Men · Jumps · All-Time

High Jump

World record

Javier Sotomayor CUBSalamanca · 27 Jul 1993

2.45

Best mark

World record

2.38

Top 25 cutoff

25 rows

2.39

Median

Of the 25 best-by-athlete marks

Countries

URS 4 · UKR 3 · 14 others

Performance distribution

25 athletes from 2.45 to 2.38 · median 2.39

2.45 · WR2.39 · median2.38 · cutoff

How fast an athlete needed to be to make the list each year

Season lists are not yet published for this event. This chart fills in as they are imported from a permitted source.

Best by athlete · updated 1 Sep 2026 · Wikipedia (English) revision of 28 Aug 2026 · methodology

25 rows

Men's High Jump — All-Time Top 25
#	Athlete	Country	Mark	Date	Venue	Age
1	Javier Sotomayor WR	CUB	2.45	27 Jul 1993	Salamanca	25
2	Mutaz Essa Barshim	QAT	2.43	5 Sep 2014	Brussels	23
3	Patrik Sjöberg	SWE	2.42	30 Jun 1987	Stockholm	22
3	Bohdan Bondarenko	UKR	2.42	14 Jun 2014	New York City	24
5	Igor Paklin	URS	2.41	4 Sep 1985	Kobe	22
6	Rudolf Povarnitsyn	URS	2.40	11 Aug 1985	Donetsk	23
6	Sorin Matei	ROU	2.40	20 Jun 1990	Bratislava	26
6	Charles Austin	USA	2.40	7 Aug 1991	Zurich	23
6	Vyacheslav Voronin	RUS	2.40	5 Aug 2000	London	26
6	Derek Drouin	CAN	2.40	25 Apr 2014	Des Moines	24
6	Andriy Protsenko	UKR	2.40	3 Jul 2014	Lausanne	26
12	Zhu Jianhua	CHN	2.39	10 Jun 1984	Eberstadt	21
12	Hollis Conway	USA	2.39	30 Jul 1989	Norman	22
12	Ivan Ukhov	RUS	2.39	5 Jul 2012	Cheboksary	26
12	Gianmarco Tamberi	ITA	2.39	15 Jul 2016	Monaco	24
16	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko	URS	2.38	6 Sep 1987	Rome	23
16	Sergey Malchenko	URS	2.38	4 Sep 1988	Banská Bystrica	24
16	Dragutin Topić	YUG	2.38	1 Aug 1993	Belgrade	22
16	Troy Kemp	BAH	2.38	12 Jul 1995	Nice	29
16	Artur Partyka	POL	2.38	18 Aug 1996	Eberstadt	27
16	Jacques Freitag	RSA	2.38	5 Mar 2005	Oudtshoorn	22
16	Andriy Sokolovskyy	UKR	2.38	8 Jul 2005	Rome	26
16	Andrey Silnov	RUS	2.38	25 Jul 2008	London	23
16	Zhang Guowei	CHN	2.38	30 May 2015	Eugene	23
16	Danil Lysenko	ANA	2.38	27 Aug 2017	Eberstadt	20