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| Hochsprung mit Musik | |
|---|---|
 Susanne Beyer en route to winning the 1987 high jump meeting | |
| Date | Early February |
| Location | Arnstadt, Germany  |
| Event type | High jump |
| Established | 1977 |
| 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.
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]
- ^ Hochsprung-Mosaik Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine. Hochsprung mit Musik. Retrieved on 2010-02-09.
- ^ Bergqvist joy at breaking record. BBC Sport (2006-02-05). Retrieved on 2010-02-09.
- ^ 2.08 World Record for Bergqvist in Arnstadt!. IAAF (2006-02-04). Retrieved on 2010-02-09.
- ^ Blanka Vlašic flies high in Arnstadt[permanent dead link]. European Athletics (2010-02-07). Retrieved on 2010-02-09.
- ^ "High Jump - women - senior - all". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
- ^ High Jump 2006. IAAF (2006-11-07). Retrieved on 2010-02-09.
- ^ Pille, Dirk (2014-02-10). "Beim letzten Hochsprung mit Musik verpasst Uchow Weltrekord knapp". www.thueringer-allgemeine.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-30.