25 years on, Cuba's Sotomayor still holds high jump record
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Javier Sotomayor and Stefka Kostadinova High Jump World Record
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Javier Sotomayor - Men's High Jump - 1996 Atlanta Grand Prix
Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a Cuban former track and field athlete, who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder. The 1992 Olympic champion, he was the dominant high jumper of the 1990s; his personal best of 2.45 m makes him the only person ever to have cleared eight feet.