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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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
It was used by John Winter of Australia to win the high jump in the 1948 Olympics, and by Iolanda Balas of Romania to win the women's high jump in the 1960 and 1964 Olympics. Even today, the eastern cut-off is used by high school jumpers in Kenya, where the lack of foam landing mats necessitates a style where jumpers land on their feet. [2]
Patrick Clifford Matzdorf (born December 26, 1949) [1] is an American former high jumper, who set a world record of 2.29 meters (7'-6 1/4") at a World All-Star Track Meet in Berkeley, California. Matzdorf, a Junior at the University of Wisconsin, entered the July 3, 1971 meet against the Soviet Union with a personal best of 7'-3" (2.21 m ...
“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 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 ...