Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh claimed a record-equalling fourth high jump victory at the Banskobystricka latka, clearing a ...

Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins, who won Empire Games gold for Northern Ireland and held the world record, dies aged 88.

1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins, who won Empire Games gold for Northern Ireland and also held the world record, has died at the age of 88. Hopkins lived in Canada for many ...

Even though it was only her second high jump event of the season, she felt in sufficiently good form to go for the world record set by the Soviet jumper Aleksandra Chudine in 1954. “When we ...

A former world high jump champion has been found dead with his ... African high jump champion and he still holds the National Record after clearing 2.38m which he set in a competition in 2005.

When Yaroslava Mahuchikh emerges for her season opener on Thursday she will embark on another four-year Olympic cycle, with a ...

one of the largest youth track and field competitions in the world, where he won three gold medals and cleared 6 feet and 5 inches in the high jump — breaking a record for the 14-and-under age ...

She produced a pentathlon high jump World Record of 6-4.25 and tied Jackie Joyner-Kersee for heptathlon high jump American Record of 6-4. She was also named K-State’s Athlete of the Year and was a ...