Sotomayor was barley 15 years old when he eclipsed the 2-metre mark and, at the age of 16, he was already clearing 2.33 metres and making his mark in history by setting the new world junior record ...

Javier Sotomayor of Cuba broke his world record in the high jump Tuesday with a leap of 8 feet 1/2 inch. His old mark of 8-0 had stood for four years. The bar teetered but did not fall on his ...

Javier Sotomayor, Cuban, born in the province of Matanzas, is 55 years old and is naturally an icon of world sport, unanimously considered the greatest high jumper of all time.

World high jump king and international idol Javier Sotomayor is now celebrating the third decade of his still unmatched world record-breaking 2.45-meter leap over the high jump bar in Salamanca ...

Records are made to broken, world high jump king and international idol Javier Sotomayor said, smiling behind dark glasses as the fierce Caribbean sun beat down on Havana's Pan-American Stadium.

HAVANA – Records are made to be broken, world high jump king and idol Javier Sotomayor said, smiling behind dark glasses in Havana’s Pan-American Stadium.. At 55 years old, however, the ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Records are made to broken, world high jump king and international idol Javier Sotomayor said, smiling behind dark glasses as the fierce Caribbean sun beat down on Havana's Pan ...

Records are made to broken, world high jump king and international idol Javier Sotomayor said, smiling behind dark glasses as the fierce Caribbean sun beat down on Havana's Pan-American Stadium.