth, where his father was headmaster, he exhibited great talent for athletics (particularly the high jump) and Australian rules football but truly excelled at cricket being selected to train with the 1st XI side (usually made up of year twelve students) at just thirteen, and play with them the following year.

Turebergs FK

Some athletes affiliated with it are Olympic high jump champion Kajsa Bergqvist and her coach Bengt Jönsson, sprinter Eric Josjö and high jumper Thomas Eriksson.

Valeriy Skvortsov

After a leg injury forced him to stop competing, Skortsov continued as a high jump trainer in Moscow (Dinamo) and then went to work as the head of Duma security.

Virginia Miller

Competing for the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks in 2000 and 2001, Miller set school records in the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meters, 800-meters, long jump and heptathlon.

Western roll

Another Western athlete, Alma Richards of Utah, won the 1912 Olympic high jump using a Western roll with a more frontal, feet-first, approach.