Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump. He holds the world record of 2.45 m and also owns the second-highest jump of 2.44 m, which makes him the only person ever to have cleared eight feet. He was a two-time gold medalist at the World Championships in Athletics, won four World Indoor Championships gold medals between 1989 and 1999, and took three straight Pan American Games titles from 1987 to 1995. Cuban boycotts kept him from the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, but he won Olympic gold in 1992 and silver in 2000, and he retired in 2001.
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At the IAAF World Indoor Championships he won four gold medals between 1989 and 1999
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