AthleticsAthletics world record
High jump, women
2.10 m
6.89 ft
- Holder
- Yaroslava Mahuchikh
- Date
- Place
- Paris
- Standing since
- 2024 (2 years)
How the record evolved
The last record set in each decade, up to the current record (highlighted).
| Year | Record | Holder |
|---|---|---|
| 2.10 m | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | |
| 2.09 m | Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) | |
| 2.01 m | Sara Simeoni (ITA) | |
| 1.91 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | |
| 1.84 m | Iolanda Balaş (ROM) | |
| 1.71 m | Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) | |
| 1.66 m | Dorothy Odam (GBR) | |
| 1.605 m | Lien Gisolf (NED) |
Put them in order
Sort these records from the oldest to the most recent.
- 2.01 mSara Simeoni (ITA)
- 1.605 mLien Gisolf (NED)
- 1.71 mFanny Blankers-Koen (NED)
- 2.10 mYaroslava Mahuchikh
What to remember
On July 7, 2024, at the Paris Diamond League meeting, Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh cleared a bar set at 2.10 m. In doing so she erased the 2.09 m mark of Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadinova, which had stood for 37 years. In the high jump, athletes clear a horizontal bar without knocking it off; almost all of them use the Fosbury flop, leaping head first with their back to the bar.
Women's high jump has been on the Olympic programme since 1928. In 1929, Lien Gisolf cleared 1.605 m. Romania's Iolanda Balaş went over 1.84 m in 1959 and 1.91 m in 1961, Italy's Sara Simeoni reached 2.01 m in 1978, and Kostadinova rose to 2.09 m in 1987. Across 95 years the height grew by 30.8%.
Born on September 19, 2001, Mahuchikh became world champion in 2023 and Olympic champion at the 2024 Paris Games a few weeks after her record. She also won the World Indoor title in 2022 and is a three-time Diamond League title holder.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of world records in athletics” (revision used 1378411308). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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