| INDEX World all-time lists | HOME Track & field athletics statistics |
| 1 | 2.43 | Javier Sotomayor # | CUB | 671013 | 1 | Budapest | 890304 |
| 2 | 2.42 | Carlo Thränhardt | FRG | 570705 | 1 | West Berlin | 880226 |
| 3 | 2.41 | Patrik Sjöberg | SWE | 650105 | 1 | Piraeus | 870201 |
| 4 | 2.40 | Hollis Conway | USA | 670108 | 1 | Sevilla | 910310 |
| 5 | 2.39 | Dietmar Mögenburg | FRG | 610815 | 1 | Köln | 850224 |
| 6 | 2.39 | Ralf Sonn | GER | 670117 | 1 | Berlin | 910301 |
| 7 | 2.38 | Igor Paklin | URS | 630615 | 1 | Indianapolis | 870307 |
| 8 | 2.38 | Gennadiy Avdeyenko | URS | 630411 | 2 | Indianapolis | 870307 |
| 9 | 2.38 | Steve Smith | GBR | 730329 | 2 | Wuppertal | 940204 |
| 10 | 2.38 | Wolf Hendrik Beyer | GER | 720214 | 1 | Weinheim | 940318 |
| 11 | 2.38 | Sorin Matei | ROM | 630706 | 1 | Wuppertal | 950203 |
| 12 | 2.38 | Matt Hemingway | USA | 721024 | 1 | Atlanta, Ga | 000304 |
| 13 | 2.37 | Artur Partyka | POL | 690725 | 1 | Sulingen | 910203 |
| 14 | 2.37 | Dalton Grant | GBR | 660408 | 1 | Bercy, Paris | 940313 |
| 15 | 2.37 | Charles Austin | USA | 671219 | 1 | Atlanta, Ga | 960302 |
| 16 | 2.37 | Vyacheslav Voronin | RUS | 740405 | 1 | Glasgow | 000305 |
| 17 | 2.36A | Jim Howard | USA | 590911 | 1 | Albuquerque, NM | 860125 |
| 18 | 2.36 | Jan Zvara | CS | 630212 | 1 | Jablonec | 870214 |
| 19 | 2.36 | Sergey Malchenko | URS | 631102 | 1 | Moskva | 880109 |
| 20 | 2.36 | Gerd Nagel | FRG | 571022 | 1 | Sulingen | 890317 |
| 21 | 2.36 | Steinar Hoen | NOR | 710208 | 1 | Balingen | 940212 |
| 22 | 2.36 | Troy Kemp | BAH | 660318 | 2 | Weinheim | 940318 |
| 23 | 2.35 | Vladimir Yashchenko | URS | 590112 | 1 | Milano | 780312 |
| 24 | 2.35 | Aleksandr Kotovich | URS | 611106 | 1 | Vilnius | 850113 |
| 25 | 2.35 | Clarence "Nick" Saunders | BER | 630914 | 1 | Hamilton, CAN | 890113 |
| 26 | 2.35 | Brent Harken | USA | 611201 | 1 | Moscow, Id | 910215 |
| 27 | 2.35 | Jean-Charles Gicquel | FRA | 670224 | 2 | Bercy, Paris | 940313 |
| 28 | 2.35 | Lábros Papakóstas | GRE | 691020 | 2 | Barcelona | 950312 |
| 29 | 2.35 | Dragutin Topic | YUG | 710312 | 1 | Stockholm | 960310 |
| 30 | 2.35 | Andrey Sokolovskiy | UKR | 780716 | 1 | Arnstadt | 010217 |
| 31 | 2.34 | Yuriy Sergiyenko | URS | 650319 | 1 | Kiev | 850202 |
| 32 | 2.34 | Aleksey Yemelin | URS | 681016 | 1 | Chelyabinsk | 900204 |
| 33 | 2.34 | Brian Brown | USA | 670109 | 1 | Indianapolis | 900309 |
| 34 | 2.34 | Håkon Särnblom | NOR | 660303 | 4 | Balingen | 950211 |
| 35 | 2.34 | Randy Jenkins | USA | 700918 | 1 | Montréal | 960119 |
| 36 | 2.34 | Martin Buss | GER | 760407 | 2 | Gent | 000227 |
| 37 | 2.34 | Staffan Strand | SWE | 760418 | 1 | Stockholm | 010215 |
| 38 | 2.34 | Stefan Holm | SWE | 760525 | 2 | Stockholm | 010215 |
| 39 | 2.33 | Jeff Woodard | USA | 581114 | 1 | New York, NY | 810227 |
| 40 | 2.33 | Aleksey Demyanyuk | URS | 580730 | 1 | Minsk | 850120 |
| 41 | 2.33 | Jacek Wszola | POL | 561230 | 1 | Zabrze | 860209 |
| 42 | 2.33 | Andrey Morozov | URS | 600614 | 1 | Leningrad | 870104 |
| 43 | 2.33 | Rudolf Povarnitsin | URS | 620613 | 2 | West Berlin | 900223 |
| 44 | 2.33 | Cristian Eugen Popescu | ROM | 620812 | 2 | Banska Bystrica | 950208 |
| 45 | 2.33 | Oleg Zhukovskiy | BLR | 700215 | 3 | Banska Bystrica | 950208 |
| 46 | 2.33 | "Toni" Anton Riepl | GER | 690228 | 1 | Siegen | 950212 |
| 47 | 2.33 | Leonid Pumalainen | RUS | 700413 | 2 | Stockholm | 960310 |
| 48 | 2.33 | Tim Forsyth | AUS | 730817 | 1 | Balingen | 970216 |
| 49 | 2.33 | Mark Boswell | CAN | 770728 | 1 | Fayetteville, Ar | 000310 |
| 50 | 2.33 | Nathan Leeper | USA | 770613 | 1 | Manhattan, Ks | 010119 |
| 51 | 2.33 | Yaroslav Rybakov | RUS | 801122 | 1 | Moskva | 010225 |
| 52 | 2.32 | Franklin Jacobs | USA | 571231 | 1 | New York, NY | 780127 |
| 53 | 2.32 | Janusz Trzepizur | POL | 590521 | 2 | Milano | 820306 |
| 54 | 2.32 | Roland Dalhäuser | SUI | 580612 | 3 | Milano | 820306 |
| 55 | 2.32 | Sergey Zasimovich | URS | 620906 | 2 | Vilnius | 850113 |
| 56 | 2.32 | Valeriy Sereda | URS | 590630 | 1 | Leningrad | 860124 |
| 57 | 2.32 | Dennis Lewis | USA | 590320 | 2 | Toronto | 860131 |
| 58 | 2.32 | Robert Ruffini | SVK | 670126 | 4 | West Berlin | 880226 |
| 59 | 2.32 | Jake Jacoby | USA | 610924 | 1 | Yokohama | 900311 |
| 60 | 2.32A | Leo Williams | USA | 600428 | 1 | Reno | 920208 |
| 61 | 2.32 | Brendan Reilly | GBR | 721223 | 4 | Liverpool | 940224 |
| 62 | 2.32 | Ray Doakes | USA | 730812 | 1 | Gainesville, Fl | 940227 |
| 63 | 2.32 | Tony Barton | USA | 691017 | 3 | Barcelona | 950312 |
| 64 | 2.32 | Anthony Idiata | NGR | 750105 | 1 | Patra | 000215 |
| 65 | 2.32 | Shane Lavy | USA | 760215 | 1 | Los Angeles, Ca | 000219 |
| 66 | 2.31 | Greg Joy | CAN | 560423 | 1 | College Park, Md | 780113 |
| 67 | 2.31 | Milton Goode | USA | 600216 | 1 | New York, NY | 820212 |
| 68 | 2.31 | Dwight Stones | USA | 531206 | 2 | New York, NY | 820212 |
| 69 | 2.31 | Jerome Carter | USA | 630325 | 1 | Fairfax | 830116 |
| 70 | 2.31 | Constantin Militaru | ROM | 630217 | 1 | Sofia | 840211 |
| 71 | 2.31 | Tyke Peacock | USA | 610224 | 1 | Rosemont | 850127 |
| 72 | 2.31 | Eddy Annys | BEL | 581215 | 1 | Simmerath | 860117 |
| 73 | 2.31 | Vadim Oganyan | URS | 630409 | 2 | Moskva | 860206 |
| 74 | 2.31 | Zhu Jianhua | CHN | 630529 | 1 | Kobe | 860305 |
| 75 | 2.31 | Milton Ottey | CAN | 591229 | 2 | Kobe | 860305 |
| 76 | 2.31 | Doug Nordquist | USA | 581220 | 5 | Gent | 870208 |
| 77 | 2.31 | James Lott | USA | 651013 | 1 | New York, NY | 880205 |
| 78 | 2.31 | Mark Reed | USA | 650522 | 1 | Bloomington, In | 880205 |
| 79 | 2.31 | Gerd Wessig | GDR | 590716 | 1 | Wien | 880213 |
| 80 | 2.31 | Brian Stanton | USA | 610219 | 2 | East Rutherford | 880213 |
| 81 | 2.31 | Vladimir Korniyenko | URS | 660128 | 1 | Moskva | 880220 |
| 82 | 2.31 | Tom McCants | USA | 621127 | 2 | New York, NY | 900202 |
| 83 | 2.31 | Arturo Ortiz | ESP | 660918 | 1 | San Sebastian | 900218 |
| 84 | 2.31 | Sergey Dymchenko | UKR | 670823 | 1 | Volgograd | 910210 |
| 85 | 2.31 | Georgi Dakov | BUL | 671021 | 1 | Budapest | 910226 |
| 86 | 2.31 | Stevan Zoric | YUG | 710525 | 5 | Sevilla | 910310 |
| 87 | 2.31 | Grigoriy Fedorkov | RUS | 641109 | 1 | Lipetsk | 940226 |
| 88 | 2.31 | Konstantin Matusevich | ISR | 710225 | 4 | Stockholm | 960310 |
| 89 | 2.31 | Sergey Klyugin | RUS | 740324 | 2 | Volgograd | 970202 |
| 90 | 2.31 | Jaroslaw Kotewicz | POL | 690316 | 1 | Brno | 970207 |
| 91 | 2.31 | Tomas Janku | CZE | 741227 | 1 | Pardubice | 980117 |
| 92 | 2.31 | Kenny Evans | USA | 790406 | 2 | Fayetteville, Ar | 000310 |
| 93 | 2.31 | Andrey Chubsa | BLR | 821129 | 1 | Minsk | 010112 |
| 94 | 2.31 | Charles Clinger | USA | 761228 | 1 | Bozeman, Mt | 010224 |
| 95 | 2.30 | Gennadiy Belkov | URS | 560624 | 1 | Chelyabinsk | 830130 |
| 96 | 2.30 | Brian Tietjens | USA | 620921 | 1 | Lincoln | 850223 |
| 97 | 2.30 | Dariusz Biczysko | POL | 620625 | 3 | Piraeus | 850302 |
| 98 | 2.30 | Geoff Parsons | GBR | 640814 | 1 | Cosford | 860125 |
| 99 | 2.30 | Andreas Sam | GDR | 600205 | 1 | Senftenberg | 860215 |
| 100 | 2.30 | Krzysztof Krawczyk | POL | 620128 | 1 | Budapest | 870214 |
| 101 | 2.30 | Greg Jones | USA | 650821 | 2 | San Diego | 870222 |
| 102 | 2.30 | Sergey Serebryanskiy | URS | 621224 | 1 | Zaporizhzhya | 880123 |
| 103 | 2.30 | Fabrizio Borellini | ITA | 680705 | 4 | Budapest | 880305 |
| 104 | 2.30 | Torsten Marschner | GDR | 681117 | 1 | Senftenberg | 890129 |
| 105 | 2.30 | Kevin Clements | USA | 700928 | 1 | Normal | 901208 |
| 106 | 2.30 | Darrin Plab | USA | 700926 | 1 | Jonesboro, Ar | 910111 |
| 107 | 2.30 | Rick Noji | USA | 671022 | 1 | Los Angeles | 910118 |
| 108 | 2.30 | Marino R Drake | CUB | 670618 | 1= | Sindelfingen | 910303 |
| 109 | 2.30 | Tom Lange | USA | 700221 | 1 | Indianapolis | 920313 |
| 110 | 2.30 | Ruslan Stipanov | UKR | 710919 | 2 | Banska Bystrica | 940126 |
| 111 | 2.30 | Sergey Kolesnik | UKR | 690531 | 5 | Banska Bystrica | 950208 |
| 112 | 2.30 | Jan Janku | CZE | 710810 | 3 | Wuppertal | 960203 |
| 113 | 2.30 | Vyacheslav Tyrtyshnik | UKR | 710116 | 1 | Brno | 960209 |
| 114 | 2.30 | Wolfgang Kreissig | GER | 700829 | 1 | Arnstadt | 970201 |
| 115 | 2.30 | Christian Rhoden | GER | 740327 | 1 | Dortmund | 970223 |
| 116 | 2.30 | Didier Detchenique | FRA | 721004 | 3= | Wuppertal | 980206 |
| 117 | 2.30 | Charles Lefrancois | CAN | 721219 | 3 | Balingen | 980208 |
| 118 | 2.30 | Sam Hill | USA | 720901 | 1 | Atlanta, Ga | 980228 |
| 119 | 2.30 | Pyotr Brayko | RUS | 770327 | 1 | Balingen | 990214 |
| 120 | 2.30 | Henry Patterson | USA | 750527 | 1 | Atlanta, Ga | 990227 |
| 121 | 2.30 | Steve Smith | USA | 710111 | 2 | Atlanta, Ga | 990227 |
| 122 | 2.30 | David Furman | USA | 781105 | 1 | Gainesville, Fl | 000116 |
| 123 | 2.30 | Oskari Frösen | FIN | 760124 | 1 | Tampere | 000207 |
| 124 | 2.29 | Rolf Beilschmidt | GDR | 530808 | 2 | Milano | 780312 |
| 125 | 2.29 | Adrian Proteasa | ROM | 590301 | 3 | Sindelfingen | 800302 |
| 126 | 2.29 | Nat Page | USA | 570126 | 2 | New York, NY | 810206 |
| 127 | 2.29 | Joe Patrone | USA | 621207 | 1 | Hanover, Nh | 850106 |
| 128 | 2.29 | Yuriy Shevchenko | URS | 600418 | 2 | Kishinyev | 850216 |
| 129 | 2.29 | Yuriy Gotovskiy | URS | 610531 | 1 | Leningrad | 850224 |
| 130 | 2.29 | Gennadiy Martsinovich | URS | 610304 | 2 | Vilnius | 860112 |
| 131 | 2.29 | Eric Bishop | USA | 760607 | 1 | Indianapolis | 970309 |
| 132 | 2.29 | Elvir Krehmic | BSH | 730427 | 1 | Piraeus | 990213 |
| 133 | 2.29 | James Nieto | USA | 761102 | 3 | Indianapolis, In | 990305 |
| 134 | 2.285 | John Radetich | USA | 481126 | 1 | Salt Lake City | 760220 |
| 135 | 2.28 | Aleksandr Grigoryev | URS | 551007 | 1 | Minsk | 770220 |
| 136 | 2.28 | Wolfgang Killing | FRG | 530212 | 1 | Cosford | 780301 |
| 137 | 2.28 | Josef Hrabal | CS | 581018 | 1 | Praha | 810110 |
| 138 | 2.28 | Marco Tamberi | ITA | 570730 | 1 | Genova | 830202 |
| 139 | 2.28 | Oleg Palashevskiy | URS | 62 | 2 | Moskva | 840211 |
| 140 | 2.28 | Saso Apostolovski | YUG | 630120 | 1 | Ljubljana | 840218 |
| 141 | 2.28 | Alain Metellus | CAN | 650408 | 1 | Toronto | 840226 |
| 142 | 2.285A | Jeff Loescher | USA | 631111 | 1 | Boulder, Co | 850302 |
| 143 | 2.28 | Dariusz Zielke | POL | 601021 | 1 | Handen, Stockholm | 860126 |
| 144 | 2.28 | Novica Canovic | YUG | 611129 | 4 | Solna | 860225 |
| 145 | 2.28 | Matthias Grebenstein | GDR | 640112 | 2 | Senftenberg | 870207 |
| 146 | 2.28 | John Holman | GBR | 680731 | 2 | Glasgow | 890128 |
| 147 | 2.28 | Panagiotis Kontaxakis | GRE | 640816 | 8= | Budapest | 890304 |
| 148 | 2.28 | Andrey Sankovich | URS | 650715 | 2 | Karaganda | 900218 |
| 149 | 2.28 | Vladimir Kostenko | UKR | 700831 | 1 | Kharkov | 910112 |
| 150 | 2.28 | Gustavo Becker | ESP | 660617 | 1 | Oviedo | 910202 |
| 151 | 2.28 | Alex Zaliauskas | CAN | 710420 | 3= | Arnstadt | 920119 |
| 152 | 2.28 | Aleksandr Buglakov | BLR | 720811 | 1 | Gomel | 930127 |
| 153 | 2.28 | Juha Isolehto | FIN | 680606 | 1 | Tampere | 940219 |
| 154 | 2.28 | Peter Malesev | YUG | 720806 | 1 | Cleveland | 950217 |
| 155 | 2.28 | Ettore Ceresoli | ITA | 700411 | 8= | Barcelona | 950312 |
| 156 | 2.28 | Aleksey Makurin | RUS | 720721 | 2 | Moskva | 960225 |
| 157 | 2.28 | Dimitrios Kokotis | GRE | 720412 | 1 | Piraeus | 970222 |
| 158 | 2.28 | Konstadinos Liapis | GRE | 730501 | 2 | Piraeus | 970222 |
| 159 | 2.28 | Wilbert Pennings | NED | 750212 | 6 | Wuppertal | 980206 |
| 160 | 2.28 | Gennadiy Moroz | BLR | 780527 | 1 | Vitebsk | 990109 |
| 161 | 2.28 | Jason Howard | USA | 791128 | 1 | Fayetteville, Ar | 990123 |
| 162 | 2.28 | Aleksey Lesnichiy | BLR | 780203 | 3 | Banska Bystrica | 990217 |
| 163 | 2.28 | Kwaku Boateng | CAN | 740630 | 1 | Piraeus | 000209 |
| 164 | 2.28 | Einar Karl Hjartarson | ISL | 801028 | 1 | Reykjavik | 010218 |
| 165 | 2.27 | Stanislav Molotilov | URS | 550310 | 2 | Minsk | 770125 |
| 166 | 2.27 | Jim Pringle | USA | 581003 | 1 | Johnson City | 800112 |
| 167 | 2.27 | Jörg Freimuth | GDR | 610910 | 1 | Cosford | 810211 |
| 168 | 2.27 | Gianni Davito | ITA | 570819 | 1 | Paris | 820206 |
| 169 | 2.27 | Vladimir Granyenkov | URS | 590701 | 1 | Kiev | 830205 |
| 170 | 2.27 | Andreas Surbeck | FRG | 591003 | 3 | Sindelfingen | 830212 |
| 171 | 2.27 | Massimo Di Giorgio | ITA | 580322 | 1 | Paris | 830220 |
| 172 | 2.27 | Hans Burchard | FRG | 590817 | 5 | West Berlin | 830225 |
| 173 | 2.27 | Miroslaw Wlodarczyk | POL | 590224 | 3= | Budapest | 830305 |
| 174 | 2.27 | Bill Jasinski | USA | 640213 | 1 | Fayetteville | 840128 |
| 175 | 2.27 | Othmane Belfaa | ALG | 611018 | 3 | Paris | 850119 |
| 176 | 2.27 | Darren Burton | USA | 630226 | 2 | Lincoln | 850223 |
| 177 | 2.27 | Jindrich Vondra | CS | 570415 | 1 | Praha | 860213 |
| 178 | 2.27 | Lee Balkin | USA | 610607 | 5 | West Berlin | 860214 |
| 179 | 2.27 | Dothel Edwards | USA | 660909 | 1 | Gainesville, Fl | 860216 |
| 180 | 2.27 | Brian Whitehead | USA | 620224 | 2 | East Rutherford | 870214 |
| 181 | 2.27 | Andre Schneider-Laub | FRG | 580812 | 6 | Liévin, FRA | 870221 |
| 182 | 2.27 | Daniele Pagani | ITA | 660611 | 7 | Budapest | 880305 |
| 183 | 2.27 | Dominique Hernandez | FRA | 600801 | 1 | Liévin | 890205 |
| 184 | 2.27 | Zdenek Kubista | CS | 661221 | 1 | Piraeus | 900210 |
| 185 | 2.27 | Peter Deutsch | HUN | 680819 | 1 | Budapest | 900224 |
| 186 | 2.27 | Michael Mikkelsen | DEN | 660405 | 6 | Glasgow | 900304 |
| 187 | 2.27 | Rolandas Verkis | LIT | 660317 | 1 | Panevezys | 930206 |
| 188 | 2.27 | Percell Gaskins | USA | 720425 | 1 | Indianapolis | 930312 |
| 189 | 2.27 | Joel Vincent | FRA | 690119 | 1 | Paris | 960121 |
| 190 | 2.27 | Mika Polku | FIN | 750719 | 1 | Kuopio | 960217 |
| 191 | 2.27 | Hervé Ndi Ndi | FRA | 720617 | 7= | Wuppertal | 970207 |
| 192 | 2.27 | Svatoslav Ton | CZE | 781020 | 2 | Praha | 970223 |
| 193 | 2.27 | Yuriy Pakhlyayev | KZK | 741220 | 1 | Tashkent | 970228 |
| 194 | 2.27 | Ben Challenger | GBR | 780307 | 1 | Birmingham | 980207 |
| 195 | 2.27 | Tim Suchan | USA | 720202 | 1 | Cedar Falls, Ia | 980220 |
| 196 | 2.27 | Vyacheslav Turtushnik | UKR | 710119 | 2 | Zaporizhzhya | 990116 |
| 197 | 2.27 | Gilmar Mayo | COL | 690930 | 2 | Piraeus | 990224 |
| 198 | 2.27 | Martin Stauffer | SUI | 750707 | 1 | Magglingen | 000213 |
| 199 | 2.27 | Jeremy Fischer | USA | 760217 | 2= | Atlanta, Ga | 000304 |
| 200 | 2.27 | Grzegorz Sposób | POL | 760212 | 1 | Spala | 010225 |
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