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Stefka Kostadinova
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Stefka Kostadinova

Stefka Kostadinova: LONG HIGH JUMP FAME - Rome 1987

The World Championships in Athletics of 1987 are remembered for the first of Ben Johnson’s now infamous showdowns with Carl Lewis. Johnson broke the world record that day, but connoisseurs of field athletics will remember another altogether longer-lasting achievement; Stefka Kostadinova’s life-changing leap of 2.09 metres in the women’s high jump.

World records of 2.07 and 2.08m in 1986 were followed by the current mark of 2.09m when winning the world title in 1987, a championship she regained in 1995.

Most World titles: 2 Stefka Kostadinova 1987/1995 and Hestrie Cloete RSA 2001/2003