- Stefan Holm
Stefan Christian Holm (born May 25, 1976) is a Swedish athlete competing in the high jump. He has won 1 Olympic gold medal, 3 gold and 1 silver medal in the World Championships, 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals in the European Championships. His personal record in high jump is 2.40 m (indoors 2005) and 2.36 m (outdoors 2004).
- Amy Acuff
Amy Lyn Acuff is an athlete from the United States. An aggressive high jump competitor, Acuff competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field and is a three-time Olympian. Her personal best is 2.01 m, which she achieved in Zürich on 2003-08-15. Acuff lives in Austin, Texas, and is an alumna of UCLA. Acuff is distantly related to country musician Roy Acuff (her grandfather’s second cousin).
- Javier Sotomayor
Javier Sotomayor (born October 13, 1967 in Matanzas, Cuba) is a Cuban former athlete who specialized in the high jump. He is 1.94 meters tall. Sotomayor set an age 16 world record in 1984 of 2.33 metres in Havana, but was not able to go to the 1984 Olympics due to the Cuban boycott. In 1985 he took silver in the World Indoor Championships with a best jump of 2.30 metres, and won his first title in 1987, at the Pan American Games.
- Dick Fosbury
Richard Douglas ("Dick") Fosbury (born March 6, 1947) is an American athlete who revolutionized the high jump using a back-first technique, now known as the Fosbury Flop. His method was to sprint diagonally towards the bar, then curve and leap backwards over the bar. Dick Fosbury, born in Portland, Oregon, first started experimenting with this new technique at age 16, while attending high school in Medford, Oregon.
- Kajsa Bergqvist
Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist (born October 12, 1976, in Sollentuna, Sweden) is an athlete competing in the high jump. She has won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships. Her personal outdoor record of 2.06 m, set in Germany in 2003, is also a Swedish record. Her indoor record at 2.08 m, set in Germany in 2006, is also the world indoor record.
- Hestrie Cloete
Hestrie Cloete-Storbeck (born August 26, 1978 in Germiston, South Africa) is a highly successful high jumper.
- Mark Boswell
Mark Boswell (born September 28, 1977 in Mandeville, Jamaica) is a Canadian high jumper. Boswell attended the University of Texas at Austin. In 2006, he won gold at the Commonwealth games held in Melbourne, Australia. His other notable achievements in international competition include 7th place at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 6th place at the 2000 Summer Olympics, a silver medal at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, …
- Stefka Kostadinova
Stefka Kostadinova (born March 25, 1965 in Plovdiv) is a Bulgarian former athlete specialising in the high jump and current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee. Stefka Kostadinova won gold in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, setting an Olympic record of 2.05 m. She also has an Olympic silver from the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Kostadinova is a double world outdoor champion - from the World Championships in 1987 and 1995.
- Steve Smith
Steve Smith (born 29 March 1973 in Liverpool) is a retired high jumper from England. At the 1992 World Junior Championships he equalled the junior world record of 2.37 metres, which Dragutin Topic had achieved in 1990. Smith equalled this result a few times but never broke his personal best, which is also the British record. Smith retired after rupturing his achillies tendon in 1999, …
- Donald Thomas
Donald Thomas (born 1 July 1984) is a Bahamian high jumper. Thomas took up the sport in early 2006, having previously played basketball. He cleared 2.22 metres in his first meet, and just months later he finished fourth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games with a 2.23 m jump. In the 2007 indoor season he cleared 2.30 metres for the first time, and eventually jumped 2.33 metres in March in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
- Christian Olsson
Christian Olsson (born January 25, 1980 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is an athlete competing in high jump and triple jump. He has won 1 Olympic gold medal, 3 gold and 1 silver medal in the world championships and 2 gold medals in the European championships. He also won the overall Golden League-jackpot in 2004 where he cashed in 500.000 dollars (after splitting the million dollar pot with Tonique Williams-Darling).
- Jesse Williams
Jesse Williams (born 27 December 1983) is an American high jumper. He finished fourth at the 2002 World Junior Championships and eighth at the 2006 World Athletics Final. His personal best jump is 2.32 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Sacramento.
- Yelena Slesarenko
Yelena Vladimirovna Slesarenko, née Sivushenko is a Russian high jumper. Largely unknown before 2004, she kickstarted the season by clearing 2.04 metres and winning the World Indoor Championships. When the outdoor season started she won the SPAR European Cup with the same result, improving her personal best from 1.97 (achieved in 2002). She continued her good form at the 2004 Summer Olympics, …
- Chaunte Howard
Chaunte Howard (born January 12, 1984 in Templeton, California) is an American athlete competing in the high jump. In August 2005 she won a silver medal at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics with a new PB of two meters. She also attended Georgia Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2004.
- Jacques Freitag
Jacques Freitag (born June 11, 1982 in Warrenton, Northern Cape Province) a South African high jumper. He grew up in Bronkhorstspruit (50km east of Pretoria). He is 2.04 m and weighs 87 kg. His mother, Hendrina Pieters, was in 1973 a South African high jump champion with PB 1.74m. Freitag is the first athlete to win gold medals at the IAAF Senior (2003), Junior (2000) and Youth Championships (1999). Has a personal best of 2.38 m set in Oudtshoorn, South Africa 2005.
- Jamie Nieto
Jamie Nieto (born 2 November 1976) is an American high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.34 meters, achieved at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Jamie Nieto attended Eastern Michigan University.
- Scott Sellers
Scott Sellers (born 16 August 1986) is an American track and field athlete who holds numerous high school records in the high jump. Sellers broke the national indoor record with a jump of 2.27m in Landover, Maryland. Sellers is currently attending Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Sellers won the 2007 Big XII championships with a jump of 2.33m. This accomplishment is the fourth highest jump in NCAA history.
- Germaine Mason
Germaine Mason (born January 20, 1983 in Kingston) is a Jamaican born athlete competing in high jump. In 2006 he switched sporting allegiances and now represents the United Kingdom. He won silver and bronze medals at the World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2002 respectively, the latter event held in his hometown of Kingston. His first medal at senior level came at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, when he won a gold medal, …
- Tia Hellebaut
Tia Hellebaut (born February 16 1978, Antwerp) is a Belgian athlete who used to be active in the heptathlon but now specializes in the high jump event. Hellebaut is being trained by Wim Vandeven at her club, Atletica 84. She was a professional athlete with Atletiek Vlaanderen in the period from 2001 to October 2005. From November 1, 2006 she again became a professional athlete, this time at Bloso. Currently she lives in Tessenderlo.
- John Thomas
- Blanka Vlašić
Blanka Vlašić is a Croatian high jumper. A double world junior champion, she won the high jump bronze medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Her personal best jump at 2.05 m is also a national record and was set in 2006. She competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics without much success. She finished 4th in the high jump final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. Blanka Vlašić is coached by her father Joško, a former decathlete.
- Tora Harris
Tora Harris (born 21 September 1978) is an American high jumper. He won bronze medals at the 2001 Summer Universiade and the 2006 IAAF World Cup. His personal best jump is 2.33 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Indianapolis.
- Dalton Grant
Dalton Grant (born 8 April 1966 in London) is a retired English high jumper. His personal best jump was 2.36 metres, achieved at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo. He has a personal indoor best of 2.37 metres.).
- Yaroslav Rybakov
Yaroslav Rybakov (born November 22, 1980 in Mogilyev, Belarus) is a Russian athlete who specializes in the high jump. He is the 2002 European Champion high jumper, and at the 2005 World Championships he shared the silver medal with Victor Moya of Cuba. In 2006 he won the World Indoor Championships. His indoor personal best is 2.38 metres, set during the European Indoor Championships when he finished second. His outdoor personal best is currently 2.34 metres.
- Venelina Veneva
Venelina Veneva (born June 13, 1974 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian high jumper. Talented at a young age, she jumped 1.93 metres indoor in 1990 to record a world best performance by a 15-year-old. She did not improve this result outdoor until 1995 (1.94 m). A disappointing 1996 season with a 30th place at the Olympic Games and 1.88 as season best was followed by a jump of 2.03 metres in 1998. In 2001 she managed 2.04m, the ninth highest jump for a woman.
- Charles Dumas
Charles Everett Dumas (February 12, 1937 - January 5, 2004) was an American high jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft. Dumas, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, made his memorable jump on June 29, 1956, in the US Olympic trials in Los Angeles, breaking a barrier previously thought unbreakable. This jump not only ensured him of a place in the American Olympic team, but also made him the top favourite for the gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
- Ben Challenger
Ben Challenger (born 7 March 1978 in Loughborough) is an English high jumper. His personal best jump of 2.30 metres was achieved when he won the 1999 Summer Universiade. His career highlight to date is a bronze medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. He studied sports science at Loughborough University (a course he later abandoned in favour of full time High Jump training). As a youth he considered a career in basketball, and toured the US with the Leicester Riders, …
- Gretel Bergmann
Gretel Bergmann, also known as Margaret Bergmann-Lambert (born 12 April 1914) is a German former athlete who competed as a high jumper during the 1930s.
- Debbie Brill
Debbie Brill, OC (born March 10, 1953 in Mission, British Columbia) is a Canadian high jump athlete who was the first North American woman to clear 6 feet. Her unique reverse jumping style was called the "Brill Bend". In 1983, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
- Andrey Silnov
Andrey Silnov (born 9 September 1984 in Shahty) is a Russian track and field athlete specialized in the high jump event. He won the gold medal at the 2006 European Championships with a jump of 2.36 metres, improving the old championship record which was set by Steinar Hoen with 2.35 m in 1994. A week after the European Championships Silnov jumped 2.37 metres in Monaco. This was the world leading jump in 2006 by a comfortable margin.
- Ruth Beitia
Ruth Beitia (born April 1, 1979 in Santander) is a high jumper from Spain. With 2.00 metres indoor and outdoor she holds the current Spanish record.
- Matt Hemingway
Matt Hemingway (born October 24, 1972) is an American athlete who won a silver medal in the high jump at the 2004 Olympic Games.
- Antonietta di Martino
Antonietta Di Martino is an Italian high jumper. She currently holds the Italian national women's high jump record (2.03). She finished twelfth at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. In 2006 she finished fifth at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow and tenth at the European Championships in Gothenburg. In 2007 she cleared 2.00 metres in Banská Bystrica in February, …
- Zhu Jianhua
Zhu Jianhua (born May 29, 1963) is a retired Chinese high jumper. Dominating Asian high jump in the early 1980's, he won the Asian Championships in 1981, crushing the championship record (CR) with 15 centimetres. He repeated this at the 1982 Asian Games with a jump of 2.33m, beating the previous CR with 12 cm. He retained his title in the 1986 Asian Games. His 1982 jump is an Asian Games record as of 2007, and no other athlete has jumped over 2.27 in the Games.
- Hollis Conway
Hollis Conway (born January 8, 1967) is a track and field All-American and two-time Olympic medalist. Conway was the top-ranked high jumper in the U.S. seven straight years from 1988-94 and in the world for two of those years (1990 and 1991). He and Dwight Stones are the only Americans to win two Olympic medals in the high jump. Originally born in Chicago, Illinois and a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, Conway went 7-8 3/4 in the event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, …
- Fanny Blankers-Koen
Francina Elsje (Fanny) Blankers-Koen (Lage Vuursche, 26 April 1918-Hoofddorp, 25 January 2004) was a Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She accomplished this as a mother of two, during a time when many disregarded women's athletics. Her background and performances earned her the nickname "the Flying Housewife." Having started competing in athletics in 1935, she took part in the 1936 Summer Olympics a year later.
- Heike Henkel
Heike Henkel (born Heike Redetzky on May 5, 1964 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German former athlete competing in high jump. She won the high jump gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
- Kyriakos Ioannou
Kyriakos Ioannou (born 26 July 1984 in Limassol) is a Greek Cypriot high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.32 metres, achieved in May 2007 in Belgrade. He won the bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
- Greg Joy
Gregory Andrew Joy (born April 23, 1956 in Portland, Oregon) is a retired Canadian high jumper who won an Olympic silver medal in 1976. Born in the U.S. to Canadian parents, Joy lived in Vancouver from age 9 to 17 and was a member of Canada's national team from 1973 to 1982. Canada was the host nation of the 1976 Summer Olympics, held in Montreal, and the high jump contest included a battle between Joy and American Dwight Stones.
- Anna Chicherova
Anna Chicherova (born 22 July 1982, in Erevan) is a Russian high jumper. She is currently in the Russian Army Athletics Club based in Moscow where she is coached by Yevgeni Zagorulko. As of 18/9/06 she is placed 190 in the IAAF World Rankings. Her personal best jump is 2.01 metres, achieved on March 5, 2005 in Madrid.