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The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat for landing. Since ancient times, competitors have successively improved their technique until ...
High jump. Yuliya Andriyivna Levchenko or Yuliia Andriivna Levchenko (Ukrainian: Юлія Андріївна Левченко; pronounced [ˈjulija ˈleu̯tʃenko]; born 28 November 1997 [1] is a Ukrainian high jumper. She won the silver medal at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. Indoors at European level, Levchenko claimed bronze in ...
The tennis scoring system is a standard widespread method for scoring tennis matches, including pick-up games. Some tennis matches are played as part of a tournament, which may have various categories, such as singles and doubles. The great majority are organised as a single-elimination tournament, with competitors being eliminated after a ...
A plaque on Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria, commemorating Valeriy Brumel 's high jump world record of 2.25 m set on 31 August 1961. The first world record in the men's high jump was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 1912. As of June, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 40 world records in the ...
Straddle technique. 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 ...
The Olympic records for the event are 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) for men, set by Charles Austin in 1996, and 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) for women, set by Yelena Slesarenko in 2004. Gerd Wessig is the only man to have set a world record in the Olympic high jump, having done so in 1980 with a mark of 2.36 m (7 ft 83⁄4 in).
High jump. Representing Cyprus. European U23 Championships. 2023 Espoo. High jump. World University Games. 2023 Chengdu. High jump. Elena Kulichenko (Russian: Елена Куличенко; Greek: Έλενα Κουλιτσένκο; born 28 July 2002) is a Russian -born Cypriot track and field athlete, a national record holder in the high jump.
A serve (or, more formally, a service) in tennis is a shot to begin the point. The most common serve is used is an overhead serve.It is initiated by tossing the ball into the air over the server's head and hitting it when the arm is fully stretched out (usually near the apex of its trajectory) into the diagonally opposite service box without touching the net.