Cleave Books World Records for High Jump (Men) Year Date Place Athlete Nationality Time 1912    May 18th Palo Alto, USA George Horine USA 2.00 m 1914 May 2nd Berkeley Edward Beeson USA 2.01 m 1924 May 27th Urbana, USA Harold Osborn USA 2.03 m 1933 May 13th Fresno, USA Walter Marty USA 2.04 m 1934 April 28th Palo Alto, USA Walter Marty USA 2.06 m 1936 July 12th New York Cornelius Johnson USA 2.07 m 1936 July 12th New York David Albritton USA 2.07 m 1937 August 12th Malmo, Sweden Mel Walker USA 2.09 m 1941 June 17th Los Angeles Lester Steers USA 2.11 m 1953 June 27th Dayton, USA Walter Davis USA 2.12 m 1956 June 29th Los Angeles Charles Dumas USA 2.15 m 1957 July 13th Leningrad Yuriy Styepanov USSR 2.16 m 1960 April 30th Philadelphia John Thomas USA 2.17 m 1960 June 14th Bakersfield, USA John Thomas USA 2.18 m 1960 July 1st Palo Alto, USA John Thomas USA 2.22 m 1961 June 18th Moscow Valeriy Brumel USSR 2.23 m 1961 July 16th Moscow Valeriy Brumel USSR 2.24 m 1961 August 31st Sofiya, Bulgaria Valeriy Brumel USSR 2.25 m 1962 July 22nd Palo Alto, USA Valeriy Brumel USSR 2.26 m 1962 September 29th Moscow Valeriy Brumel USSR 2.27 m 1963 July 21st Moscow Valeriy Brumel USSR 2.28 m 1971 July 3rd Berkeley, USA Patrick Matzdorf USA 2.29 m 1973 July 11th Munich Dwight Stones USA 2.30 m 1976 June 5th Philadelphia Dwight Stones USA 2.31 m 1976 August 4th Philadelphia Dwight Stones USA 2.32 m 1977 July 3rd Richmond, USA Volodymyr Yashchenko    USSR 2.33 m 1978 June 16th Tbilisi, Georgia Volodymyr Yashchenko USSR 2.34 m 1980 May 25th Eberstadt Jacek Wszola Poland 2.35 m 1980 August 1st Moscow Gerd Wessig Germany 2.36 m 1983 June 11th Peking Jianhua Zhu China 2.37 m 1983 September 22nd    Shanghai Jianhua Zhu China 2.38 m 1984 June 10th Eberstadt Jianhua Zhu China 2.39 m 1985 August 11th Donyetsk Rudolf Povarnitsyn USSR 2.40 m 1985 September 4th Kobe, Japan Igor Paklin USSR 2.41 m 1987 June 30th Stockholm Patrick Sjoberg Sweden 2.42 m 1989 July 29th San Juan, Puerto Rico    Javier Sotomayer Cuba 2.44 m 1993 Javier Sotomayer Cuba 2.45 m Go to the top World Records Index