Javier Sotomayor Sanabria (] ; born October 13, 1967) is a Cuban former track and field athlete, who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder. The 1992 Olympic champion, he was the dominant high jumper of the 1990s; his personal best of 2.45 m (8 ft floor(((2.45)*3.28084)−(floor((2.45)*3.28084)) *12) in) makes him the only person ever to have cleared eight feet.
Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is one of two athletes that has ever cleared the height of 8 feet in the high jump.
The statement was incorrect as he is the only person to have cleared 8 feet in the high jump, i think that the complexity of what I wrote fooled the system.