Chris Anderson (born 6 April 1968) is an Australian retired

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

er. He competed at the 1995 World Championships and the

1996 Olympic Games The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

without reaching the final. His personal best jump is 2.28 metres, achieved in December 1994 in

Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...

.World men's all-time best high jump (last updated 2001)
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* 1968 births Living people Australian male high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Australia 20th-century Australian sportsmen 21st-century Australian sportsmen Place of birth missing (living people) Australian Athletics Championships winners {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub