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Women's high jump world record progression

{{Short description|Changes in world records over time}}

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File:Stefka Kostadinova plaque National stadium.jpg , Sofia, Bulgaria, commemorating Stefka Kostadinova's high jump world record of 2.08 m set on 31 May 1986]]

The first world record in the women's high jump was recognised by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in 1922. In 1936, the FSFI was absorbed by the International Association of Athletics Federations, now known as World Athletics.

As of June 21, 2009,{{update inline|date=July 2022}} the IAAF (and the FSFI before it) has ratified 56 world records in the event.

{{cite web

|title = 12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009.

|url = http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf

|publisher = IAAF Media & Public Relations Department

|location = Monte Carlo

|pages = Pages 546, 644–5

|year = 2009

|access-date = August 4, 2009

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629134819/http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf

|archive-date=June 29, 2011

}}

Record progression

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DateFormat = yyyy

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id:Basis value:red legend:World_record_women's_high_jump

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bar:Leaders width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S shift:(22,-4)

from:1922 till:end color:Basis

at:1922 text:Nancy Voorhees_1.46_m

at:1926 text:Phyllis Green_1.55_m

at:1928 text:Ethel Catherwood_1.595_m

at:1929 text:Carolina Gisoll_1.60_m

at:1932 text:Jean Shiley_1.65_m

at:1939 text:Dorothy Tyler_1.66_m

at:1943 text:Fanny Blankers-Koen_1.71_m

at:1956 text:Mildred Singleton_1.76_m

at:1958 text:Iolanda Balas_1.80_m

at:1960 shift:(22,-8) text:Iolanda_Balas_1.85_m

at:1961 shift:(22,-7) text:Iolanda_Balas_1.90_m

at:1961 shift:(22,0) text:Iolanda_Balas_1.91_m

at:1971 text:Ilona Gusenbauer_1.92_m

at:1972 text:Jordanka Blagojewa_1.94_m

at:1974 text:Rosemarie Ackermann_1.95_m

at:1976 shift:(22,-8) text:Rosemarie_Ackermann_1.96_m

at:1977 shift:(22,-8) text:Rosemarie_Ackermann_1.97_m

at:1977 shift:(22,-1) text:Rosemarie_Ackermann_2.00_m

at:1978 shift:(22,-2) text:Sara Simeoni_2.01_m

at:1982 shift:(22,-6) text:Ulrike Meyfarth_2.02_m

at:1983 shift:(22,-8) text:Ulrike_Meyfarth_2.03_m

at:1983 shift:(22,-1) text:Tamara Bykowa_2.04_m

at:1984 shift:(22,-5) text:Tamara_Bykowa_2.05_m

at:1984 shift:(22,2) text:Ludmilla Andonowa_2.07_m

at:1986 text:Stefka Kostadinova_2.08_m

at:1987 text:Stefka_Kostadinova_2.09_m

at:2024 text:Yaroslava Mahuchikh_2.10_m

The event is linked on some of the dates.

class="wikitable sortable"
Mark

!Athlete

!Date

!Venue

{{T&Fcalc|1.46}}

|{{flagathlete|Nancy Voorhees|USA|1912}}

|20 May 1922

|Simsbury

bgcolor=

|rowspan="2"|{{T&Fcalc|1.485}}

|{{flagathlete|Elizabeth Stine|USA|1912}}

|26 May 1923

|Englewood, New Jersey[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record-breaks-world-record-in-high-j/25529108/ "Elizabeth Stine Breaks World's Record For High Jump On Englewood Field"], The Record, May 28, 1923. Accessed August 1, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Elizabeth Stine created a new world's record for the women's high jump at the Englewood High school athletic field last Saturday afternoon when she cleared the bar at four feet ten and one-half inches. The former record was four feet, nine inches."

{{flagathlete|Sophie Eliott-Lynn|GBR}}

|6 August 1923

|Brentwood

bgcolor=

|{{T&Fcalc|1.524}}

|rowspan="2"|{{flagathlete|Phyllis Green|GBR}}

|11 July 1925

|rowspan="2"|London

{{T&Fcalc|1.552}}

|2 August 1926

bgcolor=

|rowspan="2"|{{T&Fcalc|1.58}}

|{{flagathlete|Ethel Catherwood|CAN|1921}}

|6 September 1926

|Regina

{{flagathlete|Lien Gisolf|NED}}

|3 July 1928

|Brussels

bgcolor=

|{{T&Fcalc|1.595}}

|{{flagathlete|Ethel Catherwood|CAN|1921}}

|5 August 1928

|Amsterdam

{{T&Fcalc|1.605}}

|rowspan="2"|{{flagathlete|Lien Gisolf|NED}}

|18 August 1929

|Maastricht

bgcolor=

|{{T&Fcalc|1.62}}

|12 June 1932

|Amsterdam

rowspan="2"|{{T&Fcalc|1.65}}

|{{flagathlete|Jean Shiley|USA|1912}}

|7 August 1932

|rowspan="2"|Los Angeles

{{flagathlete|Mildred Didrikson|USA|1912}}

|7 August 1932

rowspan="3"|{{T&Fcalc|1.66}}

|{{flagathlete|Dorothy Odam|GBR}}

|29 May 1939

|Brentwood

{{flagathlete|Esther van Heerden|South Africa|1928}}

|29 March 1941

|Stellenbosch

{{flagathlete|Ilsebill Pfenning|SUI}}

|27 July 1941

|Lugano

{{T&Fcalc|1.71}}

|{{flagathlete|Fanny Blankers-Koen|NED}}

|30 May 1943

|Amsterdam

{{T&Fcalc|1.72}}

|{{flagathlete|Sheila Lerwill|GBR}}

|7 July 1951

|London

{{T&Fcalc|1.73}}

|{{flagathlete|Aleksandra Chudina|URS|1936}}

|22 May 1954

|Kiev

{{T&Fcalc|1.74}}

|{{flagathlete|Thelma Hopkins|GBR}}

|5 May 1956

|Belfast

{{T&Fcalc|1.75}}

|{{flagathlete|Iolanda Balaș|ROM|1952}}

|14 July 1956

|Bucharest

rowspan="2"|{{T&Fcalc|1.76}}

|{{flagathlete|Mildred McDaniel|USA|1912}}

|1 December 1956

|Melbourne

{{flagathlete|Iolanda Balaş|ROM|1952}}

|13 October 1957

|Bucharest

{{T&Fcalc|1.77}}

|{{flagathlete|Zheng Fengrong|CHN}}

|17 November 1957

|Beijing

{{T&Fcalc|1.78}}

|rowspan="12"|{{flagathlete|Iolanda Balaş|ROM|1952}}

|7 June 1958

|Bucharest

{{T&Fcalc|1.80}}

|22 June 1958

|Cluj-Napoca

{{T&Fcalc|1.81}}

|31 July 1958

|Poiana Brasov

{{T&Fcalc|1.82}}

|4 October 1958

|rowspan="6"|Bucharest

{{T&Fcalc|1.83}}

|18 October 1958

{{T&Fcalc|1.84}}

|21 September 1959

{{T&Fcalc|1.85}}

|6 June 1960

{{T&Fcalc|1.86}}

|10 July 1960

{{T&Fcalc|1.87}}

|15 April 1961

{{T&Fcalc|1.88}}

|18 June 1961

|Warsaw

{{T&Fcalc|1.90}}

|8 July 1961

|Budapest

{{T&Fcalc|1.91}}

|16 July 1961

|Sofia

rowspan="2"|{{T&Fcalc|1.92}}

|{{flagathlete|Ilona Gusenbauer|AUT}}

|4 September 1971

|Vienna

{{flagathlete|Ulrike Meyfarth|FRG}}

|4 September 1972

|Munich

{{T&Fcalc|1.94}}

|{{flagathlete|Yordanka Blagoeva|BUL|1971}}

|24 September 1972

|Zagreb

{{T&Fcalc|1.94}}

|{{flagathlete|Rosemarie Witschas|GDR}}

|24 August 1974

|Berlin

{{T&Fcalc|1.95}}

|rowspan="6"|{{flagathlete|Rosemarie Ackermann|GDR}}

|8 September 1974

|Rome

rowspan="2"|{{T&Fcalc|1.96}}

|8 May 1976

|rowspan="2"|Dresden

3 July 1977
rowspan="2"|{{T&Fcalc|1.97}}

|14 August 1977

|Helsinki

rowspan="2"|26 August 1977

|rowspan="2"|West Berlin

{{T&Fcalc|2.00}}
rowspan="2"|{{T&Fcalc|2.01}}

|rowspan="2"|{{flagathlete|Sara Simeoni|ITA}}

|4 August 1978

|Brescia

31 August 1978

|Prague

{{T&Fcalc|2.02}}

|rowspan="2"|{{flagathlete|Ulrike Meyfarth|FRG}}

|8 September 1982

|Athens

rowspan="2"|{{T&Fcalc|2.03}}

|rowspan="2"|21 August 1983

|rowspan="2"|London

rowspan="3"|{{flagathlete|Tamara Bykova|URS}}
{{T&Fcalc|2.04}}

|25 August 1983

|Pisa

{{T&Fcalc|2.05}}

|22 June 1984

|Kiev

rowspan="2"|{{T&Fcalc|2.07}}

|{{flagathlete|Lyudmila Andonova|BUL|1971}}

|20 July 1984

|East Berlin

rowspan="3"|{{flagathlete|Stefka Kostadinova|BUL|1971}}

|25 May 1986

|rowspan="2"|Sofia

{{T&Fcalc|2.08}}

|31 May 1986

{{T&Fcalc|2.09}}

|30 August 1987

|Rome

{{T&Fcalc|2.10}}

|{{flagathlete|Yaroslava Mahuchikh|UKR|2001}}

|7 July 2024

|Paris[https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/jumps/high-jump/all/women/senior World Athletics : Senior High Jump Women]. Accessed November 17, 2024.

See also

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References

  • [http://www.sporting-heroes.net/athletics-heroes/stats_athletics/worldrecords/hyjmp_w.asp Sporting Heroes]

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