Highest Jump Ever Recorded

[@GregoryFord98]

Standing Vertical Running vertical One legged jump Two legged jump There's so many jumps out there

[@DanielKendall2010]

"Anthony Height" Almost as fitting as Usain Bolt 🤣

[@andrewkatz6649]

Add Armand Duplantis to that list!

[@GeoffRichards_GP]

Haha yep. It's known as a "aptonym" (sometimes "aptronym", where someone's name is especially descriptive or well suited to them.

[@johnf991]

@@GeoffRichards_GP It's also called nominative determinism.

[@andrew1699]

i am thinking about the same thing 🤣

[@TheLaird123]

Deontay Wilder, Tyson Fury also come to mind especially when they were KO'ing everyone

[@judsdragon]

that clearance is like Mondo in the pole vault lol

[@nowaynow]

The gap looks massive right as his butt is directly over the bar, but the rest of his body doesn't seem to clear by as wide of a margin. Look at his shoulder blades at 6:59, he only had a couple cm of margin. It's is ABSURD to think he would have cleared something like 2.41+

[@mini696]

Perspective my dude.

[@mikesands4681]

I was going to raise the same point. I demand a pixel count like on Movie Theory!

[@-cedric-]

I agree. Maybe his hips reached +/-2.45m, but never his shoulders.

[@J.e.f.f.r.e.y]

We need AI to analyse this. The answer will come in time.

[@erikl3508]

Vince Carter’s dunk leaping over that 7 foot center in the Olympics is the best dunk/jumping moment imo.

[@secretagent86]

Haha i remember that. Amazing

[@J.e.f.f.r.e.y]

Link please. I want to see it!

[@troliskimosko]

Anthony Height is still likely the highest jumper here off pure "max touch - standing reach". Recorded a full second of hangtime in that venice beach contest multiple times, without knee bending. Isaiah Rivera thinks he had 52" in the tank on wood floor if he had it measured before his injury. BTW, he touched 11'8", not 12 foot. But he's 5'6", so that's ridiculous

[@paulowww9060]

He said that his standing reach is 7’6 = 228cm and that one time he touched 12’1 = 368cm (only once with no footage ofc). On the video he barely missed 12’ (maybe cause he wasn’t perfectly aligned) but I want to believe that he had a 140cm / 55inch vertical (before his recent injury)

[@Faustin-ju5dx]

another insane jump was barshim's 2.43 at the brussels diamond league in 2014

[@2JackM]

dude that opening video is terrifying to look at

[@CarlFredrik-uo1cu]

Partyka's jump was incredible, but you NEEEED to also mention Troy Kemp's 2.37 jump from 1995 (in Eberstadt), ridiculous clearance on that one as well. Bohdan Bondarenko's 2.35 in Moscow 2013 was also a huge one.

[@frbrable]

Just watched both. Amazing. Thanks!

[@bernios3446]

There'a a video here on YT: Troy Kemp - high jump that shows this 2,37 jump, a-ma-zing, when coming down behind the bar, Kemp seemed to have better clearance than the jump shown here in this video by Partyka.

[@CarlFredrik-uo1cu]

@@bernios3446 That's what I said

[@joshhodkinson9677]

Anthony Height, yet another superb example of nominative determinism.

[@jamesdennis8290]

The high jump is the gold standard, but I always wonder about the gymnasts in the floor routine. How high do they get? In the high jump, when the bar is lower, there may not be a psychological obstacle to hitting the mechanics of the jump just right.

[@jamezkpal2361]

Well I'm pretty sure there's a spring board in gymnastics.

[@jamesdennis8290]

@@jamezkpal2361 A springy board (floor), perhaps, but not a springboard (like in the vault).

[@ninja8flash742]

@@jamesdennis8290 yes a springy floor it has pretty stiff springs that give alot of force from rebounds but we could look at trickers doing high doubleback flips on grass or soft mat

[@m.f.1646]

Partyka was high but he didnt actually clear that 2,37 that clearly. When he came down there was barely 1-2cm between him and the bar. I dont think that he would have cleared 2,40 with that jump. It's mostly an illusion.

[@Slapthematwrestling]

It’s true that at one point on his way down there really was only 1-2cm space between him and the bar. But prior to that there were a good 10 cm between him and the bar 😂. What is this illusion you are speaking of? Must be one hell of an illusion cause Guy gave us about 30 angles to see it in in slow motion and not one of them screams at me 1-2 cm. I think that it’s you who are seeing an illusion giving you the sense that they was only 1-2 cm.

[@11pupona]

@@Slapthematwrestling the illusion is that jumping a bar is not how high can you get but if you can clear the bar or not. There is only 1 or 2 cm in his way down, if the bar is 2 or 3 cm he would have not cleared it.

[@TheOriginalGankstar]

@@Slapthematwrestling Isn't it obvious. With that specific arc he would not have cleared a WR height, despite his impressive apex. All for the reasons already stated, which many others will co-sign, mainly because it's a reasonable and probable hypothetical outcome. Compare the footage here to Troy Kemp's 2.37 clearance in Eberstadt, 1995, to see what huge clearance through all phases looks like. That jump had much more of a chance to clear far higher than its actual bar height.

[@normcmiller]

@@11puponaare you forgetting what the video is about? The highest jump…not the highest high jump. Let’s say he barely cleared the bar on the way down but his pelvis reached 10’….who cares about the high jump bar. That’s the highest jump

[@Slapthematwrestling]

@@TheOriginalGankstar it’s the biggest bunch of 💩 i’ve ever heard. You can see at the start of the jump how much is head of over the bar. While jumping he would need to be at least at the hight that his hips are going over the bar. It’s not as if he can do a hip thrust while going over in order to put his arch higher than the height his head was when it initially went over. You are reaching from the stars on this one and plenty will go sign against.

[@AvB.83]

Watching this... why are we still using bars in the high jump (or pole vault for that matter)? Surely we could fit the rack with sensors (and a projected bar so the athlete has a point of reference) that give readings accurate to the mm and better. This seems a bit like if for the 100m, you'd set a timer to 9.9, and every athlete that crosses the line before the timer runs out proceeds to the next round, where you set the timer to 9.85 and so on.

[@semi6544]

This was an awesome video. Thank you for this love track and field but this unique look at just the art of jumping was cool too.

[@TheLaird123]

The fact that the high jump record would have been invalidated by storming fans knocking it down is the most hilarious thing

[@joemercieca4794]

Would he not have been peeved if that happened and he could not repeat it

[@paulfgraham]

0:31 Except the High Jump world record is 2.45m, also by Javier Sotomayor, four years later. So it might have been the FIRST time someone broke the 8ft barrier, but it wasn't the only time. Edit: Corrected in the video at 1:24, so it was just a weird - but still incorrect - phrasing earlier on. 😊

[@GregoryFord98]

That storm the mat is legendary and the fact that stayed on is crazy

[@pahtar7189]

I wonder if any long jumpers have approached this caliber of height. Looking at Bob Beamon's 1968 jump, he seems to be about the height of the officials standing by the pit.

[@tjnotico]

Atheletics off season has Total Running Productions searching the internet for people jumping

[@speedycatg8762]

0:56 it is so high that it wouldn't be a problem

[@GregoryFord98]

His knees were higher than his hips which made it look higher than it was. I'll say 2.42 at the highest which is still insane. His knees were 2.5

[@marcopolloni8645]

great video TRP. There must have been sticky tape on that bar when Sotomayor jumped, how else could it not fall off after 20 guys jump on the mat.

[@Tommasini9]

I challenge the title of this article; look up Rick Noji - USA high jumper from about 84-90.

[@YourFitnessQuest]

It's nice to see Rivera and Spell get some credit for their crazy 50" verts.

[@Neofolis]

It's unfortunate that without the right camera angle there is no way to ever no what the highest bar he could have cleared would be. That said, despite the huge high point, he would probably not have even cleared 2.39, because his high point wasn't in the right place. In the second angle that you showed, he was extremely close to the bar on the way down, so if the bar had been slightly higher, he would have hit it.

[@mattw_929]

while all of these are insane jumps, a part of me still feels that volleyball might take the running vert. i mean nishida is practically made of springs lmao

[@ThomasRedmond-q8q]

He floated over that bar! Insane, didn’t even look difficult!

[@salemal-murisi5784]

Nice video, really felt like I was watching one of your old videos, much better content than what you've been doing lately

[@stephenherring]

A legal high jump must be off of one foot. Many of these comparisons are off of 2 feet which makes a difference. Also, a high jumper has to get his entire body over the height while these comparisons do not do that.

[@johnt8441]

You didn't check back far enough. In the 1900-12 Olympics there were standing events in the High, Long, and Triple Jumps. .A man named Ray Ewery won all of them 1900-08. The sTJ was discontinued in '08. Ewery jumped 1.675 m (65.945 in) in 1900. His 8 medals across multiple events weren't equalled for over 100 years until Michael Phelps did it.

[@aldinahmed6639]

Mondo duplantis can pole vault that with ease

[@ctenterprises134creech7]

Ya think?

[@sfcablecar]

Sotomayor was a doper. Facts.

[@trevorregay9283]

Interesting topic......I will say though that the HJ is one of those events that, although you clear the height, like this guy did, you really don't know how much higher you might have actually jumped......so, yeah, this dude most likely would have cleared a height greater than 2.37, but not so sure he is clearing over the 2.45 WR .......the HJ has so many moving body parts along with timing that its really hard to say based on the video footage captured. This is the same problem or issue that the PV has, which is, clearing a set height with a bar is great, but how high did you actually clear? I do wonder if they could use a beam of light instead of a bar to determine a height cleared; however, the only problem is, HJers on occasion will graze the bar......if they used a beam of light it would not allow grazing since once the beam would be broken it would be considered a miss........

[@seanoconn75]

The greatest jumping moment of all time in terms of sporting achievement would have to be a clutch jump under pressure to reach a measured height or distance IMHO. But that certainly was a tremendous jump, up there with Sotomayor and Barshim.

[@justalittlebitmo]

Dang! Good thing no one bumped into that bar lol!

[@2JackM]

the backflip at the end 😂

[@samhardy6319]

Stuart Storey and Paul Dickenson were the English commentators in the clip.

[@gl7011]

So what is the standing vertical of most world leading high jumpers? Does a 50 inch vertical mean that those basketball players could potentially be world class high jumpers? The high jumpers look like they are orders of magnitude greater jumpers than those basketball players.

[@jameslucas3161]

Stefan Holm takes this personally

[@Nonixification]

Starting with inches then preceding with centimetres , Would be nice to stick to one system.

[@KTtraintowin]

You left out Jordan Kilganon, who has a 50 inch vertica and is the greatest dunker of all time.

[@povertybay3260]

The greatest jump in history was done by me while I was being shot at I haven't any video but I cleared a 6 ft chain link fence with another couple feet of barbed wire on top angled out sideways a foot.. adrenaline it's one hell of a drug

[@pstrzel]

Calculate height at the hip, not fingertips or shoe soles (in fact, no shoes should be allowed in official attempts) and measure in body lengths, not arbitrary units. How much of his body length did Stefan Holm jump compared to Sotomayor?

[@issaowaga]

Ask the guys on tiktok who fact check peoples heights to help you out 😂

[@Random595]

Where was the scene from the thumbnail? Wish I could do more than just dislike.

[@RA-lu6mb]

It was pure clickbait

[@Anondrops]

400 views and 2 comments let me fix that 😊

[@ig2d]

another consideration is that an athelete's training PB might be better than their in-competition PB

[@alansamuel2454]

Another good one to check which might be also really really up there is Mutaz Essa Barshim at the 2014 Adidas Grand Prix where it looks like he cleared 2.42m by some margin to be honest. But no way it's as high as this should be

[@Rocky4711Horror]

Totally agree. The height was way above the world record at the time.. Awzum video

[@Kausan1]

How do you include nba players. They havn't actually cleared anything.

[@Artemis-v8i]

High jump and vertical jump are two different things

[@lincolncobra148]

I hate how people say anthony height has the highest jump ever when we dont know his standing reach and the testing was unoffical technically the guniess world record is darius clark but saying height has the highest jump is like saying dexton has the highest jump your not fact checking lol

[@kiddspaceah]

It’s well documented that my standing reach is 7’6. Just to argue getting a world record like that is just about setting it up with Guinness. Spell also has a record but no dunker/jumper has attempted to beat them. Just because they have a record doesn’t make them the best.

[@Qu.Z.]

you forgot about Stefan Holm

[@michaelp8856]

looks like gravity stopped for a moment. maybe they need to keep a gauge for gravity like they do for windspeed! ha, ha!

[@StarWarsTherapy]

I put the video in a slow motion app. Using the time from jump to apogee I’m estimating his vertical to be between 40”-46”

[@peterderidder9922]

2.47m max , he would have touched the bar with is back while he still was going up.

[@davidpadilla6095]

Daaang, I can do that 😅

[@paulclarke7571]

Perhaps the real question is....."What is the greatest jump by a "clean" athlete?"

[@danielszanto2955]

No way to answer that, especially with the definition continuously "evolving".

[@maryolum3567]

Who are the 'clean' athletes?

[@emma.bridgeforth]

crazyy

[@jonasf4065]

Yeah, Patryka is the greatest jumper of all time. No question.

[@jorcarmona]

I wonder intrue vertical leap how stefan holm would fit. He is 1.86m tall and jumped 2.40 m. I believe he has the largest diference between height an clearence. Th other one to take in considerance is Franklin Jackobs 1.76 for 2.32

[@percyfree9831]

Beaut to catch up with all this

[@thedailystride5407]

Facts

[@michaeljohnson3383]

Shoulders are nowhere near the rim though.

[@davidc6032]

Those vert jumps are pretty flawed based on how they measure. Athletes have all types of tricks to limit their prejump reach measurement.

[@troliskimosko]

Yeah, most of those 50" measurements are probably closer to 48"

[@DavidRichardson21century]

I don't think about this jump lol

[@paulduffy2524]

Riley Smith can Sky!!!! #1

[@gl7011]

The fact that it isn't measured disqualifies it from consideration. This is the stuff Urban Legends are made of.

[@atribonatural]

Your videos give me goosies

[@premiertaxconsultingservic4769]

But can he dunk?

[@carlkinglewis]

Artur 2.47 cm

[@ModernCultureMan]

if partika didn't done 2.37 again, i think there was a mistake on placing the bar, and that was not 2.37, in any case i think with his shoulder he was not same far from the bar as his back and glutes.... if you look maybe he touch the bar a little with his shoulder. It would be interesting knowning some volleyball player jump.

[@josedelnegro46]

One hell of a question. (First I thank the Cuban fans for rushing the pit. I will ask my amigo, a Cuban Boxing trainer what that moment ment to El Revolution.) Nostradamus you seek to exceed yourself? Ladies and gentlemen that is the thing that cannot be done. Nostradamus is the best. If the Devil were to die he would ask Nostradamus to write and read his obituary. Only that way could he be immortalized as a saint. Back to reality: Two Hollywood stars launched their careers in the movie "Some Men Can't Jump". The movie put who jumps highest into the spot light. Where is has remained. Nostradamus reminds us that fiction is fiction because most often fiction is wrong. Nostradamus sets the record straight but amazingly keeps the question asked in the movie open. Bravo Nostradamus bravo 👏.

[@darcflame37]

Cool

[@Mandrewlikescheeese]

Yo

[@madisonmiller920]

Click bait photo

[@SeaSlug914]

30s no views bro fell off. Jk

[@thedailystride5407]

😂

[@rodjohnson2632]

8 feet is exactly 2.4384 meters, not 2.44 meters, which is approximately 8 feet and 0.063 inches.

[@andrewmitchell5807]

By significant figures he was right

[@jamezkpal2361]

He measured from the taint.

[@tomasescalante2987]

"almost exactly" isn't really a thing. Just say "almost".

[@eunicepadilla4355]

😮😮😮

[@BrianKinane]

First

[@mounstursz]

In Hight School I triple jumped 48 feet 11 inches, my coach and everyone watching were in shock because I was a good 2 and a half feet behind the line when I jumped 😧 giving away a 50 foot jump. It still bothers me 24 years later 😣 that and not running the 4x400 at CIF finals even though my coach and teammates begged me too run 😫 they ended up running a 3:24.98 🤮 missing out on advancing by 1 place 😲

[@lucsimeon]

We need the asian guy @shanefanx to measure how high the Polish guy jumped