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The high jump was among the first events deemed acceptable for women, having been held at the 1928 Olympic Games. Javier Sotomayor (Cuba) is the world record holder with a jump of 2.45 m (8 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in) set in 1993 – the longest-standing record in the history of the men's high jump.
The flop became the dominant style of the event; before Fosbury, most elite jumpers used the straddle technique, Western roll, Eastern cut-off, or scissors jump to clear the bar. Though the backwards flop technique had been known for years before Fosbury, [ 2 ] landing surfaces had been sandpits or low piles of matting and high jumpers had to ...
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 ...
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 ...
High jump, in which athletes jump over horizontal bars. Long jump, where the objective is to leap horizontally as far as possible. Pole vault, in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to jump over a bar. Triple jump, the objective is to leap horizontally as far as possible, in a series of three jumps
Indeed, Davin was also holder of the world long jump record. The next world record in high jump was perhaps the first achieved with a true scissors style. In 1887 the high jump record was captured by a US athlete, William Byrd-Page of the University of Pennsylvania, first with a clearance of 6 ft 3 1 ⁄ 4 inches, and later 6 ft 4 inches (1.93 ...
The first jump technique I learned in grade school was the scissors jump. Using that technique it clearly forces a jumper to accelerate their center of gravity well over the bar such that the body can clear it. The western roll technique was better but not as efficient as the flop. --Rocketsci55 13:35, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
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