Jesse Williams (high jumper)

Jesse Williams

Williams at the 2011 World Championships Athletics in Daegu
Personal information
Born	(1983-12-27) December 27, 1983 (age 40) Modesto, California, U.S.
Home town	Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Athletics
Event	High jump
Medal record World Championships 2011 Daegu High jump
Updated on 15 August 2012

Jesse Daniel Williams (born December 27, 1983) is an American high jumper and the 2011 World Champion. He was ranked the #2 jumper in the world, outdoors, in 2010 and #1 in the world in 2011. He has jumped 53 centimeters above his height, a differential which places him among the top 20 jumpers of all time.

Williams attended high school at Broughton High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended North Carolina State University for one year (2003) before transferring and finishing his student-athlete career at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where he won the NCAA track and field championships indoors 2005 and 2006 and outdoors in 2005 and 2006 becoming one of the few people to ever do so in the history of NCAA track and field. He is the school and Pac-10 record holder with a leap of 2.32 meters (7' 7 1/4").

He won three North Carolina state high school 4A titles while attending Broughton High School. He held the North Carolina high school state meet record in the high jump with a jump of 2.18m (7' 2") set in 2002, until Tanner Anderson (East Burke High School/Duke University) jumped 2.20m (7'2.5") in 2010.^[1]