Men · Jumps · All-Time
High Jump
2.45
Best mark
World record
2.36
Top 50 cutoff
50 rows
2.37
Median
Of the 50 best-by-athlete marks
25
Countries
USA 8 · RUS 7 · 23 others
Performance distribution
50 athletes from 2.45 to 2.36 · median 2.37
Top 50 cutoff
The mark an athlete needed to make the list
World all-time top 50
Best by athlete · data refreshed 17 Sep 2026 · methodology
50 rows
| # | Athlete | Country | Mark | Date | Venue | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Javier Sotomayor WR | CUB | 2.45 | 27 Jul 1993 | Salamanca | 25 |
| 2 | Mutaz Essa Barshim | QAT | 2.43 | 5 Sep 2014 | Bruxelles | 23 |
| 3 | Patrik Sjöberg | SWE | 2.42 | 30 Jun 1987 | Stockholm | 22 |
| 4 | Bohdan Bondarenko | UKR | 2.42 | 14 Jun 2014 | New York City | 24 |
| 5 | Igor Paklin | KGZ | 2.41 | 4 Sep 1985 | Kobe | 22 |
| 6 | Rudolf Povarnitsyn | UKR | 2.40 | 11 Aug 1985 | Donetsk | 23 |
| 7 | Sorin Matei | ROU | 2.40 | 20 Jun 1990 | Bratislava | 26 |
| 8 | Charles Austin | USA | 2.40 | 7 Aug 1991 | Zürich | 23 |
| 9 | Vyacheslav Voronin | RUS | 2.40 | 5 Aug 2000 | London | 26 |
| 10 | Derek Drouin | CAN | 2.40 | 25 Apr 2014 | Des Moines | 24 |
| 11 | Andrey Protsenko | UKR | 2.40 | 3 Jul 2014 | Lausanne | |
| 12 | Danyil Lysenko | RUS | 2.40 | 20 Jul 2018 | Monaco | |
| 13 | Zhu Jianhua | CHN | 2.39 | 10 Jun 1984 | Eberstadt | 21 |
| 14 | Hollis Conway | USA | 2.39 | 30 Jul 1989 | Norman | 22 |
| 15 | Ivan Ukhov | RUS | 2.39 | 5 Jul 2012 | Cheboksary | 26 |
| 16 | Gianmarco Tamberi | ITA | 2.39 | 15 Jul 2016 | Monaco | 24 |
| 17 | Gennadiy Avdeyenko | UKR | 2.38 | 6 Sep 1987 | Roma | |
| 18 | Sergey Malchenko | RUS | 2.38 | 4 Sep 1988 | Banská Bystrica | 24 |
| 19 | Dragutin Topić | SRB | 2.38 | 1 Aug 1993 | Beograd | 22 |
| 20 | Troy Kemp | BAH | 2.38 | 12 Jul 1995 | Nice | 29 |
| 21 | Artur Partyka | POL | 2.38 | 18 Aug 1996 | Eberstadt | 27 |
| 22 | Jacques Freitag | RSA | 2.38 | 5 Mar 2005 | Oudtshoorn | 22 |
| 23 | Andrey Sokolovskiy | UKR | 2.38 | 8 Jul 2005 | Roma | |
| 24 | Andrey Silnov | RUS | 2.38 | 25 Jul 2008 | London | 23 |
| 25 | Zhang Guowei | CHN | 2.38 | 30 May 2015 | Eugene | 23 |
| 26 | Valeriy Sereda | RUS | 2.37 | 2 Sep 1984 | Rieti | |
| 27 | Carlo Thränhardt | GER | 2.37 | 2 Sep 1984 | Rieti | |
| 28 | Tom McCants | USA | 2.37 | 8 May 1988 | Columbus | |
| 29 | Jerome Carter | USA | 2.37 | 8 May 1988 | Columbus | |
| 30 | Sergey Dymchenko | UKR | 2.37 | 16 Sep 1990 | Kyiv | |
| 31 | Steve Smith | GBR | 2.37 | 20 Sep 1992 | Seoul | |
| 32 | Stefan Holm | SWE | 2.37 | 13 Jul 2008 | Athínai | |
| 33 | Jesse Williams | USA | 2.37 | 26 Jun 2011 | Eugene | |
| 34 | Robbie Grabarz | GBR | 2.37 | 23 Aug 2012 | Lausanne | |
| 35 | Erik Kynard | USA | 2.37 | 4 Jul 2013 | Lausanne | |
| 36 | Donald Thomas | BAH | 2.37 | 18 Jul 2016 | Székesfehérvár | |
| 37 | Ilya Ivanyuk | RUS | 2.37 | 17 May 2021 | Smolensk | |
| 38 | Maksim Nedasekau | BLR | 2.37 | 6 Jul 2021 | Székesfehérvár | |
| 39 | Gerd Wessig | GDR | 2.36 | 1 Aug 1980 | Moskva | |
| 40 | Sergey Zasimovich | KGZ | 2.36 | 5 May 1984 | Tashkent | |
| 41 | Dietmar Mögenburg | GER | 2.36 | 10 Jun 1984 | Eberstadt | |
| 42 | Eddy Annijs | BEL | 2.36 | 26 May 1985 | Gent | |
| 43 | Jim Howard | USA | 2.36 | 8 Jun 1987 | Rehlingen | |
| 44 | Ján Zvara | CZE | 2.36 | 23 Aug 1987 | Praha | |
| 45 | Nick Saunders | BER | 2.36 | 1 Feb 1990 | Auckland | |
| 46 | Doug Nordquist | USA | 2.36 | 15 Jun 1990 | Norwalk | |
| 47 | Georgi Dakov | BUL | 2.36 | 10 Aug 1990 | Bruxelles | |
| 48 | Dalton Grant | GBR | 2.36 | 1 Sep 1991 | Tokyo | |
| 49 | Lábros Papakóstas | GRE | 2.36 | 21 Jun 1992 | Athínai | |
| 50 | Tim Forsyth | AUS | 2.36 | 2 Mar 1997 | Melbourne |