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Jason Nicholas Burnett (born December 16, 1986) is a Canadian trampoline gymnast from Etobicoke, Ontario.He is noted for having completed, in training, the world's most difficult trampoline routine with a degree of difficulty of 20.6 [1] and holding the former world record of 18.8 for a routine performed in a competition.
Poliaroush currently resides in Lafayette, Louisiana, where he is the president of the Olympic Trampoline Academy and the head trampoline coach at Trampoline and Tumbling Express. He began serving the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique on the Trampoline Technical Committee in 2005 [4] and has been elected through the 2022-2024 cycle. [5]
The women's world record DD is 16.20 by Samantha Smith . The top women competitors usually compete routines with a DD greater than 14.50. [7] The women's synchronised trampoline pair of Karen Cockburn and Rosannagh Maclennan also of Canada completed a new world record DD of 14.20 at the same April 2, 2007, Lake Placid World Cup.
The IAAF considers marks set at high altitude as acceptable for record consideration. However, high altitude can significantly assist long jump performances. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Bob Beamon broke the existing record by a margin of 55 cm (21 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), and his world record of 8.90 m (29 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) stood until Mike Powell jumped 8.95 m (29 ft 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) in ...
World Para Athletics Grand Prix Tunis, Tunisia [110] 34.65 m Hani Alnakhli Saudi Arabia 8 September 2012 Paralympic Games London, United Kingdom [111] F34 43.29 m Record mark: 49.03 m Wany Yanzhang China 7 September 2012 London, United Kingdom F35 54.13 m Guo Wei China 11 September 2008 Paralympic Games: Beijing, China [108] F36 42.96 m Cuiqing Li
The first world record in the men's triple jump was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912. That inaugural record was the 15.52 m performance by Dan Ahearn in 1911. [1] As of June 21, 2009, 27 world records have been ratified by the IAAF in the event. [1]
Judy Wills Cline (born 1948) [1] is a retired American trampoline gymnast and acrobat. Between 1964 and 1968, she won ten world titles in the trampoline, synchronized trampoline, and tumbling. She was the first world champion in these events and the only athlete to win the world championships in both trampoline and tumbling.
Brian Sternberg (June 21, 1943 – May 23, 2013) [2] was a world record holder in the men's pole vault who was paralyzed from the neck down after a trampoline accident in 1963. Sternberg set one of his world records on May 25, 1963, in Modesto , California jumping 16 feet 7 inches (5.05 m) using new technology for the sport, a fiberglass pole.