| Records are made to be broken, gold medals are forever | | CHAMPIONS AND RECORDS | highjump champions through the years and a couple of highjump records |
| Olympic Games |
 1896 | Athìna, GRE | Ellery Clark | USA | 181 | CR |
1900 | Paris, FRA | Irving Baxter | USA | 190 | CR |
1904 | St Louis, USA | Samuel Jones | USA | 180 | |
1906 | Athìna, GRE | Cornelius Leahy | Great Britain/Ireland | 177,5 | |
1908 | London, GBR | Harry Porter | USA | 190,5 | CR |
1912 | Stockholm, SWE | Alma Richards | USA | 193 | CR |
1920 | Antwerpen, BEL | Richmond Landon | USA | 193,5 | CR |
1924 | Paris, FRA | Harold Osborn | USA | 198 | CR |
1928 | Amsterdam, NED | Robert King | USA | 194 | |
1932 | Los Angeles, USA | Duncan McNaughton | Canada | 197 | |
1936 | Berlin, GER | Cornelius Johnson | USA | 203 | CR |
1948 | London, GBR | John Winter | Australia | 198 | |
1952 | Helsinki, FIN | Walter Davis | USA | 204 | CR |
1956 | Melbourne, AUS | Charles Dumas | USA | 212 | CR |
1960 | Roma, ITA | Robert Shavlakadze | Soviet | 216 | CR |
1964 | Tokyo, JPN | Valerij Brumel | Soviet | 218 | CR |
1968 | Ciudad de México, MEX | Richard Fosbury | USA | 224 | CR |
1972 | München, FRG | Yuri Tarmak | Soviet | 223 | |
1976 | Montréal, CAN | Jacek Wszola | Poland | 225 | CR |
1980 | Moskva, URS | Gerd Wessig | East Germany | 236 | WR |
1984 | Los Angeles, USA | Dietmar Mögenburg | West Germany | 235 | |
1988 | Seoul, KOR | Gennadij Avdeenko | Soviet | 238 | CR |
1992 | Barcelona, ESP | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | 234 | |
1996 | Atlanta, USA | Charles Austin | USA | 239 | CR |
2000 | Sydney, AUS | Sergey Klyugin | Russia | 235 | |
2004 | Athìna, GRE | Stefan Holm | Sweden | 236 | |
2008 | Beijing, CHN | Andrey Silnov | Russia | 236 | |
| World Championships |
1983 | Helsinki, FIN | Gennadij Avdeenko | Soviet | 232 | CR |
1987 | Roma, ITA | Patrik Sjöberg | Sweden | 238 | CR |
1991 | Tokyo, JPN | Charles Austin | USA | 238 | ECR |
1993 | Stuttgart, GER | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | 240 | CR |
1995 | Göteborg, SWE | Troy Kemp | Bahamas | 237 | |
1997 | Athìna, GRE | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | 237 | |
1999 | Sevilla, ESP | Vyacheslav Voronin | Russia | 237 | |
2001 | Edmonton, CAN | Martin Buss | Germany | 236 | |
2003 | Paris, FRA | Jacques Freitag | South Africa | 235 | |
2005 | Helsinki, FIN | Yuriy Krymarenko | Ukraine | 232 | |
2007 | Osaka, JPN | Donald Thomas | Bahamas | 235 | |
| European Championships |
1934 | Torino, ITA | Kalevi Kotkas | Finland | 200 | CR |
1938 | Paris, FRA | Kurt Lundqvist | Sweden | 197 | |
1946 | Oslo, NOR | Anton Bolinder | Sweden | 199 | |
1950 | Bruxelles, BEL | Alan Paterson | Great Britain | 196 | |
1954 | Bern, SUI | Bengt Nilsson | Sweden | 202 | CR |
1958 | Stockholm, SWE | Richard Dahl | Sweden | 212 | CR |
1962 | Beograd, YUG | Valerij Brumel | Soviet | 221 | CR |
1966 | Budapest, HUN | Jacques Madobust | France | 212 | |
1969 | Athìna, GRE | Valentin Gavrilov | Soviet | 217 | |
1971 | Helsinki, FIN | Kestutis Sjapka | Soviet | 220 | |
1974 | Roma, ITA | Jesper Törring | Denmark | 225 | CR |
1978 | Praha, TCH | Vladimir Yashchenko | Soviet | 230 | CR |
1982 | Athìna, GRE | Dietmar Mögenburg | West Germany | 230 | ECR |
1986 | Stuttgart, FRG | Igor Paklin | Soviet | 234 | CR |
1990 | Split, YUG | Dragutin Topic | Yugoslavia | 234 | ECR |
1994 | Helsinki, FIN | Steinar Hoen | Norway | 235 | CR |
1998 | Budapest, HUN | Artur Partyka | Poland | 234 | |
2002 | München, GER | Yaroslav Rybakov | Russia | 231 | |
2006 | Göteborg, SWE | Andrey Silnov | Russia | 236 | CR |
| World Indoor Championships (World Indoor Games 1985, World Indoor Championships 1987-) |
1985 | Paris, FRA | Patrik Sjöberg | Sweden | 232 | CR |
1987 | Indianapolis, USA | Igor Paklin | Soviet | 238 | CR |
1989 | Budapest, HUN | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | 243 | WR |
1991 | Sevilla, ESP | Hollis Conway | USA | 240 | |
1993 | Toronto, CAN | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | 241 | |
1995 | Barcelona, ESP | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | 238 | |
1997 | Paris, FRA | Charles Austin | USA | 235 | |
1999 | Maebashi, JPN | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | 236 | |
2001 | Lisboa, POR | Stefan Holm | Sweden | 232 | |
2003 | Birmingham, GBR | Stefan Holm | Sweden | 235 | |
2004 | Budapest, HUN | Stefan Holm | Sweden | 235 | |
2006 | Moskva, RUS | Yaroslav Rybakov | Russia | 237 | |
2008 | Valencia, ESP | Stefan Holm | Sweden | 236 | |
| European Championships (unofficiall 1966-1969) |
1966 | Dortmund, FRG | Valery Skvortsov | Soviet | 217 | CR |
1967 | Praha, TCH | Anatolij Moroz | Soviet | 214 | |
1968 | Madrid, ESP | Valery Skvortsov | Soviet | 217 | ECR |
1969 | Beograd, YUG | Valentin Gavrilov | Soviet | 214 | |
1970 | Wien, AUT | Valentin Gavrilov | Soviet | 220 | CR |
1971 | Sofia, BUL | István Major | Hungary | 217 | |
1972 | Grenoble, FRA | István Major | Hungary | 224 | CR |
1973 | Rotterdam, NED | István Major | Hungary | 220 | |
1974 | Göteborg, SWE | Kestutis Sjapka | Soviet | 222 | |
1975 | Katowice, POL | Vladimir Maly | Czechoslovakia | 221 | |
1976 | München, FRG | Sergei Senyukov | Soviet | 222 | |
1977 | San Sebastian, ESP | Jacek Wszola | Poland | 225 | CR |
1978 | Milano, ITA | Vladimir Yashchenko | Soviet | 235 | CR |
1979 | Wien, AUT | Vladimir Yashchenko | Soviet | 226 | |
1980 | Sindelfingen, FRG | Dietmar Mögenburg | West Germany | 231 | |
1981 | Grenoble, FRA | Roland Dalhäuser | Switzerland | 228 | |
1982 | Milano, ITA | Dietmar Mögenburg | West Germany | 234 | |
1983 | Budapest, HUN | Carlo Thränhardt | West Germany | 232 | |
1984 | Göteborg, SWE | Dietmar Mögenburg | West Germany | 233 | |
1985 | Pireás, GRE | Patrik Sjöberg | Sweden | 235 | ECR |
1986 | Madrid, ESP | Dietmar Mögenburg | West Germany | 234 | |
1987 | Liévin, FRA | Patrik Sjöberg | Sweden | 238 | CR |
1988 | Budapest, HUN | Patrik Sjöberg | Sweden | 239 | CR |
1989 | Den Haag, NED | Dietmar Mögenburg | West Germany | 233 | |
1990 | Glasgow, GBR | Artur Partyka | Poland | 232 | |
1992 | Genova, ITA | Patrik Sjöberg | Sweden | 238 | |
1994 | Paris, FRA | Dalton Grant | Great Britain | 237 | |
1996 | Stockholm, SWE | Dragutin Topic | Yugoslavia | 235 | |
1998 | Valencia, ESP | Artur Partyka | Poland | 231 | |
2000 | Gent, BEL | Vyacheslav Voronin | Russia | 234 | |
2002 | Wien, AUT | Staffan Strand | Sweden | 234 | |
2005 | Madrid, ESP | Stefan Holm | Sweden | 240 | CR |
2007 | Birmingham, GBR | Stefan Holm | Sweden | 234 | |
| Goodwill Games |
1986 | Moskva, URS | Doug Nordquist | USA | 234 | CR |
1990 | Seattle, USA | Hollis Conway | USA | 233 | |
1994 | St Petersburg, RUS | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | 240 | CR |
1998 | New York, USA | Javier Sotomayor | Cuba | 233 | |
2001 | Brisbane, AUS | Stefan Holm | Sweden | 233 | |
| Swedish Championships |
1896 | Helsingborg | Nils Ericsson | Örgryte IS | 158 | CR |
1897 | Göteborg | Nils Yngve Berglin | IS Lyckans Soldater | 170 | CR |
1898 | Stockholm | Axel Bonthron | Norrköpings GF | 169 | |
1899 | Göteborg | Axel Bonthron | Norrköpings GF | 168 | |
1900 | Stockholm | Frans Frise | Örgryte IS | 161 | |
1901 | Göteborg | Ludvig Rosengren | Jönköpings AIF | 165 | |
1902 | Jönköping | Frans Frise | Örgryte IS | 166 | |
1903 | Göteborg | Carl Holmberg | IFK Malmö | 175 | CR |
1904 | Örebro | Nils Hartzell | IFK Norrköping | 170 | |
1905 | Helsingborg | Anders Bovin | Jönköpings AIF | 170 | |
1906 | Norrköping | Karl Sandqvist | IF Swithiod | 173 | |
1907 | Karlstad | Hugo Wieslander | Växjö Läroverks IF | 170 | |
1908 | Eskilstuna | Axel Hedenlund | IK Borås | 173 | |
1909 | Göteborg | Ivan Möller | Örgryte IS | 170 | |
1910 | Falun | Sten Hegander | AIK | 180 | CR |
1911 | Jönköping | Karl Axel Kullerstrand | IFK Stockholm | 175 | |
1912 | Stockholm | Gösta Hallberg | Örgryte IS | 180 | ECR |
1913 | Göteborg | Hans Jagenburg | Skara Läroverks IF | 183 | CR |
1914 | Örebro | Ivar Reimers | Mariebergs IK | 175 | |
1915 | Gävle | Richard G:son Sjöberg | IFK Stockholm | 180 | |
1916 | Malmö | Karl Axel Kullerstrand | IFK Stockholm | 180 | |
1917 | Stockholm | Karl Axel Kullerstrand | IFK Stockholm | 180 | |
1918 | Stockholm | Georg Högström | IF Göta | 185 | CR |
1919 | Karlstad | Bo Ekelund | IFK Malmö | 186 | CR |
1920 | Stockholm | Bo Ekelund | IFK Malmö | 183 | |
1921 | Stockholm | Harry Johansson | Kronobergs IK | 183 | |
1922 | Stockholm | Hans Jagenburg | Örgryte IS | 185 | |
1923 | Stockholm | Harry Johansson | Kronobergs IK | 180 | |
1924 | Stockholm | Helge Jansson | Eksjö GIK | 188 | CR |
1925 | Stockholm | Karl Österberg | IK Viljan | 190 | CR |
1926 | Stockholm | Ivan Nilsson | Landala IF | 190 | ECR |
1927 | Stockholm | Bertil Nilsson | IK Viljan | 185 | |
1928 | Stockholm | Nils Hultcrantz | Mariebergs IK | 190 | ECR |
1929 | Stockholm | Ivan Nilsson | IF Göta | 188 | |
1930 | Stockholm | Ivan Nilsson | IF Göta | 188 | |
1931 | Stockholm | Bengt Gate | SoIK Hellas | 188 | |
1932 | Stockholm | Bengt Gate | SoIK Hellas | 185 | |
1933 | Stockholm | Kurt Lundqvist | Redbergslids IK | 188 | |
1934 | Stockholm | Nils Bergström | SoIK Hellas | 191 | CR |
1935 | Stockholm | Kurt Lundqvist | Redbergslids IK | 190 | |
1936 | Stockholm | Kurt Lundqvist | Redbergslids IK | 193 | CR |
1937 | Göteborg | Kurt Lundqvist | Redbergslids IK | 198 | CR |
1938 | Stockholm | Kurt Lundqvist | Redbergslids IK | 196 | |
1939 | Stockholm | Åke Ödmark | UoIF Matteuspojkarna | 199 | CR |
1940 | Stockholm | Åke Ödmark | UoIF Matteuspojkarna | 191 | |
1941 | Stockholm | Assar Duregård | IF Elfsborg | 192 | |
1942 | Stockholm | Erik Lifh | Västerås SK | 192 | |
1943 | Stockholm | Herman Kristoffersson | IK Heros | 190 | |
1944 | Stockholm | Herman Kristoffersson | IK Heros | 192 | |
1945 | Stockholm | Assar Duregård | Skara IF | 196 | |
1946 | Stockholm | Anton Bolinder | IFK Östersund | 198 | |
1947 | Stockholm | Ragnar Björk | Jönköpings AIF | 195 | |
1948 | Stockholm | Anton Bolinder | IFK Östersund | 192 | |
1949 | Stockholm | Rune Reiz | IFK Karlskrona | 195 | |
1950 | Stockholm | Arne Åhman | Nordingrå SK | 193 | |
1951 | Stockholm | Nils-Bertil Nevrup | Malmö AI | 190 | |
1952 | Stockholm | Arne Ljungqvist | Westermalms IF | 196 | |
1953 | Stockholm | Bengt Nilsson | Westermalms IF | 201 | CR |
1954 | Stockholm | Bengt Nilsson | Westermalms IF | 209 | CR |
1955 | Stockholm | Bengt Nilsson | Westermalms IF | 205 | |
1956 | Stockholm | Stig Pettersson | Kronobergs IK | 201 | |
1957 | Stockholm | Stig Pettersson | Kronobergs IK | 204 | |
1958 | Stockholm | Stig Pettersson | Kronobergs IK | 204 | |
1959 | Stockholm | Stig Pettersson | Kronobergs IK | 201 | |
1960 | Stockholm | Stig Pettersson | Kronobergs IK | 204 | |
1961 | Göteborg | Stig Pettersson | Kronobergs IK | 210 | CR |
1962 | Göteborg | Stig Pettersson | Kronobergs IK | 210 | ECR |
1963 | Stockholm | Kjell-Åke Nilsson | Sörmarks IF | 210 | ECR |
1964 | Malmö | Stig Pettersson | Kronobergs IK | 214 | CR |
1965 | Västerås | Bo Jonsson | IK Vista | 207 | |
1966 | Stockholm | Olle Johansson | Örgryte IS | 210 | |
1967 | Skövde | Bo Jonsson | IFK Norrköping | 210 | |
1968 | Malmö | Kenneth Lundmark | Skellefteå AIK | 204 | |
1969 | Sollentuna | Christer Celion | IF Örnen | 211 | |
1970 | Växjö | Kenneth Lundmark | Skellefteå AIK | 214 | ECR |
1971 | Sollentuna | Jan Dahlgren | Turebergs IF | 214 | ECR |