The Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting is an annual

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

ing competition which takes place in

Eberstadt Eberstadt () is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is best known for its winegrowing and its yearly international high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unai ...

, Germany. Established as a men's competition in 1979, it quickly became an important meeting in the high jump calendar, with

Jacek Wszoła Jacek Roman Wszoła (born 30 December 1956 in Warsaw, Poland) is a retired Polish high jumper best known for winning gold and silver medals at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics respectively. Wszoła is also a one-time world record holder with the ...

setting a

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in 1980, and

Zhu Jianhua Zhu Jianhua (; born 29 May 1963) is a retired Chinese high jumper. His personal best of 2.39 metres is a former world record for the event, and is still the Chinese record. In Helsinki 1983, Zhu became China's first man to win a medal in th ...

improving the record further in 1984. A women's contest was added to the programme in 2002. World record holder

Javier Sotomayor Javier Sotomayor Sanabria (; born October 13, 1967) is a Cuban retired track and field athlete, who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder. The 1992 Olympic champion, he was the dominant high jumper of the 1990s; hi ...

remains the competition's most successful athlete, with a total of five wins achieved over seven years.

Vyacheslav Voronin Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin (russian: Вячеспав Никопаевич Воронин; born 5 April 1974 in Vladikavkaz) is a Russian track and field athlete who specialised in the high jump. Voronin was a World Champion (1999) and Eu ...

's and

Stefan Holm Stefan Christian Holm (born 25 May 1976) is a retired Swedish high jumper. He won an Olympic Games, Olympic gold medal, a silver medal, silver in the World Championships in Athletics, World Championships, and one silver and one bronze medal in ...

's winning jumps in 2001 and 2004, respectively, were the greatest jumps in the world that season. Kajsa Bergqvist's winning jump in 2003 was also a season's best, and remains among the highest jumps ever completed by a female athlete.

Ariane Friedrich Ariane Friedrich (born Tempel; 10 January 1984 in Nordhausen) is a German high jumper. She won the silver medal at the 2009 World Championships and represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the German ...

became the first German woman to win in Eberstadt in 2010 and Raúl Spank also made it the first German clean sweep that year.Wenig, Jörg (2010-08-30)
Spank and Friedrich take home wins in Eberstadt, Harting impresses at Throws meeting in Neubrandenburg – German weekend wrap

IAAF World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for ...

. Retrieved on 2010-08-30. A total of two

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, four European records, one Asian record and seventeen

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have been set at the competition.

Past winners

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References

;General
Eberstadt – Das Mekka der Hochspringer
. Hochsprung Eberstadt. Retrieved on 2009-11-21. ;Specific

External links

Official website
* Competition summaries from IAAF

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Past winners

See also

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