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high jump

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Summary

high jump is a sports discipline[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of sports discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,062 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: vertical jump[3]
  • Commons category: High jump[4]
  • Country of origin: Scotland[5]
  • Sport: athletics[6]
  • Authority: World Athletics[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:High jump[8]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: athletics=high_jump[9]
  • Uses: bar[10]
  • Record or record progression: Men's high jump indoor world record progression[11], Women's high jump world record progression[12]
  • Practiced by: high jumper[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14]

Why It Matters

high jump has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wiki.openstreetmap.org. Retrieved . wiki.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q23817
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → R1lrr
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0435550-skok-vysoky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0435550-skok-vysoky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Country of origin → Scotland
    Sport → athletics
    Record or record progression → Men's high jump indoor world record progression, Women's high jump world record progression
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 4759, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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