An Illustrated History of the High Jump

Americans dominated Olympic men's high jumping from 1896 through the 1950s. Today, nations from around the world boast competitive high jumpers, as demonstrated in the 2000 Games, where the high jump medalists came from three different continents. Russian Sergey Klyugin (center, above) won the gold, with Cuban Javier Sotomayor (right) in second and Algerian Abderrahmane Hammad (left) in third.