Both the world record holders (Javier Sotomayor and Stefka Kostadinova) have taken part in, and won, the meeting.

[1] The Hochsprung mit Musik gets its name from the fact that music is played in the Sporthalle am Jahn-sportpark while athletes take their jump.

It is used as a way of both building suspense and mirroring the steady rhythm needed by athletes to achieve a high jump.

The competition received greater exposure from the 2000s onwards as the winning athletes' jumps were of a significant height.

[6] On February 8, 2014, the event took place for the 38th and final time after no successor was found for the outgoing assembly director, Hubertus Triebel.