Javier Sotomayor

Quick Facts

Full Name	Javier Sotomayor
Occupation	High Jumper
Date Of Birth	Oct 13, 1967(1967-10-13)
Age	57
Birthplace	Limonar
Country	Cuba
Birth City	Matanzas Province
Horoscope	Libra

Javier Sotomayor Biography

Javier Sotomayor is one of the most popular and richest High Jumper who was born on October 13, 1967 in Limonar, Matanzas Province, Cuba. Cuban athletics track and field, who was skilled in high-jumping and was awarded a silver medal in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

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Javier Sotomayor Sanabria (Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈβjeɾ sotomaˈʝoɾ] ; born October 13, 1967) is a retired Cuban 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 (8 ft 1/2 in) makes him the only person to have ever cleared eight feet.

Sotomayor was only 14 when he first cleared 2 meters (6′ 6 3/4″) and by the end of 1983 he had a best of 2.15 m. He then set the junior world record on 19 May 1984 by clearing 2.33 metres (7 feet 7 3/4 inches) at a meet held in Havana. He was not able to go to Los Angeles, California for the 1984 Olympics due to the boycott by Cuba (and most communist nations). In 1985 he took silver in the World Indoor Championships in Paris, with a best jump of 2.30 metres on 19 January, and then improved his personal best two months later outdoors in Havana, with a jump of 2.34 on 20 March 1985. He continued to improve the following year with a best jump of 2.36 m at a meet in Santiago de Cuba on 23 February 1986. He won his first international title in 1987, at the Pan American Games, and established a new personal best of 2.37 m (7 feet 9 1/2 inches) at a meet in Athens, Greece on 20 June 1987.

He was married to his fellow Cuban athlete Maria del Carmen Garcia.

Javier Sotomayor Net Worth

Javier Sotomayor is one of the richest High Jumper from Cuba. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Javier Sotomayor 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was initially assigned to training for basketball due to of his size.

He was the first to leap higher than eight feet.

Sotomayor was born October 13, 1967 in Limonar, Matanzas Province. The son of a day-care worker and a sugar factory maintenance man, Sotomayor was first sent to a Cuban sports school as a prospective basketball player because of his height. At age 14, coaches made him a high jumper and by 19, he was ranked No. 5 in the world.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Javier Sotomayor Dating?

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Sotomayor set the current world indoor record of 2.43 metres (7 ft 11.67 in) on March 4, 1989 in Budapest.

Facts & Trivia

Javier Ranked on the list of most popular High Jumper. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Cuba. Javier Sotomayor celebrates birthday on October 13 of every year.

Sotomayor is twice a gold medallist at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics and also won two silver medals at the competition. At the IAAF World Indoor Championships he won four gold medals between 1989 and 1999. In addition, he won three straight titles at the Pan American Games from 1987 to

1995. He is regarded as the best high jumper of all time. Cuban boycotts of the Olympics in 1984 and 1988 and an injury in 1996 cost him chances at additional Olympic medals, but he returned to win the silver medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Sotomayor retired in 2001.

Where is Javier Sotomayor now?

Six-time high-jump world champion, Olympic gold-medalist and holder of five world records – including his famous 2.45 m jump, which has stood for more than 24 years – Cuban cigar-lover Javier Sotomayor now works for the Cuban Athletics Federation.

Who holds the high jump world record?

Athletics High jump
Canadian high jumper Nicole Forrester demonstrating the Fosbury flop
World records
Men| Javier Sotomayor 2.45 m (8 ft 1⁄4 in) (1993)
Women| Stefka Kostadinova 2.09 m ( 6 ft 101⁄4 in) (1987)

Who is the best high jumper in India?

Personal information
Country| India
Event(s)| High jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)| Outdoor: 2.29 m NR (Lubbock 2018) Indoor: 2.28 m (Ames 2018)

What country did Javier Sotomayor represent?

Men’s athletics
Representing Cuba
IAAF World Indoor Championships
| 1989 Budapest| High jump
| 1993 Toronto| High jump

Did Javier Sotomayor use steroids?

Javier Sotomayor, the world record-holder for the high jump, is facing a life ban after testing positive for a banned drug for a second time. The Cuban tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone at a meeting in Tenerife in July after having been caught for using cocaine at the Pan-American Games in 1999.