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In his junior year, he broke his high-school record with a 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) jump, and the next year took second place in the state with a 6 ft 5.5 in (1.969 m) jump. The technique gained the name the "Fosbury Flop" when in 1964 the Medford Mail-Tribune ran a photo captioned "Fosbury Flops Over Bar," [ 5 ] while in an accompanying article a ...
Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine relaxes during the women's high-jump final at the Paris Olympics on August 4, 2024. ... Her methods paid off on Sunday, as Mahuchikh cleared the 2-m (6.56-feet) bar ...
In August, Mahuchikh won the bronze medal in the high jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [60] It was the third Olympic medal won by Ukraine in the women's high jump event after Inha Babakova and Vita Styopina, who both clinched bronze medals too at the 1996 and 2004 Summer Olympics respectively. [61] [62]
The finals of the men's high jump were held on Sunday September 24, in rainy, windy conditions which worsened as the event progressed. The wet surface greatly impacted the results. Seven men cleared 2.32 m ( 7 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) before the light rain began to worsen, and Russian Sergey Klyugin was the only jumper able to clear the next height ...
The rules set for the high jump by World Athletics (previously named the IAAF [1]) are Technical Rules TR26 and TR27 [2] (previously Rules 181 and 182 [1]). Jumpers must take off from one foot. A jump is considered a failure if the jumper dislodges the bar or touches the ground or any object behind the bar before clearance.
“Coming into this competition, I had feelings that I could jump 2.07 meters and maybe 2.10 meters,” Mahuchikh said. “Finally I signed Ukraine to the history of world athletics.”
The straddle technique was the dominant style in the high jump before the development of the Fosbury Flop. It is a successor of the Western roll , [ 1 ] for which it is sometimes confused. Unlike the scissors or flop style of jump, where the jumper approaches the bar so as to take off from the outer foot, the straddle jumper approaches from the ...
Heinrich Ratjen (20 November 1918 – 22 April 2008), born Dora Ratjen, was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin, finishing fourth, but was later determined to be male and/or intersex. [1] In some news reports, he was erroneously referred to as Hermann Ratjen and Horst Ratjen.