Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt

Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt
Official competition logo
DateJune–September in
LocationEberstadt, Germany
Event typeHigh jump
Established1979
Official siteOfficial website

The Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting is an annual high jumping competition which takes place in Eberstadt, Germany. Established as a men's competition in 1979, it quickly became an important meeting in the high jump calendar, with Jacek Wszoła setting a world record in 1980, and Zhu Jianhua improving the record further in 1984. A women's contest was added to the programme in 2002.

World record holder Javier Sotomayor remains the competition's most successful athlete, with a total of five wins achieved over seven years. Vyacheslav Voronin's and Stefan Holm's winning jumps in 2001 and 2004, respectively, were the greatest jumps in the world that season.[1][2] Kajsa Bergqvist's winning jump in 2003 was also a season's best, and remains among the highest jumps ever completed by a female athlete.[3]

Ariane Friedrich became the first German woman to win in Eberstadt in 2010 and Raúl Spank also made it the first German clean sweep that year.[4]

A total of two world records, four European records, one Asian record and seventeen national records have been set at the competition.

  1. ^ High Jump 2001. IAAF (2005-09-02). Retrieved on 2009-11-22.
  2. ^ High Jump 2004. IAAF (2008-05-25). Retrieved on 2009-11-22.
  3. ^ High Jump All Time. IAAF (2009-09-13). Retrieved on 2009-11-22.
  4. ^ Wenig, Jörg (2010-08-30). Spank and Friedrich take home wins in Eberstadt, Harting impresses at Throws meeting in Neubrandenburg – German weekend wrap. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-30.

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