Men's Olympic High Jump Through the Years
Updated September 27, 2017 |
Infoplease Staff
High Jump
Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the men's high jump competition from 1896 to the present.
| Year | Height | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | Ellery Clark, USA | 5-111/4 | |
| 1900 | Irving Baxter, USA | 6- 23/4 | OR |
| 1904 | Sam Jones, USA | 5-11 | |
| 1906 | Cornelius Leahy, GBR/IRE | 5-10 | |
| 1908 | Harry Porter, USA | 6- 3 | OR |
| 1912 | Alma Richards, USA | 6- 4 | OR |
| 1920 | Richmond Landon, USA | 6- 4 | OR |
| 1924 | Harold Osborn, USA | 6- 6 | OR |
| 1928 | Bob King, USA | 6- 41/2 | |
| 1932 | Duncan McNaughton, CAN | 6- 51/2 | |
| 1936 | Cornelius Johnson, USA | 6- 8 | OR |
| 1948 | John Winter, AUS | 6- 6 | |
| 1952 | Walt Davis, USA | 6- 81/2 | OR |
| 1956 | Charley Dumas, USA | 6-111/2 | OR |
| 1960 | Robert Shavlakadze, USSR | 7- 1 | OR |
| 1964 | Valery Brumel, USSR | 7- 13/4 | OR |
| 1968 | Dick Fosbury, USA | 7- 41/4 | OR |
| 1972 | Yuri Tarmak, USSR | 7- 33/4 | |
| 1976 | Jacek Wszola, POL | 7- 41/2 | OR |
| 1980 | Gerd Wessig, E. Ger | 7- 83/4 | WR |
| 1984 | Dietmar Mögenburg, W. Ger | 7- 81/2 | |
| 1988 | Gennady Avdeyenko, USSR | 7- 93/4 | OR |
| 1992 | Javier Sotomayor, CUB | 7- 8 | |
| 1996 | Charles Austin, USA | 7- 10 | OR |
| 2000 | Sergey Klugin, RUS | 7- 81/2 | |
| 2004 | Stefan Holm, SWE | 7- 83/4 | |
| 2008 | Andrey Silnov, RUS | 7- 83/4 | |
| 2012 | Ivan Ukhov, RUS | 7-93/4 |
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