- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- Allen Johnson
Allen K. Johnson (born March 1, 1971) is a hurdling athlete and won Olympic Gold in the 110 metre high hurdles at the 1996 games in Atlanta, Georgia. Born in Washington, D.C., an all-round athlete Johnson attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and excelled at high jump, long jump and decathlon as well as hurdles. Johnson was troubled by injury in 2000 and it was much to his credit that he made the final at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Charles Austin
Charles Austin (born December 19, 1967), is an American athlete who won the gold medal in the men's high jump at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also the 1991 world champion. The 190 cm Austin cleared 2.39m (7 ft 10) on his final jump (an Olympic record at the time), beating Artur Partyka of Poland, who won the silver medal. His coach is Sue Humphrey. He attended Van Vleck High School in Van Vleck, Texas. Where he graduated in 1986.
- 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).
- Hestrie Cloete
Hestrie Cloete-Storbeck (born August 26, 1978 in Germiston, South Africa) is a highly successful high jumper.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Darvis Patton
Darvis Patton (born: December 4, 1977 in Dallas, Texas) is an American sprint athlete. A very versatile athlete, Patton competed at both the long jump and triple jump in his High School and College days but now concentrates his time around the 200 metres event.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Miguel Pate
Miguel Pate (born June 13, 1979 in St. Francisville, Louisiana) is an American track and field athlete. His speciality is the long jump, although during his high school and collegiate career he has also done the triple jump, high jump, 100 m, 200 m, 4x100 m relay, and 4x400 m. Miguel Pate attended West Feliciana High School in Louisiana from 1994 to 1997.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Dwight Stones
Dwight Edwin Stones (born December 6, 1953 - Los Angeles, California) is an American television commentator and a two-time Olympic bronze medalist and former three-time world record holder in the men's high jump. During his 16-year career, he won 19 national championships. In 1984, Stones became the first athlete to both compete and announce at the same Olympics.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Vyacheslav Voronin
Vyacheslav Voronin (born April 5, 1974 in Vladikavkaz) is a Russian athlete who specializes in the high jump. Voronin is a World Champion (1999) and European Indoor Champion (2000). His personal best is 2.40, set in London in August 2000. He competed in Athens 2004 and Helsinki 2005, but did not win medals in either. He is the only jumper to have cleared 2.40 since Javier Sotomayor.
- Emma Green
Emma Anna-Maria Green (born December 8, 1984, in Bergsjön, Sweden) is an athlete competing in high jump. She won a bronze medal in the high jump at 2005 IAAF World Championships.
- 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.
- Andrey Tereshin
Andrey Tereshin (born 15 December 1982) is a Russian high jumper. His personal best is 2.32 metres, though he has jumped 2.36 metres indoor in February 2006 in Moscow.
- Staffan Strand
Staffan Bo Strand is a Swedish high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.32 metres, achieved in July 2000 in Nice. He has an indoor personal best of 2.35 metres, achieved in June 2002 in Stockholm.
- 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.
- 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.).
- Naide Gomes
Enezaide do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, <small>OIH</small>, (born November 20 1979) is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in São Tomé and Príncipe. She is also a top-class competitor in the long jump, and she competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Naide Gomes started competing under the flag of her birth-country São Tomé and Príncipe and represented it at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, though she has lived in Portugal since she was 11 eleven years-old.