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Trotter attached a 176-foot (54 m) cable to the center span of the bridge, then moved to a point 176 feet (54 m) away, and jumped off the bridge. Trotter, sitting on a small wooden disk attached to the end of the cable, in effect became the weight on a pendulum, traveling at 70 mph (112 km/h). Trotter was jailed and charged with trespassing.
Brian Brown (high jumper) Keith Brown (pole vaulter) Leroy Brown (high jumper) Reggie Brown (wide receiver, born 1970) Reynaldo Brown; Richard Browne (athletics) Ed Broxterman; Jervis Burdick; Anton Burg; Otis Burrell
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Cornelius Cooper "Corny" Johnson (August 28, 1913 – February 15, 1946) was an American athlete in the high jump.Born in Los Angeles in 1913, Johnson first competed in organized track and field events at Berendo Junior High School.
The possible jumper was described by witnesses as agitated — visibly ... Photos show the man’s most dangerous stunt — hanging from underneath the bridge with just two hands more than 100 ...
Bob Gill is the world-record holding motorcycle stuntman.He was one of the few jumpers to eschew the use of a landing ramp. His career was cut short in 1974 when he landed short on a world-record attempt to jump the 200-foot (61 m) wide Appalachia Lake in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia.
The men's high jump was one of four men's jumping events on the Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics program in Mexico City. Thirty-nine athletes from 25 nations competed. [ 1 ] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.
Jumpers were eliminated if they had three consecutive failures, whether at a single height or between multiple heights if they attempted to advance before clearing a height. The qualifying round had the bar set at 2.05 metres, 2.10 metres, 2.15 metres, 2.18 metres, 2.21 metres, and 2.24 metres.