10/31/2022 0 Comments High jump world record![]() ![]() The Ukrainian athlete made three attempts that August, and according to Sotomayor, it was on his second attempt that he came closest. “The record was always under threat, especially when I jumped, as back then there were so many others who could make it, and in fact they attempted it several times.” I asked Sotomayor then how he lived with the threat of someone surpassing the 2.45m mark, and he responded: “I haven’t lived with it, rather I have relived it, as no one had attempted it for a long time. But only Barshim has managed to reach 2.43m, Sotomayor’s first world record, on September 5, 2014.įive years ago, when we celebrated 25 years of his first world record, and 20 of the existing one, Bondarenko, in the 2013 World Championships, requested the bar be set at 2.46m, in an attempt to knock him off the top spot. Indoors, the Cuban shares his title with the Russian Iván Ukhov. The athlete to have come closest outdoors is Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim, with ten jumps at this height or above, followed by Ukraine’s Bohdan Bondarenko, with seven. ![]() Sotomayor has the most jumps to his name both indoors and outdoors, 17 and four, respectively. Of these 63 jumps, 46 were outdoor competitions, the rest were on indoor tracks. Since 1912, a total of 63 jumps have been recorded at this height, and 21 of them were by the Cuban athlete from the Matanzas’ municipality of Limonar. Sotomayor also set the junior world record in 1984, with a jump of 2.33m, and the Central American and Caribbean Junior record by clearing 2.36m in 1986.Īlthough there is no title for it and it isn’t included in the statistics, Javier also holds another record: he is the human being who has cleared 2.40m more times than anyone else. We couldn’t let the anniversary pass without recalling his feat, one of the greatest of the Cuban sports movement, and one of the most recognized worldwide, maintained throughout time. Four long years, as he himself told us, were to pass before on the 27th of that same month, and again in Salamanca, he would soar over the 2.45m mark. This year Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is also celebrating 30 years since his first world record of 2.43m in the Spanish city of Salamanca, Septema record he broke less than a year later, when he soared over the 2.44m mark in San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 29, 1989. The only mortal to have flown this high is Cuban, and this 2018 he is celebrating 25 years as high jump world record holder. However, to jump over it using nothing more than the take-off power of one’s own legs is unprecedented, that is, at least, for all but one man. To simply stand before a bar placed at a height of 2.45 meters is nothing extraordinary. (Photo: IAAF).Īlthough there is no title for it and it isn’t included in the statistics, Javier also holds another record: he is the human being who has cleared 2.40m more times than anyone else Sotomayor is also celebrating 30 years since his first world record of 2.43m in the Spanish city of Salamanca, September 8, 1988. ![]()
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