What is a high jump?

A high jump is a jump made over a horizontal bar in the events with the track and field. It is a height jump that involves running access, an increased horizontal bar and a soft or padded landing surface. It has been competition since the Olympic Games of ancient Greece, it is presented at the level of medium and colleagues and is now a popular sport in modern summer Olympics every four years. He created such popular athletes and terms such as Dick Fosbury and his "Fosbury Flop". The group then progresses to a high skip over the bar without knocking it, even if the jumper body can touch the pole. Although they are limited by several other rules, the jumps must be discarded from one leg and without any help. Model, whether he succeeded or knocked over the bar, lands on the softened area under the apparatus. This area, commonly made of sand before the 20th century, was covered with foam or pillows that allow easier and safer landing.

A high jump can be done in many ways because they do not follow any restrictions, but follow general trends in the history of a high jump. Among the most popular jumps were scissors jumps, which use an upright posture with legs to reduce the height of the body; Western crushing or roll that has a face down horizontal jump over the pole, with one foot leads the body; And Flop Fosbury, which revolutionized a high jump method.

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Fosbury flop, popularized by the Olympic gold medalist Dick Fosburm in 1968, introduced a world with a high jump into a back jump, which has been standard for jumpers since then. During the start it has a low center of gravity, curved approach and rotating body to the bar. The movement similar to the burntle and the arched back, with the legs of the shoulders kept low before bursting through the bar, allowing an extremely low center of matter.

With the help of Fosbury Flop, the heights of high jumps are constantly increasing around the world for more than a century. To startTKU 20th century stood a brand with a high jump around 1.97 m (6.6 feet) with early methods. In 1956, the brand moved to 2.1 m (7 feet) and until 1977 it moved to 2.33 m (7.6 feet). The world record with a high jump, indoor and outdoor, holds the Cuban Jumper Javier Sotomayor, who jumped 2.45 m (8.04 feet) in 1993.