1. The British record The highest ever jumped in Great Britain is 7ft 7 5/16in (2.32m), set in 1978 by Nick Skelton, then aged 21, and Lastic at Olympia in a high jump competition (consisting of a single sloping fence of brush and a number of rails), before the modern day formula of jumping a … Continue reading Nerves of steel (and horses with wings): 6 amazing moments from high jump history