The first

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in the women's

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 ...

was recognised by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in 1922. In 1936, the FSFI was absorbed by the International Association of Athletics Federations, now known as

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. As of June 21, 2009, the IAAF (and the FSFI before it) has ratified 56 world records in the event.

Record progression

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Ethel Catherwood Ethel Catherwood (April 28, 1908 – September 26, 1987) was a Canadian Olympic athlete. Biography Born in Hannah, North Dakota, United States, Ethel Catherwood was raised and educated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, where she excelled ...

_1.595_m at:1929 text: Carolina Gisoll_1.60_m at:1932 text:

Jean Shiley Jean Shiley Newhouse (November 20, 1911 – March 11, 1998) was an American high jumper. She was born Jean Shiley in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Havertown, a Philadelphia suburb, where she joined the team at Haverford High ...

_1.65_m at:1939 text: Dorothy Tyler_1.66_m at:1943 text:

Fanny Blankers-Koen Francina Elsje "Fanny" Blankers-Koen (; 26 April 191825 January 2004) was a Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of two, earning ...

_1.71_m at:1956 text: Mildred Singleton_1.76_m at:1958 text:

Iolanda Balas Iolanda is a given name used in Italian, Portuguese and Romanian languages. Notable people with this name include: * Iolanda Balaș (1936–2016), Romanian Olympic athlete and high jumper * Iolanda Batallé (born 1971), Catalan writer * Iolanda ...

_1.80_m at:1960 shift:(22,-8) text:Iolanda_Balas_1.85_m at:1961 shift:(22,-7) text:Iolanda_Balas_1.90_m at:1961 shift:(22,0) text:Iolanda_Balas_1.91_m at:1971 text:

Ilona Gusenbauer Ilona Maria Gusenbauer (née Majdan on 16 September 1947) is a retired Austrian high jumper who competed at two Olympic Games.

_1.92_m at:1972 text: Jordanka Blagojewa_1.94_m at:1974 text:

Rosemarie Ackermann Rosemarie "Rosi" Ackermann (; born 4 April 1952) is a German former high jumper, Olympic champion and multiple world record holder. In Berlin on 26 August 1977, she became the first female high jumper to clear a height of two metres. Bi ...

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Sara Simeoni Sara Simeoni (born 19 April 1953) is an Italian former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and twice set a world record in the women's high jump. Biography Sara Simeoni was born in Rivoli Veronese, in the province of ...

_2.01_m at:1982 shift:(22,-6) text:

Ulrike Meyfarth Ulrike Nasse-Meyfarth (; born 4 May 1956) is a German former high jumper. She won the Olympic Games, Olympic title twice, in 1972 and 1984. She is the youngest Olympic champion ever in women's high jump, and at the time of her 1984 triumph, she ...

_2.02_m at:1983 shift:(22,-8) text:Ulrike_Meyfarth_2.03_m at:1983 shift:(22,-1) text: Tamara Bykowa_2.04_m at:1984 shift:(22,-5) text:Tamara_Bykowa_2.05_m at:1984 shift:(22,2) text: Ludmilla Andonowa_2.07_m at:1986 text:

Stefka Kostadinova Stefka Georgieva Kostadinova (; born 25 March 1965) is a Bulgarian former athlete who competed in the high jump. Her world record of 2.09 metres stood since 1987 until being broken by Yaroslava Mahuchikh in 2024. She is the 1996 Olympic cham ...

_2.08_m at:1987 text:Stefka_Kostadinova_2.09_m at:2024 text:

Yaroslava Mahuchikh Yaroslava Oleksiivna Mahuchikh (, ; born 19 September 2001) is a Ukrainian high jumper and women's high jump world record holder. She won the gold medal at the Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump, 2024 Summer Olympics, 2 ...

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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 ...

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