Running High Jump
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| 1896 | Ellery Clark, United States | 5 ft 11.25 in |
| 1900 | Irving Baxter, United States | 6 ft 2.75 in |
| 1904 | Samuel Jones, United States | 5 ft 11 in |
| 1906 | Con Leahy, Ireland | 5 ft 9.875 in |
| 1908 | Harry Porter, United States | 6 ft 3 in |
| 1912 | Alma Richards, United States | 6 ft 4 in |
| 1920 | Richmond Landon, United States | 6 ft 4.25 in |
| 1924 | Harold Osborn, United States | 6 ft 5.9375 in |
| 1928 | Robert W. King, United States | 6 ft 4.375 in |
| 1932 | Duncan McNaughton, Canada | 6 ft 5.625 in |
| 1936 | Cornelius Johnson, United States | 6 ft 7.9375 in |
| 1948 | John Winter, Australia | 6 ft 6 in |
| 1952 | Walter David, United States | 6 ft 8.9375 in |
| 1956 | Charles Damas, United States | 6 ft 11.25 in |
| 1960 | Robert Shavlakadze, USSR | 7 ft 1 in |
| 1964 | Valeri Brumel, USSR | 7 ft 1.75 in |
| 1968 | Dick Fosbury, United States | 7 ft 4.25 in |
| 1972 | Yuri Tarmak, USSR | 7 ft 3.75 in |
| 1976 | Jacek Wszola, Poland | 7 ft 4.5 in |
| 1980 | Gerd Wessig, East Germany | 7 ft 8.75 in |
| 1984 | Dietmar Mogenburg, West Germany | 7 ft 8.5 in |
| 1988 | Guennadi Avdeenko, USSR | 7 ft 0.5 in |
| 1992 | Javier Sotomayer, Cuba | 7 ft 8.5 in |
| 1996 | Charles Austin, United States | 7 ft 10 in |
| 2000 | Sergey Kliugin, Russia | 7 ft 8.5 in |
| 2004 | Stefan Holm, Sweden | 7 ft 8.91 in |
| 2008 | Andrey Silnov, Russia | 7 ft 8.91 in |
