Jelena Rowe

Jelena Rowe (born August 1, 1999) is an American athlete who competes in the high jump.

Biography From Bloom Township, Illinois, Rowe attended Bloom High School. She was 6 feet tall as a freshman, then 6'3" as a sophomore and 6'4" as a junior. Rowe played a number of sports such as Volleyball and basketball before settling on athletics and the high jump. In June 2017, she became USA Junior Champion in the high jump, making a clearance of 1.79m metres in Sacramento. She was a silver medalist behind María Fernanda Murillo at the 2017 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships in Trujillo, Peru, in July 2017.

In February 2021, Rowe cleared 1.91 indoors for a new personal best, finishing second to Vashti Cunningham at the American Track League event in Fayetteville, Arkansas. On May 22, 2021, Rowe cleared 1.96m at a meet in Tucson, Arizona. This height ranked her in the top-ten worldwide for the calendar year 2021.

Rowe jumped 1.91m to finish in third place at the USA Indoor Championships on 27 February 2022, in Spokane, Washington. Both Rowe and her training partner Vashti Cunningham however, opted against competing at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia due to restrictions around COVID "athlete bubbles".

In February 2025, she placed sixth at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in New York.