Jim Howard (high jumper)
American high jumper (born 1959)
James Allen Howard (born September 11, 1959) is an American retired high jumper.
He finished second at the 1985 IAAF World Cup, tenth at the 1987 World Indoor Championships and at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He won the US national title in 1984.[1]
His personal best jump is 2.36 metres, achieved in June 1987 in Rehlingen.[2]
References
- Jim Howard at World Athletics
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US National Championship winners in men's high jump
New York Athletic Club
- 1876-8: Edwards Ficken
NAAAA
- 1879: William Wunder
- 1880: Alfred Carroll
- 1881: C.W. Durand
- 1882: Alfred Carroll
- 1883: Malcolm Ford
- 1884: J.T. Rinehart
- 1885–87: William Page
- 1888Note 1: Tim O'Connor
Amateur Athletic Union
- 1888Note 1: Daniel Webster
- 1889: R.K. Pritchard
- 1890–91: Alvah Nickerson
- 1892–95: Mike Sweeney
- 1896: Charles Powell
- 1897–1900: Irving Baxter
- 1901: Sam Jones
- 1902: Irving Baxter
- 1903-4: Sam Jones
- 1905: Herbert Kerrigan
- 1906: Neil Patterson
- 1907: Con Leahy
- 1908: Harry Porter
- 1909: Egon Erickson
- 1910: Walter Thomason
- 1911: Harry Grumpelt/Harry Porter
- 1912: John Johnstone
- 1913: Alma Richards
- 1914: Jo Loomis
- 1915: George Horine
- 1916: Wes Oler
- 1917: Clint Larsen
- 1918: Carl Rice
- 1919–20OT: John Murphy
- 1921–22: Dewey Alberts
- 1923: LeRoy Brown
- 1924: Robert Juday
- 1925–26: Harold Osborn
- 1927: Robert King
- 1928OT: Robert King/Charles McGinnis
- 1929: Henry Lassalette
- 1930–31: Anton Burg
- 1932OT: Cornelius Johnson/George Spitz/Robert van Osdel
- 1933: Cornelius Johnson
- 1934: Cornelius Johnson/Walter Marty
- 1935: Cornelius Johnson
- 1936: Cornelius Johnson/Dave Albritton
- 1937: Dave Albritton
- 1938: Mel Walker/Dave Albritton
- 1939–40: Les Steers
- 1941: Bill Stewart
- 1942: Adam Berry
- 1943: Pete Watkins
- 1944: Fred Sheffield/Willard Smith
- 1945: Dave Albritton/Lester Howe/Richard Schnacke/Joshua Williamson
- 1946–47: Dave Albritton
- 1948: Tom Schofield
- 1949: Dick Phillips
- 1950: Dave Albritton/Jack Heitzman/Jack Razzeto/Virgil Severns
- 1951: Lewis Hall
- 1952–53: Walt Davis
- 1954: Ernie Shelton
- 1955: Charles Dumas/Ernie Shelton
- 1956–59: Charles Dumas
- 1960: John Thomas
- 1961: Bob Avant
- 1962: John Thomas
- 1963: Gene Johnson
- 1964: Ed Caruthers
- 1965–67: Otis Burrell
- 1968: Ed Hanks
- 1969: Otis Burrell
- 1970–71: Reynaldo Brown
- 1972: Barry Schur
- 1973–74: Dwight Stones
- 1975: Tom Woods
- 1976–78: Dwight Stones
- 1979: Franklin Jacobs
The Athletics Congress
- 1980: Franklin Jacobs
- 1981: Tyke Peacock
- 1982: Milt Ottey
- 1983: Dwight Stones
- 1984: Jim Howard
- 1985: Brian Stanton
- 1986: Doug Nordquist
- 1987: Jerome Carter
- 1988: Doug Nordquist
- 1989: Brian Brown
- 1990–92OT: Hollis Conway
USA Track & Field
- 1993–94: Hollis Conway
- 1995–20002OT: Charles Austin
- 2001–02: Nathan Leeper
- 2003–04OT: Jamie Nieto
- 2005: Matt Hemingway
- 2006: Tora Harris
- 2007: Jim Dilling
- 2008OT: Jesse Williams
- 2009: Tora Harris
- 2010–11: Jesse Williams
- 2012OT: Jamie Nieto
- 2013–16: Erik Kynard
- 2017:Bryan McBride
- 2018–19: Jeron Robinson
- 20212020 OT: JuVaughn Harrison
- Note 1: In 1888 both the NAAAA and the AAU held championships
- OT: The 1920, 1928, 1932 and since 1992, championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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