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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