Hochsprung mit Musik

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Hochsprung mit Musik
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0121-051, Susanne Beyer-Helm.jpg
Susanne Beyer en route to winning the 1987 high jump meeting
DateEarly February
Location Arnstadt, Germany Flag of Germany.svg
Event type High jump
Established1977
Official site Hochsprung mit Musik

The Hochsprung mit Musik (English: High Jump with Music) is an annual indoor high jump meeting which takes place in February in Arnstadt, Germany.

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First held in 1977, the meeting began as a competition between mainly East German athletes. Following the Re-unification of Germany in 1990, the competition became international and attracted athletes such as Olympic and World champion Charles Austin and Olympic silver medallist Alina Astafei. Both the world record holders (Javier Sotomayor and Stefka Kostadinova) have taken part in, and won, the meeting. [1]

The Hochsprung mit Musik gets its name from the fact that music is played in the Sporthalle am Jahn-sportpark while athletes take their jump. It is used as a way of both building suspense and mirroring the steady rhythm needed by athletes to achieve a high jump.

The competition received greater exposure from the 2000s onwards as the winning athletes' jumps were of a significant height. This was exemplified by Kajsa Bergqvist's winning jump in 2006 of 2.08 metres – an indoor world record for the event and second only to Kostadinova's current world record of 2.09 m. [2] [3] Blanka Vlašić's win in 2010 with 2.06 m was the joint third highest indoor jump. [4] A number of other indoor jumps by female athletes remain within the top 30 highest of all time, [5] and jumps by male athletes frequently make the year's indoor best lists. [6]

On February 8, 2014, the event took place for the 38th and final time after no successor was found for the outgoing assembly director, Hubertus Triebel. [7]

Past winners

Rosemarie Ackermann won the women's title in 1980. Bundesarchiv Bild 183-U1230-0001, Rosemarie Ackermann.jpg
Rosemarie Ackermann won the women's title in 1980.
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1982-0116-026, Andrea Bienias-Reichstein.jpg
Andrea Bienias (above) and Rolf Beilschmidt (below) each won the competition three times.
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1982-0116-027, Rolf Beilschmidt.jpg

Key:  Meeting record

YearMen's winnerMark (m)Women's winnerMark (m)
1977Flag of East Germany.svg  Henry Lauterbach  (GDR)2.15Flag of East Germany.svg  Martina Baumbach  (GDR)1.70
1978Flag of East Germany.svg  Rolf Beilschmidt  (GDR)2.18Flag of East Germany.svg  Almut Berg  (GDR)1.75
1979Flag of East Germany.svg  Henry Lauterbach  (GDR)2.26Flag of East Germany.svg  Kristine Nitzsche  (GDR)1.86
1980Flag of East Germany.svg  Henry Lauterbach  (GDR)2.23Flag of East Germany.svg  Rosemarie Ackermann  (GDR)1.94
1981Flag of East Germany.svg  Rolf Beilschmidt  (GDR)2.24Flag of East Germany.svg  Andrea Bienias  (GDR)1.87
1982Flag of East Germany.svg  Rolf Beilschmidt  (GDR)2.20Flag of East Germany.svg  Andrea Bienias  (GDR)1.90
1983Flag of East Germany.svg  Carsten Siebert  (GDR)2.20Flag of East Germany.svg  Susanne Helm  (GDR)1.87
1984Flag of East Germany.svg  Gerd Wessig  (GDR)2.27Flag of East Germany.svg  Heike Grabe  (GDR)1.88
1985Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Georgi Gadiev  (BUL)2.22Flag of East Germany.svg  Susanne Helm  (GDR)1.95
1986Flag of East Germany.svg  Gerd Wessig  (GDR)2.28Flag of East Germany.svg  Andrea Bienias  (GDR)1.97
1987Flag of East Germany.svg  Mathias Grebenstein  (GDR)2.24Flag of East Germany.svg  Susanne Beyer  (GDR)2.00
1988Flag of East Germany.svg  Gerd Wessig  (GDR)2.28Flag of East Germany.svg  Kerstin Kraeft  (GDR)1.86
1989Flag of East Germany.svg  Gerd Wessig  (GDR)2.24Flag of East Germany.svg  Britta Vörös  (GDR)1.84
1990Flag of Germany.svg  Carlo Thränhardt  (FRG)2.30Flag of East Germany.svg  Angela Barylla  (GDR)1.85
1991Flag of Romania.svg  Sorin Matei  (ROU)2.30Flag of Germany.svg  Heike Henkel  (GER)1.99
1992Flag of Romania.svg  Sorin Matei  (ROU)2.34Flag of Germany.svg  Heike Henkel  (GER)1.98
1993Flag of the United States.svg  Charles Austin  (USA)2.35Flag of Germany.svg  Heike Henkel  (GER)2.00
1994Flag of Germany.svg  Ralf Sonn  (GER)2.31Flag of Romania.svg  Alina Astafei  (ROU)1.97
1995Flag of Romania.svg  Sorin Matei  (ROU)2.31Flag of Germany.svg  Heike Henkel  (GER)1.95
1996Flag of Cuba.svg  Javier Sotomayor  (CUB)2.36Flag of Romania.svg  Alina Astafei  (ROU)2.02
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Stefka Kostadinova  (BUL)
1997Flag of Germany.svg  Wolfgang Kreissig  (GER)2.30Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Stefka Kostadinova  (BUL)1.96
1998Flag of the United States.svg  Charles Austin  (USA)2.30Flag of the United States.svg  Amy Acuff  (USA)1.93
1999Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Tomáš Janků  (CZE)2.31Flag of Romania.svg  Monica Iagăr  (ROU)1.96
2000Flag of Russia.svg  Vyacheslav Voronin  (RUS)2.34Flag of Ukraine.svg  Vita Styopina  (UKR)1.94
2001Flag of Ukraine.svg  Andriy Sokolovsky  (UKR)2.35Flag of Ukraine.svg  Vita Palamar  (UKR)1.96
2002Flag of Russia.svg  Pyotr Brayko  (RUS)2.31Flag of Russia.svg  Marina Kuptsova  (RUS)2.00
2003Flag of Sweden.svg  Stefan Holm  (SWE)2.36Flag of Russia.svg  Marina Kuptsova  (RUS)2.02
2004Flag of Sweden.svg  Stefan Holm  (SWE)2.36Flag of Russia.svg  Anna Chicherova  (RUS)2.04
2005Flag of Russia.svg  Jaroslav Rybakov  (RUS)2.37Flag of Russia.svg  Anna Chicherova  (RUS)2.00
2006Flag of Russia.svg  Jaroslav Rybakov  (RUS)2.37Flag of Sweden.svg  Kajsa Bergqvist  (SWE)2.08 WR
2007Flag of Russia.svg  Jaroslav Rybakov  (RUS)2.38Flag of Russia.svg  Anna Chicherova  (RUS)1.98
2008Flag of Russia.svg  Andrey Silnov  (RUS)2.37Flag of Croatia.svg  Blanka Vlašić  (CRO)2.03
2009Flag of Russia.svg  Ivan Ukhov  (RUS)2.36Flag of Germany.svg  Ariane Friedrich  (GER)2.02
2010Flag of Russia.svg  Ivan Ukhov  (RUS)2.35Flag of Croatia.svg  Blanka Vlašić  (CRO)2.06
2011Flag of Russia.svg  Ivan Ukhov  (RUS)2.34Flag of Russia.svg  Svetlana Shkolina  (RUS)1.95
2012Flag of Russia.svg  Aleksey Dmitrik  (RUS)2.30Flag of Russia.svg  Anna Chicherova  (RUS)2.06
2013Flag of Russia.svg  Aleksey Dmitrik  (RUS)2.36Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Tia Hellebaut  (BEL)1.96
2014Flag of Russia.svg  Ivan Ukhov  (RUS)2.40Flag of Poland.svg  Kamila Lićwinko  (POL)2.00

See also

References

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Specific
  1. Hochsprung-Mosaik Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine . Hochsprung mit Musik. Retrieved on 2010-02-09.
  2. Bergqvist joy at breaking record. BBC Sport (2006-02-05). Retrieved on 2010-02-09.
  3. 2.08 World Record for Bergqvist in Arnstadt!. IAAF (2006-02-04). Retrieved on 2010-02-09.
  4. Blanka Vlašic flies high in Arnstadt [ permanent dead link ]. European Athletics (2010-02-07). Retrieved on 2010-02-09.
  5. "High Jump - women - senior - all". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  6. High Jump 2006. IAAF (2006-11-07). Retrieved on 2010-02-09.
  7. Pille, Dirk (2014-02-10). "Beim letzten Hochsprung mit Musik verpasst Uchow Weltrekord knapp". www.thueringer-allgemeine.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-30.