Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP Athletics High jump Yelena Slesarenko using the Fosbury Flop technique during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Men's records World Javier Sotomayor 2.45 m (8 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in) (1993) Olympic Charles Austin 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) (1996) Women's records World Stefka Kostadinova 2.09 m (6 ft 10 1 ⁄ 4 in) (1987) Olympic Yelena Slesarenko 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) (2004) 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 practised format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat for landing. In the modern era, athletes run towards the bar and use the Fosbury Flop method of jumping, leaping head first with their back to the bar. Since ancient times, competitors have introduced increasingly effective techniques to arrive at the current form. The discipli...