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THE CORRECT ANSWER: Javier Sotomayor

Javier Sotomayor, nicknamed the "Prince of Heights", is a living legend of Cuban athletics. On July 27, 1993, during the Salamanca meeting in Spain, he crossed a bar placed at 2.45 meters, establishing a world record which has still not been equaled more than thirty years later. Sotomayor had exceptional relaxation and a perfectly fluid Fosbury-flop jumping technique, despite his tall size (1.93 m). During his career, he crossed the mythical barrier of 2.40 meters more than twenty times, a consistency that no other jumper has approached.This record of 2.45m is considered one of the hardest to break in modern athletics, alongside Mike Powell's long jump. Sotomayor remains the only man to "fly over" a standard football crossbar, symbolizing the physical pinnacle of the high jump discipline.