High jump men legal analytics

High jump table View source
Top mark
2.45
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ί Javier Sotomayor
Salamanca · 1993-07-27
10th-place mark
2.41
gap: +0.04
100th-place mark
2.37
gap: +0.08
Median age, top 100
24.1 yrs
Distinct athletes
236
1756 canonical perfs
Years contested
1976–2025
15 historical WRs
World-record progression 15 world records since 1976

Canonical list: All-time men's best high jump. Higher mark = better. Hover a dot for the holder & venue.

Best mark per year 50 years

The single best canonical mark for each year. Hover a dot for the holder.

Entries per year depth growth on the all-time list
1976: 2 performances1977: 2 performances1978: 2 performances1979: 1 performance1980: 8 performances1981: 4 performances1982: 8 performances1983: 19 performances1984: 50 performances1985: 49 performances1986: 52 performances1987: 46 performances1988: 102 performances1989: 70 performances1990: 83 performances1991: 46 performances1992: 59 performances1993: 57 performances1994: 64 performances1995: 40 performances1996: 40 performances1997: 30 performances1998: 31 performances1999: 33 performances2000: 49 performances2001: 29 performances2002: 30 performances2003: 25 performances2004: 28 performances2005: 30 performances2006: 33 performances2007: 25 performances2008: 36 performances2009: 41 performances2010: 15 performances2011: 61 performances2012: 43 performances2013: 48 performances2014: 63 performances2015: 65 performances2016: 45 performances2017: 32 performances2018: 38 performances2019: 18 performances2020: 1 performance2021: 28 performances2022: 12 performances2023: 32 performances2024: 17 performances2025: 14 performances19801990200020102020010219762025
Decade leaders best canonical mark of each decade
  1. 1970s 2.34 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Volodymyr Yaschenko 1978-06-16
  2. 1980s 2.44 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ί Javier Sotomayor 1989-07-29
  3. 1990s 2.45 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ί Javier Sotomayor 1993-07-27
  4. 2000s 2.40 πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Vyacheslav Voronin 2000-08-05
  5. 2010s 2.43 πŸ‡ΆπŸ‡¦ Mutaz Essa Barshim 2014-09-05
  6. 2020s 2.37 πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Ilya Ivanyuk 2021-05-17
Top countries (top 100) national depth on the all-time list
  1. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ί CUB 22
  2. πŸ‡ΆπŸ‡¦ QAT 18
  3. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ UKR 17
  4. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA 10
  5. πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί RUS 7
  6. πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺ SWE 6
  7. πŸ‡°πŸ‡¬ KGZ 4
  8. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ CHN 4
Most prolific (top 100) athletes with the most appearances
  1. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ί Javier Sotomayor 22
  2. πŸ‡ΆπŸ‡¦ Mutaz Essa Barshim 18
  3. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Bogdan Bondarenko 11
  4. πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺ Patrik SjΓΆberg 6
  5. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Hollis Conway 5
  6. πŸ‡°πŸ‡¬ Igor Paklin 4
  7. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Derek Drouin 4
  8. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Gennadiy Avdeyenko 3
Mark vs age 800 points