The record has since been broken by Finn Heikki Sorsa who made a 9.3 metres high air at The Arctic Challenge event held in Oslo in 2001 and then again by Norwegian Terje Haakonsen who made a 9.8 metres high air at The Arctic Challenge in Oslo in 2007.
Since then, the record for a high jump during The Arctic Challenge event has been broken twice: first by Finn Heikki Sorsa with a jump of 9.3 metres and then by Terje Haakonsen with a jump of 9.8 metres.